WADS, the Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium, is an international
academic conference
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in the field of
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...
, focusing on
algorithm
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s and
data structure
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s.
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WADS is held every second year, usually in
Canada
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and always in
North America. It is held in alternation with its sister conference, the Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), which is usually held in
Scandinavia
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and always in
Northern Europe. Historically, the proceedings of both conferences were published by
Springer Verlag
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
Originally founded in 1842 in ...
through their
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
''Lecture Notes in Computer Science'' is a series of computer science books published by Springer Science+Business Media since 1973.
Overview
The series contains proceedings, post- proceedings, monographs, and Festschrift
In academia, a ''F ...
series. Springer continues to publish WADS proceedings, but starting in 2016, SWAT proceedings are now published by
Dagstuhl
Dagstuhl is a computer science research center in Germany, located in and named after a district of the town of Wadern, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland.
Location
Following the model of the mathematical center at Oberwolfach, the center is installed i ...
through their
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics.
History
The first SWAT took place in 1988, in
Halmstad
Halmstad () is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of the Nissan river, in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat of Halmstad Municipality and the capital of Halland County. The ci ...
,
Sweden. The first WADS was organised one year later, in 1989, in
Ottawa, Ontario
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
,
Canada
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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 list of computer science conferences
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General
* FCRC – Federated Computing Research ...
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
at DBLP
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Bibliographic information about WADS
at DBLP
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Theoretical computer science conferences