Submissions

Submissions 

A. Submissions to the Fun with Algorithms  track.

Submissions should be made via the FUN2024 Easychair submission server.  (Choose the Fun with Algorithms track) 

Submissions can have unlimited length, and authors are encouraged to submit complete papers, in A4 or letter format, 11pt, single column, with reasonable margins. The first ten pages of the submitted papers must include a self-contained description of the results, of their motivations and impact. Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work. At the time the paper is submitted to the conference, and for the entire review period, the paper (or essentially the same paper) must not be under review by any other conference with published proceedings or by a scientific journal.

At least one author of every accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the symposium.

The deadline for submission (extended) is February 20 27, 2024  (End of Day, Anywhere on Earth (AoE))

Conference proceedings will be published by LIPIcs, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Volume TBA.  Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit the final, camera-ready version of their paper in LIPIcs style not later than April 15, 2024. The page limit is 20 pages maximum, in total, i.e., including title, authors, affiliation, figures, bibliography, etc.

Note: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended versions of their work to a special issue in Theoretical Computer Science.  

B. Submissions to the Salon des Refusés  track.

Submissions should be made via the FUN2024 Easychair submission server.  (Choose the Salon des Refusés track) 

The way to participate is to propose a talk which is a survey of a published CS paper (preferably with an algorithmic bent) and its aftermath.  The subject paper must satisfy the following conditions:

• It should be at least 8 years old and in its initial form should have been rejected (as lacking value) from one or more major conferences or journals in the field.

• It was later published and proved to be influential as evidenced by citations, prizes, etc.
  
  

Ideally the proposers are the original authors, but other experts in the field of the wrongly rejected paper are welcome as well.  The surveys should be aimed at a general non-specialist technical audience, and should start with a description of the original paper.  In particular they should be accessible to graduate students and thus introduce them to  the subject at hand but also teach them about the vagaries of research.  

The proposal should be at most 4 pages long in PDF (in A4 or letter format, 11pt, single column, with reasonable margins) and should include:

1. Name, affiliation, and e-mail address for all proposers. Pointers to home pages are encouraged.  

2. Title and authors of the paper being surveyed with a link to a publicly accessible copy. 

3. If you are not among the original author(s) did you coordinate with them? (Coordination is highly recommended.)  If not, please explain why not and what is your interest and expertise in the paper being discussed.  

4. A brief  history of the paper (which venue(s)  rejected it and why (if known), where/when was it eventually published, what is the evidence of significant influence, e.g. number of citations, notable follow ups, test of time awards, etc. 

5. A brief description of the intended survey: what will the survey discuss besides the original paper, which follow-up results if any will be covered, bibliography, etc.

It is important that the Easychair abstract gives a good synopsis of the proposal. 

At least one author of every accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the symposium.

This is the first edition of CSSR so some details are not fully decided.   Our current position is that authors of accepted proposals can choose to submit an extended version of their proposal to be published in the proceedings of FUN2024 or can choose to just publish their Easychair abstract.   (Proceedings of FUN2024 will be  published by LIPIcs, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics.) 

The deadline for submission (extended) is February 20 27, 2024  (End of Day, Anywhere on Earth (AoE))