<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:27pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000"><b>Call for Papers <br><br></b></font></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b></b></font><font color="#141412">ICTCS 2024 – 25th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science </font></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">September 11-13, 2024, Turin, Italy <br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);vertical-align:baseline">website: </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ictcs2024.di.unito.it/__;!!IBzWLUs!Se5c4DXlCKj_aFoB3eFNs-LGOsxC0YiEef4iBsHjgsdBcGC5bUE1tIk3hkpGjGcSqs3F3CTnZ81uMFDSgzdHZGyyBH9MLcQKiaUTqYlUEEU$" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://ictcs2024.di.unito.it/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700">Scope and Topics</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS) is the conference of the Italian Chapter of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The purpose of ICTCS is to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas of theoretical computer science. In particular, ICTCS provides an ideal environment where junior researchers and PhD students can meet senior researchers. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Contributions in any area of theoretical computer science are warmly invited from researchers of all nationalities.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">agents, algorithms, argumentation, automata theory, complexity theory, computational logic, computational social choice, concurrency theory, cryptography, discrete mathematics, distributed computing, dynamical systems, formal methods, game theory, graph theory, knowledge representation, languages, model checking, process algebras, quantum computing, rewriting systems, security and trust, semantics, specification and verification, systems biology, theorem proving, type theory.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700">Paper Submission</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Two types of contributions, written in English and formatted according to Springer LNCS style, are solicited.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Regular papers: up to 12 pages PLUS bibliography, presenting original results not appeared or submitted elsewhere. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix, although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Communications: up to 5 pages PLUS bibliography, suitable for extended abstracts of papers already appeared/submitted or to be submitted elsewhere, as well as papers reporting ongoing research on which the authors wish to get feedback and overviews of PhD theses or research projects.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF format by accessing:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Submission Page: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictcs2024__;!!IBzWLUs!Se5c4DXlCKj_aFoB3eFNs-LGOsxC0YiEef4iBsHjgsdBcGC5bUE1tIk3hkpGjGcSqs3F3CTnZ81uMFDSgzdHZGyyBH9MLcQKiaUTZa0X5SA$" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictcs2024</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(202,60,8);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(202,60,8);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">All accepted original contributions (regular papers and communications) will be published on CEUR-WS.org.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:1pt 0pt 19pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">TCS Special Issue</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Following the tradition, the authors of the very best papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their work in a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science journal.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Invitations will be sent out after the workshop. The target is to publish the special issue by the end of the year 2025.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:1pt 0pt 19pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Important Dates</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Paper submission: 9 June, 2024 <br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Notification: 14 July, 2024 <br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Revised version for pre-proceedings: 30 August, 2024 <br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Conference: 11 -13 September, 2024 <br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Final version for proceedings: TBA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:1pt 0pt 19pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700">Organising Committee</span><br></p><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">Ugo de’Liguoro (Università di Torino)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">Matteo Palazzo (Università di Torino)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">Daniele Pautasso (Università di Torino)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">Luca Roversi (Università di Torino)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">Riccardo Treglia (King’s College London)</span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div>