AAAC 2024

The 15th Annual Meeting of Asian Association for Algorithms and Computation

General Information

• AAAC 2024, the 15th annual meeting of Asian Association for Algorithms and Computation, is held at Osaka, Japan.
  • Asian Association for Algorithms and Computation (AAAC) was founded in 2007 to give a place for promoting collaborations of Asian researchers and students in the areas of theoretical computer science.
    
• Date: May 31 and June 1, 2024.
• Venue: I-site Namba (facility of Osaka Metropolitan University).
  • I-site Namba (Japanese web page).
  • Contact email:: aaac2024local@gmail.com
• Preliminary Program

• 2023.05.15: The AAAC 2024 dates and venues are determined.
• 2023.11.21: Call-for-Papers is posted: Call-for-Papers
• Call-for-Papers in PDF
• 2024. 01.19: Registration information is given.
• 2024.04.09: Accepted paper list
• 2024.04.09: Preliminary Program
• Registration is open. Registration page for registration

Scientific Information

• The meeting includes two plenary invited talks and contributed talks in parallel sessions.
• There will be no online broadcasting, and the talks are given in person at the conference venue.

• The meeting is mainly focused on theory of algorithms and computation and its applications.
• Related topics of theoretical computer science are also welcome.

• Herbert Edelsbrunner (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
• Shuichi Hirahara (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

• Authors are invited to submit one-page abstracts (A4 size in pdf format) that can be based on original results or surveys of existing results of authors in theoretical computer science.
• An informal collection of the one page abstracts will be distributed at the meeting, which does not prevent any future publication of the results.
• Abstracts should be submitted through the EasyChair Conference System.
• Call-for-Papers

Registration

• Click Registration page for registration link and information.
• Early registration fee: (By April 27, 2024: 20,000JPY for regular, 10.000JPY for students)
• Regsitration fee includes banquet and coffee break.
  • Banquet: At Nakanoshima Social Eat Awake restaurant on May 31.
  • Osaka City Central Public Hall (where the restaurant is located)

Committees

• Hee-Kap Ahn, POSTECH
• Sang Won Bae, Kyonggi University
• Siu-Wing Cheng (Chair), HKUST
• Chung-Shou Liao, National Tsing Hua University
• Ho-Lin Chen, National Taiwan University
• Pinyan Lu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
• Heejin Park, Hanyang University
• Kunihiko Sadakane, The University of Tokyo
• Xiaoming Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Takeshi Tokuyama, Kwansei Gakuen University
• Ryuhei Uehara, JAIST
• Guochuan Zhang, Zhejiang University
• Shengyu Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Francis Chin, Hang Seng Management College
• Kazuo Iwama, Kyoto University and National Tsing Hua University
• DT Lee, Academia Sinica
• Kunsoo Park, Seoul National University

• Takeshi Tokuyama, Kwansei Gakuen University
• Yushi Uno, Osaka Metropolitan University

Sponsors

• Algorithmic Foundations of Social Advancement ( AFSA) project
  Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas, MEXT, Japan
• Osaka Metropolitan University
• Kwansei Gakuin University

Important dates

• Submission deadline: March 10, 2024 AoE
• Notification: April 10, 2024
• Camera-ready version due: April 20, 2024
• Early registration due: April 27, 2024
• Conference: May 31-June 1, 2024

Local Information

• Location:
  I-site Namba, the venue, is located in Namba (also written as Nanba), a lively area of Osaka city.
• Transportation:
  
  • By air: The nearest international airport is Kansai International Airport (KIX) .
    
    • From KIX, Nankai limited express train Rapi:t directly connects to Namba station in 40 min.
      
    • Osaka Internatioal airport is also available for international connecting flights via Narita/Haneda/Fukuoka.
  • By train:
    • Namba station is a major hub, consisting of three separate stations of Nankai railway, Osaka-Metro, and JR.
      It takes 10-15 min on foot to the venue.
    • Nearest metro stations are Ebisu-cho and Daikoku-cho stations, which are about 7 min far on foot to the venue.
    • From Shin-Osaka station, it takes 15 min by metro to Namba and Daikoku-cho stations.
      • From Shin-Osaka station, it takes 2.5 hours to Tokyo by Shinkansen bullet train.
• Nearby attractive spots:
  
  • Kizu wholesale market (Only operated in the morning)
  • Imamiya Ebisu shrine
  • Tsutenkaku tower and Shinsekai (New World)
    • Shinsekai Guide
    • Lunch map
  • Minami : Wider entertaining area around Namba
• Accommodation:
  There are many inexpensive hotels in walking distance, and more are reachable via metro.