YDS 2012 welcomes contributions from all areas of computer science and electronics engineering, which include, but are not limited to, areas of active research at York:

• Programming Languages and Systems
• Theoretical Computer Science
• Software and Hardware Architectures
• Formal Methods
• Software Engineering and Testing
• Enterprise Systems
• Safety Analysis
• Real-Time Systems
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Vision and Image Processing
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Natural Language Processing
• Bio-inspired Systems
• Reconfigurable hardware
• Complex Systems Analysis
• Physical Layer
• Nanotechnology
• Quantum Computing
• Communication Technologies
• Audio and Acoustic Modelling

Important Dates

• Extended abstracts and full paper submissions: August 31st
• Extended abstracts and full paper notifications: October 5th
• Poster abstract submissions: October 5th
• Poster notifications: October 19th
• Camera-ready extended abstracts, papers and posters due: October 19th
• Symposium: November 8th

Papers and Extended Abstracts

This year, we will be accepting two categories of papers:

• Full length papers (up to 10 pages)
• Extended abstracts (4 pages for content and 1 page of references)

Extended abstracts can describe very early work and ideas; full length papers should describe work that is more developed. We urge authors to write with the breadth of the symposium’s scope in mind; papers should be as self-contained as possible, and should not assume specialist background knowledge, in order to enable as many participants as possible to engage with the contribution.

Papers and extended abstracts should be formatted using Springer’s LNCS style

Paper and extended abstract submissions will only be accepted via Easychair

Posters

Posters must be submitted in two stages. Poster abstracts will be reviewed based on an initial submission of a one-page (maximum) abstract of the poster’s content, with the camera-ready version of accepted poster abstracts to follow. The deadline for initial submission of the poster abstracts is October 5th. Poster abstracts should be formatted using Springer’s LNCS style. The posters themselves should be A0 size, and will be printed on behalf of authors by YDS.

Publication

The proceedings of the symposium (full-length papers, extended abstracts and poster abstracts) will be published as a technical report by the Department of Computer Science, The University of York. The report will be freely available online. Several hard copies will also be printed.

Prizes

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors we are able to offer the following cash prizes to YDS contributors:

• Best full-length paper: £100
• Best extended abstract: £75
• Best paper or extended abstract presentation: £75
• Best poster: £50
• Best poster as judged by industry panel: £100

Please note that financial support may be available, upon request, to enable authors from UK institutions to attend.