Important Dates

• Submission deadline: January 21, 2025, 23:59 AoE
• Notification: March 28, 2025
• Revised papers due: April 11, 2025
• Conference: June 9-11, 2025

Paper Submission

Papers should be submitted electronically through Easychair. Submissions must be in English in pdf format and they must be prepared using the LaTeX style template for LIPIcs with:

\documentclass[a4paper,anonymous,USenglish]{lipics-v2021}

Submissions must be anonymous, without any author names, affiliations, or email addresses. SAND accepts two types of submissions: regular papers and brief announcements.

Regular Papers

A regular paper submission must be original research and report on novel results that have not appeared or been concurrently submitted to a journal or a conference with published proceedings. There is no page limit, and authors are encouraged to use the "full version" of their paper as the submission. However, the submission should contain within the initial 12 pages a clear presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of the paper's importance within the context of prior work and a description of the key technical and conceptual ideas used to achieve its main claims.

Brief Announcements

A brief announcement submission may report on preliminary work or work presented elsewhere. The title of a brief announcement submission should begin with "Brief Announcement:". Papers submitted as brief announcements should include presentation of their merits within the initial 5 pages (instead of the 12 pages of regular papers).

The program committee may decide that some of the regular papers not selected for publication are suitable for publication in the brief announcement format. The authors of any such paper will be asked to prepare a brief announcement final version out of their original regular submission. Any authors who do not wish their regular paper submission to be considered for the brief announcement format in case of rejection, are asked to clearly indicate this on the first page of their submission.

Instructions for Double-Blind Review

The reviewing process is double-blind, the authors' names must not be included in the paper, and the writing of the manuscript should be done in such a way to not de-anonymize authors (e.g., instead of "our result [1]", they should use "the result of [1]"). We assume that reviewers do not actively try to recognize the authors. Therefore, authors are allowed to publish their results on pre-print services before or at any point of the submission/reviewing process. Non-anonymous submissions will be rejected.

Publication

The conference proceedings will be published by LIPIcs. The final version of the paper must be formatted following the LIPIcs guidelines. Papers accepted in full will have 15 pages in the final proceedings (excluding references). Any papers accepted in the brief announcement format will have 5 pages in the final proceedings (including everything).

Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS).

For every accepted regular paper and brief announcement, at least one of the authors must fully register and present the paper during the conference and according to the conference program. Any paper accepted but not presented will be withdrawn from the final proceedings.

Awards

All regular papers are eligible for the best paper award. Regular papers co-authored by full-time students may also be eligible for the best student paper award. For a paper to be considered for the best student paper award, at least one author who is a full-time student at the time of submission should have made a significant contribution to the paper. In case the authors think that their paper is eligible for the best student paper award, they should clearly indicate this on the first page of their submission and briefly justify without revealing any of the authors' identities.