The symposium seeks original algorithmic contributions for problems with relevant theoretical and/or practical applications: papers with a strong emphasis on the theoretical analysis of algorithms should be submitted to Track A, while papers reporting on the results of extensive experimental evaluations and/or providing original contributions to the engineering of algorithms for practical applications should be submitted to Track B.
Topics

Papers presenting original research in all areas of algorithmic research are sought, including but not limited to:

Algorithm engineering
Algorithmic aspects of networks
Algorithmic game theory
Approximation algorithms
Computational biology
Computational finance
Computational geometry
Combinatorial optimization
Data compression
Data structures
Databases and information retrieval
Distributed and parallel computing
Graph algorithms
Hierarchical memories
Heuristics and meta-heuristics
Mathematical programming
Mobile computing
On-line algorithms
Parameterized complexity
Pattern matching
Quantum computing
Randomized algorithms
Scheduling and resource allocation problems
Streaming algorithms

Submission guidelines

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or full paper of at most 12 pages and an optional appendix.

Papers must be formatted in LaTeX, using the LNCS style file (available here). The maximum length of the paper (including references, but excluding the optional appendix) is 12 pages. Do not change the margin size or the font, do not make a separate title page, etc.: use the LNCS style file as given, but please do add page numbers, which can be done, for example, by adding \pagestyle{plain} just before \begin{document}. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be placed in an appendix to be read by the program committee members at their discretion.

These guidelines are strict: papers failing to adhere to the guidelines (by not providing the omitted proofs in an appendix, being more than 12 pages, or not being in LNCS format) will be rejected without consideration of their merits.

Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system (not yet open).

Results previously published in another conference proceedings or journal (or scheduled for publication prior to ESA) will not be accepted at ESA. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings, or to both tracks of ESA 2014, is not permitted.

There will be a Best Student Paper Award, as well as a Best Paper Award.

The ESA proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science ARCoSS series by Springer-Verlag. Each accepted paper will be allotted 12 pages in the proceedings.