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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> FIRST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> for Special Session on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> COMPACT COMPUTER ALGEBRA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> at Applications for Computer Algebra 2012 Conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> 25-28, 2012. Sofia, Bulgaria<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The objective of the Compact Computer Algebra (CCA) meetings has been<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">to explore the various questions that arise for computer algebra in a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">resource-constrained setting, such as with portable devices or when<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">providing a computational service in a larger setting. This includes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"compactness" in algorithms, data organization and system design.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Recently, the CCA community has begun to explore potential target<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">applications of compact computer algebra, for example: what type<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">of software and services might benefit from embedding their own<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"compact" Computer Algebra System (CAS), or having an easy access<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">to one, and what set of functionalities this CAS should be offering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">to its host.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The current meeting, to be held in Sofia, builds on directions,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">exploring these and related questions. Topics of interest include,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * space-efficient data structures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * memory-efficient implementations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * compact kernels/engines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * math education tools<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * portable and Internet-accessible symbolic calculators<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * CAS for personal digital assistants, including smartphones and tablets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * "spell checkers" for math content in document processing software<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * validators for online and offline mathematical recognizers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * expression equivalence testing for math education software<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * tools for computing measure of expression complexity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * embedded software to generate custom numerical evaluators in real time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * backend engines to pen-computing interfaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * math editing components for 2D expressions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Contributed Talks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Authors are invited to submit a one- or two-page abstract by May 1,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2012. Submissions will be reviewed based on relevance to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">session, originality and scientific interest. Authors will be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">notified on or before May 15, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">System Demonstrations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Participants with CCA-related software they wish to demonstrate,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">should submit a one page abstract describing their system and what<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">they wish to present by May 1, 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">May 1 Deadline for submitting contributed talks and demo abstracts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">May 15 Notification of acceptance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">June 25-27 see you at ACA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">How to submit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">All abstracts are to be submitted by May 1 via EasyChar at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cca20120 Please ensure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">your abstract is clearly marked as being for a contributed paper or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">software demonstration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Organizers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * Elena Smirnova<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Education Technology, Texas Instruments, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> e-smirnova@ti.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> * Stephen M. Watt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra, U of Western Ontario, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> stephen.watt@uwo.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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