The European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) is an international conference covering the field of algorithms. It has been held annually since 1993, typically in a different European location in early Autumn. Like most theoretical computer science conferences its contributions are strongly peer-reviewed; the articles appear in proceedings published in Springer

Springer Science+Business Media

- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...

 Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Lecture Notes in Computer Science is a series of computer science books that has been published by Springer Science+Business Media since 1973....

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History

The first ESA was held in 1993 and contained 35 papers. The intended scope was all research in algorithms, theoretical as well as applied, carried out in the fields of computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 and discrete mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete rather than continuous. In contrast to real numbers that have the property of varying "smoothly", the objects studied in discrete mathematics – such as integers, graphs, and statements in logic – do not...

. An explicit aim was to intensify the exchange between these two research communities.

In 2002, ESA incorporated the conference Workshop on Algorithms Engineering (WAE). In its current format, ESA contains two distinct tracks with their own programme committees: a track on the design an analysis of algorithms

Analysis of algorithms

To analyze an algorithm is to determine the amount of resources necessary to execute it. Most algorithms are designed to work with inputs of arbitrary length...

, and a track on engineering and applications, together accepting around 70 contributions.

ALGO conferences

Since 2001, ESA is co-located with other algorithms conferences and workshops in a combined meeting called called ALGO. This is the largest European event devoted to algorithms, attracting hundreds of researchers.

Other events in the ALGO conferences include the following.

• WABI, the Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, was part of ALGO in 2001–2006 and 2008.
• WAOA, the Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, has been part of ALGO in 2003–2011.
• ATMOS, the Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems, formerly the Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, has been part of ALGO in 2003–2006 and 2008–2009.

ATMOS was a co-located with the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming

International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming

ICALP, the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming is an academic conference organized annually by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and held in different locations around Europe...

(ICALP) in 2001–2002.

ESA locations

• 1993 – Bad Honnef, Germany
• 1994 – Utrecht, The Netherlands
• 1995 – Corfu, Greece
• 1996 – Barcelona, Spain
• 1997 – Graz, Austria
• 1998 – Venice, Italy
• 1999 – Prague, Czech Republic
• 2000 – Saarbrücken, Germany
• 2001 – Århus, Denmark
• 2002 – Rome, Italy
• 2003 – Budapest, Hungary
• 2004 – Bergen, Norway
• 2005 – Palma de Mallorca, Spain
• 2006 – Zürich, Switzerland
• 2007 – Eilat, Israel
• 2008 – Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2009 – Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2010 - Liverpool, United Kingdom

External links

• Web site of ESA.
• ALGO History on ALGO 2009 web site.
• Index of ESA proceedings.