WADS, the Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium, is an international

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in the field of

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, focusing on

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s.WADS web page
WADS is held every second year, usually in

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and always in

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. It is held in alternation with its sister conference, the Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), which is usually held in

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and always in

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. Historically, the proceedings of both conferences were published by

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through their

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series. Springer continues to publish WADS proceedings, but starting in 2016, SWAT proceedings are now published by

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through their

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History

The first SWAT took place in 1988, in

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. The first WADS was organised one year later, in 1989, in

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. Until 2007, WADS was known as the Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, and until 2008, SWAT was known as the Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory.SWAT 2008 web page

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* . Also available as a Princeton University technical repor
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Section 13.2 mentions the following conferences (in this order) as examples of "major algorithms conferences" with "a large amount of geometry": SODA, ISAAC, ESA, WADS, SWAT. * . Section 7.3.2 mentions the following conferences (in this order) as examples of conferences that publish articles on pattern matching (in addition to more narrow conferences CPM, COCOON, RECOMB, SPIRE, ISMB): DCC, ESA, FOCS, FSTTCS, ICALP, ISAAC, MFCS, SODA, STACS, STOC, SWAT, WAE, WADS. * Th

Conferences on tier A ("... would add to the author's respect...") include SWAT and WADS.

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Bibliographic information about SWAT
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Bibliographic information about WADS
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History

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