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The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the Eleventh Annual
International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2000), held
on 18{20 December, 2000 at the Institute of Information Science, Academia
Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Previous meetings were held in Tokyo (1990), Taipei
(1991), Nagoya (1992), Hong Kong (1993), Beijing (1994), Cairns (1995), Osaka
(1996), Singapore (1997), Taejon (1998), and Chennai (1999).
Submissions to the conference this year were conducted entirely electroni-
cally. Thanks to the excellent software developed by the Institute of Information
Science, Academia Sinica, we were able to carry out virtually all communication
via the World Wide Web.
In response to the call for papers, a total of 87 extended abstracts were
submitted from 25 countries. Each submitted paper was handled by at least
three program committee members, with the assistance of a number of external
reviewers, as indicated by the referee list found in the proceedings. There were
many more acceptable papers than there was space available in the symposium
program, which made the program committee's task extremely dicult. Finally
46 papers were selected for presentation at the Symposium. In addition to these
contributed papers, the conference also included two invited presentations by Dr.
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France and Professor Jin-Yi
Cai, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin, USA. It is expected that
most of the accepted papers will appear in a more complete form in scienti c
journals.
We thank all program committee members and the external reviewers for
their excellent work, especially given the demanding time constraints; they gave
the symposium its distinctive character. We thank all authors who submitted
papers for consideration: they all contributed to the high quality of the sympo-
sium. Finally, we thank all our colleagues who worked hard to put in place the
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