The topics covered by workshops are diverse, as are the workshop's formats. A workshop may provide the opportunity for representatives of a technical community to coordinate efforts and to establish collective plans of action, to collectively work on a book, or to discuss and share ideas on a hot new emerging technology.
Workshops are full day events that occur on either of the first two days before the conference.
To ensure a sufficiently small group for effective interaction, workshop organizers manage attendance based on an objective criterion, typically a short position paper submitted by potential attendees. Other criteria are permitted as long as they are clearly specified in the workshop's call for participation. We encourage proposals for innovative, well focused workshops on a broad spectrum of object topics. We particularly encourage proposals for novel, highly interactive workshops that fall outside the conventional workshop format. Preference will be shown to workshop that have more organizers.