Dear PC members,

thank you once more for agreeing to serve on the program committee of ISSAC'19. I am looking forward to working with you.

We are about to release the first call for papers. It would be great if you could help to propagate it among your colleagues.

Here is a short preview of the upcoming steps. Further details will be announced later.

1) Abstract and full paper deadline are Sun Jan 13 and Sun Jan 20, respectively. We are prepared to have them extended to Sun Jan 20 and Sun Jan 27, respectively.

2) After the (extended) abstract deadline, I plan to assign each paper to two PC members, one "primary" and one "secondary". The primary member shall organize two reports, the secondary member one.

3) All reports should be received by March 20. After this, we have roughly 10 days for identifying clear and borderline cases. The decision about the bordeline cases will be made by a vote.

4) I would like to avoid a formal rebuttal phase and conditional accepts. Instead, when we need some clarification from the authors, let us contact them on an individual and informal basis.

5) Notification is scheduled for Wed April 3. Authors will have to have their final versions ready by Fri May 10.

As usual, the whole process will be managed via EasyChair. I have already added you as PC members. Please check if you can log in as PC member to the ISSAC'19 installation, and if you have difficulties, please let me know.

Thanks & best regards, Manuel