###### CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ###### 19th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching 18-20 June 2008, Pisa, Italy http://www.di.unipi.it/~cpm08 INVITED SPEAKERS: Daniel Gusfield, University of California, USA Ian Munro, University of Waterloo, CA Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Research, USA PROGRAM: Available at http://www.di.unipi.it/~cpm08/schedule.html. REGISTRATION: Already open at: http://www.di.unipi.it/~cpm08/registration.html SCOPE: The 19th Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching will be held at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, Italy. Papers in all areas related to combinatorial pattern matching and its applications are considered, e.g. coding and data compression, computational biology, data mining, information retrieval, natural language processing, pattern recognition, string algorithms, string processing in databases, symbolic computing, text searching. The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , volume 5029. PC CHAIRS: Paolo Ferragina (Univ. Pisa) and Gad M. Landau (Univ. Haifa).