A. Barg , University of Maryland

L. Dolecek , UCLA

R. Gabrys , UCSD

G. O. H. Katona , Rényi Institute, Budapest

J. Körner , Sapienza Università di Roma

A. McGregor , UMass Amherst

S. Mesnager , University of Paris

G. Zémor , University of Bordeaux

From Deletion Correction to Graph Reconstruction

This special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is devoted to the memory of Vladimir I. Levenshtein who made seminal contributions to many fields of coding theory and combinatorics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

·        Algebraic codes

·        Codes in the Cayley, Kendall tau, and Ulam distance

·        Combinatorial designs

·        Indel Channels: Capacity Bounds, Code Designs, Applications

·        Interactive communication protocols

·        Sequence alignment algorithms

·        Topics in sequence design and analysis

·        Trace and graph reconstruction

Important Dates :

Manuscript submission: October 15, 2019

First round of reviews: January 31, 2020

Revised manuscript submission: March 31, 2020

Notification of final decision: May 1, 2020

Final manuscript submission: June 15, 2020

Publication: Fall 2020

Prospective authors should prepare their papers following regular submission procedures of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (see https://ece.umd.edu/trans-it/submissions.html )