The '''European Symposium on Algorithms''' ('''ESA''') is an international conference covering the field of [[algorithms]]. It has been held annually since 1993, typically in early Autumn in a different European ___location ineach early Autumnyear. Like most theoretical computer science conferences its contributions are strongly peer-reviewed; the articles appear in proceedings published in [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] [[Lecture Notes in Computer Science]]. Acceptance rate of ESA is 24% in 2012 in both ''Design and Analysis'' and ''Engineering and Applications'' tracks.<ref>{{ cite web | url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/vvh2rq7353w0/front-matter.pdf | year=2012 | title=Algorithms – ESA 2012 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) | accessdate=2012-09-17 }}</ref>
