[DMANET] Early bird registration closing for the 48th Australasian Combinatorics Conference (48ACC)

Early bird registration closes 2nd October for the 48th Australasian Combinatorics Conference (48ACC), which will be held from 7–11 December 2026 at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Invited speakers: Simona Boyadzhiyska (Renyi Institute) Nick Brettell (Victoria University of Wellington) Peter Cameron (University of St Andrews) Jonathan Jedwab (Simon Fraser University) Hao Huang (National University of Singapore) Sophie Huczynska (University of St Andrews) Jane Tan (University of Oxford) Sebastian Wiederrecht (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Binzhou Xia (University of Melbourne) Liana Yepremyan (Emory University) The conference website is https://48acc.github.io ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/ * **********************************************************

[DMANET] TEAC Special Issue on Collective Decision Making: Selecting Committees, Clusters, and Assemblies

Hi all, We would like to draw your attention to the call for papers of a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC) on "Collective Decision Making: Selecting Committees, Clusters, and Assemblies" CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation Special Issue on Collective Decision Making: Selecting Committees, Clusters, and Assemblies Collective decision making is increasingly moving beyond the selection of a single winner, encompassing richer outcomes such as committees, clusters, participatory budgets, and citizens' assemblies. This special issue aims to bring together research in this direction, highlighting application areas, common principles, methods, and new challenges in collective decision making. For the full Call for Papers, including a list of topics of interest and submission instructions, please go to: https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/teac/pdf/acm-teac-collective-decision-1789759564367.pdf Important Dates Submission deadline: December 15, 2026 First-round review decisions: May 15, 2027 Deadline for revision submissions: September 1, 2027 Notification of final decisions: November 15, 2027 Tentative publication: December 15, 2027 For questions or further information, please contact the guest editors: * Niclas Boehmer: niclas.boehmer@hpi.de * Martin Bullinger: martin.bullinger@bristol.ac.uk Best, Martin ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/ * **********************************************************