Monday, January 6, 2025

[DMANET] Conference announcement IWOCA 2025

The 36th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA 2025) will be held during July 21-24, 2025, in Bozeman, MT, USA. (Bozeman is 90 miles away from Yellowstone National Park, and late July is probably the best time to visit Yellowstone.)

Conference webpage: https://www.cs.montana.edu/bhz/iwoca2025/


Important Dates (a.o.e.)

Abstract submission: February 27, 2025

Paper submission: March 02, 2025

Notification: April 22, 2025

Camera Ready: April 30, 2025

Conference: July 21-24, 2025


Topics

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

Ad Hoc, Dynamic and Evolving Networks

Algorithms and Data Structures

Algorithms on Strings & Graphs

Algorithms for Big Data and Networks Analytics

Algorithmic Game Theory

Approximation Algorithms

Combinatorial Generation, Enumeration and Counting

Combinatorial Optimization

Complexity Theory

Combinatorics of Words

Computational Algebra and Geometry

Computational Biology

Cryptography and Information Security

Distributed and Parallel Algorithms

Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms

Fine-grained Complexity

Foundations of Cloud Computing

Graph Algorithms for Social Network Analysis

Graph Drawing and Labelling

Graph Theory & Combinatorics

Mobile Agents

New Paradigms of Computation

Online Algorithms

Parameterized and Exact Algorithms

Probabilistic and Randomized Algorithms

Scheduling

Streaming Algorithms

Proceedings

Conference proceedings will be published in the LNCS series of Springer, within the ARCoSS subline.

Journal Special Issues

Authors of selected papers accepted to IWOCA will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a Special Issue in some reputed journals.

Awards

Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. To be eligible for the best student paper award, at least one of the paper authors must be a full-time student at the time of submission, and the student(s) must have made a significant contribution to the paper.

The program committee may decline to make these awards or may split them.

Submission instructions

Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research in the topics related to the symposium. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. It is required that each accepted paper be presented at the conference by one of its authors.

Submissions must be in the form of a single pdf file prepared using the LNCS latex templates and style files. Springer's proceedings LaTeX templates are also available on Overleaf. Springer's authors' guidelines may be consulted here. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers, and requires to draw the attention of the contributing conference paper authors to the Code of Conduct.

Each submission should consist of the main part of the paper, not exceeding 12 pages (including the title page and excluding the references), plus an optional clearly marked appendix (to be read at the discretion of the program committee). Any figure pertaining to the main part of the paper should be included therein (within the 12 page limit). The first page must include an indication of whether the paper is eligible for the best student paper award.

Submissions not conforming to the above rules as well as papers outside of the scope of the conference will be rejected with­out consideration.

Papers are to be submitted electronically through EquinOCS at the following link: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/iwoca2025

Program Chairs

Henning Fernau, University of Trier, Germany

Binhai Zhu, Montana State University, USA

Program Committee

Cristina Bazgan, Université Paris Dauphine, France

Sergey Bereg, University of Texas-Dallas, USA

Laurent Bulteau, CNRS and Université Gustave Eiffel, France

Gruia Calinescu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Zhi-Zhong Chen, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University, USA

Riccardo Dondi, University of Bergamo, Italy

Piotr Faliszewski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Henning Fernau, Universität Trier, Germany

Pamela Fleischmann, Universität Kiel, Germany

Pawel Gawrychowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland

Gregory Gutin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Adriana Hansberg, UNAM, Mexico

Pavol Hell, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Yuya Higashikawa, University of Hyogo, Japan

Ling-ju Hung, National Taipei University of Business, Taiwan

Haitao Jiang, Shandong University, China

Dominik Koeppl, University of Yamanashi, Japan

Christian Komusiewicz, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany

Manuel Lafond, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

Guohui Lin, University of Alberta, Canada

Adiesha Liyanage, Montana State University, USA

Neeldhara Misra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India

Brendan Mumey, Montana State University, USA

Sang-il Oum, IBS and KAIST, Korea

Arash Rafiey, Indiana State University, USA

Hadas Shachnai, Technion, Israel

Ueverton Souza, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sean Yaw, Montana State University, USA

Boting Yang, University of Regina, Canada

Binhai Zhu, Montana State University, USA

Sandra Zilles, University of Regina, Canada


Organizing Committee

Adiesha Liyanage, Montana State University, USA

Brendan Mumey, Montana State University, USA

Sean Yaw, Montana State University, USA

Binhai Zhu, Montana State University, USA


Steering Committee

Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University, USA

Henning Fernau, Universität Trier, Germany

Ralf Klasing, CNRS and University of Bordeaux, France

Wing-Kin (Ken) Sung, National University of Singapore, Singapore


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