SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN
LAGOS 2025
XIII Latin American Algorithms, Graphs, and Optimization Symposium
November 10 to 14, 2025 | Buenos Aires, Argentina
https://lagos.mat.br/lagos2025
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ABOUT LAGOS 2025
The Latin American Algorithms, Graphs, and Optimization Symposium (LAGOS)
is a biennial event that brings together researchers and practitioners from
around the world. Since its inception in 2001, LAGOS has served as a key
forum for the exchange of ideas and collaboration. It represents the merger
of two Latin American conferences: the Brazilian Symposium on Graphs,
Algorithms, and Combinatorics (GRACO) and the Latin American Conference on
Combinatorics, Graphs, and Applications (LACGA).
LAGOS 2025 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from November 10 to 14,
2025. Previous editions took plance in Fortaleza, Brazil (2001), Santiago,
Chile (2004), Angra dos Reis, Brazil (2005), Puerto Varas, Chile (2007),
Gramado, Brazil (2009), Bariloche, Argentina (2011), Playa del Carmen,
Mexico (2013), Fortaleza, Brazil (2015), Marseille, France (2017), Belo
Horizonte, Brazil (2019), São Paulo, Brazil (2021), and Huatulco, Mexico
(2023).
As in previous editions, the conference proceedings will be published in a
selected journal, Procedia Computer Science, and a special edition of
Discrete Applied Mathematics will be devoted to selected full papers after
the conference.
SCOPE AND TOPICS
LAGOS 2025 invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but
not limited to:
- Algorithms and Complexity: Approximation algorithms, computational
complexity, parallel and distributed algorithms, parameterized complexity,
computational geometry, randomized algorithms.
- Operations Research and Optimization: Combinatorial optimization, integer
programming, polyhedral combinatorics, heuristics and metaheuristics.
- Graph Theory: Cliques, independent and dominating sets, colorings,
covering and packing, matchings, digraphs, graph algorithms, graphs and
matrices, hypergraphs, perfect graphs, random graphs, structural
characterization of graph classes.
- Applications: Mathematical programming, combinatorial optimization
applied to areas such as logistics, scheduling, resource allocation, and
other real-world problems.
VENUE
Pabellón Cero + Infinito (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Google Maps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BYR85UoaApsAR4Wr7
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 30, 2025
Decision notification: July 20, 2025
Camera-ready version deadline: August 14, 2025
Early bird registration deadline: October 7, 2025
Event dates: November 10–14, 2025
HONOREES
This special edition of LAGOS honors three distinguished scholars in
celebration of their 60th birthdays:
- Guillermo Durán, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Cláudia Linhares Sales, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
- Fábio Protti, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
PLENARY SPEAKERS
- Flavia Bonomo-Braberman, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Mitre Dourado, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Mariana Escalante, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
- Mario Guajardo, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway
- Martine Labbé, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Martin Milanič, University of Primorska, Slovenia
- Irena Penev, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Bruce Reed, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Ana Silva, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy and Universidade
Federal do Ceará, Brazil
- Zoran Stanić, University of Belgrade, Serbia
PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of LAGOS 2025 will be published in Procedia Computer
Science (Elsevier).
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original contributions in English, following
the Procedia Computer Science template for LAGOS 2025 available on the
event website at https://lagos.mat.br/lagos2025.
Submissions should not exceed eight (8) single-column pages, including
references.
If necessary, additional content may be included in an appendix, which will
not be published in the proceedings but will be available to the reviewers.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or
previously published papers is not allowed.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the
paper at the event for it to be included in the proceedings.
Submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair platform
using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lagos2025.
SPECIAL ISSUE
Following the tradition, there will be a special issue of Discrete Applied
Mathematics devoted to selected full papers of LAGOS 2025 after the
conference. The Call for Papers will be announced in the coming months.
REGISTRATION
Registration details will be provided in the coming months.
Early bird registration deadline: October 7, 2025
STEERING COMMITTEE
- Flavia Bonomo-Braberman, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Manoel Campêlo, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
- Guillermo Durán, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Celina Herrera de Figueiredo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
- Martín Matamala, Universidad de Chile, Chile
- Miguel Pizaña, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
EMERITUS STEERING COMMITTEE
- Thomas Liebling, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
GENERAL CHAIRS OF LAGOS 2025
- Luciano Grippo, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina
- Martín Safe, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Frédérique Bassino, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
- Julia Boettcher, The London School of Economics and Political Science,
United Kingdom
- Víctor Campos, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
- Héctor Cancela, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- Pablo De Caria, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
- José Correa, Universidad de Chile, Chile
- Florencia Cubria, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- Simone Dantas, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
- Ezequiel Dratman, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina
- Tınaz Ekim, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Turkey
- Cristina G. Fernandes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Silvia Fernández-Merchant, California State University, USA
- Luciano Grippo (co-chair), Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento,
Argentina
- Marina Groshaus, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
- Frédéric Havet, Centre Inria d'Université Côte d'Azur, France
- Carlos Hoppen, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Marcos Kiwi, Universidad de Chile, Chile
- Sulamita Klein, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Valeria Leoni, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
- Paloma Lima, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Min Chih Lin, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Carla Lintzmayer, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
- Javier Marenco, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
- Antonio Mauttone, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- María Pía Mazzoleni, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
- Amanda Montejano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
- Natasha Morrison, University of Victoria, Canada
- Lucia Moura, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Verónica Moyano, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina
- Graciela Nasini, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
- Nicolas Nisse, Centre Inria d'Université Côte d'Azur, France
- Deborah Oliveros, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
- Daniel Panario, Carleton University, Canada
- Michal Parnas, Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
- Adrián Pastine, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
- Lehilton Pedrosa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
- Miguel Pizaña, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
- Sergio Rajsbaum, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
- Martín Safe (co-chair), Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
- Gelasio Salazar, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- Vinicius dos Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Roberto Solis-Oba, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
- Sophie Spirkl, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Nicolas Stier-Moses, Meta, USA
- Paola Tolomei, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
- Mario Valencia-Pabon, Université de Lorraine, France
- Alfredo Viola, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- Annegret Wagler, Université Clermont Auvergne, France
- Yoshiko Wakabayashi, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- José Zamora, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
FURTHER INFORMATION AND UPDATES
For further information and updates, visit the conference website at
https://lagos.mat.br/lagos2025.
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