[DMANET] WAOA 2026 - Extended submission deadline (New deadline: July 2nd)

======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS - WAOA 2026 Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms L'Aquila, Italy, Sept 3-4, 2026 https://algo-conference.org/2026/waoa/ ======================================================================== Approximation and online algorithms are fundamental tools to deal with computationally hard problems and problems in which the input is gradually disclosed over time. Both types of problems arise from a myriad of applications in various fields. The Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA) focuses on the design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms. WAOA 2026 is co-located with ALGO 2026, which will be held at the University of L'Aquila in L'Aquila, Italy. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New paper submission deadline: July 2, 2026, 23:59 AoE (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waoa2026) Notification: August 4, 2026 Camera-ready version: August 15, 2026 Conference: September 3-4, 2026 INVITED SPEAKER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Standa Živný, University of Oxford TOPICS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers are solicited in all research areas related to approximation and online algorithms, including, but not limited to: * Algorithmic game theory * Coloring and partitioning * Computational economics and mechanism design * Experimental methods for approximation and online algorithms * FPT-approximation algorithms * Geometric problems * Graph algorithms and network design * Inapproximability results * Packing and covering * Matroids and submodular functions * New paradigms in approximation and online optimization * Online selection problems * Resource augmentation * Relaxations and tightness of formulations * Robust and stochastic problems * Scheduling problems SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or full paper of at most 10 pages, excluding the title page, references, and an optional appendix. The submission should be typeset using a 10-point or larger font in a single-column format and 2cm margins all around on A4-size paper. The appendix must contain all omitted proofs or, alternatively, a full version of the paper. The appendix will be read by the program committee at their discretion but will not be included in the published proceedings. The central part of the submission should, therefore, contain a clear technical presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of the paper's importance within the context of prior work and a description of the key technical and conceptual ideas used to achieve its main claims. Results previously published (or scheduled for publication) in another conference proceedings or journal will not be accepted. Simultaneous submission to journals or other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted. By submitting a paper, the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance, at least one of the authors must register at ALGO 2026, attend the conference onsite and present the paper. The program committee may award a Best Paper Award to one of the accepted papers. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system. (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waoa2026) DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEWING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The conference will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. In particular, authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses should not appear at the beginning or in the body of the submission. Authors should ensure that any references to their own related work is in the third person (e.g., "We build on the work of ..." instead of "We build on our previous work ..."). The purpose of the double-blind reviewing is to help PC members and external reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or hinders the reviewing process. In particular, important references should not be omitted or anonymized. Authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas (e.g., via talks) or draft versions of their paper (e.g., on arXiv or other repositories). COI WITH PC MEMBERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ At submission, authors will be asked to indicate a Conflict of Interest (COI) with members of the program committee. A COI is limited to the following categories: * A family member or close friend. * Ph.D. advisor or advisee (no time limit), or postdoc or undergraduate mentor or mentee within the past 5 years. * A person with the same affiliation. * A person involved in an alleged incident of harassment. (It is not required that the incident is reported.) * A PC member who owes the author a favor (e.g., who recently requested a reference letter). * A frequent or recent collaborator (within the last 5 years) who you believe cannot objectively review your work. Submissions authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are allowed but will be subject to a stricter review process. PROCEEDINGS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The WAOA 2026 proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A subset of the accepted articles might be invited for a special issue of Acta Informatica. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Antonios Antoniadis, University of Twente Hans-Joachim Boeckenhauer, ETH Zurich Sami Davies, UC Berkeley Max Deppert, Kiel University Leah Epstein, University of Haifa Yuri Faenza, Columbia University Kim-Manuel Klein, Universitaet zu Luebeck (co-chair) Alexander Lindermayr, Technische Universitaet Berlin Monaldo Mastrolilli, SUPSI-IDSIA (co-chair) Alantha Newman, Ecole normale superieure de Lyon Kevin Schewior, University of Cologne Hadas Shachnai, Technion Hanna Sumita, Institute of Science Tokyo Marc Uetz, University of Twente Rob van Stee, University of Siegen Laura Vargas Koch, RWTH Aachen Victor Verdugo, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Tjark Vredeveld, Maastricht University Prudence Wong, University of Liverpool STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evripidis Bampis, Sorbonne Universite, FR Thomas Erlebach, Durham University, UK Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras, GR Nicole Megow, Universitaet Bremen, DE Laura Sanità, Bocconi University, IT Martin Skutella, Technische Universitaet Berlin, DE Roberto Solis-Oba, University of Western Ontario, CA ********************************************************** * * 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. 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