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Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research in the topics related to the symposium.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 requieres 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 EasyChair 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, Polandot
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