Since its inception in 1989 as AWOCA (Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms), IWOCA has provided an annual forum for researchers who design algorithms for the myriad combinatorial problems that underlie computer applications in science, engineering, and business. Previous IWOCA and AWOCA meetings have been held in Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the UK, Taiwan, and the USA. Information on previous IWOCA conferences can be found at http://www.iwoca.org

The 35th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA 2024)will be held in Ischia, Italy, on July 1-3 2024. http://iwoca2024.di.unisa.it

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
Circuits and Boolean Functions
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
Conference proceedings will be published within the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series of Springer, within the ARCoSS subline.

Papers of high quality will be invited to special issues of international journals devoted to IWOCA 2024.

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Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research on the topics related to the symposium.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 encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers and requires them to draw the attention of the contributing conference paper authors to the Code of Conduct.

Each submission should consist of the central 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 central part of the paper should be included therein (within the 12-page limit). The first page must indicate whether the article is eligible for the best student paper award.

Papers are to be submitted electronically through EasyChair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwoca2024

Important dates (AoE)

Abstract submission: February 14, 2024
Paper submission: February 21, 2024
Notification: April 15, 2024
Camera-ready submission: April 26, 2024
Conference: July 1-3, 2024

Program Chairs:
Adele Rescigno, University of Salerno, Italy
Ugo Vaccaro, University of Salerno, Italy

Program Committee:
Bogdan Alecu, University of Leeds, UK
Petra Berenbrink, University of Hamburg, Germany
Tiziana Calamoneri, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Yi-Jun Chang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Gennaro Cordasco, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Italy
Peter Damaschke, Chalmers University, Sweden
Adrian Dumitrescu, Algoresearch L.L.C., USA
Klim Efremenko, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Leah Epstein, University of Haifa, Israel
David Eppstein, University of California, USA
Thomas Erlebach, Durham University, UK
Amedeo Esposito, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Henning Fernau, Universität Trier, Germany
Fedor Fomin, University of Bergen, Norway
Travis Gagie, Dalhousie University, Canada
Robert Ganian, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Leszek Gasieniec, University of Liverpool, UK
Roberto Grossi, University of Pisa, Italy
Ling-Ju Hung, National Taipei University of Business, Taiwan
Yusuke Kobayashi, Kyoto University, Japan
Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan University, USA
Manuel Lafond, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Chia-Wei Lee, National Taitung University, Taiwan
Kitty Meeks, University of Glasgow, UK
Martin Milanic, University of Primorska, Slovenia
Neeldhara Misra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
Alantha Newman, University Grenoble Alpes, France
Aris Pagourtzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Ely Porat, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Dieter Rautenbach, Ulm University, Germany
Saket Saurabh, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India
Marinella Sciortino, University of Palermo, Italy
Sagnik Sen, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India
Maria Serna, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Florian Sikora, University Paris Dauphine, France
Ana Silva, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Tatiana Starikovskaya, PSL Research University, France
Teresa Anna Steiner, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Jukka Suomela, Aalto University, Finland
Michal Wlodarczyk, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Meirav Zehavi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel