The 16th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2010) will be held in Nha Trang, Vietnam during July 19 -- 21. This is the first time COCOON is held in Vietnam. The conference organizers would like to extend their most cordial invitation to reseachers around the world to come to one of the most beautiful countries in South East Asia, to explore its 4000-year-old culture, to enjoy the beach scenery and to exchange their most significant research works.

Original research works in the areas of algorithms, theory of computation, computational complexity, and combinatorics related to computing are solicited. In addition to theoretical studies, submissions that report on experimental and applied research of general algorithmic interest are especially encouraged.

Topics of interest (but not limited to)
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Important Dates
Algorithms and data structures;
Algorithmic game theory and online algorithms;
Automata, languages, logic, and computability;
Combinatorics related to algorithms and complexity;
Complexity theory;
Computational learning theory and knowledge discovery;
Cryptography, reliability and security, and database theory;
Computational biology and bioinformatics ;
Computational algebra, geometry, and number theory;
Graph drawing and information visualization;
Graph theory, communication networks, and optimization;
Parallel and distributed computing;
Experimental analysis of algorithms


Publication
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The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

High quality papers will be invited to a special issue in Algorithmica and Journal of Combinatorial Optimization.