<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">================================================================================</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">28th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA 2017)</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Newcastle, Australia, July 17–21, 2017</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://iwoca2016.cs.helsinki.fi/" class="">https://carma.newcastle.edu.au/meetings/iwoca/</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">================================================================================</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Call for open problem suggestions for the IWOCA open problems session</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">================================================================================</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Since its earliest gatherings, the International Workshop on Combinatorial</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Algorithms (IWOCA) has had collaborative problem solving as an essential part of</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">its meetings. During and after the conference, open problems are collected and</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">documented on the IWOCA homepage:</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://iwoca.org/index_problems.html" class="">https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/iwoca/index_problems.html</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">This time we'd like to invite also colleagues who cannot attend the IWOCA</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">workshop to suggest open problems. If you have a problem you are willing</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">to share with the community, and that fits into the scope of IWOCA, you are</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">welcome to send it to us, the two chairs of the open problem section</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Gabriele Fici (<a href="http://unipa.it/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">gabriele.fici@unipa.it</span></a>)</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dalibor Froncek (<a href="mailto:dfroncek@d.umn.edu" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">dfroncek@d.umn.edu</span></a>)</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Our aim is to publish each problem in the form of 1-2 page PDFs, that also</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">provide some background information and references for the problems, like</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">here:</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="http://iwoca.org/problems_list.html" class="">https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/iwoca/problems_list.html</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Please be ready to put your problem into this format if we ask you to.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">We are looking forward to your suggestions,</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Gabriele Fici & Dalibor Froncek</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">================================================================================</span></div></body></html>