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<div>The <b>36th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA 2025)</b> 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.)<br>
<b>Conference webpage</b>: https://www.cs.montana.edu/bhz/iwoca2025/<br>
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<div><b>Visa problems</b><br>
We have learned and understood that currently, a number of nationalities face problems to get US visa in time.<br>
Therefore, we would like to communicate that, although we would prefer meeting in person at the conference site to interact with each other and we would therefore expect that at least one of the co-authors of an accepted paper would attend the conference, in
exceptional cases, for instance, if there are severe problems to get a US visa in time, etc., then we will arrange some possibility to deliver the talk online.
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In any case, we will issue invitation letters to all authors of accepted papers along with the notification.
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As our previously communicated on-site policy might have prevented some people from preparing their papers for submission to IWOCA, we like to extend the deadlines by roughly one week for everybody.<br>
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<b>NEWS: Important Dates</b> (a.o.e.)<br>
Abstract submission: <b>March 04, 2025</b><br>
Paper submission: <b>March 09, 2025 </b><br>
Notification: April 22, 2025<br>
Camera Ready: April 30, 2025<br>
Conference: July 21-24, 2025<br>
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Confirmed Invited Speakers</b>:<br>
Pawel Gawrychowski, University of Wroc³aw, Poland<br>
Saket Saurabh, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, and University of Bergen, Norway<br>
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<b>Topics</b><br>
The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:<br>
Ad Hoc, Dynamic and Evolving Networks<br>
Algorithms and Data Structures<br>
Algorithms on Strings & Graphs<br>
Algorithms for Big Data and Networks Analytics<br>
Algorithmic Game Theory<br>
Approximation Algorithms<br>
Combinatorial Generation, Enumeration and Counting<br>
Combinatorial Optimization<br>
Complexity Theory<br>
Combinatorics of Words<br>
Computational Algebra and Geometry<br>
Computational Biology<br>
Cryptography and Information Security<br>
Distributed and Parallel Algorithms<br>
Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms<br>
Fine-grained Complexity<br>
Foundations of Cloud Computing<br>
Graph Algorithms for Social Network Analysis<br>
Graph Drawing and Labelling <br>
Graph Theory & Combinatorics<br>
Mobile Agents<br>
New Paradigms of Computation<br>
Online Algorithms<br>
Parameterized and Exact Algorithms<br>
Probabilistic and Randomized Algorithms<br>
Scheduling<br>
Streaming Algorithms<br>
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<b>Proceedings</b><br>
Conference proceedings will be published in the LNCS series of Springer, within the ARCoSS subline.</div>
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<b>Journal Special Issues</b><br>
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.<br>
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<b>Awards</b><br>
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.<br>
The program committee may decline to make these awards or may split them.<br>
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<b>Submission instructions</b><br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
Submissions not conforming to the above rules as well as papers outside of the scope of the conference will be rejected without consideration.<br>
Papers are to be submitted electronically through EasyChair at the following link:
<a href="https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/iwoca2025" class="OWAAutoLink">
https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/iwoca2025</a></div>
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<div>Thanks to everyone who already submitted a paper to this year's IWOCA!<br>
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<b>Program Chairs</b><br>
Henning Fernau, University of Trier, Germany<br>
Binhai Zhu, Montana State University, USA <br>
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