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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color:black">Dear </span></span><span class="s1"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Colleagues</span><span style="color:black">,</span></span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s2"><span style="color:black">We invite you to submit your manuscripts related to enumeration to the special issue of the workshop “WEPA 2024”,
</span></span><span class="s2"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">in</span><span style="color:black"> the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics.</span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The submission deadline has been extended to
<b>November 30, 2025</b>; please </span><span style="color:black">find the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">full updated<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black">CFP
attache</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">d, and on the journal’s webpage:
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/319890/wepa-2024-6th-workshop-on-enumeration-problems-and-applications">
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/319890/wepa-2024-6th-workshop-on-enumeration-problems-and-applications</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you are considering submitting a paper, please write to
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Nadia Creignou and Giulia Punzi</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Journal</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: Discrete Applied Mathematics</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Special Issue</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: WEPA 2024 (Sixth International Workshop on Enumeration Problems and Applications)</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">WEPA (Workshop on Enumeration Problems and Applications) is an international forum for researchers in the area of design, analysis, experimental evaluation, and engineering of algorithms
for enumeration problems. The objective of the workshop is to foster collaboration, gathering researchers to present recent results and explore future directions for enumeration algorithms with applications in biology, data mining, logic, databases, and more. WEPA 2024
is the sixth edition of this workshop, and was held in Kinugawa-Onsen, Nikko (Japan) on October 19–22, 2024.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We cordially invite the authors and participants of WEPA 2024, as well as other researchers on enumeration algorithms, to contribute to this special issue of <i>Discrete Applied Mathematics</i>.
Submissions should relate to the themes of WEPA, including but not restricted to:</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Combinatorial Enumeration and Counting</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Approximate Enumeration and Counting</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Applications in Biology, Data Mining, Logic, and Databases</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submissions of contributions not presented at the workshop are welcome. Contributions arising from abstracts presented in the conference should be substantially extended, and should cite
the conference paper where appropriate. All articles will be thoroughly refereed according to the high standards of <i>Discrete Applied Mathematics</i>.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The guide for authors can be found at</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0078D7"><a href="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/discrete-applied-mathematics/0166-218x/guide-for-authors" title="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/discrete-applied-mathematics/0166-218x/guide-for-authors"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.elsevier.com/journals/discrete-applied-mathematics/0166-218x/guide-for-authors</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Full papers must be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial Manager (EM) system (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0078D7"><a href="https://www.editorialmanager.com/dam/default1.aspx" title="https://www.editorialmanager.com/dam/default1.aspx"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.editorialmanager.com/dam/default1.aspx</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> ). When
submitting your paper, be sure to specify that the paper is a contribution for the special issue of <b>WEPA 2024</b>, so that your paper is assigned to the Guest Editors. Please see the Author Instructions on the website if you have not yet submitted a paper
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">DEADLINE:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The deadline for submission<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">extended
to November 30</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, 2025</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Accepted papers will be published online individually, before print publication.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Nadia Creignou, Aix-Marseille Université </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Giulia Punzi, University of Pisa</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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