Call for Papers

Call for Papers

The 31st International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2025) will be held in Chengdu, China during 15-17 August, 2025. Original research papers in the areas of algorithms, theory of computation, computational complexity, and combinatorics related to computing are solicited. In addition to theoretical results, we are also interested in submissions that report on experimental and applied research of general algorithmic interest. Special consideration will be given to research that is motivated by real-world problems. Experimental and applied papers are expected to show convincingly the usefulness and efficiency of the algorithms discussed in a practical setting.

Important Dates

  • Submission: March 5, 2025, 23:59 AoE
  • Notification: May 5, 2025 AoE
  • Camera-ready: May 20, 2024 AoE
  • Conference: August 15 – August 17, 2025

AoE: Anywhere on Earth time, UTC -12 hours

Topics of interest

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design
  • Approximation Algorithms 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
  • Exact and Parameterized Algorithms
  • Graph Drawing and Information Visualization
  • Graph Theory, Communication Networks, and Optimization
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing

Paper Submission

The submission should contain scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques, and results, including the motivation and a clear comparison with related work. The length of the submission should not exceed 12 pages in LNCS style (including references, but excluding the optional appendix). Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are available here. The submitted papers will be reviewed in a double-blind peer review manner. Please delete the author information on your manuscript. All submissions must be submitted electronically through Easychair. This is the submission link.

Publication

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be available for distribution at the conference. Selected high quality papers will be invited for submission to some journals.