About us

The 32nd International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2026) is an international event focusing on algorithms, theory of computation, computational complexity, and combinatorics related to computing. The conference will be held in Singapore, featuring technical sessions, invited speakers, and proceedings published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Important Dates

Wed, Mar 4, 2026
Paper submission
Wed, May 6, 2026
Notification
Fri, May 29, 2026
Camera-ready
Thu, Jul 23, 2026
Conference start
Sat, Jul 25, 2026
Conference end

Call For Paper

Parallel and distributed computing
Algorithms and data structures
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Optimization
Quantum computing
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
Database Theory
Computational Algebra, Geometry, and Number Theory
Exact and Parameterized Algorithms
Graph Drawing and Information Visualization
Graph Theory, Communication Networks

Original research papers in the areas of algorithms, theory of computation, computational complexity, and combinatorics related to computing are solicited. Submissions presenting experimental or applied work are also welcome, provided that they make a clear algorithmic contribution and offer insights of interest to the theory and algorithms community.

Committee

Programme Committee Co-chairs

Yi Li

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Frank Stephan

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Xiaoming Sun

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Speakers

Yuichi Yoshida

National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Seth Pettie

University of Michigan, USA