About us
The Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA) focuses on the design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms. The conference is co-located with ALGO 2026.
Important Dates
Call For Paper
Papers are solicited in all research areas related to approximation and online algorithms, including, but not limited to algorithmic game theory, coloring and partitioning, computational economics and mechanism design, and scheduling problems.
Committee
Program Committee
Antonios Antoniadis
University of Twente
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer
ETH Zurich
Sami Davies
UC Berkeley
Max Deppert
Kiel University
Leah Epstein
University of Haifa
Yuri Faenza
Columbia University
Kim-Manuel Klein
co-chair
Universität zu Lübeck
Alexander Lindermayr
Technische Universität Berlin
Monaldo Mastrolilli
co-chair
SUPSI-IDSIA
Alantha Newman
École normale supérieure de Lyon
Kevin Schewior
University of Cologne
Hadas Shachnai
Technion
Hanna Sumita
Institute of Science Tokyo
Marc Uetz
University of Twente
Rob van Stee
University Siegen
Laura Vargas Koch
RWTH Aachen
Victor Verdugo
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Tjark Vredeveld
Maastricht University
Prudence Wong
University of Liverpool
Steering Committee
Evripidis Bampis
Sorbonne Université, FR
Thomas Erlebach
Durham University, UK
Christos Kaklamanis
University of Patras, GR
Nicole Megow
Universität Bremen, DE
Laura Sanità
Bocconi University, IT
Martin Skutella
Technische Universität Berlin, DE
Roberto Solis-Oba
University of Western Ontario, CA