COCOON 2026 - Submission Deadline Extended to 4 March

The 32nd International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 
2026) will be held in Singapore from 23 to 25 July 2026. More 
information can be found at the conference website: 
https://event.ntu.edu.sg/cocoon2026.

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. Special consideration will be given to research that is 
motivated by real-world problems. Such submissions are expected to 
include rigorous justification, careful evaluation, or convincing 
evidence of the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.

Important Dates

      Paper submission: *** 4 March 2026 ***
      Notification: 6 May 2026
      Camera-ready: 29 May 2026
      Conference: 23-25 July 2026

All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth, UTC-12).

Invited Speakers

      Yuichi Yoshida, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
      Seth Pettie, University of Michigan, USA

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
      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
      Optimization
      Parallel and Distributed Computing
      Quantum Computing

Paper Submission

Each submission should contain a clear and scholarly exposition of 
ideas, techniques, and results, including the motivation and a careful 
comparison with related work. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of 
originality, technical depth, correctness, significance, and clarity of 
presentation.

Each submission is limited to twelve (12) single-column pages in 
Springer LNCS format; see LNCS author guidelines at 
http://www.springer.com/la/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.

The page limit includes figures and references but excludes an optional 
appendix. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be placed in the 
appendix (after references, in the same file), which may be read by the 
program committee members at their discretion. Appendices of accepted 
papers will not be published in the proceedings.

The conference employs a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. 
Submissions must not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. 
Authors are expected to follow standard double-blind practices commonly 
used in theory conferences. Nothing should be done in the name of 
anonymity that weakens the submission or hinders the reviewing process; 
in particular, references must not be omitted or anonymized. Code and 
data may be provided via anonymous download links or an anonymized 
GitHub repository.

All submissions must be made electronically through EasyChair: 
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cocoon2026.

The submission server will open approximately one month before the 
submission deadline.

Proceedings

There must be one full registration associated with every accepted 
paper, regardless of whether the presenter qualifies for a discounted 
registration.

Accepted papers must be presented in-person in order to appear in the 
proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture 
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as in the previous COCOON 
conferences: https://link.springer.com/conference/cocoon.

Awards

Awards will be given for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper. To be 
eligible for the Best Student Paper Award, all authors must be full-time 
students at the time of submission. Authors should indicate eligibility 
in the final line of the abstract. The programme committee reserves the 
right to withhold these awards or to split them among multiple recipients.

Programme Committee Co-chairs

      Yi Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
      Frank Stephan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
      Xiaoming Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Programme Committee

      https://event.ntu.edu.sg/cocoon2026/pages/committees
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