This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2000, held in Sydney, Australia in July 2000.The 44 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 81 submissions. The book offers topical sections on computational geometry; graph drawing; graph theory and algorithms; complexity, discrete mathematics, and number theory; online algorithms; parallel and distributed computing; combinatorial optimization; data structures and computational biology; learning and cryptography; and automata and quantum computing.

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 12th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2006, held in Taipei, Taiwan, August 2006. The book offers 52 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 2 invited talks. The papers are organized in topical sections on computational economics, finance, and management, graph algorithms, computational complexity and computability, quantum computing, computational biology and medicine, computational geometry, graph theory, and more.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2015, held in Beijing, China, in August 2015. The 49 revised full papers and 11 shorter papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers cover various topics including algorithms and data structures; algorithmic game theory; approximation algorithms and online algorithms; automata, languages, logic and computability; complexity theory; computational learning theory; cryptography, reliability and security; database theory, computational biology and bioinformatics; computational algebra, geometry, number theory, graph drawing and information visualization; graph theory, communication networks, optimization and parallel and distributed computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2002, held in Singapore in August 2002. The 60 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on complexity theory, discrete algorithms, computational biology and learning theory, radio networks, automata and formal languages, Internet networks, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization, and quantum computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2004, held in Jeju Island, Korea, in August 2004. The 46 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data structures and algorithms, computational geometry, games and combinatorics, combinatorial optimization, graph algorithms, automata and learning theory, scheduling, graph drawing, complexity theory, parallel and distributed architectures, and computational biology.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON '96, held in June 1996 in Hong Kong. The 44 papers presented in the book in revised version were carefully selected from a total of 82 submissions. They describe state-of-the-art research results from various areas of theoretical computer science, combinatorics related to computing, and experimental analysis of algorithms; computational graph theory, computational geometry, and networking issues are particularly well-presented.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, held in Dallas, TX, USA, in August 2011. The 54 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 136 submissions. Topics covered are algorithms and data structures; algorithmic game theory 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; graph drawing and information visualization; graph theory, communication networks, and optimization; parallel and distributed computing.

The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the Fourth Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON’98), held on August 12–14, 1998, in Taipei. The topics cover most aspects of theoretical computer science and combinatorics related to computing. Submissions to the conference this year was only conducted electronically. Thanks to the excellent software developed by the system team of the Institute of Information Science, we were able to make virtually all communications through the World Wide Web. A total of 69 papers was submitted in time to be considered, of which 36 papers were accepted for presentation at the conference. In addition to these contributed papers, the conference also included four invited presentations by Christo Papadimitriou, Michael Fishcher, Fan Chung Graham and Rao Kosaraju. It is expected that most of the accepted papers will appear in a more complete form in scienti?c journals. Moreover, selected papers will appear in a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science. We thank all program committee members, their support sta? and referees for excellent work within demanding time constraints. We thank all authors who submitted papers for consideration. We are especially grateful to our colleagues who worked hard and o?ered widely di?ering talents to make the conference both possible and enjoyable. August 1998 Wen-Lian Hsu and Ming-Yang Kao Program Co-chairs COCOON’98 Organization COCOON’98 is organized by the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC and in cooperation with Institute of Information and Computing Machinery (IICM), Taiwan, ROC.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM'99, held in Leipzig, Germany in September 1999. The 15 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed. The papers are organized in sections on neural networks applied to image processing and recognition, learning in image pre-processing and segmentation, image retrieval, classification and image interpretation, symbolic learning and neural networks in document processing, and data mining.

This two volume set LNCS 14422-14423 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference, COCOON 2023, held in Hawaii, HI, USA, during December 2023. The 60 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Part I : Combinatorics and Algorithms; Algorithmic Solution in Applications; and Algorithm in Networks. Part II: Complexity and Approximation; Graph Algorithms; and Applied Algorithms.