Preface

摘要

The papers in this volume were presented at the 9th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA 2013), held during December 12-14, 2013, in Chengdu, China. It is expected that starting this year, the COCOA conferences will be held in winter instead of summer. The topics cover most areas in algorithms, combinatorial optimization, and their applications. Submissions to the conference this year were conducted electronically. A total of 72 papers were submitted, of which 36 were accepted. The papers were evaluated by an international Program Committee overseen by the Program Committee co-chairs: Peter Widmayer, Yinfeng Xu, and Binhai Zhu. The Program Committee consists of Tatsuya Akutsu, Laurent Bulteau, Yongxi Cheng, Marek Chrobak, Shantanu Das, Bhaskar DasGupta, Yucheng Dong, Thomas Erlebach, Zhiping Fan, Mordecai Golin, Jiong Guo, Xiaodong Hu, Haitao Jiang, Iyad Kanj, Naoki Katoh, Adrian Kosowski, Elias Koutsoupias, Michael Langston, Guohui Lin, Xiaowen Liu, Bernard Mans, Matus Mihalak, Nicola Santoro, Jianxin Wang, Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh, and Shanfeng Zhu. It is expected that most of the accepted papers will appear in a more complete form in scientific journals.