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WALCOM 2026

The 20th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation will be held in Perugia, Italy, from March 4 to 6, 2026.

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Wednesday, March 4
Time Events
09:00 — 10:00 Session 1: Games and voting
09:00 — 09:20 K. Burke, A. Dailly, N. Oijid
Complexity and algorithms for Arc-Kayles and Non-Disconnecting Arc-Kayles
09:20 — 09:40 P. Arora, P. Dey, N. Misra
Can One Flip Spoil It All?
09:40 — 10:00 N. Kakimura and Y. Terai
Computing Power Indices in Weighted Majority Games with Formal Power Series
10:00 — 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 — 12:10 Session 2: Graph drawings and embeddings
10:30 — 10:50 M. Chimani, M.H. Wagner
Computing Beyond-Planar Crossing Numbers via Forbidden Crossing Patterns
10:50 — 11:10 O. Aichholzer, Y. Higashikawa, J. Orthaber, D. Perz, B. Vogtenhuber, A. Weinberger
Minimum-Weight Outerplane Laman Graphs
11:10 — 11:30 S. van den Broek, M. van Kreveld, W. Meulemans, A. Simons
Minimizing Vertical Length in Linked Bar Charts
11:30 — 11:50 H. Förster, G. Ortali, L. Schlipf
On Compaction and Realizability of Almost Convex Octilinear Representations
11:50 — 12:10 M. Buchin, W. Kißler, F. Kubon
Hardness and Parameterized Tractability of the Weak Graph Distance
12:10 — 14:00 Lunch
14:00 — 15:00 Session 3: Invited talk
14:00 — 15:00 P. Ferragina
Data Compression and Indexing in the era of Machine Learning
15:00 — 15:10 Short break
15:10 — 15:50 Session 4: Graph reconfiguration
15:10 — 15:30 H. Fernau, K. Mann
How to Reconfigure Your Alliances
15:30 — 15:50 J. Bensmail, N. Catherinot, F. Fioravantes, C. Marcille, N. Oijid
Graph Irregularity via Edge Deletions
15:50 — 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 — 17:40 Session 5: Induced subgraphs and dominating sets
16:20 — 16:40 H. Imamura, Y. Kobayashi, Y. Otachi, T. Saitoh, K. Sato, A. Takaoka, R. Yoshinaka, T. van der Zanden
Finding Order-Preserving Subgraphs
16:40 — 17:00 T. Hanaka, Y. Okada, Y. Otachi, L. Volk
Finding a Maximum Common (Induced) Subgraph: Structural Parameters Revisited
17:00 — 17:20 M. D'Elia, F. Frati
Large Induced Subgraphs of Bounded Degree in Outerplanar and Planar Graphs
17:20 — 17:40 J. Kratochvíl, U. Bednarz, A. Michalski
Complexity of perfect (1,2)-dominating sets in low-degree graphs
17:45 — 18:45 Business meeting

Thursday, March 5
Time Events
09:00 — 10:00 Session 6: Invited talk
09:00 — 10:00 P. Mutzel
Graph Similarity: Concepts, Methods, and Challenges
10:00 — 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 — 12:10 Session 7: Complexity
10:30 — 10:50 L. Lehner, C. Komusiewicz, L.P. Staus
A Complexity Analysis of the c-Closed Vertex Deletion Problem
10:50 — 11:10 C. Bazgan, M. Chopin, A. Nichterlein, C. Richer
On the Computational Complexity of Covering Multi-Interface Networks
11:10 — 11:30 J. Bok, A. Das, A. Gujgiczer, N. Jedličková
Generalizing Brooks' Theorem via Partial Coloring is Hard Classically and Locally
11:30 — 11:50 S. S. Akhtar, P. Misra, G. Philip
Space Efficient algorithms for parameterised problems
11:50 — 12:10 M. Marin
Subexponential and Parameterized Mixing Times of Glauber Dynamics on Independent Sets
12:10 — 14:00 Lunch
14:00 — 15:40 Session 8: Approximation
14:00 — 14:20 S. Habib, D. Mondal, S. Sharmin, M.S. Rahman
Hardness and Approximation Results for Extending Unique Neighborhood Networks
14:20 — 14:40 M. Szyfelbein
Approximating the Average-case Graph Search Problem with Non-uniform Costs
14:40 — 15:00 D. Denisov, S. Dolev, D. Felmdan, M. Segal
Linear time small coresets for k-mean clustering of segments with applications
15:00 — 15:20 B. Auvray, J. David, R. Groult, T. Lecroq
Cartesian Forest Matching
15:20 — 15:40 M. Lohrey, L. Rische, L. Seelbach Benkner, J. Xochitemol
Streaming algorithms for products of probabilities
   
16:00 — 19:00 Excursion
19:30 — 21:30 Social dinner

Friday, March 6
Time Events
09:00 — 10:00 Session 9: Invited talk
09:00 — 10:00 B. Jansen
Sparsification and kernelization for constraint satisfaction problems through the lens of non-redundancy
10:00 — 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 — 12:10 Session 10: Shortest paths and minimum spanning trees
10:30 — 10:50 T. Gima, Y. Kobayashi, Y. Otachi, T. Sato
Forcing a unique minimum spanning tree and a unique shortest path
10:50 — 11:10 A. Jabal Ameli, F. Motiei, M. Saghafian
On the MST-ratio: Theoretical Bounds and Complexity of Finding the Maximum
11:10 — 11:30 A. López Martínez, M. de Berg, F. Spieksma
Disjoint Tours and the Price of Diversity
11:30 — 11:50 T. Eom, T. Ahn, M. Song, H.-K. Ahn
Shortcutting the diameter of a polygon
11:50 — 12:10 R. Saito, T. Ito
Parameterized Complexity of Reconfiguring Vertex-Disjoint Shortest Paths
12:10 — 14:00 Lunch
14:00 — 15:40 Session 11: Geometric problems
14:00 — 14:20 N. Honorato-Droguett, K. Kurita, T. Hanaka, H. Ono, A. Wolff
Further Results on Rendering Geometric Intersection Graphs Sparse by Dispersion
14:20 — 14:40 K. Buchin, M. Buchin, J.E. Swiadek, S. Wong
Fundamentals of Computing Continuous Dynamic Time Warping in 2D under Different Norms
14:40 — 15:00 A. Rosenberg, E. Arkin, A. Efrat, O. Filtser, S. Kobourov, J. Kratochvíl, J. Mitchell
The Gate-Cover Problem
15:00 — 15:20 S.M.H. Kazemi, M.A. Abam, M. Ghodsi
Trajectory Visibility at First Sight
15:20 — 15:40 J. Friemel, D. Liedtke, C. Scheffer
Tile Reconfiguration by a Finite Automaton
15:40 — 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 — 17:30 Session 12: Enumeration problems
16:10 — 16:30 R. Okuda, J. Kawahara, S.-i. Minato
Enumerating All Graph Colorings Using Zero-Suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams
16:30 — 16:50 M. D'Elia, I. Finocchi, M. Patrignani
Engineering Algorithms for L-Isolated Maximal Clique Enumeration
16:50 — 17:10 K. Kurita, K. Mann
On the Complexity of Hyperpath and Minimal Separator Enumeration in Directed Hypergraphs
17:10 — 17:30 Y. Nishimura, K. Haraguchi
Enumeration of Bases in Matroid with Exponentially Large Ground Set
17:30 — 17:45 Closing