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Tuesday, 13 May 2025 Call for papers for the conference MATCOS-25

The Middle-European Conference on Applied Theoretical Computer Science (MATCOS-25) will be held October 9-10, 2025, in Koper, Slovenia. The conference is organised by the University of Primorska, Andrej Marušič Institute (UP IAM), and the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP Famnit) in cooperation with InnoRenew CoE.

  

MATCOS-25 will be held in conjunction with the 28th Multi-Conference on Information Society, October 6th - 10th, 2025, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

During the past years, other fields have used several subjects, methods and approaches of Theoretical Computer Science, and several results have been integrated into practical applications. Solutions for NP-hard problems, algorithmic-oriented AI and data science, new models and methods in system biology and bioinformatics, automata theory approaches in software and hardware verification, practical quantum computing solutions and the development of other prospective new models of computation are good examples to buttress the above statement.

Keynote speaker: Michel Bierlaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),  Switzerland

We set double aims as the scope of this conference: on one hand side we expect ideas and solutions from the field of Theoretical Computer Science which have been directly applied in real world applications. On the other side we want to collect theoretical results based on some fruitful idea that may be useful to adopt for practical problems.

Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include:

  • Automata and formal languages, computability,
  • Algorithms and data structures,
  • Computational complexity,
  • Artificial intelligence, machine learning,
  • Optimisation, approximation methods, NP-hard problems,
  • Graph theory,
  • Computational geometry.

There is a special emphasis on use of AI approaches and also on applications such as simulation, bioinformatics, digital signal and image processing, data science, digital forensics, logistics, smart homes/cities and IoT, computational social science etc.

Important dates:

  • Regular paper submission: August 17th, 2025
  • Short paper submission: August 24th, 2025
  • Notification: September 7th, 2025

Papers must be in English and provide sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess their merits. The submissions of regular papers, as well as their final versions, are limited to 4 pages sharp and will be published in an Information Society multi-conference proceeding.

Revised and extended versions of selected papers will appear in a special issue of the journal Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/). Only electronic submissions will be accepted (in pdf format), via EasyChair (in a submission, indicate whether you are submitting a regular or short paper):  HERE.   

For more detailed information on paper submission, travel and accommodation information, and general info regarding the conference, please visit http://matcos.iam.upr.si.

All personal inquiries must be sent to matcos@iam.upr.si.