Call for papers

The Symposium of Experimental Algorithms 2026 (SEA 2026) will take place on June 22—24, 2026, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in IDA Conference Center, which is situated at the waterfront in the city center of Copenhagen, just a few minutes' walk from Copenhagen Central Station and Tivoli.

SEA aims to attract papers from the Computer Science community, the Operations Research/Mathematical Programming community and any other scientific community that is concerned with the main theme of the symposium, namely the role of experimentation and of algorithm engineering techniques in the design and evaluation of algorithms and data structures.

Submissions should present significant contributions supported by experimental evaluation, methodological issues in the design and interpretation of experiments, the use of (meta-)heuristics, or application-driven case studies that deepen the understanding of the complexity of a problem.
Topics of interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Algorithm Engineering
Algorithmic Libraries and Software Repositories
Algorithmic Cryptography and Security
Algorithmic Natural Language Processing
Algorithmics for Databases
Analysis of Algorithms
Approximation Algorithms
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Branch-and-Bound Algorithms
Combinatorial Problems and Structures
Communication Networks
Computational Geometry
Computational Optimization
Compressed space algorithms and data structures
Data Structures
Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
Graph Algorithms
Heuristic Algorithms
Integer Programming
Logistics and Operations Management
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Mathematical Programming
Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Network Analysis
Online Problems
Randomized Algorithms
Semidefinite Programming
String Algorithms
Streaming and External Memory Algorithms

We emphasize that SEA welcomes submissions that introduce novel applications of algorithms in other disciplines. Note that the SEA list of topics was updated with respect to past years.