Qingdao, China

20th Annual Conference

Theory and Applications of Models of Computation

TAMC 2026  ·  Qingdao, China

Submission Deadline

15 July, 2026

10 August, 2026 Extended

Notification

31 August, 2026

25 September, 2026 Extended

Conference Dates

13–15 Nov, 2026

TAMC 2026 aims at bringing together a wide range of researchers with interest in computational theory, information theory and applications. The main themes of the conference are computability, complexity, algorithms, information theory and their extensions to machine learning theory, and foundations of artificial intelligence.

Submissions

Call for Papers

TAMC 2026 solicits high-quality papers on all aspects of the theory and applications of models of computation, including but not limited to computability, complexity, algorithms, and formal methods.

Submission Portal →

Important Dates

Paper Submission

15 July, 2026

10 August, 2026 Extended

Acceptance Notification

31 August, 2026

25 September, 2026 Extended

Camera-Ready Deadline

15 September, 2026

5 October, 2026 Extended

Conference

13–15 November, 2026

Scope

Topics of Interest

Computational complexity and algorithms Models of computation Automata theory and formal languages Quantum computing Algorithmic game theory Cryptography and data security Computational biology and bioinformatics Parallel and distributed computing Formal verification and program analysis Computational geometry and graph theory Computational social choice Combinatorial optimization Information calculus Information decoding Information generating Learning theory Theory of Awareness Models of AI Models of AI for Science

Instructions

Submission Guidelines

The submission should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques, and results, including motivation and a clear comparison with related work. Submitted papers must describe original, previously unpublished work, and must not be submitted simultaneously to any other refereed conference or journal.

Reviewing for TAMC 2026 will be double-blind. Authors must anonymize their submissions by omitting all author names, affiliations, and explicit self-identifying details from the manuscript.

Papers must be formatted using the LNCS style file without altering margins or the font point. The maximum length of the paper (including references, but excluding the optional appendix) is 12 pages. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be placed in an appendix to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Papers that deviate from these guidelines risk being rejected without consideration of their merits. Only electronic submission will be allowed via the EasyChair online conference system.

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Recognition

Awards

Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. To be eligible for the best student paper award, all authors must be full-time students at the time of submission. Please indicate in the final line of the abstract that the paper is being considered for the best student paper award. The program committee reserves the right to withhold these awards or to split them between multiple recipients.

Publication

Proceedings

The proceedings of TAMC 2026 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. All accepted papers will be included in the official proceedings volume.

Springer LNCS

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Special Issue Journals

Selected papers may be invited to submit extended versions to special issues of the following peer-reviewed journals:

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Big Data and Information Analytics

Past TAMC Proceedings

All previous TAMC proceedings are published in Springer LNCS and are available via SpringerLink.

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TAMC 2026 proceedings volume link will be posted here upon publication.

Organization

Committees

Steering Committee

Manindra Agrawal

Indian Institute of Technology, India

Jin-Yi Cai

University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

John Hopcroft

Cornell University, USA

Angsheng Li

Beihang University, China

Zhouchen Lin

Peking University, China

Zhiyong Liu

Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

General Chairs

Xiaoming Sun

Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Xiuzhen Cheng

Shandong University, China

Program Committee Chairs

Haitao Jiang

Shandong University, China

Yangguang Shi

Shandong University, China

Ankang Sun

Shandong University, China

Ding-Zhu Du

The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Mingyu Xiao

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Program Committee

Hsiang-Hsuan Liu

Utrecht University

Bo Li

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Thomas Erlebach

Durham University

Yicheng Xu

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Peng Zhang

Shandong University

Donglei Du

University of New Brunswick

Xujin Chen

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Qilong Feng

Central South University

Guanghui Wang

Shandong University

Chenhao Wang

Beijing Normal University

Zijun Wu

Hefei University of Technology

Hu Ding

University of Science and Technology of China

Dachuan Xu

Beijing University of Technology

Yukun Cheng

Jiangnan University

Xianyue Li

Lanzhou University

Zhao Zhang

Zhejiang Normal University

Minming Li

City University of Hong Kong

Binhai Zhu

Montana State University

Guohui Lin

University of Alberta

Ke Chen

The Pennsylvania State University

Shin-Ichi Nakano

Gunma University

Md. Saidur Rahman

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Huaming Zhang

The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Jianping Li

Yunnan University

Zhi-Zhong Chen

Tokyo Denki University

Zhongzheng Tang

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Shaofeng Jiang

Peking University

Frank Stephan

National University of Singapore

Zhihao Gavin Tang

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Yitong Yin

Nanjing University

Martin Ziegler

KAIST

Lu Han

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Anil Seth

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

More members to be announced

Keynotes

Invited Speakers

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Results

Accepted Papers

The following 45 papers have been accepted for presentation at TAMC 2026, listed in ascending order of paper number.

45 papers

#1

Improved Approximation Algorithms for Squared-Metric Facility Location with Outliers

Zhen Zhang, Fuzhen Liang, Lin Jiang (Hunan University of Technology and Business); Qilong Feng (Central South University)

#2

On the difficulty of order constrained pattern matching with applications to feature matching based malware detection

Adiesha Liyanage, Braeden Sopp, Binhai Zhu (Montana State University)

#5

Approximation Algorithms for Parallel Machine Scheduling with Rejection and Cost Constraint

Neng Ouyang, Xin Liu (Yunnan University)

#6

Chore Allocation under Graph Constraints and Information Asymmetry

Yue Tan, Han Xiao, Wenjing Liu, Qizhi Fang (Ocean University of China)

#7

Toward General Kernelization Techniques for Edge Modification Problems

Zhongyi Zhang, Jiong Guo (Shandong University)

#8

Decoding LoRA: Path Structural Entropy as a Generalization Signal

Zihan Guo, Ningyuan Gong, Yang Yu, Jianghua Lv (Beihang University)

#9

Mechanism Design for Bridge Location with Optional Preferences

Xiaoshuang Geng, Wenjing Liu, Genjie Qin, Qizhi Fang (Ocean University of China)

#10

An Approximation Algorithm for Minimum Weight Partial Connected Vertex Cover in Unit Disk Graphs

Zengwei Chen, Yingli Ran (Zhejiang Normal University)

#11

On the minimum line-fixed k-Steiner tree problem

Jianping Li, Huijuan Yang (Yunnan University); Junran Lichen (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)

#12

Maximum k-Dominating Set in Vertex-Arrival Streams

Huifei Dai, Yingli Ran (Zhejiang Normal University)

#13

On the bidirection-constrained windy postman problem

Jianping Li, Shuang Ge, Xiaoxiao Yang (Yunnan University)

#14

Minimum Spanning Trees for Square Crop Plots

Mingyang Gong, Adiesha Liyanage, Braeden Sopp, Muzhou Chen, Binhai Zhu (Montana State University)

#15

An Optimal Universally Strategyproof Mechanism for Non-Optional Obnoxious Two-Facility Location with Candidate Locations

Xiaowei Li (Changsha University of Science and Technology)

#16

Fairness Meets Knapsack: Bicriteria Approximation Algorithms for Fair Submodular Maximization

Mingchao Zhou, Chensheng Ma (Zhejiang Normal University); Xuanxing Du (China Telecom Corporation Limited Jinhua Branch); Zhao Zhang (Zhejiang Normal University)

#18

Approximation for Multi-Type Competitive Facility Location under a TMNL-Based Choice Rule

Xiaoyu Shao, Runjie Miao (Beijing University of Technology); Chenchen Wu (Tianjin University of Technology); Yapu Zhang (Beijing University of Technology)

#19

DisZero: Balanced Complementary Submodels for Resource-Adaptive Distributed Zeroth-Order Optimization

Jun Zhang, Mingyi Li (Shandong University); Ruisheng Zheng (University of Macau); Yuan Yuan (Shandong University)

#24

Parameterized Approximation Algorithms for Minimum Weighted Dominating Set

Peihua Li, Jiong Guo (Shandong University)

#26

SubDoc: Heterogeneous-Cost Submodular Selection for Multimodal Document Summarization

Dongzhao Wang, Kang Wang, Yang Li, Zhenning Zhang, Changjing Zhuge (Beijing University of Technology)

#27

Strictly Unfriendly k-Partitions: Sharp Degree Thresholds and ETH-Based Lower Bounds

Sanjay Jain, Frank Stephan, Haoyun Tang (National University of Singapore)

#28

Parallel-Batch Contracts under Hidden Effort and Coarse Completion-Time Monitoring

Wenxiao Wang, Jiaming Hu (Shandong Management University); Cuixia Miao (Qufu Normal University); Xianhao Meng (Nankai University)

#29

Cost-sharing mechanisms for the capacitated clique partition problem

Zhikang Zhang, Weidong Li (Yunnan University)

#30

On the Fairness of Maximum Nash Social Welfare under Cardinality Constraints

Sijia Dai, Huahua Miao, Yicheng Xu, Yong Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

#31

Automated Guided Vehicle Scheduling with Flexible Charging

Liu Xin, Weidong Li (Yunnan University); Sunyan Hong (Kunming University); Jinfu Deng (Yunnan University)

#34

Improved approximation algorithms for packing 3+- and 4+-paths

Mingyang Gong (Montana State University); Zhi-Zhong Chen (Tokyo Denki University); Binhai Zhu (Montana State University)

#35

Efficient Streaming Algorithms for Submodular Maximization under d-Dimensional Knapsack Constraints

Shufang Gong (Shandong Technology and Business University); Zhicheng Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

#36

Online hierarchical extensible bin packing with three bins

Zhikang Zhang (Yunnan University)

#39

A Sharp Service-Radius Threshold for Random-Order Online Facility Location with Prescribed Sites

Mengzhen Li (Beijing University of Technology)

#41

Recursive Bounds for the Frobenius Number via Apery Sets

Xinru Zhu, Zhongzheng Tang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

#43

Card-Based Zero-Knowledge Proofs for n-Queens Completion Problem

Shota Ikeda (Ibaraki University); Kazumasa Shinagawa (University of Tsukuba / National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

#44

NEST: Locally Certified Search for Structural-Entropy Hierarchies

Dingli Su, Yicheng Pan, Angsheng Li (Beihang University)

#46

Regular Games on Undirected Graphs are as Hard as on Directed Graphs

Ivan Adrian Koswara (National University of Singapore)

#47

Color spanning problems for line segments and points under static and dynamic setup: Query version

Sanjib Sadhu (National Institute of Technology Durgapur)

#48

Minimum-Load Location on a Bidirected Path

Guihao Wang, Jiahe Wang (Beijing University of Technology)

#50

Two Exact Quantum Queries Use at Most Six Variables

Yaqiao Li (Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology)

#51

On Kernelization for Bipartite Crossing Removal with One-sided Vertex Splitting

Yunlong Liu, Bingyang Wang (Hunan Normal University)

#53

Pure-DP Metric k-Median with Linear-in-k Error

Xiang Li, Sai Ji (Hebei University of Technology); Fan Yuan (Yantai University)

#55

Generating All Triangulations of a Biconnected Plane Graph in Constant Amortized Time

Tawkir Aziz Rahman (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)); Debajyoti Mondal (University of Saskatchewan); Md. Saidur Rahman (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET))

#56

Submodular Maximization under a Convex Quadratic Knapsack Constraint

Jiahe Wang (Beijing University of Technology); Zhicheng Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Chenchen Wu (Tianjin University of Technology); Ruiqi Yang (Beijing University of Technology)

#57

Prophet Inequalities for Online Knapsack and Assignment under Markov Random Field

Guihao Wang (Beijing University of Technology)

#58

A Near-Linear-Time Algorithm for Minimum Dominating Set on Convex Bipartite Graphs

Zexu Yang, Feng Shi, Qilong Feng (Central South University)

#59

Structural-Encoding Algorithms for Phylogenetic Network Isomorphism

Fengkai Liu, Xin Zeng, Feng Shi (Central South University)

#60

Signed Adjacency Recovery for Flanked Reversals

Siqi Jiang, Tiantian Li, Daming Zhu (Shandong University)

#64

Certifying Recognition of Interval Graphs Using Graph Searches

Yixin Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

#65

The Price of EFX for Binary-Valued Agents under Knapsack Constraints

Lili Mei, Zhen Wang, Shuai Yang (Hangzhou Dianzi University); Guochuan Zhang (Zhejiang University); Qiaomu Zheng (Hangzhou Dianzi University)

#67

On Languages Recognized by a Finite Automaton with 1QFA and 2PFA Parts

Kamil Khadiev, Chulpan Sharafulislamova, Aliya Khadieva (Kazan Federal University)

Paper numbers follow the original numbering and are therefore not consecutive.

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Registration Notes

  • • Each accepted paper must have at least one full registration. Two accepted papers cannot share one registration.
  • • Fee includes conference sessions, banquet, lunches (Nov. 13–Nov. 15), snacks, and souvenirs.
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Schedule

Program

Keynote
Session
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Location

Venue

Shandong University

Qingdao Campus

The conference will take place at Shandong University's Qingdao campus, located in the Jimo District of Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.

Address

72 Binhai Road, Jimo, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Contact

tamc2026@outlook.com

Qingdao

Local Information

Qingdao City

Qingdao, China

A coastal city famed for its European-style architecture, beaches, and Tsingtao beer.

Getting There

Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport (TAO) offers direct flights from major cities worldwide.

Accommodation

A list of recommended hotels near the campus will be provided to registered participants.

Visa Information

Foreign nationals generally need a Tourist (L) or Business (M) visa before entering China. Invitation letters will be provided upon request after registration. Please also check if your country is eligible for China's recent visa-free entry policies.

Weather & Climate

Qingdao enjoys a temperate oceanic climate. November is cool and crisp — comfortable weather for an academic conference.

Currency & Payment

The currency is the Chinese Yuan (CNY / RMB). Mobile payments are ubiquitous — we strongly recommend setting up the international versions of Alipay or WeChat Pay before arrival.

Power Adaptor

Standard voltage is 220V, 50Hz AC. Sockets accept Type A (two flat pins), Type C (two round pins), and Type I (three flat pins). Please bring a universal travel adapter.

Time Zone

China Standard Time (CST) — UTC/GMT +8 hours. There is no daylight saving time in China.

Internet & Wi-Fi

Campus Wi-Fi (including Eduroam) will be available. For mobile data, you can easily purchase a local SIM card at the airport. Note that some international websites may require a VPN for access.