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Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue on “MATCOS conference”
Dear Reader,
about ten years ago in the frame of collaboration between
the universities in Szeged and in Ljubljana we decided to
organize a conference which set an aim to bring the theory
and the practice closer to each other. The first conference –
“First Mini Conference on Theoretical Computer Science”
– was organized in 2008. Feedback was showing that the
conference was well accepted and we decided to organize
the new conference regularly. In the meantime, the con-
ference’s popularity grew and researchers from more and
more countries took part in it. Therefore, we decided to
“rename” the conference to MATCOS (Middle-European
Conference on Applied Theoretical COmputer Science).
Besides the harmony of the theory and the practice we also
wanted to highlight the cooperation and dialogue between
senior and junior researchers. Consequently, we organized
separate sessions for PhD students. It became customary,
that the first day student papers and the invited talk were
presented, and they were followed by the presentation of
regular papers. At the same time the conference also moved
to the Coast, to the city of Koper and the University of Pri-
morska.
Among these conferences the last one was organized in
2016, and from the presented papers the programme com-
mittee decided to invite nine papers for a special issue of
Informatica. All papers were rigorously reviewed. The pa-
pers reflect the general spirit of the MATCOS as they sweep
from the theoretical aspects to the study of practical prob-
lems.
The programme committee of MATCOS 2016 was:
Jacek Blazevicz (Poznan, Poland)
Andrej Brodnik (Koper, Ljubljana, Slovenia) co-chair
Angel Corberan (Valencia, Spain)
Ruben Dorado Vicente (Jaén, Spain)
Elena Fernandez (Barcelona, Spain)
Gábor Galambos (Szeged, Hungary) co-chair
Gabriel Istrate (Timisoara, Romania)
Miklós Krész (Szeged, Hungary)
Silvano Martello (Bologna, Italy)
Benedek Nagy (Famagusta, Cyprus, Turkey)
Gerhard Reinelt (Heidelberg, Germany)
Giovanni Rinaldi (Rome, Italy)
Borut Žalik (Maribor, Slovenia)
Koper, Ljubljana, Szeged, October 2018
Andrej Brodnik
Gábor Galambos
editors

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