# APPROX — International Conference on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

- **Submission deadline**: 2026-05-06
- **Notification date**: 2026-06-25
- **Conference date**: 2026-08-19
- **Location**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Rankings**: CORE A · QUALIS B1
- **Conference Partner Index**: 74.3/100 (ranked #274, confidence 1.00, algorithm 1.1) — how this is computed: https://www.myhuiban.com/ranking
- **Trackers**: 1
- **Attendees**: 0
- **Canonical page**: https://www.myhuiban.com/conference/981

## Acceptance history

| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 46 | 24 | 52.2% |
| 2021 | 62 | 27 | 43.5% |
| 2020 | 67 | 34 | 50.7% |
| 2019 | 66 | 33 | 50% |
| 2018 | 50 | 28 | 56% |
| 2017 | 60 | 22 | 36.7% |
| 2016 | 40 | 20 | 50% |
| 2015 | 61 | 26 | 42.6% |
| 2014 | 64 | 31 | 48.4% |
| 2013 | 46 | 23 | 50% |

## Past editions

| Year | Deadline | Conference date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2017-04-21 | 2017-08-16 | Berkeley, California, USA |

## Call for papers

Scope Papers are solicited in all research areas related to approximation, including but not limited to: approximation algorithms hardness of approximation small space, sub-linear time and streaming algorithms online algorithms approaches that go beyond worst-case analysis distributed and parallel approximation​ embeddings and metric space methods mathematical programming methods spectral methods combinatorial optimization algorithmic game theory, mechanism design and economics computational geometric problems approximate learning

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