Invited Lecture -- Matchings in Graphs Variations of the Problem -- Combinatorics from Bacterial Genomes -- Contributed Papers -- An Algorithm for Computing Virtual Cut Points in Finite Metric Spaces -- Finding the Anti-block Vital Edge of a Shortest Path Between Two Nodes -- K-Connected Target Coverage Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Searching Cycle-Disjoint Graphs -- An Asymptotic PTAS for Batch Scheduling with Nonidentical Job Sizes to Minimize Makespan -- A New Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Multiple Sequence Alignment -- Energy Minimizing Vehicle Routing Problem -- On the On-Line k-Taxi Problem with Limited Look Ahead -- The Minimum Risk Spanning Tree Problem -- The Size of a Minimum Critically m-Neighbor-Scattered Graph -- A New Hybrid Algorithm for Feature Selection and Its Application to Customer Recognition -- Steiner Forests on Stochastic Metric Graphs -- On Threshold BDDs and the Optimal Variable Ordering Problem -- Communication Leading to Nash Equilibrium Through Robust Messages - S5-Knowledge Model Case - -- Fundamental Domains for Integer Programs with Symmetries -- Exact Algorithms for Generalized Combinatorial Optimization Problems -- Approximation Algorithms for k-Duplicates Combinatorial Auctions with Subadditive Bidders -- A Grid Resource Discovery Method Based on Adaptive k-Nearest Neighbors Clustering -- Algorithms for Minimum m-Connected k-Dominating Set Problem -- Worst Case Analysis of a New Lower Bound for Flow Shop Weighted Completion Time Problem -- Scaling, Renormalization, and Universality in Combinatorial Games: The Geometry of Chomp -- Mechanism Design by Creditability -- Infinite Families of Optimal Double-Loop Networks -- Point Sets in the Unit Square and Large Areas of Convex Hulls of Subsets of Points -- An Experimental Study of Compressed Indexing and Local Alignments of DNA -- Secure Multiparty Computations Using the 15 Puzzle -- A Lagrangian Relaxation Approach for the Multiple Sequence Alignment Problem -- Single Machine Common Due Window Scheduling with Controllable Job Processing Times -- A Lower Bound on Approximation Algorithms for the Closest Substring Problem -- A New Exact Algorithm for the Two-Sided Crossing Minimization Problem -- Improved Approximation Algorithm for Connected Facility Location Problems -- The Computational Complexity of Game Trees by Eigen-Distribution -- The Minimum All-Ones Problem for Graphs with Small Treewidth -- An Exact Algorithm Based on Chain Implication for the Min-CVCB Problem -- Arc Searching Digraphs Without Jumping -- On the Complexity of Some Colorful Problems Parameterized by Treewidth -- A PTAS for the Weighted 2-Interval Pattern Problem over the Preceding-and-Crossing Model.