Heuristic search and other forms of combinatorial search optimization are highly active areas of research in artificial intelligence, robotics, planning, discrete optimization, and related fields in computer science and operations research. The International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) aims to bring together researchers working in these areas to exchange ideas, share results, and foster cross-fertilization across disciplines.
SoCS welcomes submissions from all research communities that study or apply combinatorial search, including artificial intelligence, planning, robotics, constraint programming, meta-reasoning, operations research, navigation, and bioinformatics. We particularly encourage submissions that present real-world applications of heuristic search and related techniques.
SoCS 2026 will be hosted at the ATLANTIC Hotel Sail City in Bremerhaven, Germany, from August 14–16, 2026.
If you want your logo to appear here, please contact the organizers.