Call for Papers

We seek papers on original research unpublished elsewhere in all areas related to combinatorial pattern matching and its applications. The proceedings will be published by LIPIcs.

Two submission rounds

CPM has two rounds of submission: The first round aims to select half of the papers, and the second round aims to select the rest. Papers rejected from the first round can be resubmitted in the second round, competing with solicited new submissions.

Important dates

  • First submission round deadline: November. 12, 2025 (AoE)
  • Author notification: December 23, 2025
  • Second submission round deadline: February 13, 2026 (AoE)
  • Author notification: April 1, 2026
  • Conference: June 15-17, 2026

Submission

Submissions are made through the EasyChair conference system, accessible via the link below. The submission process requires registration to create an EasyChair account before submission. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpm2026

Submission format

The authors should submit an extended abstract not exceeding 12 single-spaced pages on A4 paper, excluding the title page (containing title, authors, affiliations, e-mail addresses, a short abstract, and keywords) and the references. The authors are required to use the LIPIcs LaTeX style (https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/LIPIcs#author). Papers must be submitted as a single PDF file. The review process is single-blind (anonymous reviewers, non-anonymous authors).

Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example, details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. The program code of experimental papers should be made public, along with reasonable documentation, so that the PC can evaluate the replicability of experimental results.

Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work and surveys of important results. At the time the extended abstract is submitted to CPM, and for the entire review period, the paper (or an essentially identical paper) should not be under review by any other conference with published proceedings or by a scientific journal.

At least one full registration is required for each accepted paper, and an author should present the accepted paper.