Combinatorial Optimization and Applications

Thetwo-volume set LNCS 14461 and LNCS 14462constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference onCombinatorial Optimization and Applications,COCOA 2023,held inHawaii, HI, USA, duringDecember 15-17, 2023.The 73 full papers includedin the proceedingswere carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Optimization in graphs; scheduling; set-related optimization; applied optimization and algorithm; Graph planer and others; Part II: Modeling and algorithms; complexity and approximation; combinatorics and computing; optimization and algorithms; extreme graph and others; machine learning, blockchain and others.