This three-volume set LNCS 15161, 15162 and 15163 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference, COCOON 2024, held in Shanghai, China, during August 23–25, 2024.The 90 full papers and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 277 submissions. COCOON 2024 provided an excellent venue for researchers working in the area of algorithms, theory of computation, computational complexity, and combinatorics related to computing.