Applied Algorithms: Third International Conference, ICAA 2026, Kolkata, India, January 7–9, 2026, Proceedings(16423 Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Applied Algorithms, ICAA 2026, held in Kolkata, India, during January 7–9, 2026. The 33 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. They focus on the design, analysis, implementation, and experimental evaluation of efficient algorithms and data structures aimed at solving practical, real-world problems.

Table of Contents:
.- Invited Talks. .- Algorithmic Art: A Lost Glory and its Digital Renaissance. .- Perfectly Imperfect Autonomy and Machine Learning. .- Anytime Algorithms for Approximate Functional Dependencies. .- Beyond Connectivity: Designing Fair, Expressive, and Trustworthy Graph Neural Networks through Statistical Foundations of Message Passing. .- Optimality. .- Nonlinearity of Boolean Functions: Combinatorial Results with Cryptographic  Significance. .- Gabow’s O(√nm) Maximum Cardinality Matching Algorithm, Revisited. .- Track A. .- The Curious Case of Complexities: Discovering Causal Influences on Software  Defects. .- An Efficient Algorithm for Path Matrix Computation and Improved Path En ergy Bounds. .- Small uniquely satisfiable patterns. .- Approximate all-pairs Hamming distances and 0-1 matrix multiplication. .- Convexity-Driven Projection for Point Cloud Dimensionality Reduction. .- Bounded Model Checking for Calibration of Systems Biology Models Under Un certainty. .- Top-K Exterior Power Persistent Homology: Algorithm, Structure, and Stability. .- Algorithm for Interpretable Graph Features via Motivic Persistent Cohomology. .- Deterministic Integer Sorting on the Parallel External Memory Model. .- Bayesian Optimization for Two Echelon Vehicle Routing Problem using Drone  for Last Mile Delivery. .- Track B. .- Attribute Discovery for a Product. .- Leveraging YOLO and SAHIfor Accurate Small Tank Detection in UAV Systems. .- Deep Neural Networks in Cow Face Recognition. .- Scheduling Control Tasks using Safety-Guided RL. .- Freshness Monitoring and Shelf-life Estimation of Bread. .- Robotic Path Planning using PPO based Reinforcement Learning Approach. .- Stocks in Sync: Cluster-Aware Deep Learning for Multi-Stock Forecasting in Fi nancial Market. .- Composite Quality Function Modelling of Instruction–Response Dynamics in  Sustainable Fashion. .- Neuro-Symbolic AI-Driven Mental Health Risk Prediction with Human-Readable  Rule Extraction and Interactive Explainabilit. .- Deep Learning-based Intrusion Detection in IoT: A Cross-Model Performance  Analysis. .- Emotion-Aware Movie Recommendation Using a Transformer-Based Deep Learn ing Approach. .- Comparative Evaluation of Adaptive Wavelet Transform and classical approaches  for EEG Pre-Processing in Stress Recognition. .- An Adaptive System for Detecting Anomalies in Smart Electric Grids Using  Gaussian Mixture Models. .- An Intelligent Multi-Agent System for Urban Traffic Signal Control Leveraging  Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks. .- Efficient Voice-based Product Ordering via Lightweight Language Models with  Low-Rank Adaptation. .- Multi-Head Multi-Latent Attention: An Efficient Approach to Realize a Low Resource Transformer Architecture. .- Leveraging Small-object Detection in Satellite Imagery using Dual Attention augmented single-stage CNN model. .- ALERTIFY: An AI-Driven Multimodal Social Media Framework for Real-Time  Disaster Monitoring and Response. .- Perception Learning: A Formal Separation of Sensory Representation Learning  from Decision Learning. .- Analysing Trends in Community Evolution in Open-Source Software Collabora tion Networks. .- A Transfer Learning Framework on Image-Transformed Sensor Data for Smart phone based Human Activity Recognition. .- Ensembling Handcrafted Features for Accurate Multi-Class Brain Hemorrhage  Classification. .- MACO-Sync: Multi-Agent Ant Colony Optimization for Synchronized Arrival  Coordination.