SEA is an international forum for researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications.

The Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen hosted the SEA 2014 Conference from Sunday 29th June to Tuesday 1st July 2014 at the IDA Conference Centre.

The conference proceedings have been published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series. A special issue of the ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics is devoted to the best papers presented in the symposium.