Abstract

It is our pleasure to welcome you at Bled, the site of the Fifth Slovenian Conference on Graph Theory. International graph theory meetings in Slovenia are becoming regular events, organized every four years. As the first one we consider the meeting on Algebraic and Topological Graph Theory that was organized by Wilfried Imrich, Tory Parsons, and Tomo Pisanski in Dubrovnik (now in Croatia) in 1985. The second meeting was held at Lake Bled in 1991 and coincided with the declaration of Slovenian independence. This caused a slight inconvenience to the 30 participants but the meeting will be remembered as a successful and adventurous event. The third and the fourth Slovenian conferences followed in 1995 and 1999. In the tradition of the former meetings, the conference is strongest in the areas of algebraic and topological graph theory, but we are glad that also other branches of graph theory are well represented. We express our thanks to all of you for attending this conference and wish you a mathematically