This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC'96, held in Osaka, Japan, in December 1996.The 43 revised full papers were selected from a total of 119 submissions; also included are an abstract of one invited talk and a full version of a second. Among the topics covered are computational geometry, graph theory, graph algorithms, combinatorial optimization, searching and sorting, networking, scheduling, and coding and cryptology.