the Third International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop (FAW 2009) will be held on June 20-23,2009, at Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China. The Workshop will provide a focused forum on current trends in research on algorithmics, including discrete structures, and their applications, and will bring together international experts at the research frontiers in those areas to exchange ideas and to present significant new results.