This volume contains the 74 contributed papers and abstracts of 4 of the 5 invited talks presented at the 10th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2002), held at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, 17-21 September, 2002. For the ?rst time, ESA had two tracks, with separate program committees, which dealt respectively with: the design and mathematical analysis of algorithms (the Design and An- ysis track); real-world applications, engineering and experimental analysis of algorithms (the Engineering and Applications track). Previous ESAs were held in Bad Honnef, Germany...