Call for Special Issue

Call for Papers

Special Issue of the Journal of Global Optimization

Extended Selected Papers from MCO 2025 — Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences

In connection with MCO 2025, we are pleased to announce a Special Issue of the Journal of Global Optimization dedicated to publishing extended, high-quality versions of selected conference contributions.

Scope and Topics

We invite submissions presenting original research on global optimization theory, algorithms, and applications, including (but not limited to):

• Continuous, discrete, and mixed-integer global optimization

• Difference-of-Convex (DC) functions programming and DCA

• Nonconvex and large-scale optimization

• Multi-objective and multilevel optimization

• Stochastic, robust, and distributionally robust optimization

• Optimization for machine learning, AI, and data science

• Global optimization in networks, finance, energy, logistics, robotics, and communications

• Computational methods for large-scale decision-making

• Real-world applications of global and nonconvex optimization

Submission Guidelines

• Submissions must be substantially extended versions of papers or abstracts presented at MCO 2025.

• Manuscripts must contain significant new material beyond the conference version (e.g., deeper theory, extended experiments, new applications).

• All submissions will undergo the standard rigorous peer-review process of the Journal of Global Optimization.

• Papers must follow the journal’s formatting and submission guidelines.

Important Dates

• Manuscript submission deadline:  April 2026

• First review notification: September 2026

• Revised manuscript due:  November 2026

• Expected publication: March 2027

Guest Editors 

1.  Hoai An Le Thi, University of Lorraine, France,  Lead guest editor (hoai-an.le-thi@univ-lorraine.fr)
2. Tao Pham Dinh, INSA-Rouen, France (pham@insa-rouen.fr)
3. Yaroslaw Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italia (yarosit@yahoo.it) 

Submission Link 

https://www.editorialmanager.com/jogo/default.aspx

While submitting in Editorial Manager, please, make sure to choose Manuscript as the Article Type, and later on the Questionnaire page choose the Special Issue SI: MCO-2025.