Journal of Heuristics
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: February 15, 2025
- Acceptance notification: June 15, 2025
- Target date for final manuscripts: August 30, 2025
Area Editor:
- Marc Sevaux, Université Bretagne Sud, France
Guest Editors:
- Romain Billot, IMT Atlantique, France
- Salma Makboul, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France
- Alexandru-Liviu Olteanu, Université Bretagne Sud, France
- Eduardo G. Pardo, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
The Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC) is an annual forum for the exchange of new algorithmic developments, high-impact and novel applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and in-depth experimental studies in metaheuristics. In 2024 the 15th instance of this conference was held in Lorient, France, June 4-7. As a natural outcome of this activity and thanks to the support of Springer and the Journal of Heuristics, we are pleased to announce a special issue of the latter, devoted to selected publications on works presented at MIC 2024.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Techniques such as tabu search, simulated annealing, iterated local search, variable neighborhood search, memory-based optimization, evolutionary algorithms, memetic algorithms, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, scatter search, path relinking, etc.
- Techniques that enhance the usability and increase the potential of metaheuristic algorithms such as parallelization of algorithms, reactive search mechanisms for self-tuning, offline metaheuristic algorithm configuration techniques, algorithm portfolios, etc.
- Empirical and theoretical research in metaheuristics including large-scale experimental analyses, algorithm comparisons, new experimental methodologies, engineering methodologies for stochastic local search algorithms, search space analysis, theoretical insights into properties of metaheuristic algorithms.
- High-impact applications of metaheuristics in fields such as bioinformatics, data mining, planning and scheduling, telecommunications, logistics and supply chains, etc. Particularly welcome are innovative applications of metaheuristics that have a potential of widening research frontiers.
- Contributions on the interface of metaheuristics with other disciplines, such as agent-based models, integer programming, constraint programming, machine learning, Quantum Operations Research, etc.
- Challenging problems such as multi-objective, stochastic, or dynamic problems.
Submissions are expected to be significant extensions of abstracts or papers already published in the proceedings of MIC 2014 and will be peer-reviewed.
Authors should submit their manuscripts using the Journal of Heuristics Editorial Manager at https://www.editorialmanager.com/heur, selecting “S.I. : Metaheuristics International Conference” as article type. All manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the available instructions for authors.