Journal of Global Optimization

This special issue is dedicated to Prof. T E S Raghavan on his 85^th birthday. The focus area of the special issue is Operations research and game theory: Theory, methods, and their applications in global optimization. Original research work with clear and novel scientific contributions in the focus area are welcome. We invite researchers and scholars interested in the focus area are invited to contribute their original research to this special issue.

The aim of this special issue is to explore both theoretical and algorithmic advances in the field of computational aspects of global optimization and their applications in game theory, science, management, and engineering.

Topics of broader interest include but are not limited to: Unconstrained and constrained optimization, Game Theoretical applications of Operations Research, Multi-objective and robust optimization, Exact/heuristic hybrid methods involving natural computing techniques in computational operations research, Optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments, Optimization on graphs, Large-scale optimization in parallel and distributed computational environments, Static and Dynamic games, Algorithmic Game Theory, Complementarity and Variational inequalities model in Game Theory, Operations Research problems in Statistics and Game Theory, Portfolio Optimization, Stochastic Optimization, and Financial Optimization.

Submission Deadline (early submission is recommended, referee process
starts as the paper is received): August 31, 2026.

Authors are requested to submit their high-quality research paper to the Journal of Global Optimization by online via Editorial Manager (www.editorialmanager.com/jogo) System by deadline. In preparing the manuscript, authors are requested to follow the guidelines given in the ‘Instructions for Authors’ of the Journal of Global Optimization.

While submitting the article through the Editorial Manager, please make sure to choose Manuscript as the Article Type, and then choose Special Issue SI: GOGT-2026 on the Questionnaire page. For more details, you may see the video given in the link: https://youtu.be/k1aZ-98Plnc.

Acceptance of the paper will be subject to a strict review process as per the guidelines of journal, under the supervision of guest editors. All accepted papers will be published online individually, before print publication.

For any inquiries or further information, please contact the Lead Guest Editor Professor S. K. Neogy (sknisid@gmail.com, skn@isid.ac.i).

Guest editors:

S K Neogy (Lead Guest Editor)

Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Center, India. E-mail: sknisid@gmail.com, skn@isid.ac.in

Manjunatha Prasad Karantha

Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. Email: kmprasad63@gmail.com 

Lina Mallozzi

University of Naples Federico II. Email: lina.mallozzi@unina.it

Harikrishnan P K

Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Manipal, India. Email: pkharikrishnans@gmail.com

Simo Puntanen

Tampere University, Finland. Email: simo.puntanen@tuni.fi

Guest editors: Tibor Csendes, Boglárka G.-Tóth, Tamás Vinkó

Submission deadline: December 31, 2022

This special issue is devoted to the papers presented at HUGO 2022 – XV. Workshop on Global Optimization in Szeged, Hungary, September 6 – 8, 2022.

Guest editors: Ana Maria A.C. Rocha, Dalila B.M.M. Fontes, Fernando A.C.C. Fontes, Maria do Rosário de Pinho

Submission deadline: January 31, 2023

This special issue is devoted, but not restricted, to the papers presented at the French German Portuguese Conference on Optimization held in Porto, Portugal, May 3 – 6, 2022.

The Best Paper Award for the Journal of Global Optimization is awarded annually to honor the authors of the best paper published in the journal in the previous year.