ECCO and CO announce a volume of the Annals of Operations Research on Computational Issues in Combinatorial Optimization.

The Annals of Operations Research publish peer-reviewed original articles dealing with key aspects of operations research, including theory, practice, and computation.

Instructions for authors can be found at:

http://www.springer.com/business/operations+research/journal/10479

Authors should submit a cover letter and a manuscript by September 30, 2010 via the Journal’s online submission site. Manuscripts submitted after the deadline may not be considered for the special volume and may be transferred to a regular volume.

Please see Author Instructions on the site if you have not yet submitted a paper through this web-based system. Be sure to note in the Manuscript Comment text that your work is intended for the special volume and to select the article type "SI: ECCOXXIII-CO2010".

Papers will be subject to a strict review process managed by the Guest Editors and accepted papers will be published online individually, before print publication.

Guest Editors:

Laureano Escudero, laureano.escudero@urjc.es
Silvano Martello, silvano.martello@unibo.it
Vitaly Strusevich, V.Strusevich@gre.ac.uk

Submission deadline: September 30, 2010