期刊名称：JOURNAL OF HEURISTICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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The following areas are of interest to the journal:
- Real-World Applications:- Anthony Cox Jr., Cox and Associates. This area welcomes manuscripts dealing with practical applications. Papers in this area can deal with new applications for which no previous solution methods exist or for which previous methods have proved unsatisfactory. Of particular interest are those papers that show how the application of heuristic methods has resulted in measurable benefits such as cost reduction or revenue increase.
- Artificial Intelligence and Constraint Programming:- Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University. This area covers heuristic search based on artificial intelligence techniques and their application to artificial intelligence planning, scheduling, design, constraint satisfaction, and game theory. It includes heuristics and meta-heuristics for both systematic and local search in artificial intelligence. The area includes heuristics based on constraint programming, a field that emerges from artificial intelligence and is an orthogonal and complementary approach to mathematical programming. This includes heuristics based on hybrid methods, e.g., those that combine local search and constraint programming or integrate constraint and mathematical programming.
- Evolutionary Computation:- Zbigniew Michalewicz, NuTech Solutions Inc. This area welcomes manuscripts on all aspects of evolutionary computation. Submissions covering advances in the theory, practice, and application of all evolutionary techniques, either individually or collectively, are encouraged. Also, manuscripts on hybrid methods, combining existing heuristic techniques including techniques from other areas of operation research and computer science, are of great interest. We welcome implementations of robust artificial systems that use evolutionary computation as a key component of their architecture.
- Metaheuristic Methodologies:- David Woodruff, University of California at Davis. The Metaheuristics Methodologies area seeks to publish papers that espouse new general-purpose metaheuristics or provide analysis and comparison of existing methods. In both cases, the papers should provide a clear exposition of the relationship between the research reported in the manuscript and the extant body of research literature. The work can be either theoretical or empirical. If the work is empirical, it is important that sound scientific methods be employed. In particular, it is important the test data sets used in the work be made available to the research community. Additionally, concise statements of hypothesis must be provided along with the evidence that supports them. Both statistical and qualitative significance should be demonstrated.
- Telecommunications:- Steve Chiu, Genuity Inc. This area invites papers that apply modern heuristic methodologies in original and insightful ways to solve problems arising in the telecommunications industry. The topics of interest to this area include but are not limited to: teletraffic analysis and engineering, network architecture and design, network performance analysis and optimization, communications protocols, economic analysis of new technologies, network reliability and survivability, and network services and applications. We are especially interested in papers that address important issues related to new telecommunications technologies, networks, or services such as high speed optical networks, next generation wireless systems, multimedia services, internet routing, switching or performance, network management for integrated broadband networks, etc.
- Logistics and Operations Management:- Stefan Vo? TU Braunschweig. This area seeks papers that creatively apply heuristic search methods to important decision problems in logistics, operations management and related areas. This includes problems from different but closely related fields such as production planning (e.g. lot sizing, assembly line balancing and machine scheduling), transportation (e.g. design, planning, operation and management of transportation systems) and supply chain management. We seek well-written papers that span the full spectrum from theory to practice regarding heuristics and especially meta-heuristics applications to logistics and operations management problems. Papers may make a methodological contribution; contribute by developing and analyzing novel models motivated by current industrial problems and case studies. Contributions must be significant, relevant, and conceptually sound and must meet the rigorous standards of the journal.
- Parallel Computing:- Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Universit?de Montréal/ ? Polytechnique/? des H.E.C.. This area welcomes articles dealing with the development and analysis of hybrid and multi-search strategies that use parallel or distributed computing concepts and platforms to innovatively combine heuristics and meta-heuristics merging operations research and computer science techniques. We also welcome applications involving use of parallel heuristics and meta-heuristics to address new problem areas or larger, more complex, more realistic problem instances. Theory and applications concerning the control architecture, e.g. distributed, hierarchical and central architectures, of parallel heuristics and meta-heuristics are of particular interest as well as performance analysis of such procedures.
- Combinatorial Optimization:- Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham. This area will act as an international forum for heuristic and meta-heuristic research and development for combinatorial optimization problems. We welcome papers that present high quality, innovative and original research ideas and applications from across a wide spectrum of theoretical and applied research issues. Themes such as graph theoretic problems and applications, sequencing and scheduling, engineering design, routing, cutting and packing, and set covering are relevant to this area.
- Methodological Experiments and Software:- Eric Taillard, Ecole d'Ingénieur du Canton de Vaud (EIVD). This area welcomes short contributions (e.g. less than 5 pages) that are self-contained and study algorithmic components and behavior of heuristics. The procedures must be state-of-the-art implementations and/or address relevant problems. The experimental conditions must be clearly stated and the tests must be reproducible. The source code, with documentation, and the numerical data must be made available in an electronic form and the Journal of Heuristics must be granted permission to freely distribute them on the web. Authors should expect a quick turnaround time for papers submitted to this area.
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Instructions to Authors
ONLINE MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Kluwer Academic Publishers now offers authors, editors and reviewers of the Journal of Heuristics the use of our fully web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. To keep the review time as short as possible, we request authors to submit manuscripts online to the journal‘s editorial office. Our online manuscript submission and review system offers authors the option to track the progress of the review process of manuscripts in real time. Manuscripts should be submitted to:
http://HEUR.edmgr.com
The online manuscript submission and review system for the Journal of Heuristics offers easy and straightforward log-in and submission procedures. This system supports a wide range of submission file formats: for manuscripts - Word, WordPerfect, RTF, TXT, and LaTex; for figures - TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS, PPT and Postscript. PDF is not an acceptable format.
NOTE: In case you encounter any difficulties while submitting your manuscript online, please get in touch with the responsible Editorial Assistant by clicking on "CONTACT US" from the tool bar.
Authors should send a completed and duly signed Consent to Publish and Transfer of Copyright form (to be downloaded from the journal's homepage) either by mail or fax to the Editorial Office of the Journal of Heuristics. Authors should still follow the regular instructions for authors when preparing their manuscripts (see below).
Manuel Laguna
c/o Melissa Andersen
HEUR- Editorial Office
Kluwer Academic Publishers
101 Philip Drive
Assinippi Park
Norwell, Massachusetts 02061, U.S.A.
Tel: (781) 681-0595
Fax: (781) 878-0449
E-mail: Melissa.Andersen@wkap.com
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
Sections should appear in the following order: title page, abstract, text, notes, references, tables, figure legends, and figures. Comments or replies to previously published articles should also follow this format with the exception of abstracts, which are not required.
- Title Page. The title page should include the article title, authors?names and permanent affiliations, and the name, current address, e-mail address and telephone number of the person to whom page proofs and reprints should be sent.
- Abstract. Should include an abstract of not more than 100 words and a list of two to six keywords.
- Text. The introduction should have no heading or number. Subsequent section headings (including appendices) should be designated by arabic numerals (1, 2, etc.) and subsection headings should be numbered 1.1, 1.2, etc. Figures, tables, and displayed equations should be numbered consecutively throughout the text (1, 2, etc.). Equation numbers should appear flush left in parentheses and running variables for equations (e.g., i=1,..., n) flush right in parentheses.
- Notes. Acknowledgments and related information should appear in a note designated by an asterisk after the last author‘s name, and subsequent notes should be numbered consecutively and designated by superscripts (1,2, etc.) in the text.
- References. References in the text should follow the author-date format (e.g., Brown (1986), Jones (1978a, 1978b), Smith and Johnson (1983)). References should be typed following the notes, according to the following samples (journal and book titles may be underlined rather than italicized). References with up to three authors should include the names of each author, references with four or more authors should cite the first author and add "et al." It is the responsibility of the authors to verify all references.
Sample References Becker, Gordon, Morris DeGroot, and Jacob Marschak. (1964). "Measuring Utility by a Single-Response Sequential Method," Behavioral Science 9, 226-232.
Schoemaker, Paul. (1980). Experiments of Decisions Under Risk: The Expected Utility Hypothesis. Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing.
Smith, V. Kerry. (1986). "A Conceptual Overview of the Foundations of Benefit-Cost Analysis." In Judith Bentkover, Vincent Covello, and Jeryl Mumpower (eds.), Benefits Assessment: The State of the Art. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
- Tables. Tables should be titled and typed double-spaced following the references. Notes to tables should be designated by superscripted letters (a, b, etc.) within each table and typed double-spaced on the same page as the table. Use descriptive labels rather than computer acronyms, and explain all abbreviations.
- Figures. Each figure should be mentioned in the text and numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals. Specify the desired location of each figure in the text. Lettering in figures should be large enough to be legible after half-size reduction. Each figure should have a caption.
PAGE PROOFS AND OFFPRINTS
Please be sure to include your e-mail address on your paper. If your paper is accepted, we will be forwarding your page proofs via e-mail. Your cooperation is appreciated. Corrected page proofs must be returned within 72 hours of receipt, and alterations other than corrections may be charged to the authors. Authors will receive 50 free offprints, and may order additional copies when returning the corrected proofs.
Editorial Board
| Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Manuel Laguna University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Area Editors: Logistics and Operations Management: Stefan Voss, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Telecommunications: Steve Chiu, Genuity, Inc. Parallel Computing: Theo Crainic, Universit?de Montréal Real-World Applications: Anthony Cox, Jr., Cox Associates, Denver Artificial Intelligence and Constraint Programming: Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University Evolutionary Computation: Zbigniew Michalewicz, NuTech Solutions, Inc. Combinatorial Optimization: Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham Metaheuristic Methodologies: David Woodruff, University of California, Davis Methodological Experiments and Software: Eric Taillard, EIVD, Switzerland |
| Advisory Editors: |
| Bruce Golden, University of Maryland, College Park Harvey J. Greenberg, University of Colorado, Denver Pierre Hansen, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal T.C. Hu, University of California, San Diego Toshihide Ibaraki, Kyoto University, Japan David S. Johnson, AT&T Labs (Research), Florham Park Kurt Jornsten, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration Silvano Martello, University of Bologna, Italy |
Thomas E. Morton, Parsifal Systems, Pittsburgh Heinz Muehlenbein, GMD/Adaptive Systems, Germany Kendall E. Nygard, North Dakota State University Gerard Plateau, Universite Paris-Nord, Paris Stuart M. Shieber, Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University Paolo Toth, University of Bologna, Italy Vicente Valls, Universidad de Valencia, Spain Darrell Whitley, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Dominique de Werra, EPFL, Switzerland |
| Associate Editors: |
| Emile H.L. Aarts, Phillips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands B. Adenso-Diaz, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain Jacek Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Erick Cantu-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA Marco Dorigo, Universit?Libres de Bruxelles Robert D. Doverspike, AT&T Labs (Research), Florham Park Andreas Drexl, University of Kiel, Germany Michel Gendreau, Universit?de Montréal Jose Luis Gonzalez-Velarde, Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico Alain Hertz, GERAD, Canada John Hooker, Jr., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, Redmond Arne Lokketangen, Molde College, Norway Leonard L. Lu, AT&T Labs, Middletown Rafael Marti, Universidad de Valencia, Spain Ibrahim H. Osman, American University of Beirut, Lebanon |
Gilles Pesant, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Erwin Pesch, University of Siegen, Germany Jean-Yves Potvin, Universit?de Montréal Colin Reeves, Coventry University, United Kingdom César Rego, University of Mississippi Mauricio G.C. Resende, AT&T Labs (Research), Florham Park Celso C. Ribeiro, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Catherine Roucairol, Universite de Versailles, France Pano Santos, Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto Marc Schoenauer, Ecole Polytechnique, France Jadranka Skorin-Kapov, SUNY, Stony Brook Paul M. Thompson, Cox Associates, Denver, CO Michel Toulouse, University of Manitoba, Canada Mark Wallace, Imperial College, UK |
Founding Editor:
Fred Glover, University of Colorado |
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