Journal of Combinatorial Optimization

1997 - 2026

Current editor(s): Thai, My T.

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2026, volume 51, articles 5

Optimizing energy efficiency in WSNs through dynamic sensor deployment and advanced clustering No 1, 23 pages

Dinesh Sharma and Geetam Singh Tomar

Bond polytope under vertex- and edge-sums No 2, 21 pages

Petr Kolman and Hans Raj Tiwary

The approximation algorithm and fast algorithm for constrained or-submodular maximization problem No 3, 18 pages

Haifeng Huang, Qian Liu, Yang Zhou and Min Li

List 3-coloring on comb-convex and caterpillar-convex bipartite graphs No 4, 18 pages

Banu Baklan Şen, Thomas Erlebach and Öznur Yaşar

Approximation algorithms for the minimum weight cycle/path partition problem No 5, 29 pages

Yaqi Li, Wei Yu and Zhaohui Liu

Approximation algorithms for the Square Min-Sum Bin Packing Problem No 6, 22 pages

Rachel Vanucchi Saraiva and Rafael C. S. Schouery

Improved lower bounds on the general reduced second Zagreb index of trees and unicyclic graphs No 7, 18 pages

Nasrin Dehgardi, Sandi Klavžar and Mahdieh Azari

Efficient exact algorithms for multi-Machine non-idling unit-job scheduling No 8, 34 pages

Philippe Chretienne, Alain Quilliot and Hélène Toussaint

2026, volume 51, articles 4

Recent advances in combinatorial optimization No 1, 5 pages

Silvano Martello and Nikolaos Matsatsinis

Information-theoretic coordinate subset and partition selection of multivariate Markov chains via submodular optimization No 2, 57 pages

Zheyuan Lai and Michael C. H. Choi

IoT botnet attack detection using ensemble classifiers with optimal training No 3, 32 pages

Shankar Vuppu, V. Chandra Shekhar Rao, M. Sujatha, Shaik Munawar, S. Nagaraju and N. Gayatri

Hamiltonian paths extending a set of matchings in hypercubes No 4, 23 pages

Abid Ali, Lina Ba and Weihua Yang

2026, volume 51, articles 3

Single Machine Scheduling with Precedence Constraints and Bounded Maximum Delay Value No 1, 32 pages

Maher Mallem, Claire Hanen and Alix Munier-Kordon

Chaotic strategies-enhanced artificial electric field algorithm for combinatorial feature selection No 2, 48 pages

Dikshit Chauhan, Deepika Khurana and Anupam Yadav

Competition between healthcare providers under subscription and fee-for-service: an equilibrium analysis of health information exchange system’s choice No 3, 43 pages

Zhaofang Mao, Yuqiong Jiang and Yufeng Liao

Homological invariants of edge ideals of Wollastonite graphs No 4, 22 pages

Bilal Ahmad Rather

DP color functions of hypergraphs No 5, 14 pages

Ruiyi Cui, Liangxia Wan and Fengming Dong

On the Genus of Cartesian products of complete graph $$K_{12t+7}$$ K 12 t + 7 with cycles and paths No 6, 17 pages

Jyoti Anant Pulgam and Prashant Malavadkar

Improving order with queues No 7, 29 pages

Andreas Karrenbauer, Kurt Mehlhorn, Pranabendu Misra, Paolo Luigi Rinaldi, Anna Twelsiek, Alireza Haqi and Siavash Rahimi Shateranloo

2026, volume 51, articles 2

PTAS for Euclidean travelling salesman problem with soft time windows No 1, 23 pages

Liang Song, Songsong Wu, Yongxuan Lai, Chunyan Liu, Hejiao Huang and Hongwei Du

A systematic review of recent advances in snake optimizer algorithm No 10, 37 pages

Moh Nur Sholeh and Undayani Cita Sari

(Pareto)-Optimization and greedy algorithm-based solutions for review and panel assignments No 11, 38 pages

Rohit Ramachandran, Urjit Patil and Abhinav De

A Modified non-monotone adaptive retrospective trust region algorithm for unconstrained optimization No 12, 35 pages

Seyed Hamzeh Mirzaei and Ali Ashrafi

The complexity of distance-r dominating set reconfiguration No 13, 36 pages

Niranka Banerjee and Duc A. Hoang

Maximum alternating clean balanced cycle decomposition and applications in rearrangement distance problems No 14, 31 pages

Gabriel Siqueira, Klairton Lima Brito, Alexsandro Oliveira Alexandrino, Andre Rodrigues Oliveira, Ulisses Dias and Zanoni Dias

A multimodal meta-learning-augmented EmoTriSense for emotion recognition No 15, 40 pages

V. Sowmya and A. Rajeswari

Optimal due date assignment in a single machine group technology scheduling environment with learning effect No 16, 26 pages

Ying Chen, Yongxi Cheng, Jun Wu and Guiqing Zhang

Federated edge intelligence for secure and adaptive routing in IoT: a GRU–RL based framework No 17, 28 pages

Wajih Abdallah

Online dispatching and routing for automated guided vehicles in pickup and delivery systems on loop-based graphs No 18, 25 pages

Louis Stubbe, Jens Goemaere and Jan Goedgebeur

On the enumeration of resolute majority rules No 19, 28 pages

Josep Freixas and Dani Samaniego

Output-sensitive complexity of multi-objective integer network flow problems No 2, 30 pages

David Könen and Michael Stiglmayr

Binary jumbled indexing: suffix tree histogram No 20, 17 pages

Luís Cunha and Mário Medina

A note between transitive $$C_4$$ C 4 -factor and oriented Ramsey number No 3, 10 pages

Ming Chen, Zhengke Miao and Shan Zhou

Stable matching with approval preferences under partial information No 4, 21 pages

Yaqin Chu, Junjie Luo and Tianyang Zheng

On positive influence dominating sets with bi-directional weighted constraint in social networks No 5, 8 pages

Qi Zhang and Hao Zhong

On maximizing k-submodular functions under p-system and d-knapsack constraints No 6, 23 pages

Wenzhe Zhang, Shufang Gong, Bin Liu, Qian Liu and Priyanshi Garg

A fault-tolerant dynamic graph attention network for energy efficient routing and reliability in wireless sensor networks No 7, 38 pages

G. V. Soni Meera and R. Isaac Sajan

Approximation Algorithms for Parallel Batch Machine Scheduling of Malleable Jobs No 8, 30 pages

Fenghe Xia, Longkun Guo and Xiaoyan Zhang

The TWKHM conjecture on the number of walks in trees No 9, 20 pages

Dongxiu Cai, Jiasheng Zeng and Xiao-Dong Zhang

2026, volume 51, articles 1

Strong edge-coloring of graphs with maximum edge weight seven No 1, 11 pages

Runze Wang

Hytranet: a deep learning model for traffic congestion prediction in road networks No 10, 22 pages

Manoj Kumar and Kranti Kumar

On the transmission irregular trees with the maximum Wiener index No 11, 27 pages

Ivan Damnjanović, Anran Xu and Kexiang Xu

Publisher Correction: Proof of the Goldberg–Seymour conjecture on edge–colorings of multigraphs No 12, 3 pages

Guantao Chen, Guangming Jing and Wenan Zang

Constructing the antimagic labelings for double stars union paths on three vertices No 2, 17 pages

Wei-Tian Li and Po-Wen Yang

An integer model for optimizing dynamic allocation of medical supplies during the COVID-19 No 3, 31 pages

Hongqiang Fan, Shuyao Duan, Xun Weng, Jingtian Zhang and Lifen Yun

Solving systems of equations on antichains for the computation of the ninth Dedekind Number No 4, 26 pages

Patrick De Causmaecker and Lennart Van Hirtum

Fast approximation algorithm for non-monotone DR-submodular maximization under size constraint No 5, 23 pages

Tan D. Tran and Canh V. Pham

Distributionally robust one-class support vector machine for anomaly detection under uncertainty No 6, 36 pages

Amirhossein Noormohammadi, Seyed Ali MirHassani and Farnaz Hooshmand Khaligh

Adaptive latent space dip clustering and few-shot wavelet learning for android malware detection No 7, 32 pages

K. Selvi, P. Vijayalakshmi, B. Selvalakshmi and G. Manikandan

Bicriteria permutation flow shop scheduling problems with machine-dependent convex resource consumption functions No 8, 17 pages

Byung-Cheon Choi and Myoung-Ju Park

Structured query language injection attack detection via giant magnificent frigatebird optimization and federated learning No 9, 38 pages

Madhavi Perla and Valli Kumari Vatsavayi