Combinatorial Optimization & Applications

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit your original research work to the Special Issue “Combinatorial Optimization & Applications” in Axioms. Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics focused on the enumeration, combination, and permutation of sets of elements and the mathematical relations that characterize their properties. More formally, this concept is known as combinatorial optimization, and has applications in almost every research domain involving computationally challenging problems. Generally, the goal of combinatorial optimization is to find an optimal object from a finite set of objects, where the set of feasible solutions is discrete or can be reduced to a discrete set. The most studied combinatorial optimization problems are the travelling salesman problem, knapsack problem, and bin packing.  Most of the known exact algorithms used to solve these types of problems require worst-case exponential time, which is not conducive to solving real-world problems. As a feasible approach, researchers are developing approximate algorithms that can generate superior-quality solutions in less time. This Special Issue aims to publish papers on topics including but not limited to combinatorial optimization models and algorithms able to solve real-world issues for existing and upcoming applications.

Dr. Hafiz Munsub Ali
Dr. Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari
Guest Editors

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