Activities in 2025
The ECCO XXXVIII - 2025 Conference has been co-organized by colleaugues from University Cadi Ayyad and Engineering School Mohammadia in Morocco, and University of Lille and Univeristy Paris-Est in France.It took place in Marrakech, Morocco.
May 08-10 (Thursday, Friday, Saturday), 2025.
Important dates:
January 31, 2025: Abstract submission deadline, extended to Marrh 15, 2025.
February 26, 2025: Notification of Acceptance, extended to March 22, 2025.
March 28, 2025: Deadline for Early Registration.
May 08-10, 2025: ECCO XXXVIII - 2025 Conference
List of Plenary Speakers:
Juan-Jose Salazar-Gonzalez, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Suresh Sethi, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Luis Gouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Program Committee :
Jacek Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Bo Chen, University of Warwick, UK
Van-Dat Cung, , Universite Grenoble Alpes, France
Alain Hertz, GERAD - Ecole des HEC, Canada
Silvano Martello, University of Bologna, Italy
El-Ghazali Talbi (chair), University of Lille, France
Paolo Toth, University of Bologna, Italy
Greet Vanden Berghe, KU Leuven, Belgium
Organizing Committee :
El-Ghazali Talbi (chair), University of Lille, France
Amir Nakib, University of Paris-Est, France
El Hassan El Mouden, University Cadi Ayyad, Morocco
Zahi Jarir, University Cadi Ayyad, Morocco
M’hammed El Kahoui, University Cadi Ayyad, Morocco
Rachid Ellaia, Eginnering School Mohammadia of Rabat, Morocco
Contact :
email: ecco2025@sciencesconf.org
Publications :
The summaries of all accepted talks will be collected in a Booklet of Abstracts.
The Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (JOCO) is editing a special issue on the occasion of the ECCO XXXXVIII-2025 conference: Recent applications, models and algorithms in Combinatorial Optimization. This special issue will present recent advances and challenges in all areas of Combinatorial Optimization. The issue will be based on contributions presented at the 38th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization (Marrakesh, May 08-10 2025), but the invitation to submit is extended to all ECCO and CO members.
Main topics of interest are (but not restricted to):
- Graphs and networks
- Mathematical programming
- Routing and scheduling
- Facility location
- Bioinformatics
- Exact methods
- Approximation algorithms
- Heuristics
- Metaheuristics
- Matheuristics
All articles will be thoroughly refereed according to the high standards of Journal of Combinatorial Optimization.
Full papers must be submitted through the Springer Editorial System https://www.editorialmanager.com/joco/.
Please see the Author Instructions on the site if you have not yet submitted a paper through this web-based system. Be sure to note that your work is intended for the Special Issue and to select the article type SI: ECCO 2025.
Deadline for the submission of full papers: December 01, 2025.
Accepted papers will be published online individually, before print publication.
The Guest Editors: Silvano Martello, El-Ghazali Talbi.
The full Call for Papers can be download here.
