Call for Papers

*Special issue on Global Optimization applied to Healthcare Problems*

Guest Editors:

Joana Dias, INESCC/FEUC, Portugal

Humberto Rocha, INESCC, Portugal

Ana Viana, ISEP/INESC TEC, Portugal

Recent advances in medicine allow us to live longer and healthier lives. These advances have been made possible through the joint contribution of very different scientific fields. Healthcare is nowadays better understood as a multidisciplinary field, with increasing number of challenges that can be better tackled by joint collaboration of researchers with different scientific backgrounds. Operational Research can significantly contribute to tackle many of the current and forthcoming challenges, especially those requiring the development of mathematical models and global optimization techniques. In this special issue we welcome contributions that consider methodological, theoretical or computational aspects of global optimization applied to healthcare problems.Only high quality contributions in terms of novelty and significance within the scope of Journal of Global Optimization will be considered.

Although we strongly encourage the submission of papers presented at XXXI Euro Mini Conference on Improving Healthcare that took place in Coimbra, Portugal, from March 30 to April 1 2015, this Call for Papers is also open to the entire community of academics and practitioners.

All papers will be peer-reviewed according to the editorial policy of Journal of Global Optimization. Papers should be original, unpublished, and not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. They should be prepared according to the instructions to authors that can be found in the journal homepage. Authors should upload their contributions using the submission site https://www.editorialmanager.com/jogo, not forgetting to choose as article type « SI : Global Optimization in Healthcare ».

The deadline for submissions is 31 October, 2015. Other inquiries should be sent directly to any of the Guest Editors in charge of this issue: Joana Dias (joana@fe.uc.pt), Humberto Rocha (hrocha@mat.uc.pt), and Ana Viana (aviana@inescporto.pt).