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Volume 9,
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4 December 2025

About Foundations and Trends in Optimization

Foundations and Trends® in Optimization publishes high‑quality survey and tutorial articles written by leading researchers to help readers navigate the rapidly expanding volume of optimization research. The journal provides coverage of both methods and applications of mathematical optimization. Topics include algorithm design and analysis, modeling systems, new optimization formulations, and applications across areas such as machine learning, statistics, signal and image processing, economics and finance, engineering design, and resource allocation.

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Accepted manuscript types

Foundations and Trends in Optimization publishes exclusively long (± 100 pages) review and tutorial papers. For full details read the Editorial Aims of the journal. These criteria are strictly applied by the editorial board and your paper must meet them to be considered.

Original research papers will not be considered for publication and we will not acknowledge receipt.

If you intend to write, or are in the process of writing, a paper that meets the criteria in Editorial Aims, we will be pleased to hear from you. In the first instance, send an abstract for initial review to the publisher.

After this initial submission, a preliminary acceptance may follow. The full draft paper will be subject to a reviewing process to ensure quality standards and balance before being finally accepted..

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Single-anonymous peer review.

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Alphabetical reference style. Please find more information on Alphabetical referencing here.

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Accepted languages

This journal accepts manuscripts in UK/US English.

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