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Pre-submission enquiry #1076

Closed N-Wouda closed 2 years ago

N-Wouda commented 2 years ago

Dear JOSS team,

I have written an implementation of the adaptive large neighbourhood search (ALNS) metaheuristic in Python (here). I initially wrote this open source implementation of the heuristic in 2019 because I needed it for a research paper. Since then, me and other contributors have extended the package by adding new features like weight schemes and stopping criteria, and writing substantial interactive examples solving real-world problems. Today, the alns package is a very feature complete implementation of the ALNS metaheuristic, that is very useful in further research on heuristics in the operations research and optimisation communities.

Would this project be in scope for a JOSS publication?

danielskatz commented 2 years ago

We define scope here: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html

Just glancing at your repo, it seems like substantial scholarly effort may be an issue based on lines of code, but I'm not sure.

If you think it is in scope, submit it, and if there are issues, they will be found and discussed.

N-Wouda commented 2 years ago

@danielskatz thank you for your quick response! I think that we have cleared the "at least three months' work" bar, but I have not kept track. We are actively working on the repository these days, so if we do not already clear the bar now, we undoubtedly will at some point in the (near) future.

I will make a submission later this year.