The journal Computer Aided Geometric Design is for researchers, scholars, and software developers dealing with mathematical and computational methods for the description of geometric objects as they arise in areas ranging from CAD/CAM to robotics and scientific visualization. The journal publishes original research papers, survey papers and with quick editorial decisions short communications of at most 3 pages. The primary objects of interest are curves, surfaces, and volumes such as splines (NURBS), meshes, subdivision surfaces as well as algorithms to generate, analyze, and manipulate them. This journal will report on new developments in CAGD and its applications, including but not restricted to the following:

    Mathematical and Geometric Foundations
    Curve, Surface, and Volume generation
    CAGD applications in Numerical Analysis, Computational Geometry, Computer Graphics, or Computer Vision
    Industrial, medical, and scientific applications

The aim is to collect and disseminate information on computer aided design in one journal. To provide the user community with methods and algorithms for representing curves and surfaces. To illustrate computer aided geometric design by means of interesting applications. To combine curve and surface methods with computer graphics. To explain scientific phenomena by means of computer graphics. To concentrate on the interaction between theory and application. To expose unsolved problems of the practice. To develop new methods in computer aided geometry.

Reproducibility Badge Initiative and Software Publication

Reproducibility Badge Initiative (RBI) is a collaboration with the Code Ocean (CO), a cloud based computational reproducibility platform that helps the community by enabling sharing of code and data as a resource for non-commercial use. CO verifies the submitted code (and data) and certifies its reproducibility. Code submission will be verified by the Code Ocean team for computational reproducibility by making sure it runs, delivers results and it is self-contained. For more information please visit this help article . Note that an accepted paper will be published independently of the CO application outcome. However, if the paper receives the Reproducibility badge, it will be given additional exposure by having an attached R Badge, and by being citable at the CO website with a DOI.

Software Impacts

We invite you to convert your open source software into an additional journal publication in Software Impacts, a multi-disciplinary open access journal. Software Impacts provides a scholarly reference to software that has been used to address a research challenge. The journal disseminates impactful and re-usable scientific software through Original Software Publications (OSP) which describe the application of the software to research and the published outputs.

How to submit an article to Software Impacts: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/software-impacts/

For more information contact us at: software.impacts@elsevier.com

Special Issue on SIAM Conference on Computational Geometric Design 2025
Submission Date: 2026-01-31

This special issue focuses on recent developments in the mathematical and computational aspects of geometric design and processing, as well as their industrial applications. It will contain relevant papers presented at the SIAM Conference on Computational Geometric Design (GD25). Additional submissions are also welcome.

GD25 is motivated by the overlapping academic and industrial interest in geometry. This international forum provides an opportunity for academic researchers to exhibit their current research and for industrial and government engineers and scientists to communicate their geometric needs. In particular, it encourages communication among users and developers of mathematics and software stimulated by problems having significant geometric content.

Guest editors:

Hendrik Speleers, PhD
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Email: speleers@mat.uniroma2.it

Yongjie Jessica Zhang, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Email: jessicaz@andrew.cmu.edu

Manuscript submission information:

The journal's submission platform (Editorial Manager®) will be available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue from August 1st, 2025. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript and select the article type of “VSI: SIAM-GD-25” when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage: Computer Aided Geometric Design | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier.

Timeline:

Submission Open Date *01/08/2025
Final Manuscript Submission Deadline *31/01/2026
Editorial Acceptance Deadline *30/04/2026

Keywords:

Geometric Design; Geometry Processing; CAD/CAE/CAM