(Munich, 14.07.2025) We are pleased to report on the following research that has been produced as part of the QCHALLenge project. The papers listed below will be presented at the main track of the QCE conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA from August 31st to September 5th:

• Florian Krellner, Abhishek Awasthi, Nico Kraus, Sarah Braun, Michael Poppel, Daniel Porawski, „Solving a real-world modular logistic scheduling problem with a quantum-classical meta-heuristics“, to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE QCE 2025.,
• Nico Kraus, Marvin Erdmann, Alexander Kuzmany, Daniel Porawski „Quantum Annealing Hyperparameter Analysis for Optimal Sensor Placement in Production Environments“, to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE QCE 2025.,
• Peter J. Eder, Aron Kerschbaumer, Jernej Rudi Finzgar, Raimel A. Medina, Martin J. A. Schuetz, Helmut G. Katzgraber, Sarah Braun, Christian B. Mendl, „Quantum-Guided Cluster Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization“, to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE QCE 2025.,
• Peter J. Eder, Simon Ramoser, Sarah Braun, Stefan Weltge, „Efficient active-passive vehicle coordination in multimodal transportation networks“, to appear in the Journal of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.,
• Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, Maximilian Zorn, Thomas Gabor and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, „Time-Aware Qubit Assignment and Circuit Optimization for Distributed Quantum Computing“, to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE QCE 2025.,
• David Bucher, Daniel Porawski, Maximilian Janetschek, Jonas Stein, Corey O’Meara, Giorgio Cortiana, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, „Efficient QAOA Architecture for Solving Multi-Constrained Optimization Problems“, to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE QCE 2025.

We congratulate the authors and look forward to a lively exchange at QCE 2025.