[PRE REVIEW]: OptimalControl.jl: A Julia package for modeling and solving optimal control problems with ODEs

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Submitting author: @ocots (Olivier Cots)
Repository: https://github.com/control-toolbox/OptimalControl.jl
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Version: v2.0.0
Editor: Pending
Reviewers: Pending
Managing EiC: Daniel S. Katz

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

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- 10.1016/j.epsr.2024.110651 is OK
- 10.1007/s10107-004-0559-y is OK
- 10.1145/2558904 is OK
- 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1745 is OK
- 10.1002/oca.939 is OK
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- 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2021.107567 is OK
- 10.1080/10556788.2011.593625 is OK
- 10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312971 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-031-81724-3_40 is OK
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- 10.1016/j.nahs.2026.101681 is OK
- 10.1007/s11538-025-01436-y is OK
- 10.1038/s41598-025-30354-1 is OK
- 10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.08.074 is OK
- 10.1007/s12532-021-00208-8 is OK
- 10.1109/TAC.2022.3176430 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2411.09764 is OK
- 10.21105/joss.02809 is OK
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- 10.1016/j.conengprac.2023.105676 is OK
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- 10.1145/3779117 is OK
- 10.1007/0-387-30065-1_4 is OK
- 10.1145/3242094 is OK

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Repository Analysis Report

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Commit Count by Author

876	Olivier Cots
   238	Jean-Baptiste Caillau
    75	Pierre Martinon
    73	jcaillau
    38	Caillau Jean-Baptiste
    33	ocots
    29	gergaud
    13	CompatHelper Julia
    13	ct: control-toolbox
     3	Orjan Ameye
     3	caillau
     3	dependabot[bot]
     2	github-actions[bot]
     1	Baptiste Combelles
     1	GitHub Actions
     1	Marcel Jacobse
     1	abavoil

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Repository age: First commit on September 24, 2022

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Paper file info:

🚨 Wordcount for paper.md is 2364

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

✅ The paper includes a State of the field section

✅ The paper includes a Software design section

✅ The paper includes a Research impact statement section

✅ The paper includes an AI usage disclosure section

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License info:

✅ License found: MIT License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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👋 @ocots - Thanks for your submission. However, it's a bit long (~2350 words vs a recommended max of 1750). Can you cut any of it? In addition, you could work on the possibly missing DOIs that editorialbot suggests, but note that some may be incorrect. Please feel free to make changes to your .bib file, then use the command @editorialbot check references to check again, and the command @editorialbot generate pdf after making changes to the .md file or when the references are right to make a new PDF. An editorialbot command needs to be the first entry in a new comment. You can also use @editorialbot check repository to check a bunch of stuff, including the word count. Please ping me when you are done with these changes.