European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)

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Scope & Editorial Policy

The European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) publishes high quality, original papers that contribute to the methodology of operational research (OR) and to the practice of decision making. The relation with ongoing research should be demonstrated by providing proper reference to the recent OR literature. With application papers, originality should be demonstrated by applying OR to a problem with interesting new aspects or by providing fresh insights leading to successful implementation. Practitioners often suffer from the need to conceal commercial secrets. Referees will take this into sympathetic consideration when advising on an application paper, but it will not be allowed to detract from clarity of the presentation.

EJOR is much more selective than in the past due to the growing inflow of submissions and limited volume. Papers that do not contain a major new research finding or novel approach to the application of OR will be rejected and not sent out for review. The same applies to papers written in poor English. As acceptance to EJOR is competitive, a paper may also be rejected because in the opinion of the editor it does not make a sufficient scientific contribution - even if some of the reviewers support publication.

EJOR welcomes the following types of papers:

Invited Reviews, explaining to the general OR audience the developments in an OR topic over the recent years
Innovative Applications of OR, describing novel ways to solve real problems
Theory and Methodology Papers, presenting original research results contributing to the methodology of OR and to its theoretical foundations
Short Communications, including comments on papers previously published in EJOR

The Theory and Methodology Papers will be classified into one of the seven headings: :

Continuous Optimization
Discrete Optimization
Production, Manufacturing and Logistics
Stochastics and Statistics
Decision Support
Computational Intelligence and Information Management
Interfaces with Other Disciplines

About the journal

EJOR publishes 8 volumes a year (24 issues)
The 2010 Impact Factor is 2.158 (Thomson Reuters JCR 2011)
EJOR commenced publication in 1977

Editorial Board

Co-ordinating Editor

R. Slowinski - Inst. of Computing Science, Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 2, PL-60-965 Poznan, Poland

Editors

I. Bomze - Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, 1010 Wien, Austria
J.-C. Billaut - Lab. of Computer Science, Université Francois Rabelais de Tours, 64 avenue Jean Portalis, 37200 Tours, France
R. Dyson - Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
L. Peccati - Dept. of Decision Sciences, Università Bocconi, Via Roentgen 1, 20139 Milano, Italy

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