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European Journal of Operational Research Best Paper Awards

Congratulations to the winners of the EJOR Best Paper Awards. Download the winning papers for free for a limited time, here.

Journal of Strategic Information Systems Best Paper Award 2011

Congratulations to the winner of the Award: "Firm-level benefits of IT-enabled resources: A conceptual extension and an empirical assessment", Saggi Nevo & Michael Wade. Download the paper for free for a limited time, here.

Second and Third Issue of Operations Research for Health Care freely available to read online

Read the second and third Issue FREE via ScienceDirect.

Olympic Articles

A collection of Olympic-themed papers from some of our top journals, in honour of the 2012 London Olympic games (27th July-12th August).

Evaluating terminal management performances using SLAM: The case of Athens International Airport
Volume 34, Issue 6 (2007)
Andreatta G., Brunetta L., Righi L.

Towards fair ranking of olympics achievements: The case of Sydney 2000
Volume 33, Issue 7 (2006)
Churilov L., Flitman A.

Predicting the success of nations at the Summer Olympics using neural networks
Volume 26, Issue 13 (1999)
Condon E.M., Golden B.L., Wasil E.A.

Mean value and volume-based sensitivity analysis for Olympic rankings
Volume 216, Issue 1 (2012)
Sitarz S.

Achievement and benchmarking of countries at the Summer Olympics using cross efficiency evaluation method
Volume 197, Issue 2 (2009)
Wu J., Liang L., Yang F.

Olympic ranking based on a zero sum gains DEA model
Volume 148, Issue 2 (2003)
Lins M.P.E., Gomes E.G., Soares de Mello J.C.C.B., Soares de Mello A.J.R.

DEA game cross-efficiency approach to Olympic rankings
Volume 37, Issue 4 (2009)
Wu, J.a , Liang, L.a , Chen, Y.

Models for measuring and benchmarking olympics achievements
Volume 36, Issue 6 (2008)
Li Y., Liang L., Chen Y., Morita H.

Contribution to the design of the Athletes Bus Network during the Athens 2004 Olympic Games
Volume 40, Issue 9 (2006)
Minis I., Keys E., Athanasopoulos

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Latest Impact Factors

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Call for Papers

	Special Issue on Integrated Vehicle Routing Problems Submission deadline: 30th September 2013
	Special Issue on Implementing Operations Strategy for Competitive Advantage Submission deadline: 11th February 2013 Special Issue on Service Triads Submission deadline: 1st April 2013
	Special Issue on Technology Strategy and Technology Policy Submission deadline: 15th August 2013
	Special Issue on "Social Media: A revolution in communication" Submission deadline: 1st March 2013 Special Issue on Corporate Foresight Submission deadline: 30th June 20

Special Issues

Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis 2) Service Science in Information Systems Research : Special Issue on PACIS 2010
Decision Support Systems, Volume 53, Issue 4, pages 675-892 (Nov-12)
Edited by
Energy Management and Economics
Computers & Industrial Engineering, Volume 63, Issue 3, pages 539-728 (Nov-12)
Edited by Ying Fan
Sustainable Development of Manufacturing and Services
International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 140, Issue 1, pages 1-556 (Nov-12)
Edited by Angappa Gunasekaran, David Gallear
Compassionate Operations
International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 139, Issue 2, pages 359-686 (Oct-12)
Edited by Joseph Sarkis
Special Section: Election Forecasting in Neglected Democracies
International Journal of Forecasting, Volume 28, Issue 4, pages 767-892 (Oct-12)
Edited by Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Eric Belanger
Bargaining, Evolution and Networks: A Special Issue in Honor of Hans Haller
Mathematical Social Sciences, Volume 64, Issue 2, pages 103-202 (Sep-12)
Edited by Francis Bloch, Sudipta Sarangi
Supply Chain Risk Management
International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 139, Issue 1, pages 1-358 (Sep-12)
Edited by Hiroaki Matsukawa, Ou Tang, Kenichi Nakashima
Special Issue: Advances of Operations Research in Service Industry
Computers & Operations Research, Volume 39, Issue 8, pages 1791-1918 (Aug-12)
Edited by Li D. Xu, Shoubo Xu, Zude Zhou, Pan Wang, John Warfield
Computational Foundations of Social Choice
Mathematical Social Sciences, Volume 64, Issue 1, pages 1-102 (Jul-12)
Edited by Felix Brandt, William S. Zwicker
Modeling Public Sector Facility Location Problems
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Volume 46, Issue 2, pages 111-182 (Jun-12)
Edited by Mark S. Daskin, Alan T. Murray

Conferences

1 - 4 July
European Conference on Operations Research (EURO)
Rome Italy

6-9 October
INFORMS
Minneapolis, USA

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