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External linkEuropean Journal of Operational Research – IndexCopernicus

We are delighted to announce that the External linkEuropean Journal of Operational Research received an External linkIndex Copernicus Value of 21.42, highlighting its relevance to the medical and health communities as well as operational research.

External linkFind out more about the journal.


Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

New Editor-in-Chief – Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Elsevier is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Vedat Verter as the new Editor-in-Chief of External linkSocio-Economic Planning Sciences (SEPS). Professor Verter’s appointment is effective January 1, 2011.

Vedat Verter is a Professor of Operations Management at Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. He is also Associate Member of McGill’s School of Environment and Adjunct Professor at MIT-Zaragoza International logistics Program as well as at Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa.

The current Editor-in-Chief, Professor Barnett Parker, will remain in charge until the end of 2010. We are very grateful to Professor Parker for over twenty-three years of untiring and dedicated service. 

For the full announcement and more information about Professor Verter, please click External linkhere


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Cao et. al’s article, published in European Journal of Operational Research,External link  Optimizing the marriage market: An application of the linear assignment model’ has captured the interest of major media outlets:

External link  BBC News
External link  The Telegraph

Extract from Abstract:

‘Research shows that the success of marriages and other intimate partnerships depends on objective attributes such as differences in age, cultural background, and educational level. This article proposes a mathematical approach to optimizing marriage by allocating spouses in such a way as to reduce the likelihood of divorce or separation…’


Elsevier publishes 12 of the 20 top ranked journals in the Thomson Reuters 'Operations Research and Management Science' category:

1. External link  Expert Systems with Applications - 2.596*

2. External link  Journal of Operations Management - 2.420*

5. External link  Omega - 2.175*

6. External link  Systems & Control Letters - 2.073*

7. External link  International Journal of Production Economics - 2.026*

9. External link  Technovation - 1.907*

10. External link  Transportation Research Part B: Methodological - 1.874*

11. External link  Decision Support Systems - 1.873*

13. External link  European Journal of Operational Research - 1.627*

16. External link  Reliability Engineering & System Safety - 1.379*

17. External link  Computers & Operations Research - 1.366*

18. External link  Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review - 1.270*

* © 'Operations Research and Management Science’ category, Thomson Scientific, Journal Citation Reports, 2009


SORM

Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science

The renowned Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science is now published in journal format under the title External link  Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science (SORMS).

World-class researchers have been invited to share the latest developments in their area of expertise with the OR/MS community. In addition, the editorial board welcomes ideas from the community. Authors who intend to contribute a survey are invited to contact one of the three editors at an early stage of their efforts. Please send a 1-2 page document containing motivation, abstract and tentative table of contents to one of the SORMS Editors:

Jan Karel Lenstra email: jan.karel.lenstra@cwi.nl
Michael Trick email: trick@cmu.edu
Bert Zwart email: bert.zwart@cwi.nl

Additional information is available on the External link  Surveys in Operations Research and Management homepage.

 

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Featured Article
   
European Journal of Operational Research 

Thirty years ago, Charnes et al. published their seminal work External link‘Measuring the efficiency of decision making units’ in the European Journal of Operational Research. Cook and Seiford have recently published their paper External link‘Data envelopment analysis (DEA) – Thirty years on’ exploring some of the major methodological developments in data envelopment analysis which have taken place in those three decades. A must read for any DEA enthusiast.

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Virtual Special Issue
   
European Journal of Operational Research 

Virtual Special Issue

The celebratory External link30th Anniversary collection of influential articles published by European Journal of Operational Research is still available to read for free online.

Accompanying these articles is an editorial by Alan Mercer, Lorenzo Peccati, Roman SÅ‚owiÅ„ski, Jacques Teghem, Bernhard Tilanus, Jyrki Wallenius, Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann

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Call for Papers

   
External link  Managing Information and Knowledge in Interorganisational Networks
External link  The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Articles to be submitted by January 31st, 2010

External link  Product Safety and Security in the Global Supply Chain
External link  Journal of Operations Management
Articles to be submitted by March 1st, 2010

External link  Green Supply Chain Management: Trends, Challenges, and Solutions
External link  Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
Articles to be submitted by March 31st, 2010

External link  Multiple criteria Decision Making in Emergency Management
External link  Computers & Operations Research
Articles to be submitted by December 31st, 2010

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Top 10 Most Downloaded Decision Sciences journal articles, April-June 2009

Please visit External link  ScienceDirect for the full Top 25 

External linkOn operations research and value conflicts
Omega, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2009, Pages 1109-1120
Wenstop, F.; Koppang, H.

External link  Modelling complex ethical decision problems with operations research
Omega, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2009, Pages 1100-1108
Kunsch, P.L.; Kavathatzopoulos, I.; Rauschmayer, F.

External link  Ethical guidelines and codes in operations research
Omega, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2009, Pages 1044-1050
Gass, S.I.

External link  Does the best practice of rational-style model-based policy analysis already include ethical considerations?  
Omega, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2009, Pages 1051-1062
Walker, W.E.

External link  Ethics in Operations Research and Management Sciences: A never-ending effort to combine rigor and passion
Omega, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2009, Pages 1039-1043
Le Menestrel, M.; Van Wassenhove, L.N.

External link  Why good practice of OR is not enough-Ethical challenges for the OR practitioner
Omega, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2009, Pages 1089-1099
Rauschmayer, F.; Kavathatzopoulos, I.; Kunsch, P.L.; Le Menestrel, M.

External link  Ethics beyond the model: How social dynamics can interfere with ethical practice in operational research/management science
Omega, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2009, Pages 1073-1082
Brocklesby, J.

External link  Ethical issues in tracking cellular telephones at an event
Omega, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2009, Pages 1063-1072
Cooper, A.K.; Ittmann, H.W.; Stylianides, T.; Schmitz, P.M.U.

External link  Opportunities and pitfalls for ethical analysis in operations research and the management sciences
Omega, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2009, Pages 1121-1131
Picavet, E.

External link  Distributed supply chain management using ant colony optimization
European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 199, Issue 2, December 2009, Pages 349-358
Silva, C.A.; Sousa, J.M.C.; Runkler, T.A.; Sa da Costa, J.M.G

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