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Media Coverage Cao et. al’s article, published in European Journal of Operational Research, ‘ Optimizing the marriage market: An application of the linear assignment model’ has captured the interest of major media outlets: BBC News 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. Expert Systems with Applications - 2.596* 2. Journal of Operations Management - 2.420* 5. Omega - 2.175* 6. Systems & Control Letters - 2.073* 7. International Journal of Production Economics - 2.026* 9. Technovation - 1.907* 10. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological - 1.874* 11. Decision Support Systems - 1.873* 13. European Journal of Operational Research - 1.627* 16. Reliability Engineering & System Safety - 1.379* 17. Computers & Operations Research - 1.366* 18. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review - 1.270* * © 'Operations Research and Management Science’ category, Thomson Scientific, Journal Citation Reports, 2009

	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 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 Surveys in Operations Research and Management homepage.

European Journal of Operational Research

Thirty years ago, Charnes et al. published their seminal work ‘Measuring the efficiency of decision making units’ in the European Journal of Operational Research. Cook and Seiford have recently published their paper ‘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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The celebratory 30^th 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 Słowiński, Jacques Teghem, Bernhard Tilanus, Jyrki Wallenius, Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann

Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems
Computers & Operations Research
Articles to be submitted by October 31^st, 2009

Knapsack Problems and Applications
Computers & Operations Research
Articles to be submitted by November 30^th 2009

Decision Support Systems for Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Decision Support Systems
Articles to be submitted by May 31^st, 2010

Advances in Optimization and Design of Supply Chains
International Journal of Production Economics
Articles to be submitted by 30^th November 2009

Flexible and Robust Supply Chain Forecasting Systems
International Journal of Production Economics
Articles to be submitted by December 31^st, 2009

Enterprise Risk Management in Operations
International Journal of Production Economics
Articles to be submitted by 31^st December 2009

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

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

Supply Chain Disruption and Risk Management
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
Articles to be submitted by November 30^th, 2009

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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