EDITORIAL POLICY AND SCOPE
Operations Research Letters is a publication for literature on all aspects of operations
research and the management and decision sciences. The features distinguishing it from other journals in the field are
* concise
articles, generally limited to 6 journal pages
* extended abstracts ... click here for full Aims & Scope
EDITORIAL POLICY AND SCOPE
Operations Research Letters is a publication for literature on all aspects of operations
research and the management and decision sciences. The features distinguishing it from other journals in the field are
* concise
articles, generally limited to 6 journal pages
* extended abstracts of two to four, announcing results without full
proofs;
* rapid review and fast publication;
* broad coverage of the literature.
Apart from the page limitation, originality, relevance,
quality and clarity are the only criteria for selecting the material to be published. A sound methodological basis is a requirement,
but technical correctness alone is not sufficient for publication. The subject matter can be theory, methodology, empirical studies,
and applications. The mainstream of contributions focuses on new models, theorems, algorithms, and experimental work that the author
wants to disseminate rapidly. We will publish theory and methodology with proofs omitted or only sketched, provided that the author submits
support material that enables us to verify the findings. We will also publish computational and experimental studies that are not necessarily
based on new theory or methodology, but are of significant scientific value because they confirm or refute prior results. Similarly,
we will publish reports on applications and case studies that demonstrate a novel use of existing techniques or contain significant ideas
about data collection and analysis, modelling, or implementation.
AREA EDITORS
Approximation and heuristics
Gerhard
J. Woeginger
The area covers all issues relevant to the development of efficient
approximate solutions to computationally difficult
problems. Examples are heuristic approaches like local search, worst case analysis or competitive analysis of approximation algorithms,
complexity theoretic results, and computational investigations of heuristic approaches.
Book reviews
Frits Spieksma
ORL publishes two types of reviews: short ones and long ones. A short
review is about a single, recent book and has a maximum length
of one page.
A long review is about a topic on which a number of books have recently appeared or is devoted to a special occasion;
it has the length of a regular paper.
Continuous optimization
Patrice Marcotte
Papers in all fields of continuous
optimization, especially those related to practical applications, are welcome. These fields include but are not restricted to nonlinear
programming (constrained or unconstrained, convex or nonconvex, smooth or nonsmooth, exact or heuristic, finite or infinite-dimensional),
complementarity, variational inequalities, numerical analysis, bilevel programming, and mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints.
Financial engineering
Jussi S. Keppo
Financial engineering utilizes operations research and statistical methods
to analyze financial markets. The studied problems include the pricing and hedging of financial instruments, credit and energy markets,
portfolio selection, and econometric analysis of financial data.
Game theory
Nimrod Megiddo
The area published
papers in game theory with relevance to the field of operations research.
Graphs and networks
Gianpaolo Oriolo
The area seeks papers that apply discrete mathematics to advance the theory and practice of operations research, as well as those reporting
theoretical or algorithmic advances for the area. Of particular, but not exclusive, interest are papers devoted to applications to telecommunications
and networking, transportation networks, or computational biology.
Inventory, reliability and control
Sridhar Seshadri
The area welcomes innovative papers focused on inventory management and reliability. Examples of topics include, but are not limited
to supply chain management, pricing, capacity planning, multi-item/echelon systems, algorithms and bounds, and incentive design (within
inventory management); and optimization, component selection, maintenance, and management of failure-prone systems (within reliability).
Linear and stochastic optimization
Rudiger Schultz
The area solicits original articles dealing with theoretical
and
computational issues in linear optimization or optimization under
stochastic uncertainty.
Logistics and revenue management
Retsef Levi
The area includes any topic related to supply chain management and design, location problems, production planning,
transportation and routing, and revenue management and pricing. We welcome papers that study existing or new models and applications
in these areas and provide significant new results. Examples are papers introducing new models, new algorithms or new analysis of known
models or algorithms. Emphasis will be put on the relative importance of the paper's contribution to known theory and practice.
Mixed
integer optimization
Christoph Helmberg, Alexander Martin
All submissions advancing the theory and practice of mixed
integer (linear or nonlinear) programming like novel techniques and algorithmic approaches in convex relaxations, branch and cut, polyhedral
combinatorics and theory driven heuristics are welcome. Case studies may be considered if they contribute to the general methodology.
Sequencing and scheduling
Steef van de Velde
The area seeks original and significant contributions to the design
and analysis of optimization, approximation and on-line algorithms for sequencing and scheduling problems. Results for new models are
also welcome as long as the relevance of the new problems is made compellingly clear.
Stochastic networks & queues
Sem C. Borst, Tetsuya Takine
The area focuses on networks and queueing systems where stochastic
variability and uncertainty
play a crucial role. The area seeks papers that propose original models and develop analytical or computational methods.
Innovative
ideas and broad results receive precedence over incremental extensions or niche areas.
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