Collections and calls for papers

Special Issue: Advances in Applied Probability and Data Science Dedicated to the 70th Birthday of Professor Michael N. Katehakis

Annals of Operations Research seeks submissions for a special volume on Advances in Applied Probability and Data Science: Dedicated to the 70th Birthday of Professor Michael N. Katehakis. The main topics of ...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Special Issue: Advances in Statistical Modelling for Social Science

Social science-related technical issues can advance statistical methodology. Solving practical issues, indeed, can still produce methodological improvements in the statistical domain. This special issue aims...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 May 2024

Special Issue: Advances in Stochastic Models Dedicated to the 80th Birthday of Professor Isaac Sonin

Annals of Operations Research seeks submissions for a special volume on Advances in Stochastic Models: Dedicated to the 80th Birthday of Professor Isaac Sonin. The main topics of interest are: • Optimal Stoc...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Special Issue: AI-based Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Business Management Under Circular Economy

Technological advances and the extensive availability of big data allow organizations to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) for a growing number of cognitive tasks in the sphere of “thinking work” and gui...

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Closed

Special Issue: Credit Risk Modeling Innovations in a Changing World

Recent years have seen an explosion of new methods and technologies in the area of credit risk: Artificial intelligence, Cloud Computing, Big (and alternative) Data—to name just a few. Alongside the technolo...

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Closed

Special Issue: Decision-making under Uncertainty for Commodities and Financial Markets

Stochastic optimization has seen many recent advances with far-reaching impact involving risk measures, connections between robust and distributionally robust optimization, and applications in areas of portf...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Special Issue: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

How do we make good decisions in the presence of uncertainty? This question arises in numerous contexts, including natural resources management and robot planning and control. The past few decades have seen ...

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Closed

Special Issue: Digital Manufacturing and Supply Chain: Creating Benefits Through Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence

The special issue seeks to collect papers demonstrating how Automation Technology (Additive Manufacturing, Drones, AGVs), Collaboration Technology (Digital Platforms), Identification and Communication Techno...

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Closed

Special Issue: Digital Operations Research Models for Intelligent Machines (Industry 4.0) and Man-Machine (Industry 5.0) Systems

Digital technologies are used to discern customer preferences and enhance production and operations management strategies in organizations. Digital operations require real-time optimization across the end-to...

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Closed

Special Issue: Ensemble AI-Driven Metaheuristic Optimization in OR: Newest Contributions in Theory, Methods, and Applications

Operations research (OR) is an analytical method which attempts to achieve more optimality of the real system under the given circumstances. It interacts in various scientific fields ranging from statistics,...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Special Issue: Ensemble Learning for Operations Research and Business Analytics

The growing role of machine learning in operational research and business analytics is illustrated by the increasing attention in academic work as well as the widespread adoption by businesses, governments, ...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 May 2024

Special Issue: Game Theoretical Models and Applications (SING 18)

The special issue invites submissions in all areas covered by the European Meetings on Game Theory (SING), including, but not limited to: • Cooperative games and their applications • Mechanism design • Netwo...

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Open

Submission deadline

20 June 2024

Special Issue: In Memoriam of Professor Rajiv Banker on the New Developments in Data Envelopment Analysis and Its Applications

Professor Rajiv Banker passed away on March 1, 2023. As an exceptional scholar in the field of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Professor Banker made unparalleled contributions to the field and the wider aca...

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Closed

Special Issue: Integrating Data Science and Decision Analytics

The characterizations identified and modeled by data science can inform and enable rigorous decision analytics algorithms for large-scale, complex systems. Vice versa, the capabilities of operations research...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Special Issue: Interpretable Machine Learning and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning (ML) has garnered significant interest in recent years due to its applicability to a wide range of complex problems. There is increasing realization that ML models, in addition to making pre...

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Closed

Special Issue: Machine Learning Models for Early Misinformation and Disinformation Detection Systems

The Annals of Operations Research is currently accepting submissions for a special issue dedicated to “Machine Learning Models for Early Misinformation and Disinformation Detection Systems. ” The widespread ...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Special Issue: MCDA in Climate, Technology, and Finance

The Annals of Operations Research welcomes innovative contributions and applications of methods based on multi-criteria decision analysis and their combination with computational aspects in real-life problem...

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Closed

Special Issue: Multiple Objective Programming and Goal Programming: Making Better Decisions with Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics

The aim of this special issue is to publish selected papers presented during the 14th International Conference on Multiple Objective Programming and Goal Programming (MOPGP'21: http://mopgp.org/) that will b...

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Closed

Special Issue: Multiple Objective Programming and Goal Programming: Sustainability and Beyond

This special issue aims to publish selected papers presented during the 15th International Conference on Multiple Objective Programming and Goal Programming (MOPGP'23: http://mopgp.org/) that will be held on...

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Open

Submission deadline

15 May 2025

Special Issue: New Trends of Combinatorial Optimization and Application

We invite submissions of novel research articles for a forthcoming special issue of Annals of Operations Research on New Trends of Combinatorial Optimization and Applications . This special issue is open to ...

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Closed

Special Issue: Operations Research for Sustainable Development

The topic of sustainable development has become more important than ever in the academic and policy agendas. In its broader definition sustainability requires to ensure an appropriate balance of economic, he...

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Open

Submission deadline

04 April 2025

Special Issue: Operations Research in the 21st Century XXI Latin-Ibero-american Conference on Operations Research, CLAIO 2022

Annals of Operations Research seeks submissions for the special issue Operations Research in the 21st Century: XXI Latin-Iberoamerican Conference on Operations Research, CLAIO 2022. We invite all participant...

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Closed

Special Issue: Optimization Modeling in Business and Government

The special issue will highlight the diverse applications of large-scale optimization modeling to support real-world decision-making. We solicit high-quality, original contributions with applications in busi...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 November 2024

Special Issue: OR Applications for Resource Efficient and Climate Change Driven Issues in Digital Sustainable and Circular Supply Chains

Optimizing resource use efficiency, stabilizing climate change, and striving to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5°C above the pre-industrial levels have become the consensus of human so...

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Closed

Special Issue: OR Driven Technology Innovation for Efficient Decarbonized Supply Chains in a Digital Economy

The aim of this special issue is to explore OR driven technology innovation and applications in decarbonized supply chain issues in a digital and green economy. We invite academics and practitioners to analy...

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Closed

Special Issue: Project Management and Scheduling 2024

The aim of this special issue is to publish extended versions of selected papers presented during the 19th International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling held at the University of Bern in Switze...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 September 2024

Special Issue: Recent Advances in Stochastic and Robust Optimization

Stochastic optimization has seen many recent advances with far-reaching impact involving risk measures, connections between robust and stochastic optimization, and applications in areas ranging from energy, ...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 September 2024

Special Issue: Recent Trends in Operations Research and Game Theoretic Approach in Decision Making

For this special issue, we expect original research papers of high quality providing theoretical and/or practical applications of Operations Research and Game theory. We would especially welcome innovative c...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Special Issue: Reliability and Statistical Computing

We're living in an era of fast and unpredictable change. Billions of people are connected to each other through their mobile devices and the Internet of Everything (IoE). Data is being collected and processe...

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Closed

Special Issue: Reliability Evaluation and Optimization of Supply Chain Resilience

Supply chain resilience has become increasingly crucial due to the unpredictable and volatile nature of the business environment, which is subject to sudden disruptions, such as natural disasters (Covid–19),...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Special Issue: Reliability Management with Applications in Smart Information Systems

We invite submissions to a special issue of Annals of Operations Research that make a significant contribution to the topic Reliability Management with Applications in Smart Information Systems. It is open t...

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Closed

Special Issue: Risk Management and Modeling in Financial Economics

This special issue seeks submissions on Risk Management and Modeling in Financial Economics dedicated to the research areas of risk management decisions and value presented at the tenth International Finance...

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Closed

Special Issue: Smart and Resilient Operations in the Age of Digitization

In the era of globalization, with intensified competition, a large quantity of enterprises face challenges of improving efficiency and coping with disruptions in the industries of manufacturing, storage, and...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Special Issue: Smart and Sustainable Production, Logistics, and Supply Chain: Trends, Challenges, Methods, and Best Practices

In response to the great success of our previous special issue of Annals of Operations Research (ANOR) entitled “Smart and Sustainable Supply Chain and Logistics: Trends, Challenges, Methods, and Best Practi...

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Closed

Special Issue: Transparent and Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Operations Research

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most disruptive technologies in this decade that has started to transform both business organisations and societies in ways we could not have envisaged a few years ...

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Closed

Special Issue: Uncertainty in Data and Decision Analytics – IUKM 2023

The International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making (IUKM) aims to provide a forum for exchanging research results and ideas for and experience of using applicati...

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Closed

Special Issue: Understanding the Complexity of Financial and Economic Systems’ Dynamics: Evidence from Artificial Intelligence Techniques, Big Data, and Technology

This is an open call for papers directed to all the researchers and analysts in this area. In particular, we encourage the participants of the 4th Financial Economic Meeting 29–30 June (Paris, France) and th...

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Closed

Special Section: Data Science

The objective of this special section is to publish papers that contribute to both the theory and practice of data science and predictive analytics. While papers describing new techniques have been published...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing

Special Section: OR for Sustainability in Supply Chain Management

The Annals of Operations Research seeks submissions for a special section on Applications of Advances in Operations Research Methods to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a Supply Chain Manageme...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing

Special Section: OR in Medicine and Health Care

Optimization has long been a cornerstone for advancement of various industrial, government, and military applications. In recent years, it has become increasingly important in advancing research and developm...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing