Collections and calls for papers

The tools and techniques of Operations Research and related research streams have recently seen countless applications in Supply Chain Management, e.g., heterogeneous supply contracting, multi-criteria suppl...

• Saad Ahmed Javed
• Gazi Murat Duman
• Camelia Delcea

Cuckoo Search, a nature inspired optimization algorithm, was invented by Xin-She Yang (UK) & Suash Deb (India) 10 years ago. Since then it had been proved to be an important & a very useful tool for addressi...

• Ka-Chun Wong
• Thomas Hanne

The airline industry is being reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Fundamental changes in passenger demand and booking patterns are driving the need for new operations research (OR) solutions. This special iss...

• Laurie A. Garrow
• Virginie Lurkin
• Lavanya Marla

The goal of this special issue is thus to improve the research and practice in issues related to analytics AI and OR solutions for social goods (AI&OR4SG) by mutually benefit from practitioners, researchers,...

• Mahdi Fathi
• Panos M. Pardalos
• Pascal Van Hentenryck

Column generation and branch-and-price are decomposition-based methods to solve large scale, structured integer programming models. Over the years, these techniques became an essential part of solving models...

• Guy Desaulniers
• Francois Soumis
• Marco Lubbecke

This special issue in Operations Research Forum (ORFO) is focused on disaster management and planning. Societal welfare relies on our preparedness for, response to, and recovery from disasters. Additionally,...

• Ilias S. Kotsireas
• Anna Nagurney
• Panos M. Pardalos

Data-driven machine learning approaches have been very successful the last 10-15 years. At the same time there are many challenges such as how to deal abstract and causal aspects, how to make learning work w...

• Elina Rönnberg
• Anders Hansson
• Fredrik Heintz

This special issue presents a collection of articles discussing the innovative use of modeling languages and technical computing environments (including but not limited to AMPL, GAMS, Excel, LINGO, Matlab, M...

• Janos D. Pinter

During the last years, promising development in the African continent occurred to sustainably prosper people and institutions. African decision makers present an increased awareness about the benefit that op...

• Hatem Masri

Operations Research has been successfully used in a variety of applications involving energy, environment, climate change and sustainability. Although there have been successful efforts in both theoretical a...

• Georgios K.D. Saharidis
• Mihalis M. Golias

The ever-increasing growth of smart technologies opens up the necessity to think about the structure of networks from independent to interdependent fashion. While the traditional independent networks are stu...

• M. Hadi Amini
• Panos M. Pardalos

Road traffic congestion and air pollution can be significantly reduced through an increased use of public transport. In addition, providing well organized transport service leads to economic and social benef...

• Valentina Cacchiani
• Matthias Müller-Hannemann
• Federico Perea Rojas-Marcos

Many real-world complex problems can be formulated as optimization tasks. Such problems can be characterized further as large scale, unconstrained, constrained, non-convex, non-differentiable, and discontinu...

• Mehiddin Al-Baali
• Anton Purnama