The Annals of Operations Research publishes peer-reviewed original articles dealing with some aspects of operations research, including theory, practice, and computation. Submissions may include full-length research articles, short notes, expositions and surveys, reports on computational studies, and case studies of new or innovative practical applications.

The Annals of Operations Research also publishes special volumes focusing on well-defined fields of operations research, ranging from the highly theoretical to the algorithmic and the very applied. Such volumes have one or more Guest Editors who are personally responsible for collecting the papers to appear in the volume, for overseeing the refereeing process, and for keeping the volume on schedule. Potential Guest Editors of new refereed volumes (proceedings of conferences, monographs, or focused collections of papers) in major OR areas are cordially invited to put forward their suggestions to the Editor-in-Chief.

New submissions should be directed to the Editor-in-Chief, and manuscripts should be prepared following the "Instructions for Authors" on the journal’s homepage: www.springer.com/journal/10479. Manuscripts submitted for the Annals of Operations Research should report on original research, and should not have been previously published, or submitted for publication to any other journal.

Editor-in-Chief:

Endre Boros
MSIS Department and RUTCOR, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Founding Editor:

Peter L. Hammer (1936-2006)
Associate Editors:

Michel Grabisch, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Erwin Pesch, University of Siegen and HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany
Andrzej Ruszczyński, Rutgers University, NJ, USA

Editors: 

Egon Balas, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University, NY, USA
R.E. Burkhard, Technische Universität Graz, Austria
Dominique de Werra, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Ali Emrouznejad, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Csaba I. Fábián, John von Neumann University, Hungary
Jun-ya Gotoh, Chuo University, Japan
Kannan Govindan, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Pierre Hansen, GERAD-HEC, Montréal, QC, Canada
Karla Hoffman, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Cem İyigün, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Peter Kall, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Michael Katehakis,Rutgers University, Newark and New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Bernhard Korte, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
Arie M.C.A. Koster, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Jakob Krarup, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Yi-Kuei Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
George L. Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Duc Khuong Nguyen, IPAG Business School, France
Michael L. Pinedo, New York University, USA
Fred S. Roberts, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Flora Margaretha Spieksma, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
Lixin Tang, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Stan Uryasev, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Roger J-B Wets, University of California at Davis, USA
Desheng Dash Wu, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Editors OR in Medicine and Health Care:

W. Art Chaovalitwongse, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Eva K. Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Ariela Sofer, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA