The key objective of Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making is to promote research and the development of fuzzy technology and soft-computing methodologies to enhance our ability to address complicated optimization and decision making problems involving non-probabilitic uncertainty.

The journal will cover all aspects of employing fuzzy technologies to see optimal solutions and assist in making the best possible decisions. It will provide a global forum for advancing the state-of-the-art theory and practice of fuzzy optimization and decision making in the presence of uncertainty. Any theoretical, empirical, and experimental work related to fuzzy modeling and associated mathematics, solution methods, and systems is welcome. The goal is to help foster the understanding, development, and practice of fuzzy technologies for solving economic, engineering, management, and societal problems. The journal will provide a forum for authors and readers in the fields of business, economics, engineering, mathematics, management science, operations research, and systems.

The journal will consider papers for publication in the following areas:

Modeling: Papers formulating problems involving uncertainty as a mathematical model in the context of fuzzy optimization and decision making. Often these papers will address the suitability, validity and advantages of using fuzzy technologies to treat real-life problems.
Theoretical Developments: Papers establishing mathematical theory on fundamental issues. Often these papers will address the existence and properties of fuzzy optimal solutions or fuzzy optimal decisions.
Algorithmic Developments: Papers presenting solution methods and/or studying their computational complexity. Often these papers will propose new algorithms to solve fuzzy optimization and decision making problems in an effective and efficient manner.
Systems Development and Applications: Papers describing the development of a software/ hardware system and documenting the benefits achieved in practical application. The papers often deal with innovative system implementations and applications for which no previous solutions exist or for which improvement is achieved over previous solutions.
Manuscript submitted to the journal may cover one or several areas. The journal will also publish invited "state-of-the-art" surveys on specific topics. The research and practice of fuzzy optimization and decision making for special interests groups and special geographic locations will be accommodated by publishing special issues with guest editors.

Editor-in-Chief:
Shu-Cherng Fang
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Co-Editor:
Baoding Liu
Tsinghua University in Beijing, China
Regional Editors: 
Asia Pacific: Masahiro Inuiguchi, Osaka University, Japan
Hsiao-Fan Wang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Advisory Editors:
Erhan Cinlar, Princeton University, NJ
Didier Dubois, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Fred Glover, OptTek Systems, Inc.
Bart A. Kosko, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida
Henri Prade, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Roman Slowinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Michio Sugeno, Doshisha University, Japan
Paul P. Wang, Duke University, Durham, NC
Po-Lung Yu, University of Kansas, USA
Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann, Aachen Institute of Technology, Germany

Associate Editors:
James Buckley, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Xiaoqiang Cai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Guoqing Chen, Tsinghua SEM, PR of China
Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Antonio Di Nola, University of Salerno, Italy
Mitsuo Gen, Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute, Japan
Fernando Gomide, University of Campinas, Brazil
Michel Grabisch, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Enrique Herrera-Viedma, University of Granada, Spain
Kaoru Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
E. Stanley Lee, Kansas State University, USA
Pingke Li, Tsinghua University, PR of China
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Jaroslav Ramík, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic
Heinrich J. Rommelfanger, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Enric Trillas, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
J. L. Verdegay, University of Granada, Spain
Dingwei Wang, Northeastern University, PR of China
Junzo Watada, Waseda University, Japan
Hsien-Chung Wu, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Zeshui Xu, Southeast University, PR of China
Kai Yao, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR of China
Xiang-Sun Zhang, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, PR of China
Yuanguo Zhu, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, PR of China
Book Review Editor:
Baoding Liu, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China