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International Journal of
Operational
Research
© 2013 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd

Scope of the Journal
IJOR is a fully refereed journal generally covering new theory and application of operations
research (OR) techniques and models that include inventory, queuing, transportation, game
theory, scheduling, project management, mathematical programming, decision-support
systems, multi-criteria decision making, artificial intelligence, neural network, fuzzy logic,
expert systems, and simulation. New theories and applications of operations research
models are welcome to IJOR.
Modelling and optimisation have become an essential function of researchers and
practitioners in a networked global economy. New theory development in operations
research and their applications in new economy and society have been ignored. In the
information intensive society and economy, decisions are made based on the analysis of
data available. Operations research techniques and models need to be integrated with
computers for the purpose of analysis, optimisation and application in decision making.
This development has led the researchers and practitioners to look for new operational
research models and their applications in global economy and society. For this purpose,
the modelling and optimisation have become a paramount important. IJOR will act as a
platform to encourage further research in OR and MS theory and applications.
Globalisation of market and operations places a tremendous pressure in making timely and
accurate decisions using the analysis of data and more accurate information. This signifies
the importance of developing suitable operations research techniques and models and
their applications are a paramount important in the 21st century global society and
economy.
Subject coverage:
IJOR acts a forum and source of information in the
field of operational research theory and applications.
The following is a list of topics (which is not
exhaustive) that would be considered for
publication:
• Information technology and operations research
theory and applications
• Effective use of scarce resources under dynamic
and uncertain conditions
• Decision theory and analysis
• Probabilistic and stochastic models
• Operations research techniques in finance and
marketing
• Manufacturing and operations theory and practice
• Operations models in services
• Logistics and OR models and techniques
• Applications of operations research techniques
• Military and operations research models
• Operations research in public sector organisations
• Statistics modelling
• OR and telecommunication and networking
• Optimisation in operations research
• Simulation
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Members of the Editorial Board
Editor-In-Chief
Prof. Angappa Gunasekaran
University of Massachusetts, USA
Associate Editors
Prof. Siau Ching Lenny Koh
University of Sheffield, UK
Prof. Xuemei Su
California State University - Long
Beach, USA
Editorial Board
Prof. Umit Akinc
Wake Forest University, USA
Prof. Mor Armony
New York University, USA
Prof. Jalal Ashayeri
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Prof. Yossi Aviv
Washington University, USA
Prof. Sven Axsäter
Lund University, Sweden
Prof. Rajan Batta
University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA
Prof. Rajendra Bhansali
University of Liverpool, UK
Prof. Martin Bichler
Technical University of Munich,
Germany
Prof. David E. Booth
Kent State University, USA
Prof. Tom Cavalier
Penn State University, USA
Prof. Bo Chen
University of Warwick, UK
Prof. Chen-Fu Chien
National Tsing Hua University,
Taiwan
Prof. John-Paul Clarke
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA
Prof. Jens Clausen
Technical University of Denmark,
Denmark
Prof. William G. Ferrell, Jr.
Clemson University, USA
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Prof. Les Foulds
University of Waikato, New Zealand
Prof. Xianghua Gan
Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hong Kong
Dr. Amit Garg
Siebel Systems, USA
Prof. Kenneth Gilbert
University of Tennessee, USA
Prof. Fred Glover
University of Colorado, USA
Prof. Timothy J. Greene
The University of Alabama, USA
Dr. Aliza Heching
IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory,
USA
Prof. Myron Hlynka
University of Windsor, Canada
Prof. Itir Z. Karaesmen
American University, USA
Prof. Panayiotis H. Ketikidis
International Faculty of the University
of Sheffield - CITY College, Greece
Prof. Pekka Korhonen
Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
Prof. David C. Lane
London School of Economics and
Political Science, UK
Prof. W.B. Lee
The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Hong Kong
Prof. Concepción Maroto
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,
Spain
Prof. David McAllister
North Carolina State University, USA
Prof. Emanuel Melachrinoudis
Northeastern University, USA
Prof. John O. Miller
Air Force Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. John Mitchell
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Prof. James T. Moore
Air Force Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Peter O’Grady
The University of Iowa, USA
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Prof. Sigurdur Olafsson
Iowa State University, USA
Prof. Shmuel Oren
University of California at Berkeley,
USA
Prof. Panos Pardalos
University of Florida, USA
Prof. Hamid R. Parsaei
University of Houston, USA
Prof. Alessandro Persona
University of Padua, Italy
Prof. Nagabhushana Prabhu
Purdue University, USA
Prof. David M. Ryan
The University of Auckland,
New Zealand
Roman Stowinski ´
Poznan University of Technology,
Poland
Prof. Sameh Saad
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Prof. Danny Solow
Case Western Reserve University,
USA
Prof. Chelliah Sriskandarajah
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Prof. Kevin Taaffe
Clemson University, USA
Prof. Lyn Thomas
University of Southampton, UK
Prof. Jonathan Thompson
Cardiff University, UK
Prof. Ercan Tirtiroglu
The University of Adelaide,
Australia
Prof. Damien Tromeur-Dervout
University Lyon 1, France
Prof. Robert Young
North Carolina State University, USA
Professor Soheil Yousefsibdari
University of Massachusetts -
Dartmouth, USA
Prof. Enver Yucesan
INSEAD, France
Prof. Zelda Zabinsky
University of Washington, USA

Methods of payment
Sample content of IJOR
VOLUME 19, 2014
An inventory model for product life cycle
(growth stage) with defective items and
shortages
C. Krishnamoorthi; S. Panayappan
Reducing the Pareto optimal set in MCDM using
imprecise probabilities
Lev V. Utkin
Integrated decision support systems for
improving emergency department performance
in Irish hospitals
Khaled Ismail; Michael Thorwarth; Amr Arisha
A model for predicting enrolment yields
Paul Sugrue
Review the allocation of production lines in
shifts with minimising energy costs approach in
Tehran Pegah Co.
Morteza Hashemi; Sedaghat Shahmorad-
Moghanloo; Davood Behboudi
An M/G/1 two phase multi-optional retrial queue
with Bernoulli feedback, non-persistent
customers and breakdown and repair
K. Lakshmi; Kasturi Ramanath
A self-tuning PSO for job-shop scheduling
problems
Pisut Pongchairerks
Modelling and analysis of a Mx/G(a,b)/1 queue
with multiple vacations, setup time, closedown
time and server breakdown without interruption
S. Jeyakumar; B. Senthilnathan
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