''Mathematics of Operations Research'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in February 1976. It focuses on areas of mathematics relevant to the field of

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve decis ...

such as

continuous optimization Continuous optimization is a branch of optimization in applied mathematics. As opposed to discrete optimization, the variables used in the objective function are required to be continuous variables—that is, to be chosen from a set of rea ...

discrete optimization Discrete optimization is a branch of optimization in applied mathematics and computer science. Scope As opposed to continuous optimization, some or all of the variables used in a discrete mathematical program are restricted to be discrete varia ...

, game theory,

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

, simulation methodology, and stochastic models. The journal is published by

INFORMS The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger o ...

(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences). the journal has a 2017

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of 1.078.

History

The journal was established in 1976. The founding

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was Arthur F. Veinott Jr. ( Stanford University). He served until 1980, when the position was taken over by Stephen M. Robinson, who held the position until 1986. Erhan Cinlar served from 1987 to 1992, and was followed by Jan Karel Lenstra (1993-1998). Next was

Gérard Cornuéjols Gérard Pierre Cornuéjols (born November 16, 1950) is the IBM University Professor of Operations Research in the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business. His research interests include facility location, integer programming, balanc ...

(1999-2003) and

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(2004-2009). Finally came Uri Rothblum (2009-2012), Jim Dai (2012-2018), and the current editor-in-chief Katya Scheinberg (2019–present). The journal's three initial sections were game theory, stochastic systems, and mathematical programming. Currently, the journal has four sections:

, stochastic models, and game theory.

Notable papers

The following papers have been cited most frequently: # Roger B. Myerson, "Optimal Auction Design", vol 6:1, 58-73 # A. Ben-Tal and

Arkadi Nemirovski Arkadi Nemirovski (born March 14, 1947) is a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been a leader in continuous optimization and is best known for his work ...

, "Robust Convex Optimization", vol 23:4, 769-805 #M. R. Garey, D. S. Johnson, and Ravi Sethi, "The Complexity of Flowshop and Jobshop Scheduling", vol 1:2, 117-129

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/moor Publications established in 1976 Game theory Operations research Systems journals Mathematics journals INFORMS academic journals