The Editorial Policy of the Journal of the Operational Research Society is: The Journal is a peer-refereed journal published 12 times a year on behalf of the Operational Research Society. It is the aim of the Journal to publish papers, including those from non-members of the Society, which are relevant to practitioners, researchers, teachers, students and consumers of operational research, and which cover the theory, practice, history or methodology of operational research. However, since operational research is primarily an applied science, it is a major objective of the Journal to attract and publish accounts of good, practical case studies. Consequently, papers illustrating applications of OR to real problems are especially welcome.

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