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Editor-in-Chief Professor Benjamin Lev - Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA Deputy Editor Professor Joe Zhu - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609 USA Area Editors Professor Erwin Pesch - University of Siegen, D-57068 Siegen and HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany Production Management, Scheduling and Logistics High quality papers with a special focus in Production  Management, Scheduling and/or Logistics are very welcome.  Research may include deterministic or stochastic, robust and multi-objective or game-theoretic approaches, heuristics or exact methods or approximations in the variety of the aforementioned areas. We are especially interested in models and methods resulting from real applications, e.g. from manufacturing, project scheduling, health care, transport and routing or personnel planning, as well as in more theoretical papers solving a long-standing research question. Professor Luis M. C. Dias -University of Coimbra, 3004-512 Coimbra, Portugal Decision Analysis and Preference Modeling We seek to publish high quality papers developing and using decision analysis and analytics methods for improved managerial decision-making practices. This area includes, but is not limited to, multicriteria decision analysis, project portfolio decision analysis, multiobjective programming, and the analytics of preference learning. We particularly welcome papers dealing with multiple criteria encompassing economic, environmental, and social dimensions in decision making processes towards a more sustainable future. We are also interested in papers bridging decision analysis with computer science and other disciplines. Suitable papers should be relevant to a wide audience and make either (1) a theoretical/methodological contribution with a clear applicability to managerial decision-making, or (2) an empirical/practical contribution demonstrating significant impact for end-users or providing insights on the best ways of using decision analytics tools and interacting with decision makers. All published papers must meet a high standard of rigor and validity, and the research findings should provide new insights and implications to the practice of management science. Professor Leon Zhu -  Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Shangahi, 201107, China Supply Chain Management We  invite submissions related to the development and use of methodological and analytical models applied to highly relevant business problems in the general areas of Supply Chain Management.  Of particular interest are papers that present effective and contemporary modeling and solution approaches for data-, insight-, problem-driven supply chain operations modeling, as well as those papers that contain breakthroughs on solving established operations problems, specifically, in practical application domains in the public and private sectors for the design, procurement, production, delivery of goods or services. Submitted manuscripts should combine the high standards of a traditional academic approach with the practical value of industrial applications. Professor Joe Zhu – Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA Data-Driven Analytics We seek to publish high quality papers in the area of data-driven analytics, using a variety of methodological and applied data analytics for improved operations.  These approaches include, but are not limited to, data analytics tools for handling data (such as big data, and real data pertaining to e-commerce, digitalization, and technology application), data envelopment analysis, machine learning and intelligent management. We welcome business analytics studies where theoretical foundation development and innovative methodological approaches are presented for novel insights and valuable implications to the practice of management science.  We invite submissions that make either (1) theoretical/methodological contribution that advances the methodologies by aiding in the modeling and addressing business challenges of specific strategic or operational issues, or (2) empirical/practical contribution that demonstrate significant impacts on operational practice and business intelligence. Associate Editors Professor B. Adenso-Diaz Universidad de Oviedo, Campus de Viesques, E-33204 Gijon, Spain Professor Juan Aparicio University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, 03202 Elche, Spain Professor Olga Battaia Kedge Business School, 33405 Talence, France Dr. Maria Battarra University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom Professor Sarah Ben Amor University of Ottawa, , Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada Professor Sreekumar Bhaskaran Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA Professor Merve Bodur The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9YL, United Kingdom Professor Bo Chen University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Professor Chialin Chen National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Professor Jing Chen Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2 Canada Professor Salvatore Corrente University of Catania, Catania, 95129, Italy Professor Tianhu Deng Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 100084 Professor Stanko Dimitrov University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 Canada Professor Xiang Fang University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO 80202, USA Professor Hirofumi Fukuyama Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan Professor Fabio Furini Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, Italy Professor Yuhong He California State University, Fullerton, CA 92831, USA Professor Lars Magnus Hvattum Molde University College, 6402 Molde, Norway Professor Alessio Ishizaka NEOMA Business School, Mont-Saint-Aignan, 76130 France Professor Dmitry Ivanov Berlin School of Economics and Law, 10825 Berlin, Germany Professor Chiang Kao National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C Professor Tamas Kis Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1518 Budapest, Hungary   Professor Mikhail Y. Kovalyov National Academy of Science of Belarus, 220012 Minsk, Belarus Professor Dominik Kress Helmut Schmidt University - University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, D-22159 Hamburg, Germany Professor Heinrich Kuhn Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, D-85049 Ingolstadt, Germany Professor Markus Leitner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Professor Janny M. Y. Leung University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China Professor Minming Li City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Professor Xiang Li Chang'An University, Xian, Shaanxi, 710064, China Professor Sungmook Lim Dongguk University, Seoul 100-715, South Korea Associate Professor Banu Lokman University of Portsmouth, PO1 3DE Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom Professor Dmytro Matsypura The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Professor Jannik Matuschke Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium Professor Alena Otto University of Passau, 94032 Passau, Germany Professor Jennifer A. Pazour Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA Professor Yael Perlman Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gal, 5290002 Israel Professor Victor Podinovski Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom Professor Jay Rosenberger The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA Professor Biresh K. Sahoo Xavier University, Bhubaneswar 751 013, India Professor Juan-Jose Salazar-Gonzalez Universidad de La Laguna, 38271 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain Professor Marc J. W. Schroder Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6200 MD, The Netherlands Professor Danny Segev Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel Professor Wenjing Shen Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA Professor Junmin Shi New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA Professor Biying Shou The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 518172, China Dr. Gaurav Singh BHP Billiton, Melbourne, 3000, Victoria, Australia Professor Konstantina Skouri University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110 Greece Professor Malgorzata Sterna Poznan University of Technology, 60-965 Poznan, Poland Professor Thompson Teo National University of Singapore, Singapore 117592 Professor Evangelos Triantaphyllou Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA Professor Wilco Van den Heuvel Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3000 DR, The Netherlands Professor Yulan Wang The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Professor Mutsunori Yagiura Nagoya University, Furocho, Chikusaku Nagoya 464-8603, Japan Professor Ming Zhao University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA Professor Huan Zheng Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China Professor Xiaoyang Zhou Xidian Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710126, China Editorial Advisory Board Professor PC Bell University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7 Professor C Eden University of Strathclyde, 40 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA, UK Professor B Rapp Link6ping Institute of Technology, S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden Professor LM Seiford The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Professor K Tone National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677, Japan Professor WA Wallace Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA Professor Y Yamada Tokyo University of Science, Noda-Shi Chiba 278, Japan