I was honored to participate in the Encyclopedic Article Edited by Fotios Petropoulos (University of Bath) and Gilbert Laporte (HEC Montréal and University of Bath). Together with Charlotte Köhler, we wrote the section on “E-commerce”.
The Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS), formerly known as Operational Research Quarterly, is the premier journal of the Operational Research Society in the United Kingdom. As the world’s oldest OR journal, 2024 marks its 75th anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, the editors proposed editing an encyclopedic article on the current state of operational research to the JORS editors, who enthusiastically agreed. They identified the main methodological and application areas to include, drawing from topics in major OR journals and scientific conferences. Experts in these areas wrote the relevant parts of this article with great enthusiasm.
The result is a comprehensive 195-page article featuring 2,196 references encompassing 24 methodological areas and 32 application fields. Authored by 82 contributors from 79 institutions globally, the article covers key methodological areas, including various mathematical programming branches (deterministic, dynamic, and stochastic optimization), complexity theory, heuristics, artificial intelligence, risk analysis, decision theory, game theory, data envelopment analysis, systems theory, queueing, simulation, forecasting, soft OR and problem structuring, and behavioral OR.
The application areas span transportation, logistics, location, and supply chain management, project management, manufacturing and inventory management, e-commerce, service industries, healthcare, energy, and natural resources, environment and sustainability, telecommunications, government and public sectors, military and homeland security, finance and revenue management, education, sports, timetabling, and open-source software.
This open-source article is scheduled to be published as a standalone issue of JORS in March 2024. You can download this article here (open access).
Tom Van Woensel 