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Open Access Resources for Operational Research

Open Access Resources for Operational Research

2025 marked the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the European Association of Operational Research Societies (EURO) and to mark the occasion the Editors of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) commissioned a set of Invited Reviews covering the scope of Operational Research published by the journal [note that there are still a few articles to be published].

  • Borgonovo, E., Jose, V. R. R., Knowlton, M., Shachter, R., Siebert, J. U., & Ulu, C. (2026). Fifty years of decision analysis in operational research: A review. European Journal of Operational Research, 329(2), 355-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.05.023 
  • Kaya, A., Conejo, A. J., & Rebennack, S. (2026). Fifty years of power systems optimization. European Journal of Operational Research, 329(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.05.022 
  • White, L. (2026). Fifty years of Soft Operational Research: The contribution of EURO and EJOR to its foundation and development. European Journal of Operational Research, 328(3), 735-748. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.05.040 
  • Artigues, C., Hartmann, S., & Vanhoucke, M. (2026). Fifty years of research on resource-constrained project scheduling explored from different perspectives. European Journal of Operational Research, 328(2), 367-389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.03.024 
  • Agnetis, A., Billaut, J. C., Pinedo, M., & Shabtay, D. (2025). Fifty years of research in scheduling — Theory and applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 327(2), 367-393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.01.034 
  • Fabozzi, F. J., Recchioni, M. C., & Renò, R. (2025). Fifty years at the interface between financial modeling and operations research. European Journal of Operational Research, 327(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.01.001 
  • Mergoni, A., Emrouznejad, A., & de Witte, K. (2025). Fifty years of Data Envelopment Analysis. European Journal of Operational Research, 326(3), 389-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.12.049 
  • Beliën, J., Brailsford, S., Demeulemeester, E., Demirtas, D., Hans, E. W., & Harper, P. (2025). Fifty years of operational research applied to healthcare. European Journal of Operational Research, 326(2), 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.12.040 
  • Clautiaux, F., & Ljubić, I. (2025). Last fifty years of integer linear programming: A focus on recent practical advances. European Journal of Operational Research, 324(3), 707-731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.11.018 
  • Aven, T., Rios Insua, D., Soyer, R., Zhu, X., & Zio, E. (2025). Fifty years of reliability in operations research. European Journal of Operational Research, 324(2), 361-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.09.010 
  • Salvatore Greco, S., Słowiński, R., & Wallenius, J. (2025). Fifty years of multiple criteria decision analysis: From classical methods to robust ordinal regression. European Journal of Operational Research, 323(2), 351-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.07.038 
  • Arts, J., Boute, R. N., Loeys, S., & van Staden, H. E. (2025). Fifty years of maintenance optimization: Reflections and perspectives. European Journal of Operational Research, 322(3), 725-739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.07.002 
  • Martí, R., Sevaux, M., & Sörensen, K. (2025). Fifty years of metaheuristics. European Journal of Operational Research, 321(2), 345-362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.04.004 
  • Hong, L. J., & Nelson, B. L. (2025). Fifty years of stochastic simulation: Where we are and where we need to go. European Journal of Operational Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.06.033 
  • Babaï, M. Z., Syntetos, A. A., & Teunter, R. H. (2025). Fifty years of inventory research from a forecasting perspective. European Journal of Operational Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.07.003 
  • Archetti, C., Coelho, L. C., Speranza, M. G., & Vansteenwegen, P. (2025). Beyond fifty years of vehicle routing: Insights into the history and the future. European Journal of Operational Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.06.014 
  • Ehrgott, M., Köksalan, M., Kadziński, M., & Deb, K. (2025). Fifty years of multi-objective optimization and decision-making: From mathematical programming to evolutionary computation. European Journal of Operational Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.06.012 
  • Marianov, V., & Eiselt, H. A. (2024). Fifty Years of Location Theory – A Selective Review. European Journal of Operational Research, 318(3), 701-718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.01.036 
  • Hausken, K. (2024). Fifty Years of Operations Research in Defense. European Journal of Operational Research, 318(2), 355-368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.12.023 
  • Salo, A., Doumpos, M., Liesiö, J., & Zopounidis, C. (2024). Fifty years of portfolio optimization. European Journal of Operational Research, 318(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.12.031 

In the UK, the Journal of the Operational Research Society celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2024. Formerly known as Operational Research Quarterly, it is the oldest Operational Research (OR) journal worldwide. It marked the occasion with the publication of an encyclopaedic article on Operational Research as the entire contents of Issue 3 of Volume 75.

  • Petropoulos, F., Laporte, G., Aktas, E., Alumur, S. A., Archetti, C., Ayhan, H., Battarra, M., Bennell, J. A., Bourjolly, J.-M., Boylan, J., Breton, M., Canca, D., Charlin, L., Chen, B., Cicek, C. T., Cox, L. A., Jr., Currie, C. S. M., Demeulemeester, E., Ding, L., Disney, S. M., Ehrgott, M., Eppler, M. J., Erdoğan, G., Fortz, B., Franco, L. A., Frische, J., Greco, S., Gregory, A. J., Hämäläinen, R. P., Herroelen, W., Hewitt, M., Holmström, J., Hooker, J. N., Işık, T., Johnes, J., Kara, B. Y., Karsu, Ö., Kent, K., Köhler, C., Kunc, M., Kuo, Y.-H., Letchford, A. N., Leung, J., Li, D., Li, H., Lienert, J., Ljubić, I., Lodi, A., Lozano, S., Lurkin, V., Martello, S., McHale, I. G., Midgley, G., Morecroft, J., Mutha, A., Oğuz, C., Petrovic, S., Pferschy, U., Psaraftis, H. N., Rose, S., Saarinen, L., Salhi, S., Song, J.-S., Sotiros, D., Stecke, K. E., Strauss, A. K., Tarhan, İ., Thielen, C., Toth, P., Vanden Berghe, G., Vasilakis, C., Vaze, V., Vigo, D., Virtanen, K., Wang, X., Weron, R., White, L., Van Woensel, T., Yearworth, M., Alper Yıldırım, E., Zaccour, G., & Zhao, X. (2024). Operational Research: Methods and Applications. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 75(3), 423-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2253852