Aims and scope
TOP is an international Journal of Operations Research created and supported by the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, http://www.seio.es. TOP publishes original papers that significantly contribute to the theory and methodology of Operations Research, or the practice of Data-Driven Decision Making through innovative applications of Operations Research.
TOP considers the following types of papers for publication:
• Invited Reviews written by leading scholars and invited by the Editors-in-Chief, describing the state of the art as well as future lines of research for a broad and timely Operations Research (OR) topic. Multiple discussants with leading expertise in the topic are invited to write a short piece with comments on the review, which are published alongside a rejoinder written by the authors.
• Theory and Methodology Papers, presenting original research results contributing to the methodology of OR and its theoretical foundations.
• Innovative Applications Papers, presenting novel ways to solve real-world problems with state-of-the-art OR techniques.
TOP does not accept proposals for guest-edited issues.
When submitting a paper for consideration, the authors will need to choose from a comprehensive list of Keywords:
- Bioinformatics
- Combinatorial Optimization
- Conic programming and interior point methods
- Continuous Optimization
- Cutting and Packing
- Data Science and Machine Learning
- Decision Theory
- Dynamic Programming
- Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
- Forecasting
- Fuzzy sets
- Game Theory: cooperative games
- Game Theory: non cooperative games
- Global Optimization
- Graphs and Networks
- Heuristics
- Large Scale Optimization
- Location
- Logistics, Transportation and Distribution Planning
- Manufacturing, Production and Retail Operations Planning
- Metaheuristics
- Mixed Integer (Linear and Nonlinear) Optimization
- Multiple Criteria Analysis and Multiobjective Optimization
- Nonlinear Optimization
- OR and Education
- OR in Energy
- OR in Finance
- OR in Health Services
- OR in Humanitarian Operations
- OR in Natural Resources, Agriculture and Forest Management
- OR in Sports
- Parallel Computing, Distributed Computing, and Vector Processing
- Pricing and Revenue Management
- Project Management
- Queueing and Stochastic Models
- Reliability and Maintenance
- Risk Management
- Robust Optimization
- Routing
- Semi-infinite programming
- Sequencing and Scheduling
- Simulation
- Software, Benchmarks, Numerical Experimentation and Comparisons
- Stochastic Optimization
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainable OR
Officially cited as: Top