【期刊】【6.4】【332天】【欧洲运筹学杂志】【European Journal of Operational Research】

Aims and scope 目标和范围

Published in collaboration with the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO)
与欧洲运筹学学会协会（EURO）合作出版

The European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) publishes high quality, original papers that contribute to the methodology of operational research (OR) and to the practice of decision making. EJOR contains the following types of papers:
《欧洲运筹学杂志》（EJOR）发表高质量的原创论文，为运筹学方法论（OR）和决策实践做出了贡献。EJOR包含以下类型的论文：

• Invited Reviews, explaining to the general OR audience the developments in an OR topic over the recent years
• 特邀评论，向普通手术室观众解释手术室近年来的主题发展
• Innovative Applications of OR, describing novel ways to solve real problems
• 手术室的创新应用，描述解决实际问题的新方法
• Theory and Methodology Papers, presenting original research results contributing to the methodology of OR and to its theoretical foundations,
• 理论和方法论论文，介绍有助于手术室方法论及其理论基础的原创研究成果，
• Short Communications, if they correct important errors found in papers previously published in EJOR
• 简短的通讯，如果他们纠正了以前在EJOR上发表的论文中发现的重要错误

The Theory and Methodology Papers are classified into one of the seven headings:
理论和方法论论文分为七个标题之一：

• Continuous Optimization
• 持续优化
• Discrete Optimization  • 离散优化
• Production, Manufacturing and Logistics
• 生产、制造和物流
• Stochastics and Statistics
• 随机和统计学
• Decision Support  • 决策支持
• Computational Intelligence and Information Management
• 计算智能与信息管理
• Interfaces with Other Disciplines
• 与其他学科的接口

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Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our Support Center
有关文章提交的信息，请参阅我们的作者指南。如果您需要任何进一步的信息或帮助，请访问我们的支持中心

Introduction 介绍

Editorial policies 编辑政策

The European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) publishes high quality, original papers that contribute to the methodology of operational research (OR) and to the practice of decision making. Extended versions of papers published in conference proceedings are not solicited. The relation with ongoing research should be demonstrated by providing proper reference to the recent OR literature. With application papers, originality should be demonstrated by applying OR to a problem with interesting new aspects or by providing fresh insights leading to successful implementation. Practitioners often suffer from the need to conceal commercial secrets. Referees will take this into sympathetic consideration when advising on an application paper, but it will not be allowed to detract from the clarity of the presentation.
《欧洲运筹学杂志》（EJOR）发表高质量的原创论文，为运筹学方法论（OR）和决策实践做出了贡献。不征集在会议论文集中发表的论文的扩展版本。应通过适当参考最近的手术室文献来证明与正在进行的研究的关系。对于应用论文，应通过将OR应用于具有有趣新方面的问题或提供导致成功实施的新见解来证明原创性。从业者经常需要隐瞒商业秘密。在对申请文件提供建议时，审稿人会对此表示同情，但不允许有损于演示文稿的清晰度。

Types of paper 纸张类型
EJOR includes the following types of papers:
EJOR包括以下类型的论文：
• Theory and Methodology Papers
• 理论与方法论论文
Papers presenting original research results contributing to the methodology of OR and to its theoretical foundations. The Theory and Methodology Papers will be classified by the Editors into one of seven sub-headings, based on the List of EJOR Keywords:
介绍原创研究成果的论文，有助于手术室的方法论及其理论基础。理论和方法论论文将由编辑根据EJOR关键词列表分为七个小标题之一：
1. Continuous Optimization
1. 持续优化
2. Discrete Optimization 2. 离散优化
3. Production, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics
3. 生产、制造、运输和物流
4. Stochastics and Statistics
4. 随机指标和统计
5. Decision Support 5. 决策支持
6. Analytics, Computational Intelligence and Information Management
6. 分析、计算智能和信息管理
7. Interfaces with Other Disciplines
7. 与其他学科的接口
• Innovative Applications of OR
• 手术室的创新应用
Papers describing novel ways to solve real problems. A paper presenting an Innovative Application of OR may be worthy of publication simply because it can be used to convince managers of the value to be gained by applying OR to particular problems.
描述解决实际问题的新方法的论文。一篇介绍手术室创新应用的论文可能值得发表，因为它可以用来说服管理者相信将手术室应用于特定问题所获得的价值。
• Short Communications • 短通讯
Short Communications are considered, but only if they correct important errors found in papers published in EJOR during the last 5 years.
短通讯被考虑，但前提是它们纠正了过去 5 年在 EJOR 上发表的论文中发现的重要错误。
• Invited Reviews • 特邀评论
An Invited Review is expected to be a creative synthesis of the work recently done in an important field. Presentation of models and solution methods proposed up to now should be followed by definition of open problems, and indication of prospective research directions. It should also be strongly based on papers previously published in OR journals, including EJOR. A literature review cannot be just a list of papers with their short summaries and classification statistics, but should also contain an outline of adopted methodologies, their reference to practice, and a thorough analysis of their properties. Usually, the Invited Review papers are written by authors having a strong record of publications in the field and well known to EJOR as authors and reviewers. Note: Anyone interested in writing a review is requested to suggest a topic to one of the Editors, or to a member of the editorial board of EJOR before submitting a paper. If the topic is considered suitable, an invitation to submit will then be given by one of the editors. Unsolicited review papers will be returned to the authors.
特邀审查预计将是对最近在一个重要领域所做的工作的创造性综合。在介绍迄今为止提出的模型和求解方法之后，应定义未解决的问题，并指出未来的研究方向。它还应该强烈地基于以前在OR期刊上发表的论文，包括EJOR。文献综述不能只是一份带有简短摘要和分类统计数据的论文列表，还应该包含所采用方法的概述、对实践的参考以及对其特性的透彻分析。通常，特邀审稿论文由在该领域有良好出版记录的作者撰写，并且作为作者和审稿人为EJOR所熟知。注意：任何有兴趣撰写评论的人都被要求在提交论文之前向其中一位编辑或EJOR编辑委员会成员提出一个主题。如果该主题被认为合适，其中一位编辑将发出提交邀请。未经请求的综述论文将退还给作者。
• Special Issue Papers • 特刊文件
EJOR occasionally publishes groups of papers on topical themes. Submissions are handled by one or more Guest Editors. Special issues that are open for new submissions will each have their own paper type available in the submission system.
EJOR偶尔会发表关于热门主题的论文集。投稿由一位或多位客座编辑处理。开放新投稿的特刊在投稿系统中都有自己的论文类型。

Advice from the Editors 编辑的建议
The European Journal of Operational Research strives to provide a thorough review process while ensuring timely feedback. Immediate decisions (e.g., desk reject or reviewer invitation) usually take less than a week. For papers sent out for review, it takes about 3 months on average to the first round decision and just under a year on average from submission to publication for accepted papers (including author revision time). Please realize that these durations vary due to, e.g., the process to find the right reviewers, the time that reviewers need to assess a paper, and the number of review rounds.
《欧洲运筹学杂志》致力于提供彻底的审查过程，同时确保及时的反馈。立即做出决定（例如，案头拒绝或审稿人邀请）通常需要不到一周的时间。对于送审的论文，从提交到第一轮决定平均需要大约3个月的时间，从提交到发表的论文平均需要不到一年的时间（包括作者修改时间）。请注意，这些持续时间会因寻找合适审稿人的过程、审稿人评估论文所需的时间以及审稿轮数等因素而有所不同。

EJOR has a very high volume of submissions and acceptance is competitive. Therefore, papers that do not contain a major new research finding, or novel approach to the application of OR, are likely to be rejected. A paper may also be rejected because - in the opinion of the Editor - it does not make a sufficient scientific contribution.
EJOR的提交量非常大，接受度也很有竞争力。因此，不包含重大新研究发现或OR应用新方法的论文可能会被拒绝。一篇论文也可能被拒绝，因为编辑认为它没有做出足够的科学贡献。

All papers will be subject to an initial screening and technical check by the EJOR Managing Editor. Please carefully read the guidelines for NEW SUBMISSIONS below. If your article is written in poor English or does not contain all of the required components, it will not progress to peer review stage.
所有论文都将接受EJOR执行编辑的初步筛选和技术检查。请仔细阅读下面的新提交指南。如果你的文章是用糟糕的英语写的，或者不包含所有必需的组成部分，它将不会进入同行评审阶段。

Articles that do not pass the Managing Editor screening or do not conform to the Editorial Policy are likely to be rejected without peer review.
未通过执行编辑筛选或不符合编辑政策的文章可能会在未经同行评审的情况下被拒绝。

• Are you making a new submission?
• 您是否正在提交新的作品？
All papers will be screened by the EJOR Managing Editor to make sure they conform to all Journal requirements. Please carefully read the PREPARATION section of this Guide for Authors for more details on each of the required components for New Submissions. We recommend you check this even if you have submitted to EJOR recently, as some requirements may have changed.
所有论文将由EJOR执行编辑筛选，以确保它们符合所有期刊要求。请仔细阅读本《作者指南》的“准备”部分，了解有关新投稿所需组件的更多详细信息。即使您最近向 EJOR 提交了申请，我们也建议您检查这一点，因为某些要求可能已更改。
• Has your submission been returned by the Managing Editor?
• 您的投稿是否被总编辑退回？
The Editorial Policy of EJOR is such that your paper will not be able to progress to peer review until it is of a good standard of English and contains all of the required components. If you have received the message “Send Back to Author” then your paper has not passed the technical checks and unfortunately does not comply with one or more of the Journal policies. Please carefully read the feedback from the Managing Editor to establish the reason your paper was returned, then consult the relevant PREPARATION section below for more information on how to improve and progress your paper.
EJOR的编辑政策是这样的，你的论文将无法进入同行评审，直到它达到良好的英语标准并包含所有必需的组成部分。如果您收到“发回作者”消息，则说明您的论文没有通过技术检查，很遗憾不符合期刊的一项或多项政策。请仔细阅读总编辑的反馈，以确定您的论文被退回的原因，然后查阅下面的相关准备部分，以获取有关如何改进和改进您的论文的更多信息。
• Have you received an Editorial decision of Revise?
• 您是否收到过修订的编辑决定？
If an Editor has made the decision that you need to revise your paper, for example “Minor Revision” or “Major Revision”, please carefully read the decision letter and any Editor and reviewer comments in order to make the required changes to your paper. When you are ready to resubmit, visit the REVISED SUBMISSIONS section. It contains advice, and details of the extra components required with your resubmission.
如果编辑决定您需要修改您的论文，例如“小修改”或“主要修改”，请仔细阅读决定书以及任何编辑和审稿人的意见，以便对您的论文进行必要的修改。当您准备好重新提交时，请访问“修订后的提交”部分。它包含建议，以及重新提交所需的额外组件的详细信息。
• The authors should refrain from submitting simultaneously more than one paper on a similar topic.
• 作者应避免同时提交多篇关于类似主题的论文。

Before you begin 准备工作

Ethics in publishing 出版伦理

Please see our information on Ethics in publishing.
请参阅我们关于出版道德的信息。

Ethical statement 道德声明

Papers going through the peer-review process, before being accepted for publication, obtain an average of over five reports from three reviewers. For each paper that enters the review process, several fellow scientists devote their time and efforts to reading this work and providing comments. To keep this process operational and ensure a fair distribution of the workload, we expect that all submitting authors and co-authors are willing to review papers. We understand there may be reasons you cannot accept a request at certain times, however, refusing many requests over a long period of time is unwanted and not fair on other reviewers. After all, if you have time to write papers, then there should be time to review other papers, despite other teaching, administrative or editorial duties.
经过同行评审过程的论文，在接受发表之前，平均从三位审稿人那里获得五份以上的报告。对于每篇进入评审过程的论文，几位科学家都会投入时间和精力来阅读这项工作并提供评论。为了保持这一过程的运作并确保工作量的公平分配，我们希望所有提交作者和合著者都愿意审查论文。我们理解您可能在某些时候无法接受请求的原因，但是，长时间拒绝许多请求是不必要的，对其他审阅者也不公平。毕竟，如果你有时间写论文，那么尽管有其他教学、行政或编辑职责，也应该有时间审查其他论文。

As editors, we observe increased concerns of authors regarding the proper re-use of published material. In general, copying copyrighted material constitutes plagiarism unless there is an agreement of the copyright holder and the copied material is referenced appropriately (the identical material needs to be highlighted and the source reported with the page number from which the text is taken). EJOR prohibits plagiarism of any kind. Papers extending previously published results (e.g., as is common for conference proceedings) therefore need to ensure that previously copyrighted material is not re-published. In general, the journal does not consider extended versions of conference proceedings.
作为编辑，我们观察到作者对正确再利用已发表材料的担忧日益增加。一般来说，复制受版权保护的材料构成剽窃，除非有版权所有者的同意并且复制的材料被适当引用（需要突出显示相同的材料，并用取文本的页码报告来源）。EJOR禁止任何形式的剽窃。因此，扩展先前发表的结果的论文（例如，会议论文集很常见）需要确保以前受版权保护的材料不会被重新发表。一般来说，该杂志不考虑会议论文集的扩展版本。

Finally, we expect that all authors of a submitted paper have read the complete paper and have played an important part in the research. Acting as or allowing a "ghost-author" (for financial remuneration) is unethical and may lead to a submission ban for all involved authors. We highly disapprove of such behavior and would like to raise awareness in the community about the fact that it is against ethical rules in publishing. Any suggested change in the set of authors after a first submission has to be carefully explained in the submission letter of a new version, and will typically not be accepted after a minor revision decision.
最后，我们希望所有已提交论文的作者都阅读了完整的论文，并在研究中发挥了重要作用。充当或允许“幽灵作者”（为了经济报酬）是不道德的，并可能导致所有相关作者被禁止投稿。我们强烈反对这种行为，并希望提高社区对这种违反出版道德规则的认识。在首次提交后，对作者集的任何建议更改都必须在新版本的提交信中仔细解释，并且在做出小的修改决定后通常不会被接受。

Declaration of interest 利益申报

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disclose any interests in two places: 1. A summary declaration of interest statement in the title page file (if double anonymized) or the manuscript file (if single anonymized). If there are no interests to declare then please state this: 'Declarations of interest: none'. 2. Detailed disclosures as part of a separate Declaration of Interest form, which forms part of the journal's official records. It is important for potential interests to be declared in both places and that the information matches. More information.
所有作者必须披露与他人或组织的任何财务和个人关系，这些关系可能会不恰当地影响（偏见）他们的工作。潜在竞争利益的例子包括就业、咨询、股票所有权、酬金、有偿专家证词、专利申请/注册以及赠款或其他资金。作者必须在两个地方披露任何利益：1.扉页文件（如果双重匿名）或手稿文件（如果单匿名）中的利益声明摘要。如果没有要申报的利益，请说明：“利益申报：无”。2. 作为单独的利益申报表的一部分进行详细披露，该声明表构成期刊官方记录的一部分。重要的是在两个地方申报潜在利益，并且信息匹配。更多信息。

Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing
生成式人工智能在科学写作中的宣言

The below guidance only refers to the writing process, and not to the use of AI tools to analyse and draw insights from data as part of the research process.
以下指南仅涉及写作过程，而不是作为研究过程的一部分，使用人工智能工具从数据中分析和得出见解。

Where authors use generative artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process, authors should only use these technologies to improve readability and language. Applying the technology should be done with human oversight and control, and authors should carefully review and edit the result, as AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or biased. AI and AI-assisted technologies should not be listed as an author or co-author, or be cited as an author. Authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans, as outlined in Elsevier’s AI policy for authors.
如果作者在写作过程中使用生成式人工智能 （AI） 和 AI 辅助技术，作者应仅使用这些技术来提高可读性和语言性。应用该技术应该在人类的监督和控制下完成，作者应该仔细审查和编辑结果，因为人工智能可以生成听起来权威的输出，这些输出可能是不正确的、不完整的或有偏见的。人工智能和人工智能辅助技术不应被列为作者或合著者，也不应被引用为作者。作者身份意味着只能归因于人类并由人类执行的责任和任务，如爱思唯尔的 AI 作者政策中所述。

Authors should disclose in their manuscript the use of AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process by following the instructions below. A statement will appear in the published work. Please note that authors are ultimately responsible and accountable for the contents of the work.
作者应按照以下说明在写作过程中披露人工智能和人工智能辅助技术的使用。声明将出现在已发表的作品中。请注意，作者对作品内容负有最终责任。

Disclosure instructions 披露说明
Authors must disclose the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process by adding a statement at the end of their manuscript in the core manuscript file, before the References list. The statement should be placed in a new section entitled ‘Declaration of Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process’.
作者必须在核心稿件文件的稿件末尾，在参考文献列表之前添加声明，披露在写作过程中使用生成式人工智能和人工智能辅助技术的情况。该声明应放在题为“写作过程中的生成式人工智能和人工智能辅助技术的声明”的新章节中。

Statement: During the preparation of this work the author(s) used [NAME TOOL / SERVICE] in order to [REASON]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the publication.
声明：在准备本作品期间，作者使用[名称工具/服务]来[REASON]。使用此工具/服务后，作者根据需要审查和编辑内容，并对出版物的内容承担全部责任。

This declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools for checking grammar, spelling, references etc. If there is nothing to disclose, there is no need to add a statement.
本声明不适用于使用基本工具检查语法、拼写、参考文献等。如果没有什么要披露的，就没有必要添加声明。

Submission declaration and verification
提交声明和验证

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more information), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be publ