The journal publishes theoretical and applied papers with substantial mathematical interest in the areas of mathematical programming, continuous and discrete and combinatorial optimization, stochastic models, Markov decision processes and stochastic programming, dynamic programming, control theory, game theory, graphs and networks, queueing systems, inventory and reliability. Mathematical methods and applications in economics, business administration, finance, and engineering are also covered. In particular, the journal accepts contributions to mathematics, statistics, and computer science that have special relevance to Operations Research. A special section is devoted to review papers on mathematical methods and models in interesting fields of Operations Research and related optimization theory.
All papers are refereed.
The emphasis is on originality, quality, and importance.