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Area Editors Professor Charu Chandra – University of Michigan – Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA Supply Chain Management, Health Care Systems and Applications. We invite submissions emphasizing methodological and analytical exposition of theoretical constructs applied to solving highly relevant business problems in the general areas of supply chain management, health-care services delivery, information systems engineering, and process design and improvement. The scope of topics in this research area of OMEGA is wide and inter-disciplinary. Topics emphasizing intersection of Operations Management to problems / issues in information technology and knowledge management, enterprise resource planning and integrated systems, new product development, technology management, quality management, and systems engineering will be entertained for publication. We are interested in promoting research in emerging topics such as sustainable engineering, energy efficiency in health care, energy, retail industry in public and private sectors. Papers emphasizing model development, optimization and operational and system-wide improvements are especially encouraged. Professor Erwin Pesch – University of Siegen, D-57068 Siegen, Germany Production Management, Scheduling and Logistics High quality papers with a special focus in Production Management, Scheduling and/or Logistics are very welcome. Research may include deterministic or stochastic, robust and multi-objective or game-theoretic approaches, heuristics or exact methods or approximations in the variety of the aforementioned areas. We are especially interested in models and methods resulting from real applications, e.g. from manufacturing, project scheduling, health care, transport and routing or personnel planning, as well as in more theoretical papers solving a long standing research question. Professor Joseph Geunes (outgoing Area Editor J. Cole Smith) – University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA Optimization Applications. We seek submissions related to the use of optimization models and techniques to address practical optimization challenges. Of particular interest are papers that present effective and contemporary modeling and solution approaches for a novel application area, as well as those papers that contain breakthroughs on solving established problems in application domains of considerable interest. Professor Joe Zhu – Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA Data Envelopment Analysis, Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Service Operations We consider papers on a variety of methodological and applied areas of research in the area of DEA, Multicriteria Decision Analysis, and Service Operations. A theoretical or methodological contribution should aid in the modeling and optimizing of specific operational processes or issues, or should demonstrate potential impacts on operational practice. We encourage empirical, analytical, or theoretical papers addressing the modeling and improvement of productivity and performance, and the modeling of multiple objective preferences. Associate Editors Professor B. Adenso-Diaz Universidad de Oviedo, Campus de Viesques, E-33204 Gijon, Spain Professor Nicole Adler The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905, Israel Professor Mette Asmild University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, 1958, Denmark Professor Ebru K. Bish Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA Professor James F. Campbell University of Missouri – St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA Professor Hsihui Chang Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA Professor Alexandre Dolgui Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, 42023 Saint-Etienne, France Professor Michael Doumpos Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece Professor Natarajan Gautam Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA Professor Esma Gel Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85044, USA Professor Zhimin Huang Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530, USA Professor Joanna Jozefowska Poznan University of Technology , 60-965 Poznan, Poland Professor Chiang Kao National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C Professor Tamas Kis Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1518 Budapest, Hungary   Professor Rainer Kolisch Technical University Munich, D-80333, Munich, Germany Professor Mikhail Y. Kovalyov Belarusian State University, 220030 Minsk, Belarus Professor Heinrich Kuhn Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, D-85049 Ingolstadt, Germany Professor Kee-hung Lai The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Professor Kyle Y. Lin Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943, USA Professor Andrea Lodi University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy Professor Victor Podinovski University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Professor H. Edwin Romeijn The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Professor Jay Rosenberger The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA Professor Jennifer K. Ryan Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA Professor Juan-Jose Salazar-Gonzalez Universidad de La Laguna, 38271 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain Professor Zuo-Jun “Max” Shen The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Professor Malgorzata Sterna Poznan University of Technology , 60-965 Poznan, Poland Professor Robert H. Storer Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA Professor Thompson Teo National University of Singapore, Singapore 117592 Professor Evangelos Triantaphyllou Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA Professor Mutsunori Yagiura Nagoya University, Furocho, Chikusaku Nagoya 464-8603, Japan Professor Chung-Hsing Yeh Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia Professor Guochuan Zhang Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China Editorial Advisory Board Professor PC Bell Western Business School, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7 Professor WW Cooper School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA Professor C Eden University of Strathclyde, 40 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA, UK Professor F Land Stowford Barton, Harford, Ivybridge, Devon PL21 0JD, UK Professor H Muller-Merbach Universitat Kaiserslautern, Postfach 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany Professor B Rapp Link6ping Institute of Technology, S-581 83 Link6ping, Sweden Professor LM Seiford The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Professor T Sueyoshi New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, USA Professor K Tone National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677, Japan Professor WA Wallace Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA Professor Y Yamada Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda-Shi Chiba 278, Japan Professor W Ziemba Faculty of Commerce, University of British Columbia, 2053 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Y8 1