Editing Operations research (section)

==Societies and journals==
===Societies===
The [[International Federation of Operational Research Societies]] (IFORS)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifors.org/ |title=IFORS |publisher=IFORS |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> is an [[umbrella organization]] for operational research societies worldwide, representing approximately 50 national societies including those in the US,<ref>{{cite web|last=Leszczynski |first=Mary |url=http://www.informs.org/ |title=Informs |publisher=Informs |date=8 November 2011 |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> [[Operational Research Society|UK]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.orsoc.org.uk |title=The OR Society |publisher=Orsoc.org.uk |access-date=13 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20060424161729/http://www.orsoc.org.uk/ |archive-date=24 April 2006}}</ref> France,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roadef.org/content/index.htm |title=Société française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision |publisher=ROADEF |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> Germany, [[Italian Operations Research Society|Italy]],<ref>{{cite web|author=airo.org |url=http://www.airo.org |title=AIRO |publisher=airo.org |access-date=31 March 2018}}</ref> Canada,<ref>{{cite web|author=cors.ca |url=http://www.cors.ca |title=CORS |publisher=Cors.ca |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> Australia,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asor.org.au |title=ASOR |publisher=ASOR |date=1 January 1972 |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> New Zealand,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orsnz.org.nz/ |title=ORSNZ |publisher=ORSNZ |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> Philippines,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orsp.org.ph/ |title=ORSP |publisher=ORSP |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> India,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orsi.in/ |title=ORSI |publisher=Orsi.in |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> Japan and South Africa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orssa.org.za/ |title=ORSSA |publisher=ORSSA |date=23 September 2011 |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> For the institutionalization of Operations Research, the foundation of IFORS in 1960 was of decisive importance, which stimulated the foundation of national OR societies in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. IFORS held important international conferences every three years since 1957.<ref>{{citation|author=[[Richard Vahrenkamp]]|date=2023|doi=10.5771/0935-9915-2023-1-69|issue=1|pages=69–91|periodical=Management Revue – Socio-Economic Studies|title=Mathematical Management – Operations Research in the United States and Western Europe, 1945 – 1990|volume=34|s2cid=258937881 }}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> The constituent members of IFORS form regional groups, such as that in Europe, the [[Association of European Operational Research Societies]] (EURO).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.euro-online.org/ |title=EURO (EURO) |publisher=Euro-online.org |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> Other important operational research organizations are [[Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization]] (SISO)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sisostds.org/ |title=SISO |publisher=Sisostds.org |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> and [[Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference]] (I/ITSEC)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iitsec.org/ |title=I/Itsec |publisher=I/Itsec |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref>

In 2004, the US-based organization INFORMS began an initiative to market the OR profession better, including a website entitled ''The Science of Better''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scienceofbetter.org/ |title=The Science of Better |publisher=The Science of Better |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> which provides an introduction to OR and examples of successful applications of OR to industrial problems. This initiative has been adopted by the [[Operational Research Society]] in the UK, including a website entitled ''Learn About OR''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.learnaboutor.co.uk/ |title=Learn about OR |publisher=Learn about OR |access-date=13 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115172529/http://www.learnaboutor.co.uk/ |archive-date=15 November 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Journals of INFORMS===
The [[Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences]] (INFORMS) publishes thirteen scholarly journals about operations research, including the top two journals in their class, according to 2005 [[Journal Citation Reports]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.informs.org/index.php?c=31&kat=-+INFORMS+Journals |title=INFORMS Journals |publisher=Informs.org |access-date=13 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309051916/http://www3.informs.org/index.php?c=31&kat=-+INFORMS+Journals |archive-date=9 March 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They are:
* ''Decision Analysis''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/deca |title=Decision Analysis |publisher=Informs.org |access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>
* ''Information Systems Research''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/isre |title=Information Systems Research |publisher=Informs.org |access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>
* ''INFORMS Journal on Computing''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/ijoc |title=INFORMS Journal on Computing |publisher=Informs.org |access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>
* ''INFORMS Transactions on Education''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/ited |title=INFORMS Transactions on Education |publisher=Informs.org |access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref> (an open access journal)
* ''Interfaces''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/inte |title=Interfaces |publisher=Informs.org |access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>
* ''[[Management Science (journal)|Management Science]]''
* ''[[Manufacturing & Service Operations Management]]''
* ''[[Marketing Science (journal)|Marketing Science]]''
* ''[[Mathematics of Operations Research]]''
* ''[[Operations Research (journal)|Operations Research]]''
* ''Organization Science''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/orsc |title=Organization Science |publisher=Informs.org |access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>
* ''Service Science''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/serv |title=Service Science |publisher=Informs.org |access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>
* ''[[Transportation Science]]''

===Other journals===
These are listed in alphabetical order of their titles.
* ''[[4OR]]-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research'': jointly published the Belgian, French and Italian Operations Research Societies (Springer);
* ''[[Decision Sciences]]'' published by [[Wiley-Blackwell]] on behalf of the [[Decision Sciences Institute]]
* ''[[European Journal of Operational Research]] (EJOR)'': Founded in 1975 and is presently{{when|date=March 2019}} by far the largest operational research journal in the world, with its around 9,000 pages of published papers per year. In 2004, its total number of citations was the second largest amongst Operational Research and Management Science journals;
* ''INFOR Journal'': published and sponsored by the Canadian Operational Research Society;
* ''Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (JDMS): Applications, Methodology, Technology'': a quarterly journal devoted to advancing the science of modeling and simulation as it relates to the military and defense.<ref>{{cite web |author=The Society for Modeling & Simulation International |url=http://www.scs.org/pubs/jdms/jdms.html |title=JDMS |publisher=Scs.org |access-date=13 November 2011 |author-link=The Society for Modeling & Simulation International |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090823062356/http://www.scs.org/pubs/jdms/jdms.html |archive-date=23 August 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''[[Journal of the Operational Research Society]] (JORS)'': an official journal of [[The OR Society]]; this is the oldest continuously published journal of OR in the world, published by [[Taylor & Francis]];
* ''Military Operations Research (MOR)'': published by the [[Military Operations Research Society]];
* ''Omega - The International Journal of Management Science'';
* ''[[Operations Research Letters]]'';
* ''Opsearch'': official journal of the Operational Research Society of India;
* ''OR Insight'': a quarterly journal of The OR Society published by Palgrave;<ref name="The OR Society">[http://www.orsoc.org.uk The OR Society] {{webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20060424161729/http://www.orsoc.org.uk/ |date=24 April 2006 }};</ref>
* ''Pesquisa Operacional'', the official journal of the Brazilian Operations Research Society
* ''[[Production and Operations Management]]'', the official journal of the Production and Operations Management Society
* ''TOP'': the official journal of the [[Spanish Statistics and Operations Research Society]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.springer.com/east/home/business/operations+research?SGWID=5-40521-70-173677307-detailsPage=journal%7Cdescription |title=TOP |publisher=Springer.com |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref>