Special Issue Risk and Operations Research
Guest editor: Desheng Dash Wu (managing guest editor), David L. Olson and John Birge
Introduction
This special issue of Annals of Operations Research on the theme of “Risk and Operations Research” aims to present the recent advances in optimizing risk management, to provide an opportunity for the broader Operations Research community to become aware of recent “Risk and Operations Research” research. The special issue focuses on the theoretical, practical, and computational aspects of operations research and risk.
Topics
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Operations Research in enterprise risk management
- Portfolio selection
- Social investment
- Optimization in Low-carbon economy
- Optimization in real estate risk analysis
- Operational risk management
- Supply chain risk management
- Game theory in risk management
- Market risk tools such as value at risk
- Multi-criteria decision making in financial services
- Optimizing banking operations such as merger
- Operations Research in natural disasters
- Other topics of OR and risk
All high-quality papers on the topics of the special volume will be considered. Participants in the the 1st 3-C Risk Forum & 2011 International Conference on Engineering and Risk Management (ERM) to be held at University of Toronto on October 28–30, 2011 (http://risklab.utoronto.ca/conf/conf11/3c-risk-forum) are especially encouraged to submit their work.
Manuscript Preparation and Submission
Instructions for authors can be found at:
http://www.springer.com/business/operations+research/journal/10479
Authors should submit a cover letter and a manuscript via the Journal’s online submission site. Manuscripts submitted after the deadline may not be considered for the special volume and may be transferred to a regular volume.
Please see Author Instructions on the site if you have not yet submitted a paper through this web-based system. Be sure to note in the Manuscript Comment text that your work is intended for the special volume and to select the article type “ SI: Risk and OR“. Papers will be subject to a strict review process managed by the Guest Editors and accepted papers will be published online individually, before print publication.
Publication Schedule
Deadline for paper submissions: March 1, 2012
Approximate time for publication: June, 2013
Questions can be sent to the managing guest editor Dash WU.
Special Issue Guest Editors
| Prof. Desheng Dash Wu (managing guest editor) Affiliate Professor and managing Director, RiskLab,University of Toronto Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada Tel: +1(416) 946-58 08 Fax: +1-416-978-4107 E-mail: dwu@rotman.utoronto.ca, dash@risklab.ca |
| Prof. David L. Olson
Department of Management University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68588-0491 Tel: (402) 472-4521 Fax: (402) 472-5855 E-mail: Dolson3@unl.edu |
| Prof. John Birge
Booth School of Business University of Chicago 5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago IL 60637 Tel: (773) 834-1701 E-mail: john.birge@chicagobooth.edu |