{"title":"Special issue on “Metaheuristics: Advances and Applications”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/itor.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.70023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49176,"journal":{"name":"International Transactions in Operational Research","volume":"32 5","pages":"3197-3198"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special issue on “Cutting and Packing”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/itor.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.70024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49176,"journal":{"name":"International Transactions in Operational Research","volume":"32 5","pages":"3203-3204"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue on “Agricultural E-commerce and Logistics Operations in the Era of Digital Economy”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/itor.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.70020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49176,"journal":{"name":"International Transactions in Operational Research","volume":"32 5","pages":"3199-3201"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special issue on “Decision Support System Technology in the Artificial Intelligence Era”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/itor.13625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.13625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49176,"journal":{"name":"International Transactions in Operational Research","volume":"32 5","pages":"3202"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristof De Witte, Eva M. de la Torre, Gabriela Sicilia, Tommaso Agasisti
{"title":"The importance of efficiency analysis for improving public services: Editorial to the special issue on “Efficiency and productivity analysis of public services in practice”","authors":"Kristof De Witte, Eva M. de la Torre, Gabriela Sicilia, Tommaso Agasisti","doi":"10.1111/itor.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Public services around the world face growing demands, limited budgets, and changing populations. As a result, analyzing efficiency is more important than ever. Techniques like data envelopment analysis, stochastic frontier analysis, and machine learning techniques offer valuable tools for improving how public services are managed. This special issue highlights current research on measuring efficiency in education, healthcare, finance, real estate, and more. It is divided into four main areas: new ways to measure efficiency, factors affecting how well educational institutions perform, improvements in public services such as health and social care, and insights into how businesses use efficiency measures. The findings show how policy settings, governance, and data quality all affect how we measure and improve efficiency. Moreover, the contributions show how combining traditional methods with innovative techniques can provide a better analysis of complex systems and long-term outcomes. Building on the insights from the papers in the special issue, we propose a future research agenda that encourages collaboration between experts in different fields, uses new data tools, and supports evidence-based public service delivery. By connecting theory to practical use, this special issue aims to improve how public services operate, making them more efficient, fair, and based on real data to help decision-makers.</p>","PeriodicalId":49176,"journal":{"name":"International Transactions in Operational Research","volume":"32 5","pages":"2443-2452"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/itor.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue on “Agricultural E-commerce and Logistics Operations in the Era of Digital Economy”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/itor.13605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.13605","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49176,"journal":{"name":"International Transactions in Operational Research","volume":"32 4","pages":"2436-2438"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143379935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa, Daouda Kamissoko, José Maria Moreno-Jiménez
{"title":"Preface to the special issue on “Decision Support Systems in an uncertain world”","authors":"Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa, Daouda Kamissoko, José Maria Moreno-Jiménez","doi":"10.1111/itor.13578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.13578","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49176,"journal":{"name":"International Transactions in Operational Research","volume":"32 4","pages":"1833"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143379933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Davide La Torre, Hatem Masri, Constantin Zopounidis
{"title":"Special Issue on “Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”","authors":"Davide La Torre, Hatem Masri, Constantin Zopounidis","doi":"10.1111/itor.13603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.13603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49176,"journal":{"name":"International Transactions in Operational Research","volume":"32 4","pages":"2432-2433"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143380187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Davide La Torre, Leopoldo Bertossi, Herb Kunze, Marc Poulin
{"title":"Preface to the special issue on “Artificial Intelligence-driven Decision Making in Health and Medicine”","authors":"Davide La Torre, Leopoldo Bertossi, Herb Kunze, Marc Poulin","doi":"10.1111/itor.13581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.13581","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49176,"journal":{"name":"International Transactions in Operational Research","volume":"32 4","pages":"2087-2088"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143380293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special issue on “Metaheuristics: Advances and Applications”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/itor.13604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.13604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49176,"journal":{"name":"International Transactions in Operational Research","volume":"32 4","pages":"2434-2435"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143379934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}