About the Journal
Publisher
Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA)
Sources of Support
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The Journal Manager: ORiON
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Peer Review
All papers are subjected to blind and anonymous peer review (i.e., in addition to the standard practice that authors are not aware of the identities of referees who evaluate their manuscripts, referees are also not aware of the identities of authors of the manuscripts evaluated by them). A minimum of two referees are appointed to review each paper. Reports by the referees are made available to authors for the sake of transparancy and to enable them to improve their manuscripts. A turn–around time of 12 weeks from submission is the goal for first readings of manuscripts submitted in English and 8 weeks for each subsequent iteration (if required). However, for manuscripts submitted in any of the other ten official languages of South Africa, a turn–around time of 24 weeks from submission is the goal for first readings of manuscripts and 16 weeks for each subsequent iteration (if required).
Open Access Policy
Open Access (CC BY: Creative Commons Attribution)
Publication Scheduling
ORiON is published biannually in June and December.
General
Aims & scope
ORiON is the official journal of the Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) and is published biannually. Papers in the following categories are typically published in ORiON:
• Development of new theory, which may be useful to operations research (OR) practitioners, or which may lead to the introduction of new methodologies or techniques.
• OR success stories, which describe demonstrably successful applications of OR within the Southern African context (at the developing/developed economy interface) or similar environments elsewhere.
• OR case studies, which might not be “success stories,” but which emphasize novel approaches or describe pitfalls in the application of OR.
• OR methodological reviews, which survey new and potentially useful methodological developments, aimed at OR practitioners especially in Southern Africa.
The above list is by no means exhaustive.
Popular ORiON Publication Topics/Subjects
• Arrival processes, queuing theory and applications
• Assignment, allocation and timetabling problems
• Conflict resolution and multi-criteria decision analysis
• Data mining, forecasting, statistical analysis and applications
• Decision support and decision making
• Demand, logistics and supply chain analysis
• Elections, government and development
• Financial investments, risk analysis and portfolio optimisation
• Graph & network theory and applications
• Inventory control theory and management
• Knapsack, packing and cutting problems
• Metaheuristics (e.g. genetic algorithms, tabu searches, simulated annealing)
• Mathematical (linear, nonlinear, integer, goal, dynamic) programming
• Natural resource management and conservation ecology
• Philosophy, history, marketing and teaching of OR
• Production management and project scheduling
• Reliability, repairability and availability
• Theoretical and computer simulation
• Transportation networks, vehicle routing and variations of the travelling salesman problem
Self-archiving of manuscripts
Authors are encouraged to self-archive their manuscripts (once submitted to ORiON) at one of the many online archives currently available (see, for example, http://www.arxiv.org).
Electronic publication
Electronic abstracts and full papers of previous volumes of ORiON are available at http://www.orssa.org.za ? ORiON ? Contents. Electronic abstracts are also available at this site to non–subscribers, whilst electronic copies of new papers are available only to members of ORSSA and to subscribers, with the understanding that electronic copies of full papers of a previous volume are made available at the website above, once a new volume of the journal appears in hard copy form. Apart from the official ORiON webpage at the URL mentioned above, abstracts and full papers published in ORiON may also be obtained electronically or by post (at cost) from African Journals Online (http://www.ajol.info/), EBSCO (http://www.ebscohost.com/), ProQuest (http://www.proquest.co.uk/) or Sabinet (http://www.sabinet.co.za/).
Language medium
Papers may be submitted in any of the eleven official languages of South Africa, viz Afrikaans, English, IsiNdebele, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, SiSwati, Tshivenda, or Xitsonga. However, the official language of correspondence between authors and editors is English.
Disclaimer
The Editors of ORiON make every effort to ensure that no inaccurate data or misleading opinions and/or statements appear in this journal. However, the data, statements and opinions appearing in the articles herein are the responsibility of the contributor(s) concerned. The publisher, editorial board and respective employees and co-workers accept no responsibility or liability for the consequences of any such inaccurate or misleading data, opinion or statement.
