Journal of Scheduling (2013)

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In 2013, the Journal of Scheduling will celebrate its 15th birthday. The journal was launched in the Summer of 1998. There have been many changes along the way. In the early days, the journal was published by Wiley before moving to Kluwer and finally settling with Springer after Kluwer was acquired by Springer. Over the years, the journal has become increasingly popular and well regarded. We now regularly publish ten papers per issue. Although there have been many changes, some things have remained constant. For example, we have always maintained an interdisciplinary focus as an international forum for scheduling research across disciplinary backgrounds and boundaries. We have also always welcomed all kinds of scheduling research from the theoretical to the practical. In addition, our emphasis has always been on excellence. In our view, these features lie at the very heart of the journal and they will not change as long as we remain editors. …