Journal of Scheduling (2016)

Excerpt

Welcome to Volume 19 of the Journal of Scheduling. It is hard to believe that all those years have passed since we were preparing a submission to launch a brand new journal. At the time, we believed that we had seen a gap in the landscape for a journal on all aspects of scheduling research, which cuts across disciplines and which cuts across theory and practice. The intervening years have demonstrated that there had indeed been such a gap. Over the years, the journal has become a significant forum for internationally leading research, and it has contributed towards enabling a multi-disciplinary perspective on major research advances in the field. We continue to support special issues of the journal on specific areas of scheduling research or which are focussed on specific conferences. Moreover, we continue to encourage review and survey papers from across the field. …