Journal of Scheduling (2017)

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This year marks something of a landmark for the Journal of Scheduling: we have reached our 20th volume. The journal continues to act as one of the leading international publication venues for interdisciplinary research in all areas of scheduling. The scope of the journal cuts across both theory and practice, and it cuts across disciplinary boundaries. We are proud of the impact that the journal has had upon the scheduling research field and we will continue to build upon our high academic standards, with the goal of improving the journal even further. We have a particular emphasis upon encouraging high-quality review and survey papers, and we are keen to have a portfolio of papers that covers a wide range of scheduling areas. We continue to encourage focussed special issues. In 2016, we published Special Issues for New Challenges in Scheduling Theory and the Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA). …