Journal of Scheduling (2018)

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The Journal of Scheduling enters its 21st volume and we approach the 20th anniversary of our launch. The very first issue of the Journal was published in June 1998 and that first volume had just three issues. The Journal has come a long way in those 20 years but some things have remained unchanged. We are still committed to inter-disciplinarity and to publishing research papers of the highest quality. The Journal has always aimed to be broad in its scope and to cover a wide range of theoretical problems and real world applications. We encourage authors to submit review and survey papers and we continue to support special issues focused around specific themes or revised and selected papers from appropriate conferences and workshops. Indeed, in 2017, we published a special issue of papers presented at the Twelfth Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems (MAPSP2015), which was held in La Roche-en-Ardenne, (Belgium) in June 2015. The Guest Editors of this special issue were Yves Crama, Dries Goossens, Roel Leus, Michaël Schyns, and Frits Spieksma. …