本雜志由德國Gesellschaft fuer運籌學研究所(德國或?qū)W會)和荷蘭Genootschap voor Besliskunde(荷蘭或?qū)W會)聯(lián)合主辦。它的特點是對數(shù)學、統(tǒng)計學和計算機科學的貢獻，與運籌學有特殊的相關(guān)性。該同行評議期刊出版了關(guān)于運籌學重要的數(shù)學和計算方面的原創(chuàng)和高質(zhì)量的文章，特別是在連續(xù)和離散數(shù)學優(yōu)化、隨機學和博弈論領(lǐng)域。理論導向的論文應該包括假設(shè)和結(jié)果的明確動機，而應用導向的論文需要包含大量的數(shù)學貢獻。對算法的建議應該伴隨著數(shù)字證據(jù)，以證明它們優(yōu)于最先進的方法。文章必須對運籌學的廣大讀者感興趣，用清晰正確的英語寫作，并使用LaTeX排版。一個特別部分載有關(guān)于運籌學的高級數(shù)學或計算方面的應邀指導論文，旨在使更廣泛的讀者能夠使用這些方法。

This journal is jointly sponsored by Gesellschaft fuer Operations Research (The German OR Society) and the Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (The Dutch OR Society). It features contributions to mathematics, statistics, and computer science that have special relevance to operations research.This peer reviewed journal publishes original and high-quality articles on important mathematical and computational aspects of operations research, in particular in the areas of continuous and discrete mathematical optimization, stochastics, and game theory. Theoretically oriented papers are supposed to include explicit motivations of assumptions and results, while application oriented papers need to contain substantial mathematical contributions. Suggestions for algorithms should be accompanied with numerical evidence for their superiority over state-of-the-art methods. Articles must be of interest for a large audience in operations research, written in clear and correct English, and typeset in LaTeX. A special section contains invited tutorial papers on advanced mathematical or computational aspects of operations research, aiming at making such methodologies accessible for a wider audience.