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55th anniversary of Production Research

This is the first issue of the 55th volume of our journal. The International Journal of Production Research (IJPR) was founded in 1961 and publishes major scientific results on product/process, production and logistics engineering. Complex decision problems in management and control of production and logistics systems are considered. Fundamental techniques developed in industrial engineering, computer, control and mathematical sciences which can be used in the design, monitoring and management of production and logistics systems are studied (see the Aims and scope section on the website of IJPR). The main criterion to select papers for IJPR is their strong link with industrial applications in design and management of production systems. The second criterion is novelty and innovation: new problems, pioneering and convincing major scientific results are required. The third criterion is the quality and clarity of presentation: papers written for a large audience in Production Research and not only for specialists on a given topic are preferred. Didactic articles, presenting clearly and exhaustively the state of the art in Production Research, novel and interesting decision support techniques, experiences and/or new application areas are good potential contributions for IJPR. With this new volume, we celebrate not only the 55th anniversary of our journal but also of Production Research in general, because IJPR has formulated and structured this new research discipline. Fundamental scientific results in our domain were published in IJPR and then widely employed and discussed in the community. IJPR was the first and is still one of most influential, well-established journals reporting jointly manufacturing, production and operations management research. With 24 issues and about 450 published papers a year, IJPR is indisputably the flagship of our profession (Dolgui 2012). IJPR is a leading journal for scholars in manufacturing engineering, industrial and systems engineering, computer science, operations research and management science, and business, who favour high level research. It is also relevant to industrial managers searching for improvements for their production systems (see the Aims and scope section on the website of IJPR). IJPR is a rare journal in our domain with so large and diverse an audience, ranging from scientists to managers. Most papers published in IJPR are understandable for and attractive to engineers. To celebrate the 55th volume anniversary of IJPR, we plan a large publication programme: