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Call for Papers
Annals of Operations Research
Special Issue: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty:
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
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Submission deadline: April 15, 2023
How do we make good decisions in the presence of uncertainty? This question arises in numerous contexts, including natural resources management and robot planning and control. The past few decades have seen significant advances in decision-making under uncertainty. These range from new domain-independent methods in areas such as artificial intelligence, statistics, operations research, robot planning, and control theory, to novel domain-specific methods in fields such as ecology, fisheries, economics, and mathematical finance. Unfortunately, progress in one domain may often be easily overlooked by researchers from another community.
This special issue calls for papers that provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the theory, practice, and computational techniques for decision-making under uncertainty. Submissions should demonstrate how the work is relevant to researchers from different communities. Examples include theoretical studies of decision models relevant to disparate fields, and novel applications of tools from one field to another.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Decision models (e.g., Markov Decision Processes [MDPs], POMDPs)
- Decision theory (e.g., expected utility theory, bounded rationality)
- Planning under uncertainty
- Reinforcement learning
- Stochastic control (e.g., LQG, robust control)
- Operations research
- Applications (e.g., natural resource management, robot autonomy, pandemic management, natural disaster response, portfolio management)
Instructions for authors can be found at: https://www.springer.com/journal/10479/submission-guidelines
Authors should submit a cover letter and a manuscript by April 15, 2023, via the Journal's online submission site. Please see the Author Instructions on the web site if you have not yet submitted a paper through Springer's web-based system, Editorial Manager. When prompted for the article type, please select Original Research. On the Additional Information screen, you will be asked if the manuscript belongs to a special issue, please choose yes and the special issue's title, Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, to ensure that it will be reviewed for this special issue. Manuscripts submitted after the deadline may not be considered for the special issue and may be transferred, if accepted, to a regular issue.
Papers will be subject to a strict review process under the supervision of the Guest Editors, and accepted papers will be published online individually, before print publication.
Guest Editors
Nan Ye, The University of Queensland
Hanna Kurniawati, Australian National University
Marcus Hoerger, The University of Queensland
Dirk Kroese, The University of Queensland
Jerzy Filar, The University of Queensland