Guest editors

Andrés Weintraub (Chair)
Marcos Goycoolea
Robert Haight
Hayri Önal
Mikael Rönnqvist

The Annals of Operations Research seeks submissions for a special volume on Operations Research in Forestry. The deadline for submission is September 1, 2011

Objectives:

This special volume of Annals of Operations Research is intended to collect in one volume high quality papers on the use of Operations Research in Forestry. It is expected that many of these papers will have been presented at the 14th Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources, SSAFR 2011, held in Marbella, Chile, March 7-11, 2011.Other contributions falling in the topics of this volume are also welcome.

The main topics of interest are:

• Strategic forest planning
• Operational and tactical planning
• Environmental issues
• Fires and pests
• Spatial problems
• Hierarchical problems
• Forest operations
• Forest supply chain
• Multiple objectives
• GIS and information technologies
• Algorithmic developments
• Exact methods
• Heuristics and metaheuristics
• Sustainability
• Carbon capture
• Growth and yield models
• Energy
• Landscape ecology

Instructions for authors can be found at:

http://www.springer.com/business/operations+research/journal/10479

Authors should submit a cover letter and a manuscript by date
via the Journal’s online submission site. Manuscripts submitted after the deadline may not be considered for the special volume and may be transferred to a regular volume.

Please see Author Instructions on the site if you have not yet submitted a paper through
this web-based system. Be sure to note in the Manuscript Comment text that your work
is intended for the special volume and to select the article type “xxx.”
Papers will be subject to a strict review process managed by the Guest Editors and accepted papers will be published online individually, before print publication.