Editorial for the special issue: "Novel solutions and novel approaches in operational research"

This special issue of Business Systems Research (SI of the BSR) is co-published by the Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA - Section for Operational Research (SSI-SOR) and highlights recent advances in Operations Research and Management Science (OR /MS), with a focus on linking OR /MS with other areas of quantitative and qualitative methods in a multidisciplinary framework. Eleven papers selected for this SI of the BSR present improvements and new techniques (methodology) in Operations Research (OR) and their application in various fields of economics, business, spatial science, smart mobility, higher education, human resources, environment, agriculture and social networks.