SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING SCIENCES

During the last several years, there has been substantial and important growth in the application of quantitative analysis, i.e., operations research/management science, statistics, and related arenas, to interdisciplinary problems arising in the area of socio-economic planning and development.Socio-Economic Planning Sciences is an international journal devoted exclusively to research in this important, but under-represented area. It provides a medium for research that might not appear in more specialized journals, either because of the interdisciplinary or applied character of the study, or the mathematical/quantitative nature of the research. The journal thus serves as a focus for investigations that have hitherto appeared in widely-scattered sources and/or less-than-appropriate sources.Socio-Economic Planning Sciences strongly encourages contributions dealing with applications of quantitative models and techniques to important decision problems in the service and public sectors. Of particular interest are accounts of such studies carried out in developing countries and economically emerging regions of the world. Review articles in important methodological and substantive areas are also of interest.The principal criterion used in evaluating a manuscript submitted to the journal is: uniqueness or innovation of the work in terms of the methodology being developed, and/or its application to a problem of particular importance in the public or service sector and/or the setting within which the effort is being made, e.g. an emerging region of the world. That is to say, of the model/methodology itself, the application, and the problem context, at least one of these must be unique and important.Additional criteria considered in reviewing a submitted paper are its accuracy, the organization/presentation (i.e. logical flow), and writing quality.Representative of the topic areas included in the journal are the following:Studies directed toward the more effective utilization of existing resources, e.g. mathematical programming models of health care delivery systems with relevance to more effective program design; systems analysis of fire outbreaks and its relevance to the location of fire stations; statistical analysis of the efficiency of a developing country economy or industry.Studies relating to the interaction of various segments of society and technology, e.g. the effects of government health policies on the utilization and design of hospital facilities; the relationship between housing density and the demands on public transportation or other service facilities: patterns and implications of urban development and air or water pollution.Studies devoted to the anticipations of and response to future needs for social, health and other human services, e.g. the relationship between industrial growth and the development of educational resources in affected areas; investigation of future demands for material and child health resources in a developing country; design of effective recycling in an urban setting.

在过去几年中，定量分析的应用，即、运筹学/管理科学、统计学和有关领域，以解决社会经济规划和发展领域中出现的跨学科问题。《社会经济规划科学》是一份国际期刊，专门研究这一重要但代表性不足的领域。它为研究提供了一种可能不会出现在更专业的期刊上的媒介，这要么是因为研究的跨学科或应用特性，要么是因为研究的数学/定量性质。因此，该杂志是迄今为止在广泛分散的资料来源和/或不适当的资料来源中出现的调查的重点。社会经济规划科学强烈鼓励对服务和公共部门的重要决策问题应用定量模型和技术作出贡献。特别令人感兴趣的是在世界发展中国家和经济新兴区域进行的这种研究。审查重要方法和实质性领域的文章也是令人感兴趣的。校长标准用于评估一个手稿提交给《华尔街日报》:独特性或创新的工作方法被开发,和/或应用问题特别重要的公共或服务部门和/或设置的努力正在取得,例如一个新兴地区的世界。也就是说，对于模型/方法本身、应用程序和问题上下文，至少其中一个必须是惟一的和重要的。在评审提交的论文时，还需要考虑的其他标准包括准确性、组织/演示(即逻辑流程)和写作质量。《日刊》所载专题领域的代表如下:旨在更有效地利用现有资源的研究，例如与更有效的方案设计有关的卫生保健提供系统数学规划模型;火灾爆发的系统分析及其与消防站位置的关系;发展中国家经济或工业效率的统计分析。有关社会各阶层和技术相互作用的研究，例如政府保健政策对医院设施的利用和设计的影响;住房密度与公共交通或其他服务设施需求之间的关系:城市发展和空气或水污染的模式和影响。对社会、卫生和其他人类服务的未来需要作出预测和作出反应的专门研究，例如受影响地区的工业增长与教育资源发展之间的关系;调查发展中国家未来对物质和儿童卫生资源的需求;在城市环境中设计有效的回收利用。