Authors are invited to submit unpublished papers, which should not be approved for publication in any other journal or book. All works should be sent in English. The manuscripts will be independently reviewed by two referees (three in case of disagreement), in such a way that the referees will not know the author’s identity at the time of reviewing.

Initial submissions should be sent electronically (PDF format) to the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Constantin Zopounidis at: kostas[at]dpem.tuc.gr. Upon acceptance the author(s) should send the final paper both electronically and in hardcopy form.

All submitted manuscripts must be original work that is not under submission at another journal or under consideration for publication in another form, such as a monograph or chapter of a book.

All manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word format and printed in Times Roman (12 pt). Use one-and-a-half line spacing throughout with wide margins on A4 paper.

Authors should provide full mailing address(es), including e-mail. The corresponding author should be clearly indicated, in a footnote appearing on the first page of the article.

An abstract of not more than 150 words should appear in the first page of the manuscript. It should be self-contained and understandable by the general reader outside the context of the article. It should be free from formulae, acronyms and references. The abstract should be followed by a list of up to 5 keywords.

All sections and subsections should be numbered in Arabic numerals.

Paragraphs should be indented in the manuscript to avoid ambiguities when a line ends on a full stop.

Figures and tables should be numbered consecutively and have a self-explanatory short title. Avoid color figures and the use of vertical lines in tables. All tables and figures should be incorporated in the main text. 

All equations (expect for very short ones) should be displayed on a separate line. Equations which are cited in the main text should be numbered consecutively on the right margin, using Arabic numerals in parentheses.

Footnotes are not allowed.

References should be listed alphabetically by author at the end of the paper and referred to in the body of the text by Name (year). The references' list should be prepared according to the following examples:

For journal papers:

Srinivasan, V. and Shocker, A.D. (1973), “Linear programming techniques for multidimensional analysis of preferences”, Psychometrika, 38(3), 337-396.

For monographs:

Elton, E.J. and Gruber, M.J. (1987), Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis (3^nd edition), John Wiley, New York.

For contributions to edited volumes:

ΜcFadden, D. (1974), “Conditional logit analysis in qualitative choice behavior”, in: P. Zarembka (ed.), Frontiers in Econometrics, Academic Press, New York.

For unpublished research reports:

Mangasarian, O.L. and Musicant, D.R. (2000), “Lagrangian support vector machine classification”, Technical Report 00-06, Data Mining Institute, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin.