Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services (DMMS) serves the entire Decision Making community, including academic and industry researchers and decision makers working at the interface of research and implementation in manufacturing and services. The journal focuses on topics treating the interface between Industrial Engineering, Operations Research and Management Science. Papers may address concerns of manufacturing or service firms as well as government or non-profit enterprises, and the full range of manufacturing and service systems is covered. The main application areas of interest to DMMS include, but are not limited to: logistics and supply chain management, planning and scheduling, medical services, cyber and homeland security.The papers may be theoretical or empirical, analytical or computational, and may be based on a variety of disciplinary foundations such as engineering, business and economics, computer science, psychology, etc.