Foreword - Advanced Optimization Approaches and Modern OR-Applications

CODIT‘14 conference or the International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies has been held in Metz from 3 November to 5 November 2014. It has been the occasion to present 141 contributions selected from about 250 submissions (included the special sessions). This event has attracted participants from 34 countries. This special issue is devoted to CODIT’14 but the submission has been also extended to any high-quality paper non-presented at the conference. According to the journal standards, a new review process has been organized and applied to about 40 submitted papers to this special issue, which attempts to present some recent advances on optimisation and operations research and to publish original papers that contribute to the theory, the solution methods, and the applications related to these areas.