“…He mainly developed solution techniques and decision support systems for important and relevant problems of public and economic interest. Further related examples of special issues and volumes on emerging and innovative OR applications include: Dawid et al (2010Dawid et al ( , 2016, Dlouhý et al (2009), Doerner et al (2011), Fleiß and Palan (2015), Reisach et al (2016), and Weber et al (2014).…”