Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume 59

Volume 59, Number 1, January 2008

Editorial

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  Terry Williams, John Wilson:
  Editorial. 1

Special Issue Paper

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  Chandra A. Poojari, Cormac Lucas, Gautam Mitra:
  Robust solutions and risk measures for a supply chain planning problem under uncertainty. 2-12

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Miles G. Nicholls, Barbara J. Cargill:
  Determining best practice production in an aluminium smelter involving sub-processes based substantially on tacit knowledge: an application of Communities of Practice. 13-24
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  Xuwei Chen, F. Benjamin Zhan:
  Agent-based modelling and simulation of urban evacuation: relative effectiveness of simultaneous and staged evacuation strategies. 25-33
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  Salem M. Al-Yakoob, Hanif D. Sherali:
  A column generation approach for an employee scheduling problem with multiple shifts and work locations. 34-43
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  Lixin Tang, G. Liu, Jiyin Liu:
  Raw material inventory solution in iron and steel industry using Lagrangian relaxation. 44-53

Theoretical Papers

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  Maria do Castelo Gouveia, Luis C. Dias, Carlos Henggeler Antunes:
  Additive DEA based on MCDA with imprecise information. 54-63
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  Necati Aras, M. Orbay, I. Kuban Altinel:
  Efficient heuristics for the rectilinear distance capacitated multi-facility Weber problem. 64-79
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  M.-G. Yoon, John R. Current:
  The hub location and network design problem with fixed and variable arc costs: formulation and dual-based solution heuristic. 80-89
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  Nafee Rizk, Alain Martel, Sophie D'Amours:
  Synchronized production-distribution planning in a single-plant multi-destination network. 90-104
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  S. Raut, Jatinder N. D. Gupta, S. Swami:
  Single machine scheduling with time deteriorating job values. 105-118
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  C. S. Sung, W. Yang:
  An exact algorithm for a cross-docking supply chain network design problem. 119-136

Viewpoints

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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  Evaluating PSMs. 137-138
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  L. White:
  Reply to Ormerod. 138-139
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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  OR and systems - some comments on Checkland's reply to Eden and Ackerman. 139-142

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 143-145

Volume 59, Number 2, February 2008

Editorial

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  Jane Parkin, Hiroko Plant:
  Operational Research in Government. 147

Paper

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  H. S. Turner:
  Government Operational Research Service: Civil OR in UK Central Government. 148-162

Corrigendum

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  H. S. Turner:
  Government Operational Research Service: Civil OR In UK Central Government. 163

Papers

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  I. M. Newsome:
  Using system dynamics to model the impact of policing activity on performance. 164-170
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  Murat M. Günal, Bhakti Stephan Onggo, Michael Pidd:
  Improving police control rooms using simulation. 171-181
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  Efstratios Rappos, E. B. Thompson:
  An integer programming approach to optimize Housing Benefit data retrieval. 182-185
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  Michael C. Jackson, N. Johnston, J. Seddon:
  Evaluating systems thinking in housing. 186-197
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  D. I. Calvert, R. Kaufman:
  Using analysis to influence strategic-decision making: option valuation at ECGD. 198-202
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  Jesus Rios, David Ríos Insua:
  A framework for participatory budget elaboration support. 203-212
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  David C. Lane, Elke Husemann:
  System dynamics mapping of acute patient flows. 213-224
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  T. Gardener, James Moffat:
  Changing behaviours in defence acquisition: a game theory approach. 225-230
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  Hyeonjoo Seol, H. Lee, S. Kim, Yongtae Park:
  The impact of information technology on organizational efficiency in public services: a DEA-based DT approach. 231-238
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  Laurens Cherchye, Willem Moesen, Nicky Rogge, Tom Van Puyenbroeck, Michaela Saisana, Andrea Saltelli, R. Liska, Stefano Tarantola:
  Creating composite indicators with DEA and robustness analysis: the case of the Technology Achievement Index. 239-251
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  Eugene David Hahn, C. L. Knott:
  Assessing quality improvement initiatives when expert judgements are uncertain. 252-258
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  I. Y.-F. Huang, Wei-Wen Wu, Yu-Ting Lee:
  Simplifying essential competencies for Taiwan civil servants using the rough set approach. 259-265

Volume 59, Number 3, March 2008

Review Paper

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  A. H. Ahmed, Chandra A. Poojari:
  An overview of the issues in the airline industry and the role of optimization models and algorithms. 267-277

General Paper

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  Stewart Robinson:
  Conceptual modelling for simulation Part I: definition and requirements. 278-290

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Stewart Robinson:
  Conceptual modelling for simulation Part II: a framework for conceptual modelling. 291-304
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  Catrinel Turcanu, B. Carlé, F. Hardeman:
  Agricultural countermeasures in nuclear emergency management: a stakeholders' survey for multi-criteria model development. 305-312
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  Peter C. Bell:
  Short selling and replaning as tools to enhance revenues. 313-321
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  Byeong Seok Ahn, Sang Hyun Choi:
  ERP system selection using a simulation-based AHP approach: a case of Korean homeshopping company. 322-330

Theoretical Papers

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  Fulya Altiparmak, Ismail Karaoglan:
  An adaptive tabu-simulated annealing for concave cost transportation problems. 331-341
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  David R. Nowicki, U. D. Kumar, Harold J. Steudel, Dinesh Verma:
  Spares provisioning under performance-based logistics contract: profit-centric approach. 342-352
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  Laurie B. Waisel, William A. Wallace, Thomas R. Willemain:
  Visualization and model formulation: an analysis of the sketches of expert modellers. 353-361
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  Tammy Drezner, Zvi Drezner:
  Lost demand in a competitive environment. 362-371
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  H. Jiang:
  A Lagrangian relaxation approach for network inventory control of stochastic revenue management with perishable commodities. 372-380
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  Shih-Pin Chen:
  Measuring performances of multiple-channel queueing systems with imprecise data: a membership function approach. 381-387
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  Temel Öncan, Santosh N. Kabadi, K. P. K. Nair, Abraham P. Punnen:
  VLSN search algorithms for partitioning problems using matching neighbourhoods. 388-398
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  Jack Brimberg, Pierre Hansen, Gilbert Laporte, Nenad Mladenovic, Dragan Urosevic:
  The maximum return-on-investment plant location problem with market share. 399-406
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  P. Leskinen:
  Numerical scaling of ratio scale utilities in multi-criteria decision analysis with geometric model. 407-415

Technical Note

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  Wen-Hung Kuo, Dar-Li Yang:
  Minimizing the makespan in a single-machine scheduling problem with the cyclic process of an aging effect. 416-420

Volume 59, Number 4, April 2008

Part Special Issue: Intelligent Management Systems in Operations Editorial

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  Khairy Kobbacy, Sunil Vadera:
  Editorial. 421-422

Special Issue Papers

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  A. Chan, Ken R. McNaught:
  Using Bayesian networks to improve fault diagnosis during manufacturing tests of mobile telephone infrastructure. 423-430
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  Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Nima Safaei, M. M. O. Kah:
  Accessing feasible space in a generalized job shop scheduling problem with the fuzzy processing times: a fuzzy-neural approach. 431-442
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  Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Nima Safaei, Farrokh Sassani:
  A new solution for a dynamic cell formation problem with alternative routing and machine costs using simulated annealing. 443-454
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  A. Lawrynowicz:
  Integration of production planning and scheduling using an expert system and a genetic algorithm. 455-463
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  Farid Meziane, Mohd Khairudin Kasiran:
  Evaluating trust in electronic commerce: a study based on the information provided on merchants' websites. 464-472
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  John E. Boylan, Aris A. Syntetos, G. C. Karakostas:
  Classification for forecasting and stock control: a case study. 473-481
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  Jiju Antony, Maneesh Kumar, Ashraf Labib:
  Gearing Six Sigma into UK manufacturing SMEs: results from a pilot study. 482-493
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  Michael Pearson:
  Prioritizing edge over node: process control in supply chain networks and push-pull strategies. 494-502
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  M. Alardhi, A. W. Labib:
  Preventive maintenance scheduling of multi-cogeneration plants using integer programming. 503-509

Theoretical Papers

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  S. Karabuk:
  Production planning under uncertainty in textile manufacturing. 510-520
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  Yohan Shim, Steven A. Gabriel, Aniket Desai, Prawat Sahakij, S. Milner:
  A fast heuristic method for minimizing traffic congestion on reconfigurable ring topologies. 521-539
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  David Soler, Eulalia Martínez, Joan Carles Micó:
  A transformation for the mixed general routing problem with turn penalties. 540-547
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  Chinho Lin, Y.-T. Lin:
  Robust analysis on promotion duration for two competitive brands. 548-555
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  Filipa D. Carvalho, Maria Teresa Almeida:
  A three-phase algorithm for the cell suppression problem in two-dimensional statistical tables. 556-562
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  Deniz Nadirler, Esra Köktener Karasakal:
  Mixed integer programming-based solution procedure for single-facility location with maximin of rectilinear distance. 563-570

Thank you to our Referees

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  T. Williams, J. Wilson:
  JORS Referees 2007. 571-573

Volume 59, Number 5, May 2008

Case Oriented Papers

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  Gilberto Montibeller, Valerie Belton, Fran Ackermann, Leonardo Ensslin:
  Reasoning maps for decision aid: an integrated approach for problem-structuring and multi-criteria evaluation. 575-589
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  Lixin Tang, Xianpeng Wang:
  An iterated local search heuristic for the capacitated prize-collecting travelling salesman problem. 590-599
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  Glaydston Mattos Ribeiro, Luiz Antonio Nogueira Lorena:
  Optimizing the woodpulp stowage using Lagrangean relaxation with clusters. 600-606
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  Fabien Cornillier, Fayez F. Boctor, Gilbert Laporte, Jacques Renaud:
  An exact algorithm for the petrol station replenishment problem. 607-615
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  Eliane Gonçalves Gomes, Marcos Pereira Estellita Lins:
  Modelling undesirable outputs with zero sum gains data envelopment analysis models. 616-623

Theoretical Papers

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  Kenneth Sörensen:
  Investigation of practical, robust and flexible decisions for facility location problems using tabu search and simulation. 624-636
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  Wen Lea Pearn, Shu-Hsing Chung, Ming-Hsien Yang, K. P. Shiao:
  Solution strategies for multi-stage wafer probing scheduling problem with reentry. 637-651
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  Supakorn Mudchanatongsuk, Fernando Ordóñez, Jie Liu:
  Robust solutions for network design under transportation cost and demand uncertainty. 652-662
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  Zhuo Fu, Richard W. Eglese, Leon Y. O. Li:
  A unified tabu search algorithm for vehicle routing problems with soft time windows. 663-673
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  Emmett J. Lodree Jr., Selda Taskin:
  An insurance risk management framework for disaster relief and supply chain disruption inventory planning. 674-684
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  Chunming Victor Shi, Bintong Chen:
  Pareto quantity flexibility contracts for a supply chain under multiple objectives. 685-692
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  Andrew Lim, Zhou Xu, Fan Wang:
  The bidding selection and assignment problem with minimum quantity commitment. 693-702
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  G. C. McIntosh, M. K. Lauren:
  Incorporating fractal concepts into equations of attrition for military conflicts. 703-713

Technical Note

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  K. M. Jung, Lyn C. Thomas:
  A note on coarse classifying in acceptance scorecards. 714-718

Viewpoints

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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  Comments on Córdoba and Midgley: the Javeriana case. 719-721
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  José-Rodrigo Córdoba:
  The Javeriana Case: Systems Thinking, Power and Ethics in IS (and OR?) Strategy. 721-724

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 725-728

Volume 59, Number 6, June 2008

General Papers

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  A. J. Lewis:
  Extending the range of player-performance measures in one-day cricket. 729-742
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  Graham Kendall:
  Scheduling English football fixtures over holiday periods. 743-755

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Leonidas Anastasakis, C. Wendy Olphert, John M. Wilson:
  Experiences in using a contingency factor-based validation methodology for spreadsheet DSS. 756-761
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  Sérgio P. Santos, Valerie Belton, Susan Howick:
  Enhanced performance measurement using OR: a case study. 762-775

Theoretical Papers

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  Marie-Claude Bolduc, Jacques Renaud, Fayez F. Boctor, Gilbert Laporte:
  A perturbation metaheuristic for the vehicle routing problem with private fleet and common carriers. 776-787
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  Subhash C. Ray:
  The directional distance function and measurement of super-efficiency: an application to airlines data. 788-797
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  Christian Larsen, Anders Thorstenson:
  A comparison between the order and the volume fill rate for a base-stock inventory control system under a compound renewal demand process. 798-804
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  Oded Berman, Zvi Drezner, George O. Wesolowsky:
  The multiple location of transfer points. 805-811
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  Amaia Lusa, Chris N. Potts:
  A variable neighbourhood search algorithm for the constrained task allocation problem. 812-822
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  Gleb Belov, Guntram Scheithauer, E. A. Mukhacheva:
  One-dimensional heuristics adapted for two-dimensional rectangular strip packing. 823-832
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  Y. H. Lee, J. I. Kim, K. H. Kang, K. H. Kim:
  A heuristic for vehicle fleet mix problem using tabu search and set partitioning. 833-841
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  N. Chanaka P. Edirisinghe, X. Zhang:
  Portfolio selection under DEA-based relative financial strength indicators: case of US industries. 842-856

Technical Notes

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  Wen-Hung Kuo, Dar-Li Yang:
  A note on due-date assignment and single-machine scheduling with deteriorating jobs. 857-859
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  C.-P. Bao, Tien-Hui Chen, S.-Y. Chang:
  Slack-based ranking method: an interpretation to the cross-efficiency method in DEA. 860-862

Viewpoints

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  Young H. Chun:
  Economic optimization of off-line inspection procedures with inspection errors. 863-865
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  W. Y. Wang, S. H. Sheu, Y. C. Chen, Der-Juinn Horng:
  On a more general formulation of off-line inspection with inspection errors. 865-867
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  Tsu-Pang Hsieh, Chung-Yuan Dye, Liang-Yuh Ouyang:
  Comment on 'An ordering policy for deteriorating items with allowable shortage and permissible delay in payment' by Jamal, Sarker and Wang. 867-870

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 871-873

Volume 59, Number 7, July 2008

General Papers

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  Francisco J. André, Manuel Alejandro Cardenete, Carlos Romero:
  Using compromise programming for macroeconomic policy making in a general equilibrium framework: theory and application to the Spanish economy. 875-883
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  Ray Bachan, Barry Reilly, Robert Witt:
  The hazard of being an English football league manager: empirical estimates for three recent league seasons. 884-891

Case-Oriented Papers

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  María Jesús Mancebón, M. A. Muñiz:
  Private versus public high schools in Spain: disentangling managerial and programme efficiencies. 892-901
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  Hazel Pilgrim, Jim Chilcott:
  Assessment of a 7-day turn-around for the reporting of cervical smear results using discrete event simulation. 902-910
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  Jian Liu, Ravindra K. Ahuja, Güvenç Sahin:
  Optimal network configuration and capacity expansion of railroads. 911-920
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  S. M. Finlay:
  Towards profitability: a utility approach to the credit scoring problem. 921-931

Theoretical Papers

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  Bernd Wagner:
  Model formulations for hub covering problems. 932-938
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  Marcelo Seido Nagano, J. V. Moccellin:
  Reducing mean flow time in permutation flow shop. 939-945
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  A. A. Kranenburg, G. J. van Houtum:
  Service differentiation in spare parts inventory management. 946-955
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  David J. Hand, Christopher Whitrow, Niall M. Adams, Piotr Juszczak, David John Weston:
  Performance criteria for plastic card fraud detection tools. 956-962
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  F. Alonso, M. Jesús Alvarez, John E. Beasley:
  A tabu search algorithm for the periodic vehicle routing problem with multiple vehicle trips and accessibility restrictions. 963-976
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  Adam Janiak, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov:
  Scheduling jobs in a contaminated area: a model and heuristic algorithms. 977-987
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  Cigdem Alabas-Uslu:
  A self-tuning heuristic for a multi-objective vehicle routing problem. 988-996
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  Gur Mosheiov, Assaf Sarig:
  A due-window assignment problem with position-dependent processing times. 997-1003
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  Jun-Yeon Lee:
  Quantity discounts based on the previous order in a two-period inventory model with demand uncertainty. 1004-1011

Volume 59, Number 8, August 2008

General Paper

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  John Mingers:
  Exploring the dynamics of journal citations: Modelling with s-curves. 1013-1025

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Christine S. M. Currie, Russell C. H. Cheng, Honora K. Smith:
  Dynamic pricing of airline tickets with competition. 1026-1037
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  António Pais Antunes, J. C. Teixeira, M. S. Coutinho:
  Managing solid waste through discrete location analysis: A case study in central Portugal. 1038-1046
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  David Ronen, C. A. Goodhart:
  Tactical store delivery planning. 1047-1054
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  El-Houssaine Aghezzaf:
  Robust distribution planning for supplier-managed inventory agreements when demand rates and travel times are stationary. 1055-1065
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  Diego J. Pedregal, Peter C. Young:
  Development of improved adaptive approaches to electricity demand forecasting. 1066-1076

Theoretical Papers

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  Caroline Gagné, Marc Gravel, Sara Morin, Wilson L. Price:
  Impact of the pheromone trail on the performance of ACO algorithms for solving the car-sequencing problem. 1077-1090
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  Mike Metcalfe:
  Pragmatic inquiry. 1091-1099
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  Shangyao Yan, Ching-Hui Tang, C.-H. Chen:
  Reassignments of common-use check-in counters following airport incidents. 1100-1108
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  Shih-Wei Lin, Kuo-Ching Ying:
  A hybrid approach for single-machine tardiness problems with sequence-dependent setup times. 1109-1119
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  F.-M. Tseng:
  Quadratic interval innovation diffusion models for new product sales forecasting. 1120-1127
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  Yan-Kwang Chen, Hsu-Hwa Chang:
  Economic design of variable parameters X̅ control charts for processes with fuzzy mean shifts. 1128-1135

Technical Note

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  Lei Fang, Chuan-qin Zhang:
  Resource allocation based on the DEA model. 1136-1141

Viewpoints

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  Kun-Jen Chung, Shy-Der Lin, Ghi-Feng Yen:
  The complete proof on the economic order quantity under conditions of permissible delay in payments. 1142-1144
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  Jinn-Tsair Teng:
  Reply to Chung, Lin and Yence. 1144

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 1145-1147

Corrigendum

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  Book Selection. 1148

Volume 59, Number 9, September 2008

Editorial

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  Terry Williams, John Wilson, John C. Ranyard:
  Editorial. 1149

Review Paper

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  Robert Fildes, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Sven F. Crone, Aris A. Syntetos:
  Forecasting and operational research: a review. 1150-1172

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Keith Cooper, Ruth Davies, James P. Raftery, Paul Roderick:
  Use of a coronary heart disease simulation model to evaluate the costs and effectiveness of drugs for the prevention of heart disease. 1173-1181
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  René de Koster, Mengfei Yu:
  Minimizing makespan and throughput times at Aalsmeer flower auction. 1182-1190
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  W. L. Ng, S. C. H. Leung, J. K. P. Lam, S. W. Pan:
  Petrol delivery tanker assignment and routing: a case study in Hong Kong. 1191-1200
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  Ziqi Liao, W. K. Wong:
  The determinants of customer interactions with internet-enabled e-banking services. 1201-1210
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  Dobrila Petrovic, Onur Aköz:
  A fuzzy goal programming approach to integrated loading and scheduling of a batch processing machine. 1211-1219

Theoretical Papers

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  Robert A. Russell, Timothy L. Urban:
  Vehicle routing with soft time windows and Erlang travel times. 1220-1228
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  Francisco Silva, Daniel Serra:
  Locating emergency services with different priorities: the priority queuing covering location problem. 1229-1238
• 
  Miguel A. Lejeune:
  Preprocessing techniques and column generation algorithms for stochastically efficient demand. 1239-1252
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  G. Özerol, Esra Karasakal:
  Interactive outranking approaches for multicriteria decision-making problems with imprecise information. 1253-1268
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  Ali Husseinzadeh Kashan, Behrooz Karimi:
  Scheduling a single batch-processing machine with arbitrary job sizes and incompatible job families: An ant colony framework. 1269-1280
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  Uri Benzion, Yuval Cohen, R. Peled, Tal Shavit:
  Decision-making and the newsvendor problem: an experimental study. 1281-1287

Volume 59, Number 10, October 2008

General Paper

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  Khalid Saeed, Oleg V. Pavlov:
  Dynastic cycle: a generic structure describing resource allocation in political economies, markets and firms. 1289-1298

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Susan Howick, Jason Whalley:
  Understanding the drivers of broadband adoption: the case of rural and remote Scotland. 1299-1311
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  Assem Kaylani, Mansooreh Mollaghasemi, Dayana Cope, S. Fayez, Ghaith Rabadi, Martin J. Steele:
  A generic environment for modelling future launch operations - GEM-FLO: a success story in generic modelling. 1312-1320
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  Diederik Lugtigheid, Xiaoyue Jiang, Andrew K. S. Jardine:
  A finite horizon model for repairable systems with repair restrictions. 1321-1331
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  Brian Lehaney, D. Malindzák, Z. Khan:
  Simulation modelling for problem understanding: a case study in the East Slovakia Coal Industry. 1332-1339
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  Georgios N. Angelou, Anastasios A. Economides:
  A real options approach for prioritizing ICT business alternatives: a case study from broadband technology business field. 1340-1351

Theoretical Papers

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  Sebastián Lozano, Ester Gutiérrez:
  TSD-consistent performance assessment of mutual funds. 1352-1362
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  Michael J. Brusco:
  Scheduling advertising slots for television. 1363-1372
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  Fan T. Tseng, Edward F. Stafford Jr.:
  New MILP models for the permutation flowshop problem. 1373-1386
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  Ruibin Bai, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall:
  Heuristic, meta-heuristic and hyper-heuristic approaches for fresh produce inventory control and shelf space allocation. 1387-1397
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  Oded Berman, J. Wang:
  The probabilistic 1-maximal covering problem on a network with discrete demand weights. 1398-1405
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  David F. Percy, Philip A. Scarf:
  On the development of decision rules for bar quiz handicapping. 1406-1414

Technical Notes

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  A. Nilsson, Edward A. Silver:
  A simple improvement on Silver's heuristic for the joint replenishment problem. 1415-1421
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  Gur Mosheiov:
  Minimizing total absolute deviation of job completion times: extensions to position-dependent processing times and parallel identical machines. 1422-1424

Viewpoints

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  K.-J. Chung:
  An EOQ model for deteriorating items under trade credits by Ouyang, Chang and Teng. 1425-1429
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  Jinn-Tsair Teng:
  Reply to Kun-Jen Chung. 1429-1430
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  Adam Janiak, Radoslaw Rudek:
  Complexity results for single-machine scheduling with positional learning effects. 1430

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 1431-1433

Volume 59, Number 11, November 2008

General Paper

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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  The transformation competence perspective. 1435-1448

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Irina V. Gribkovskaia, Gilbert Laporte, A. Shlopak:
  A tabu search heuristic for a routing problem arising in servicing of offshore oil and gas platforms. 1449-1459
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  Edgar Alberto Cabral, Erhan Erkut, Gilbert Laporte, Raymond A. Patterson:
  Wide area telecommunication network design: application to the Alberta SuperNet. 1460-1470
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  Jeffery K. Cochran, Kevin T. Roche:
  A queuing-based decision support methodology to estimate hospital inpatient bed demand. 1471-1482
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  Marta Anna Krajewska, Herbert Kopfer, Gilbert Laporte, Stefan Ropke, Georges Zaccour:
  Horizontal cooperation among freight carriers: request allocation and profit sharing. 1483-1491

Theoretical Papers

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  John J. Glen:
  An additive utility mixed integer programming model for nonlinear discriminant analysis. 1492-1505
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  Robert Aboolian, Oded Berman, Dmitry Krass:
  Optimizing pricing and location decisions for competitive service facilities charging uniform price. 1506-1519
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  Cláudio Alves, José M. Valério de Carvalho:
  New integer programming formulations and an exact algorithm for the ordered cutting stock problem. 1520-1531
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  Subrata Mitra:
  A parallel clustering technique for the vehicle routing problem with split deliveries and pickups. 1532-1546
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  Enrique Bustamante-Cedeño, Sant Arora:
  Stochastic and minimum regret formulations for transmission network expansion planning under uncertainties. 1547-1556
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  Tolga Bektas, Jean-François Cordeau, Erhan Erkut, Gilbert Laporte:
  A two-level simulated annealing algorithm for efficient dissemination of electronic content. 1557-1567

Technical Note

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  Maria Battarra, Bruce L. Golden, Daniele Vigo:
  Tuning a parametric Clarke-Wright heuristic via a genetic algorithm. 1568-1572

Volume 59, Number 12, December 2008

General Paper

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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  The history and ideas of Marxism: the relevance for OR. 1573-1590

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Ahmed Ghanmi, R. H. A. David Shaw:
  Modelling and analysis of Canadian Forces strategic lift and pre-positioning options. 1591-1602
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  Jacques Renaud, Angel B. Ruiz:
  Improving product location and order picking activities in a distribution centre. 1603-1613
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  Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Maria Teresa Sánchez-Polo:
  Linking the individual forgetting context with customer capital from a seller's perspective. 1614-1623
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  H. J. Jeon, S. Y. Sohn:
  The risk management for technology credit guarantee fund. 1624-1632

Theoretical Papers

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  John H. Powell, J. Swart:
  Scaling knowledge: how does knowledge accrue in systems? 1633-1643
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  Sami El-Ferik, Mohamed Ben-Daya:
  Model for imperfect age-based preventive maintenance with age reduction. 1644-1651
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  C. G. Lennon, J. M. McGowan, Kyle Yi Lin:
  A game-theoretic model for repeated assignment problem between two selfish agents. 1652-1658
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  Christos D. Tarantilis, Emmanouil E. Zachariadis, Chris T. Kiranoudis:
  A guided tabu search for the heterogeneous vehicle routeing problem. 1659-1673
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  Francisco J. López, José H. Dulá:
  Adding and removing an attribute in a DEA model: theory and processing. 1674-1684
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  Javier Faulin, Alejandro Garcia del Valle:
  Solving the capacitated vehicle routing problem using the ALGELECT electrostatic algorithm. 1685-1695

Viewpoints

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  Chung-Lun Li:
  A note on unrelated parallel machine scheduling with time-dependent processing times. 1696-1697
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  Dar-Li Yang:
  Reply to Chung-Lun Li. 1697

Corrigendum

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