Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume 52

Volume 52, Number 1, January 2001

Editorial

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  John C. Ranyard:
  Editorial. 1-3

Strategic Paper

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  C. J. L. Yewlett:
  OR in strategic land-use planning. 4-13

Case-oriented Papers

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  Itzhak Ben-David, Tzvi Raz:
  An integrated approach for risk response development in project planning. 14-25
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  Susan Howick, Colin Eden:
  The impact of disruption and delay when compressing large projects: going for incentives? 26-34
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  Maurice Yolles:
  Viable boundary critique. 35-47
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  Jeffery D. Weir, James T. Moore, M. G. Stoecker:
  An improved solution methodology for the arsenal exchange model (AEM). 48-54

Theoretical Papers

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  Y.-W. Leung, Eric W. M. Wong:
  An incentive charging scheme for video-on-demand. 55-63
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  Haresh Gurnani, Kamalakar Karlapalem:
  Optimal pricing strategies for Internet-based software dissemination. 64-70
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  Felisa J. Vázquez-Abad, P. LeQuoc:
  Sensitivity analysis for ruin probabilities: canonical risk model. 71-81
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  James Little:
  Enhancing the performance of constraint programming through the introduction of linear programming. 82-92
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  Melody Y. Kiang, Uday R. Kulkarni, Robert St. Louis:
  Circular/wrap-around self-organizing map networks: an empirical study in clustering and classification. 93-101

Technical Notes

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  Michael A. Pearson:
  The incorporation of target performance measures and constrained optimisation in the newsboy problem. 1-10
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  Yen-Liang Chen, Dan Rinks, Kwei Tang:
  The first K minimum cost paths in a time-schedule network. 102-108
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  S. Andrew Starbird:
  Penalties, rewards, and inspection: provisions for quality in supply chain contracts. 109-115
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  Marie-Laure Espinouse, Piotr Formanowicz, Bernard Penz:
  Complexity results and approximation algorithms for the two machine no-wait flow-shop with limited machine availability. 116-121

Viewpoint

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  R. Ganeshan:
  A comment on: Geetha K K and Archary K K (2000)Are more suppliers better?: generalizing the Guo and Ganeshan procedure. J Opl Res Soc 51: 1179-1183. 122-123
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  K. K. Geetha, K. K. Achary:
  Reply to Ganeshan. 123-124

Volume 52, Number 2, February 2001

Case-oriented Papers

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  V. M. Rao Tummala, C. L. Mak:
  A risk management model for improving operation and maintenance activities in electricity transmission networks. 125-134
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  John Bowers:
  The cost of weather in a floating oil production system. 135-142
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  M. C. Hughes:
  Forecasting practice: organisational issues. 143-149
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  N. A. D. Connell:
  Evaluating soft OR: some reflections on an apparently 'unsuccessful' implementation using a Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) based approach. 150-160

Theoretical Papers

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  M. A. J. Smith, Rommert Dekker, J. Kos, Jan A. M. Hontelez:
  The availability of unmanned air vehicles: a post-case study. 161-168
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  Paul M. E. Shutler:
  An improved branching rule for the symmetric travelling salesman problem. 169-175
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  William W. Cooper, Kyung Sam Park, Gang Yu:
  IDEA (Imprecise Data Envelopment Analysis) with CMDs (Column Maximum Decision Making Units). 176-181
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  Marvin D. Troutt, Gregory P. White, Suresh K. Tadisina:
  Maximal flow network modelling of production bottleneck problems. 182-187
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  Rommert Dekker, Raymond Ph. Plasmeijer:
  Multi-parameter maintenance optimisation via the marginal cost approach. 188-197
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  Yael Perlman, Abraham Mehrez, Moshe Kaspi:
  Setting expediting repair policy in a multi-echelon repairable-item inventory system with limited repair capacity. 198-209

Technical Notes

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  Józef Grabowski, Jaroslaw Pempera:
  New block properties for the permutation flow shop problem with application in tabu search. 210-220
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  Victor V. Podinovski:
  Validating absolute weight bounds in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models. 221-225
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  Victor Portougal, Dan Trietsch:
  Stochastic scheduling with optimal customer service. 226-233
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  Guoqing Wang, T. C. Edwin Cheng:
  An approximation algorithm for parallel machine scheduling with a common server. 234-237

Viewpoints

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  Suresh K. Goyal, B. C. Giri:
  A comment on Chang and Dye (1999): EOQ model for deteriorating items with time-varying demand and partial backlogging. 238-239
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  Chung-Yuan Dye:
  Response by Dye. 239
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  Alan Mercer:
  A Comment on Brimberg and ReVelle (2000): The maximum return-on-investment plant location problem. 240-241
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  Jack Brimberg, Charles S. ReVelle, Kenneth E. Rosing:
  Response by Brimberg, ReVelle and Rosing. 241-242

Book Selection

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  S. Kafandaris:
  The Economic Value of Information. 243-244
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  H. W. Ittman:
  Purchasing in the 21st Century. 244-245
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  D. K. Smith:
  Numerical Optimization. 245
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  M. Simpson:
  Measurement Made Accessible: A Research Approach Using Qualitative, Quantitative and Quality Improvement Methods. 245-246

Volume 52, Number 3, March 2001

Case-oriented Papers

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  M. I. Desa, Anthony H. Christer:
  Modelling in the absence of data: a case study of fleet maintenance in a developing country. 247-260
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  Fernando César Mendonça, Reinaldo Morabito:
  Analysing emergency medical service ambulance deployment on a Brazilian highway using the hypercube model. 261-270
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  S.-K. Lim, Yeong-Dae Kim:
  Plant location and procurement planning in knockdown production systems. 271-282
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  Pablo Cortés, Luis Onieva, Juan Larrañeta, José M. García:
  Decision support system for planning telecommunication networks: a case study applied to the Andalusian region. 283-290

Theoretical Papers

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  Kalyanmoy Deb:
  Nonlinear goal programming using multi-objective genetic algorithms. 291-302
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  Wade D. Cook, Alex Kazakov, Bhagwant Persaud:
  Prioritising highway accident sites: a data envelopment analysis model. 303-309
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  Moshe Kress:
  Efficient strategies for transporting mobile forces. 310-317
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  Stijn De Vuyst, Sabine Wittevrongel, Herwig Bruneel:
  Statistical multiplexing of correlated variable-length packet trains: an analytic performance study. 318-327
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  John J. Glen:
  Classification accuracy in discriminant analysis: a mixed integer programming approach. 328-339
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  Andreas Drexl, Alf Kimms:
  Optimization guided lower and upper bounds for the resource investment problem. 340-351

Technical Notes

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  J. M. Freeman:
  Variable wager HI-LO: a stochastic dynamic programming analysis. 352-357
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  Richard Y. K. Fung, X. Ma:
  A new method for joint replenishment problems. 358-362

Viewpoint

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  I. Munro:
  A contibution to the Ormerod/Jackson debate. J Opl Res Soc 51: 882-886JORS wars: a step into no mans land. 363-364

Book Selection

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  John Crocker, Saïd Salhi, Edmund J. Collins, J. Edwards, A. Harding:
  Book Selection. 365-367

Volume 52, Number 4, April 2001

Strategic Paper

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  John H. Powell:
  Generating networks for strategic planning by successive key factor modification. 369-382

Case-oriented Papers

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  Frederick P. Wheeler:
  A Bayesian approach to service level performance monitoring in supplier, provider relationships. 383-390
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  Vladimir Marianov, Paulina Taborga:
  Optimal location of public health centres which provide free and paid services. 391-400
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  Gillian Mould:
  Assessing systems for offshore emergency evacuation. 401-408

Theoretical Papers

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  Iris F. A. Vis, René de Koster, Kees Jan Roodbergen, Leon W. P. Peeters:
  Determination of the number of automated guided vehicles required at a semi-automated container terminal. 409-417
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  C. S. Sung, S. H. Kim:
  Analysis of a multi-part spares inventory system subject to ambiguous fault isolation. 418-432
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  Jacinthe Clossey, Gilbert Laporte, Patrick Soriano:
  Solving arc routing problems with turn penalties. 433-439
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  Chae Y. Lee, Seok Joo Koh:
  Assignment of add-drop multiplexer (ADM) rings and digital cross-connect system (DCS) mesh in telecommunication networks. 440-448

Technical Notes

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  Ali Allahverdi, Tariq A. Aldowaisan:
  Minimizing total completion time in a no-wait flowshop with sequence-dependent additive changeover times. 449-462
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  Y.-C. Hsieh:
  Another heuristic for minimizing total average cycle stock subject to practical constraints. 463-470
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  Stephen R. Clarke, Paul Allsopp:
  Fair measures of performance: the World Cup of cricket. 471-479

Medal awards 2000

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  Stewart Robinson:
  Medal awards 2000. 480-481

Volume 52, Number 5, May 2001

Case-oriented Papers

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  John E. Beasley, Julia Sonander, P. Havelock:
  Scheduling aircraft landings at London Heathrow using a population heuristic. 483-493
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  Antonio Pratelli, Fabio Schoen:
  A mathematical programming model for the bus deviation route problem. 494-502
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  C. B. Lee, Leslie R. Fletcher, Jane M. Binner, W. D. Murphy:
  Market share in a post-entry game. 503-510
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  M. M. Akarte, N. V. Surendra, B. Ravi, N. Rangaraj:
  Web based casting supplier evaluation using analytical hierarchy process. 511-522
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  George Ioannou, Manolis N. Kritikos, Gregory P. Prastacos:
  A greedy look-ahead heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows. 523-537

Theoretical Papers

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  Michael W. Carter, D. G. Johnson:
  Extended clique initialisation in examination timetabling. 538-544
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  Bhaba R. Sarker, H. Pan:
  Designing a mixed-model, open-station assembly line using mixed-integer programming. 545-558
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  Günter Becker, Janet Nagel, Leonidas Camarinopoulos, George Zioutas:
  Simultaneous optimisation of test and maintenance intervals of given components using non-homogenous semi-Markov models. 559-566
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  M.-T. Kong, N. Shah:
  Preprocessing rules for integer programming solutions to the generalised assignment problem. 567-575

Technical Note

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  Marvin D. Troutt, B. K. Yew, Aimao Zhang:
  Solving electronic spreadsheet models by interactive multicriterion optimization: a budgeting illustration. 576-583

Viewpoints

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  Mohamad Y. Jaber, Maurice Bonney:
  A comment on Zhou YW and Lau H-S (1998). Optimal production lot sizing model considering the bounded learning case and shortages backordered. J Opl Res Soc 49: 1206-1211. 584-590
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  Yong-Wu Zhou, Hon-Shiang Lau:
  Reply to Jaber and Bonney. 590-591
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  Mohamad Y. Jaber, Maurice Bonney:
  Comments on Zhou & Lau's reply. 591-592
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  Yong-Wu Zhou, Hon-Shiang Lau:
  Response to Jaber and Bonneys' comments. 593
• 
  S. Sinha:
  A comment on Anandalingam (1988). A mathematical programming model of decentralized multi-level systems. J Opl Res Soc 39: 1021-1033. 594-596
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  S.-P. Wang:
  A note on Chang H-J and Dye C-Y (1999). An EOQ model for deteriorating items with time varying demand and partial backlogging. J Opl Res Soc 50: 1176-1182. 597-598
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  Horng-Jinh Chang, Chung-Yuan Dye:
  Response from Chang and Dye. 598
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  Suresh K. Goyal:
  Optimal production stopping and restarting times for an EOQ model with deteriorating items. A commentary on Yan and Cheng (1998). J Opl Res Soc 49: 1288-1295. 599

Book Selection

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  B. Atkinson:
  Queuing Networks: Customers, Signals and Product Form Solutions. 600-601
• 
  Saïd Salhi:
  Adaptive Search and the Management of Logistics Systems: Base Models for Learning Agents. 601-602
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  Victor J. Rayward-Smith:
  Project Scheduling: Recent Models, Algorithms and Applications. 602-603
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  Charles R. Leake:
  Multicriterion Decision in Management: Principles and Practice. 603

Volume 52, Number 6, June 2001

Case-oriented Papers

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  N. P. Hoare, John E. Beasley:
  Placing boxes on shelves: a case study. 605-614
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  Avishai Ceder, I. Reshetnik:
  An algorithm to minimize queues at signalized intersections. 615-622
• 
  Barrie M. Baker, C. Benn:
  Assigning pupils to tutor groups in a comprehensive school. 623-629
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  Guisseppi A. Forgionne:
  HRSOS: a decision support system to facilitate the privatization of military housing. 630-641

Theoretical Papers

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  John Sheil:
  First-off inspection of capable manufacturing processes. 642-651
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  Guoqiang Peter Zhang, Victor L. Berardi:
  Time series forecasting with neural network ensembles: an application for exchange rate prediction. 652-664
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  Murat Köksalan, O. Rizi:
  A visual interactive approach for multiple criteria decision making with monotone utility functions. 665-672
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  Bhaba R. Sarker, Z. Li:
  Job routing and operations scheduling: a network-based virtual cell formation approach. 673-681
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  Hon-Shiang Lau, Amy Hing Ling Lau, John F. Kottas:
  Pricing/inventory decisions and profit shares in a non-integrated marketing channel for a single-period product. 682-690
• 
  Wlodzimierz Ogryczak:
  On goal programming formulations of the reference point method. 691-698

Technical Notes

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  Anne B. Koehler, Neil B. Marks, Richard T. O'connell:
  EWMA control charts for autoregressive processes. 699-707
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  Alexander V. Kononov, Stanislaw Gawiejnowicz:
  NP-hard cases in scheduling deteriorating jobs on dedicated machines. 708-717
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  B. M. Yakasai:
  A cast-off replacement policy for a component demanded by two parallel units. 718-723

JORS Referees 2000

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  JORS Referees 2000. 724-726

Volume 52, Number 7, July 2001

Case-oriented Papers

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  Alfonso Mateos, Sixto Ríos-Insua, Eduardo Gallego:
  Postoptimal analysis in a multi-attribute decision model for restoring contaminated aquatic ecosystems. 727-738
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  Nicky E. Shaw, Thomas F. Burgess:
  Targeting quality improvement efforts through knowledge of capacity constraints: the case of a low technology ceramics manufacturer. 739-749
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  J. M. Betts, Robert Bruce Johnston:
  Just-in-time replenishment decisions for assembly manufacturing with investor-supplied finance. 750-761
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  Khairy A. H. Kobbacy, Jaehyo Jeon:
  The development of a hybrid intelligent maintenance optimisation system (HIMOS). 762-778

Theoretical Papers

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  Pilar Tormos, Antonio Luis Lova:
  Tools for resource-constrained project scheduling and control: forward and backward slack analysis. 779-788
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  E. G. A. Gaury, Jack P. C. Kleijnen, Henri Pierreval:
  A methodology to customize pull control systems. 789-799
• 
  Ronald Martin Skitmore:
  Graphical method for identifying high outliers in construction contract auctions. 800-809
• 
  Bart L. MacCarthy, Thananya Wasusri:
  Statistical process control for monitoring scheduling performance - addressing the problem of correlated data. 810-820
• 
  Moh Danil Hendry Gamal, Saïd Salhi:
  Constructive heuristics for the uncapacitated continuous location-allocation problem. 821-829

Technical Notes

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  Jan C. Fransoo, Marc J. F. Wouters, Ton G. de Kok:
  Multi-echelon multi-company inventory planning with limited information exchange. 830-838
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  Chin-Tsai Lin, C.-B. Chen, H.-J. Hsieh:
  Effects of centralization on expected profits in a multi-location newsboy problem. 839-841
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  Olatunde A. Adekola:
  A note on life expectancy in a nonhomogeneous population. 842-843

Viewpoint

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  J. N. Floyer:
  Comment on Johnston (2000): Commentary on Burgin and Wild (1967): Stock control - experience and usable theory. J Opl Res Soc 51: 1111. 844

Book Selection

• 
  Graham K. Rand:
  Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling (Third Edition). 845
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  J. Wilson:
  Scheduling of Resource-Constrained Projects. 846
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  A. Boyd:
  Synergy Matters; Working with Systems in the 21st Century. 846-847
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  M. J. Norman:
  Managing in Uncertainty: Theory and Practice. 847-848

Volume 52, Number 8, August 2001

Part Special Issue: OR42 Papers Blackett Memorial Lecture 2000

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  Arnold Barnett:
  Blackett Memorial Lecture Air safety: end of the golden age? 849-854

OR42 Papers

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  Brian Lehaney, Steve Clarke, Miles G. Nicholls:
  JORS part special issue OR42 papers: an editorial overview. 855
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  John Davies, Victoria J. Mabin:
  Knowledge management and the framing of information: a contribution to OR/MS practice and pedagogy. 856-872
• 
  Krishna S. Dhir:
  Enhancing management's understanding of operational research models. 873-887
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  Paula A. Leal de Matos:
  Yield management for privatised air traffic control? 888-895
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  Robert Pavur, Constantine Loucopoulos:
  Evaluating the effect of gap size in a single function mathematical programming model for the three-group classification problem. 896-904

Case-oriented Papers

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  Stewart Robinson:
  Soft with a hard centre: discrete-event simulation in facilitation. 905-915
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  Niv Ahituv, Yuval Elovici:
  Performance evaluation of a distributed application. 916-927

Theoretical Papers

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  Jean-François Cordeau, Gilbert Laporte, Anne Mercier:
  A unified tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problems with time windows. 928-936
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  I. Kuban Altinel, Süleyman Özekici, Orhan Feyzioglu:
  Component testing of repairable systems in multistage missions. 937-944

Technical Notes

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  Gianpaolo Ghiani, Gennaro Improta:
  The laser-plotter beam routing problem. 945-951
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  Chun-Hung Cheng, Manu S. Madan, Yash Gupta, Sam So:
  Solving the capacitated lot-sizing problem with backorder consideration. 952-959

Viewpoints

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  Wlodzimierz Ogryczak:
  Comments on Romero C, Tamiz M and Jones DF (1998). Goal programming, compromise programming and reference point method formulations: linkages and utility interpretations. 960-962
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  Carlos Romero, Mehrdad Tamiz, Dylan F. Jones:
  Reply to Professor Ogryczak. 962-963
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  Wlodzimierz Ogryczak:
  Comments on Reply by Romero et al. 963-964
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  Mehrdad Tamiz, Dylan F. Jones, Carlos Romero:
  Final reply to comments of Professor Ogryczak. 964-965
• 
  Ilkyeong Moon, Bibhas Chandra Giri:
  Comment on Bose S, Goswami A and Chaudhuri KS (1995). An EOQ model for deteriorating items with linear time-dependent demand rate and shortages under inflation and time discounting. 966-969

Corrigendum

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  J. Pemberton, Ronald Martin Skitmore:
  Skitmore M and Pemberton J (1994). A multivariate approach to construction contract bidding mark-up strategies. 970

Volume 52, Number 9, September 2001

Special Issue: Credit Scoring and Data Mining
Introduction

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  John C. Ranyard:
  Editor's Introduction. 971

Editorial

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  Jonathan N. Crook, David B. Edelman, Lyn C. Thomas:
  Editorial overview. 972-973

Original Articles

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  Hui Zhu, Peter A. Beling, George A. Overstreet Jr.:
  A study in the combination of two consumer credit scores. 974-980
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  Lyn C. Thomas, John Banasik, Jonathan N. Crook:
  Recalibrating scorecards. 981-988
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  David J. Hand, Mark G. Kelly:
  Lookahead scorecards for new fixed term credit products. 989-996
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  John Banasik, Jonathan Crook, Lyn Thomas:
  Scoring by usage. 997-1006
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  Maria Stepanova, Lyn C. Thomas:
  PHAB scores: proportional hazards analysis behavioural scores. 1007-1016
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  Niall M. Adams, David J. Hand, Robert J. Till:
  Mining for classes and patterns in behavioural data. 1017-1024
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  Robert M. Oliver, E. Wells:
  Efficient frontier cutoff policies in credit portfolios. 1025-1033
• 
  A. Neri:
  The planning of marketing strategies in consumer credit: an approach based on graphical chain models for ordinal variables. 1034-1044
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  Martha L. Maznevski, R. S. Kemp, George A. Overstreet Jr., Jonathan N. Crook:
  The power to borrow and lend: investigating the cultural context as part of the lending decision. 1045-1056

Volume 52, Number 10, October 2001

Strategic Paper

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  M. Wisniewski, A. Dickson:
  Measuring performance in Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary with the Balanced Scorecard. 1057-1066

Case-oriented Papers

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  Ben J. Waterson, Nicholas Brian Hounsell, K. Chatterjee:
  Quantifying the potential savings in travel time resulting from parking guidance systems - a simulation case study. 1067-1077
• 
  Sándor Jenei:
  Incremental Operator Assistance Knowledge System - an intelligent aid for a general class of problems. 1078-1090
• 
  Lixin Tang, Jiyin Liu, Aiying Rong, Zihou Yang:
  An effective heuristic algorithm to minimise stack shuffles in selecting steel slabs from the slab yard for heating and rolling. 1091-1097
• 
  Jalal Ashayeri, Willem J. Selen:
  Order selection optimization in hybrid make-to-order and make-to-stock markets. 1098-1106

Theoretical Papers

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  Ahmet Bolat:
  Models and a genetic algorithm for static aircraft-gate assignment problem. 1107-1120
• 
  Chinho Lin, Jieh-Rern Ding, Jong-Mau Yeh:
  A closed queuing maintenance network for automated manufacturing systems. 1121-1129
• 
  Noel Bryson, Anito Joseph:
  Optimal techniques for class-dependent attribute discretization. 1130-1143
• 
  A. C. B. Tse:
  Using mathematical programming to solve large ranking problems. 1144-1150

Technical Notes

• 
  C.-T. Chang, S.-C. Chang:
  On the inventory model with variable lead time and price-quantity discount. 1151-1158
• 
  James V. Hansen:
  Internet commerce security: issues and models for control checking. 1159-1164
• 
  Gur Mosheiov:
  Parallel machine scheduling with a learning effect. 1165-1169

Viewpoints

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  John L. Scott:
  Education and a future for OR - a viewpoint. 1170-1175
• 
  Richard J. Ormerod:
  The success and failure of methodologies - a comment on Connell (2001): evaluating soft OR. 1176-1179

Volume 52, Number 11, November 2001

Presidential Address

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  Michael Pidd:
  The futures of OR. 1181-1190

Case-oriented Papers

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  D. H. Noble, Md. Al-Amin, R. G. J. Mills:
  Production of locomotive rosters for a multi-class multi-locomotive problem. 1191-1200
• 
  Shad Dowlatshahi:
  Product life cycle analysis: a goal programming approach. 1201-1214
• 
  Cheng-Chang Lin, Y.-C. Wu:
  The multiple frequency delivery operations in the time-definite delivery industry. 1215-1224

Theoretical Papers

• 
  Chris Tofallis:
  Combining two approaches to efficiency assessment. 1225-1231
• 
  W. Matthew Carlyle, Kraig Knutson, John W. Fowler:
  Bin covering algorithms in the second stage of the lot to order matching problem. 1232-1243
• 
  Hani I. Mesak, Hongkai Zhang:
  Optimal advertising pulsation policies: a dynamic programming approach. 1244-1255
• 
  Cormac Lucas, Seyyed Ali MirHassani, Gautam Mitra, Chandra A. Poojari:
  An application of Lagrangian relaxation to a capacity planning problem under uncertainty. 1256-1266
• 
  G. L. Shoesmith, J. P. Pinder:
  Potential inventory cost reductions using advanced time series forecasting techniques. 1267-1275
• 
  K. K. Lai, Francis K. N. Leung, B. Tao, Shou-Yang Wang:
  A sequential method for preventive maintenance and replacement of a repairable single-unit system. 1276-1283

Technical Notes

• 
  Nat Jack, D. N. P. Murthy:
  A servicing strategy for items sold under warranty. 1284-1288
• 
  Débora P. Ronconi, Vinícius Amaral Armentano:
  Lower bounding schemes for flowshops with blocking in-process. 1289-1297

Viewpoints

• 
  J. J. González-Henríquez, P. Saavedra-Santana:
  Comment on Makis and Jardine (1992): Optimal replacement policy for a general model with imperfect repair. 1298
• 
  Andrew K. S. Jardine:
  Response to González-Henríquez and Saavedra-Santana. 1299
• 
  Zaid T. Balkhi, Suresh K. Goyal, B. C. Giri:
  Some notes on the optimal production stopping and restarting times for an EOQ model with deteriorating items. 1300-1301

Volume 52, Number 12, December 2001

Editorial

• 
  John C. Ranyard:
  Editorial. 1303

Strategic Papers

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  C. J. L. Yewlett:
  Theory and practice in OR and town planning: a continuing creative synergy? 1304-1314

General Papers

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  Robert F. Bordley:
  Relating value-focused thinking and interactive planning. 1315-1326

Case-oriented Papers

• 
  Behrouz Zarei:
  Simulation for business process re-engineering: case study of a database management system. 1327-1337
• 
  Paula A. Leal de Matos, Bo Chen, Richard J. Ormerod:
  Optimisation models for re-routing air traffic flows in Europe. 1338-1349
• 
  Z. Xiaobo:
  Allocation of buffer spaces in a flexible manufacturing system: a model and a case example. 1350-1358

Theoretical Papers

• 
  Adil Baykasoglu:
  Goal programming using multiple objective tabu search. 1359-1369
• 
  M. A. Rahim, Mohamed Ben-Daya:
  Joint determination of production quantity, inspection schedule, and quality control for an imperfect process with deteriorating products. 1370-1378
• 
  Robert L. Burdett, Erhan Kozan:
  Sequencing and scheduling in flowshops with task redistribution. 1379-1389
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  Guntram Scheithauer, Johannes Terno, Antje Müller, Gleb Belov:
  Solving one-dimensional cutting stock problems exactly with a cutting plane algorithm. 1390-1401

Technical Notes

• 
  Fredrik A. Dahl:
  Variance reduction for Markov chain processes using state space evaluation for control variates. 1402-1407

Book Selection

• 
  Brian W. Hollocks:
  Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond: Integrating Your Entire Organization. 1408
• 
  Cláudia S. Sarrico:
  Data Envelopment Analysis: A Comprehensive Text with Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software. 1408-1409
• 
  S. New:
  Advances in The Management of Organizational Quality: Volume 4. 1410
• 
  Ann R. Taket:
  Doing Critical Management Research. 1410-1412

Obituary

• 
  George Mitchell, Pat Rivett:
  John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury. 1413-1414