Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume 58

Volume 58, Number 1, January 2007

Editorial

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  Terry Williams, John Wilson:
  Editorial. 1

Blackett Memorial Lecture

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  S. J. Cox:
  Blackett Memorial Lecture: the nuclear option - human factors in safety. 2-9

Review Paper

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  Khairy A. H. Kobbacy, Sunil Vadera, Mohamed Hassan Rasmy:
  AI and OR in management of operations: history and trends. 10-28

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Ricardo Bañuelas, Jiju Antony:
  Application of stochastic analytic hierarchy process within a domestic appliance manufacturer. 29-38
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  Fran Ackermann, Colin Eden, Terry Williams, Susan Howick:
  Systemic risk assessment: a case study. 39-51
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  Z. S. Hua, B. Zhang, J. Yang, D. S. Tan:
  A new approach of forecasting intermittent demand for spare parts inventories in the process industries. 52-61

Theoretical Papers

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  Mohamed Haouari, Talel Ladhari:
  Minimizing maximum lateness in a flow shop subject to release dates. 62-72
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  A. Volgenant, I. Y. Zwiers:
  Partial enumeration in heuristics for some combinatorial optimization problems. 73-79
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  Kwanniti Khammuang, Amir H. Abdekhodaee, Andrew Wirth:
  On-line scheduling with forbidden zones. 80-90
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  Oded Berman, Zvi Drezner:
  The multiple server location problem. 91-99
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  Ibrahim H. Osman, Samad Ahmadi:
  Guided construction search metaheuristics for the capacitated p-median problem with single source constraint. 100-114
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  Timo Knuutila, Sami Pyöttiälä, Olli S. Nevalainen:
  Minimizing the number of pickups on a multi-head placement machine. 115-121
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  Dong-Ping Song:
  Characterizing optimal empty container reposition policy in periodic-review shuttle service systems. 122-133

Technical Note

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  I. N. Kamal Abadi:
  A new algorithm for minimizing makespan, C _max, in blocking flow-shop problem through slowing down the operations. 134-140

Volume 58, Number 2, February 2007

Special Issue: Operational Research in Health Editorial

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  Sally C. Brailsford, Paul R. Harper:
  Editorial. 141-144

Papers

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  Nathan C. Proudlove, S. Black, A. Fletcher:
  OR and the challenge to improve the NHS: modelling for insight and improvement in in-patient flows. 145-158
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  Ramesh C. Sachdeva, Terry Williams, John Quigley:
  Mixing methodologies to enhance the implementation of healthcare operational research. 159-167
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  Keith Cooper, Sally C. Brailsford, Ruth Davies:
  Choice of modelling technique for evaluating health care interventions. 168-176
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  E. Ekaette, R. C. Lee, K.-L. Kelly, P. Dunscombe:
  A Monte Carlo simulation approach to the characterization of uncertainties in cancer staging and radiation treatment decisions. 177-185
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  C. Thunhurst:
  Refocusing upstream: Operational Research for population health. 186-194
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  Tobias Andersson Granberg, Peter Värbrand:
  Decision support tools for ambulance dispatch and relocation. 195-201
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  Christos Vasilakis, Boris G. Sobolev, L. Kuramoto, A. R. Levy:
  A simulation study of scheduling clinic appointments in surgical care: individual surgeon versus pooled lists. 202-211
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  Barry Shaw, Adele H. Marshall:
  Modelling the flow of congestive heart failure patients through a hospital system. 212-218
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  Korina Katsaliaki, Sally C. Brailsford:
  Using simulation to improve the blood supply chain. 219-227
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  C. Sherlaw-Johnson, P. Wilson, Steve Gallivan:
  The development and use of tools for monitoring the occurrence of surgical wound infections. 228-234
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  Jonathan Patrick, Martin L. Puterman:
  Improving resource utilization for diagnostic services through flexible inpatient scheduling: A method for improving resource utilization. 235-245
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  R. Ceglowski, Leonid Churilov, J. Wasserthiel:
  Combining Data Mining and Discrete Event Simulation for a value-added view of a hospital emergency department. 246-254
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  Sally I. McClean, Peter H. Millard:
  Where to treat the older patient? Can Markov models help us better understand the relationship between hospital and community care? 255-261
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  Tillal Eldabi, Ray J. Paul, Terry Young:
  Simulation modelling in healthcare: reviewing legacies and investigating futures. 262-270

Volume 58, Number 3, March 2007

General Paper

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  Hen van de Water, M. Schinkel, R. Rozier:
  Fields of application of SSM: a categorization of publications. 271-287

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Daniel De Ladurantaye, Michel Gendreau, Jean-Yves Potvin:
  Scheduling a hot rolling mill. 288-300
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  Miles G. Nicholls:
  A small-to-medium-sized conference scheduling heuristic incorporating presenter and limited attendee preferences. 301-308
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  C.-H. Lan, C.-C. Chen:
  Optimal purchase of two-itemized drugs for a disease. 309-316
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  Ekrem Duman:
  Modelling the operations of a component placement machine with rotational turret and stationary component magazine. 317-325
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  Alfonso Mateos, Sixto Ríos-Insua, A. Jiménez:
  Dominance, potential optimality and alternative ranking in imprecise multi-attribute decision making. 326-336

Theoretical Papers

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  Yan-Kwang Chen:
  Economic design of an adaptive T ² control chart. 337-345
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  Sang-Oh Shim, Yeong-Dae Kim:
  Minimizing total tardiness in an unrelated parallel-machine scheduling problem. 346-354
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  Panagiotis P. Repoussis, Christos D. Tarantilis, George Ioannou:
  The open vehicle routing problem with time windows. 355-367
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  Sujit Kumar Samanta, U. C. Gupta, R. K. Sharma:
  Analysis of finite capacity discrete-time GI/Geo/1 queueing system with multiple vacations. 368-377
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  Oded Berman, Q. Wang:
  Locating semi-obnoxious facilities with expropriation: minisum criterion. 378-390
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  H. Wang, W. Wang, K. A. H. Kobaccy:
  Analysis and design of returns policies from a supplier's perspective. 391-401

Technical Note

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  Gilbert Babin, S. Deneault, Gilbert Laporte:
  Improvements to the Or-opt heuristic for the symmetric travelling salesman problem. 402-407

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 408-411

Volume 58, Number 4, April 2007

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Stephen C. H. Leung, K. K. Lai, Wan-Lung Ng, Yue Wu:
  A robust optimization model for production planning of perishable products. 413-422
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  John W. Hearne:
  A market-driven approach to the optimal stocking problem on African game ranches. 423-428
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  Kathryn A. Dowsland, M. Gilbert, Graham Kendall:
  A local search approach to a circle cutting problem arising in the motor cycle industry. 429-438
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  Mike B. Wright:
  Case study: problem formulation and solution for a real-world sports scheduling problem. 439-445
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  Haifeng Xie, Thierry J. Chaussalet, Wayne A. Thompson, Peter H. Millard:
  A simple graphical decision aid for the placement of elderly people in long-term care. 446-453

Theoretical Papers

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  Irit Talmor, David Mahalel:
  Signal design for an isolated intersection during congestion. 454-466
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  L. Vogt, Chandra A. Poojari, John E. Beasley:
  A tabu search algorithm for the single vehicle routing allocation problem. 467-480
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  Maria C. A. S. Portela, Emmanuel Thanassoulis:
  Developing a decomposable measure of profit efficiency using DEA. 481-490
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  Amy Hing Ling Lau, Hon-Shiang Lau, Jian-Cai Wang:
  Some properties of buyback and other related schemes in a newsvendor-product supply chain with price-sensitive demand. 491-504
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  Hong Seo Ryoo:
  A compact mean-variance-skewness model for large-scale portfolio optimization and its application to the NYSE market. 505-515
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  Corey J. Schumacher, Phillip R. Chandler, Meir Pachter, Lior S. Pachter:
  Optimization of air vehicles operations using mixed-integer linear programming. 516-527

Technical Notes

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  L. Zeng, H. L. Ong, Kien Ming Ng:
  A generalized crossing local search method for solving vehicle routing problems. 528-532
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  Kyung Sam Park:
  Efficiency bounds and efficiency classifications in DEA with imprecise data. 533-540

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 541-543

Volume 58, Number 5, May 2007

Special Issue: Problem Structuring Methods II Editorial

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  L. Alberto Franco, Duncan Shaw, Mark Westcombe:
  Taking problem structuring methods forward. 545-546

Part 1: New Developments in Problem Structuring

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  Alec Morton, Fran Ackermann, Valerie Belton:
  Problem structuring without workshops? Experiences with distributed interaction within a PSM process. 547-556
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  Frances A. O'Brien, Maureen Meadows:
  Developing a visioning methodology: Visioning Choices for the future of operational research. 557-575
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  Simon Bell, Steve Morse:
  Problem structuring methods: theorizing the benefits of deconstructing sustainable development projects. 576-587

Part 2: Reflections and Extensions on Problem Structuring

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  T. Horlick-Jones, Jonathan Rosenhead:
  The uses of observation: combining problem structuring methods and ethnography. 588-601
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  J. Bryant:
  Drama theory: dispelling the myths. 602-613
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  K. Nadia Papamichail, G. Alves, Simon French, Jian-Bo Yang, R. Snowdon:
  Facilitation practices in decision workshops. 614-632

Part 3: Case Studies

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  H.-Y. Wong:
  Using Robustness Analysis to structure online marketing and communication problems. 633-644
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  Jeff L. Foote, J. E. Gregor, M. C. Hepi, V. E. Baker, D. J. Houston, Gerald Midgley:
  Systemic problem structuring applied to community involvement in water conservation. 645-654
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  Hay V. Vo, Bongsug (Kevin) Chae, David L. Olson:
  Developing unbounded systems thinking: using causal mapping with multiple stakeholders within a Vietnamese company. 655-668
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  Mariëlle den Hengst, Gert-Jan de Vreede, R. Maghnouji:
  Using soft OR principles for collaborative simulation: a case study in the Dutch airline industry. 669-682

Viewpoints

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  John Mingers:
  Operational research: the science of better? 683-686
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  N. Morrill:
  Are the benefits of PSMs being sold sufficiently? A practitioner's view. 686-689
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  Stewart Robinson:
  PSMs: looking in from the outside. 689-691
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  David F. Andersen, Jac A. M. Vennix, George P. Richardson, Etiënne A. J. A. Rouwette:
  Group model building: problem structuring, policy simulation and decision support. 691-694

Book Selection

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  Problem structuring methods: Book Reviews. 695-700

Volume 58, Number 6, June 2007

Case Oriented Papers

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  Alberto Paucar-Caceres, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ulloa:
  An application of Soft Systems Dynamics Methodology (SSDM). 701-713
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  K. B. Yoon, S. Y. Sohn:
  Forecasting both time varying MTBF of fighter aircraft module and expected demand of minor parts. 714-719

Theoretical Papers

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  Haim Shore, Diamanta Benson-Karhi:
  Forecasting S-shaped diffusion processes via response modelling methodology. 720-728
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  Tong Zhao, C.-L. Tseng:
  Flexible facility interior layout: a real options approach. 729-739
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  Hassan Younies, George O. Wesolowsky:
  Planar maximal covering location problem under block norm distance measure. 740-750
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  Chunming Victor Shi, Bintong Chen:
  Pareto-optimal contracts for a supply chain with satisficing objectives. 751-759
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  L. Alberto Franco:
  Assessing the impact of problem structuring methods in multi-organizational settings: an empirical investigation. 760-768
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  J. S. Kim, T. C. Kwak:
  Game theoretic analysis of the bargaining process over a long-term replenishment contract. 769-778
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  R. Rajagopal, Enrique del Castillo:
  A Bayesian approach for multiple criteria decision making with applications in Design for Six Sigma. 779-790
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  Peter A. Huegler, Francis J. Vasko:
  Metaheuristics for meltshop scheduling in the steel industry. 791-796
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  Zhaohui Fu, Yanzhi Li, Andrew Lim, Brian Rodrigues:
  Port space allocation with a time dimension. 797-807
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  E. Powell Robinson Jr., Arunachalam Narayanan, Li-Lian Gao:
  Effective heuristics for the dynamic demand joint replenishment problem. 808-815
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  Suh-Wen Chiou:
  A hybrid optimization algorithm for area traffic control problem. 816-823

Technical Notes

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  Andy An-Kai Jeng, Bertrand M. T. Lin:
  A note on parallel-machine scheduling with deteriorating jobs. 824-826
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  Srimathy Mohan, M. Gopalakrishnan, Hari Balasubramanian, A. Chandrashekar:
  A lognormal approximation of activity duration in PERT using two time estimates. 827-831

Viewpoints

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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  On the history and future of OR. 832-835
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  Michael C. Jackson:
  Reply to Ormerod. 835

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 836-839

Volume 58, Number 7, July 2007

General Paper

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  Wen-Min Lu, Shih-Fang Lo:
  A benchmark-learning roadmap for regional sustainable development in China. 841-849

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Steven A. Gabriel, Prawat Sahakij, Mark Ramirez, Chris Peot:
  A multiobjective optimization model for processing and distributing biosolids to reuse fields. 850-864
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  Joao Quariguasi Frota Neto, Lidia Angulo Meza:
  Alternative targets for data envelopment analysis through multi-objective linear programming: Rio de Janeiro Odontological Public Health System Case Study. 865-873
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  Cecilio Mar-Molinero, John Mingers:
  An evaluation of the limitations of, and alternatives to, the Co-Plot methodology. 874-886

Theoretical Papers

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  Wenbin Wang:
  A prognosis model for wear prediction based on oil-based monitoring. 887-893
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  Po-Chung Yang, Hui-Ming Wee, Jonas C. P. Yu:
  Collaborative pricing and replenishment policy for hi-tech industry. 894-900
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  Ahmad Diponegoro, Bhaba R. Sarker:
  Operations policy for a supply chain system with fixed-interval delivery and linear demand. 901-910
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  Joe Whittaker, C. Whitehead, Mark Somers:
  A dynamic scorecard for monitoring baseline performance with application to tracking a mortgage portfolio. 911-921
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  Robert E. Stanford, W. Martin:
  Towards a normative model for inventory cost management in a generalized ABC classification system. 922-928
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  Ying-Ming Wang, Kwai-Sang Chin, Jian-Bo Yang:
  Measuring the performances of decision-making units using geometric average efficiency. 929-937
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  Ching-Jong Liao, C.-M. Chen, C.-H. Lin:
  Minimizing makespan for two parallel machines with job limit on each availability interval. 938-947
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  Thomas W. Archibald:
  Modelling replenishment and transshipment decisions in periodic review multilocation inventory systems. 948-956
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  Jerónimo Aznar, Francisco Guijarro:
  Modelling aesthetic variables in the valuation of paintings: an interval goal programming approach. 957-963
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  Y. Feng, S. Viswanathan:
  Impact of demand uncertainty on coordinating supply chain inventories through common replenishment epochs. 964-971
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  S.-W. Choi, Yeong-Dae Kim:
  Minimizing makespan on a two-machine re-entrant flowshop. 972-981

Volume 58, Number 8, August 2007

General Papers

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  Stephen G. Powell, Thomas R. Willemain:
  How novices formulate models. Part I: qualitative insights and implications for teaching. 983-995
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  Víctor Giménez, Diego Prior, Claudio Thieme:
  Technical efficiency, managerial efficiency and objective-setting in the educational system: an international comparison. 996-1007

Case-Oriented Papers

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  C.-C. Chang, R.-S. Chen:
  Project advancement and its applications to multi-air-route quality budget allocation. 1008-1020
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  Martin Read, Tony Gear:
  Developing professional judgement with the aid of a 'low-profile' group support system. 1021-1029
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  L. Wan, Jonathan F. Bard:
  Weekly staff scheduling with workstation group restrictions. 1030-1046
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  J. Zhao, A. H. C. Chan, M. P. N. Burrow:
  Reliability analysis and maintenance decision for railway sleepers using track condition information. 1047-1055

Theoretical Papers

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  Angela Espinosa, R. Harnden:
  Team syntegrity and democratic group decision making: theory and practice. 1056-1064
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  G. J. King, Huseyin Topaloglu:
  Incorporating the pricing decisions into the dynamic fleet management problem. 1065-1074
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  Wen Lea Pearn, Ya-Chen Hsu, Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau:
  Tool replacement policy for one-sided processes with low fraction defective. 1075-1083
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  Alexandra Medina-Borja, Kalyan S. Pasupathy, Konstantinos P. Triantis:
  Large-scale data envelopment analysis (DEA) implementation: a strategic performance management approach. 1084-1098

Technical Notes

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  Bertrand M. T. Lin:
  Complexity results for single-machine scheduling with positional learning effects. 1099-1102
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  T. C. E. Cheng, L. Y. Kang, C. T. Ng:
  Due-date assignment and parallel-machine scheduling with deteriorating jobs. 1103-1108

Viewpoints

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  Werner Ulrich:
  Philosophy for professionals: towards critical pragmatism. 1109-1113
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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  The ethics of pragmatism: a response to Werner Ulrich. 1113-1117

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 1118-1121

Volume 58, Number 9, September 2007

Case Oriented Papers

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  Philip A. Scarf, Richard Dwight, A. McCusker, Albert Chan:
  Asset replacement for an urban railway using a modified two-cycle replacement model. 1123-1137
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  John Pointon, Ahmed A. El-Masry:
  Competitive advantage and the cost of equity in international shipping. 1138-1145
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  Martin H. Kunc, John D. W. Morecroft:
  Competitive dynamics and gaming simulation: lessons from a fishing industry simulator. 1146-1155
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  Peter A. Huegler, Joseph C. Hartman:
  Fulfilling orders for steel plates from existing inventory. 1156-1166
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  Geir Brønmo, Marielle Christiansen, Bjørn Nygreen:
  Ship routing and scheduling with flexible cargo sizes. 1167-1177
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  Yael Perlman, Moshe Kaspi:
  Centralized decision of internal transfer-prices with congestion externalities for two modes of repair with limited repair capacity. 1178-1184

Theoretical Papers

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  N. H. Moin, Saïd Salhi:
  Inventory routing problems: a logistical overview. 1185-1194
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  K. H. Kim, M. J. Lee:
  Scheduling trucks in local depots for door-to-door delivery services. 1195-1202
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  Erhan Kozan, Brad Casey:
  Alternative algorithms for the optimization of a simulation model of a multimodal container terminal. 1203-1213
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  M. I. González-Bravo:
  Prior-Ratio-Analysis procedure to improve data envelopment analysis for performance measurement. 1214-1222
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  Deniz Aksen, Zeynep Özyurt, Necati Aras:
  Open vehicle routing problem with driver nodes and time deadlines. 1223-1234
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  L. Huyao, H. Yuanjun, Julia A. Bennell:
  The irregular nesting problem: a new approach for nofit polygon calculation. 1235-1245
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  José Virgílio Guedes de Avellar, Armando Zeferino Milioni, T. N. Rabello:
  Spherical frontier DEA model based on a constant sum of inputs. 1246-1251

Viewpoints

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  Jinn-Tsair Teng, Suresh K. Goyal:
  Optimal ordering policies for a retailer in a supply chain with up-stream and down-stream trade credits. 1252-1255
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  Yung-Fu Huang:
  Reply to 'Optimal ordering policies for a retailer in a supply chain with up-stream and down-stream trade credits' by Teng and Goyal. 1255

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 1256-1259

Volume 58, Number 10, October 2007

General Paper

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  Victor V. Podinovski:
  Improving data envelopment analysis by the use of production trade-offs. 1261-1270

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Thomas R. Willemain, Stephen G. Powell:
  How novices formulate models. Part II: a quantitative description of behaviour. 1271-1283
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  Mark E. T. Horn, Houyuan Jiang, Philip Kilby:
  Scheduling patrol boats and crews for the Royal Australian Navy. 1284-1293
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  Sameer Kumar, Thomas Ressler, Mark Ahrens:
  Educating rational decision-makers about uncertainty using US social security investment economics. 1294-1305
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  Alan Boyd, T. Geerling, W. J. Gregory, Carolyn Kagan, Gerald Midgley, P. Murray, M. P. Walsh:
  Systemic evaluation: a participative, multi-method approach. 1306-1320

Theoretical Papers

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  Rene Munk Jorgensen, Jesper Larsen, Kristin Berg Bergvinsdottir:
  Solving the Dial-a-Ride problem using genetic algorithms. 1321-1331
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  C. M. Yates:
  A positive approach to estimating the weights for quadratic multiple objective programming. 1332-1340
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  Y. Kim, S. Y. Sohn:
  Technology scoring model considering rejected applicants and effect of reject inference. 1341-1347
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  Dar-Li Yang, Wen-Hung Kuo:
  Single-machine scheduling with an actual time-dependent learning effect. 1348-1353
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  R. Alan Bowman:
  Efficient sensitivity analysis of PERT network performance measures to significant changes in activity time parameters. 1354-1360
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  Mario Vanhoucke, S. Vandevoorde:
  A simulation and evaluation of earned value metrics to forecast the project duration. 1361-1374
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  Chris N. Potts, J. Douglass Whitehead:
  Heuristics for a coupled-operation scheduling problem. 1375-1388

Technical Note

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  Ying-Ming Wang, Kwai-Sang Chin, Jian-Bo Yang:
  Three new models for preference voting and aggregation. 1389-1393

Viewpoints

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  C. C. Jane:
  A novel method for the network reliability in terms of capacitated-minimum-paths without knowing minimum-paths in advance (Yeh, 2005). 1394
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  Wei-Chang Yeh:
  Reply to Jane. 1395
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  Ö Özpeynirci, Haldun Süral:
  Comment on Berman and Huang (2004): Minisum collection depots location problem reduces to the p-median problem. 1395-1396
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  Oded Berman:
  Reply to Özpeynirci and Süral. 1396

Volume 58, Number 11, November 2007

PART SPECIAL ISSUE: Risk Based Methods for Supply Chain Planning and Management Editorial

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  Cormac Lucas, Gautam Mitra, Chandra A. Poojari:
  Risk based methods for supply chain planning and management. 1397

Special Issue Papers

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  Bob Ritchie, Clare Brindley:
  An emergent framework for supply chain risk management and performance measurement. 1398-1411
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  Ç Haksöz, S. Seshadri:
  Supply chain operations in the presence of a spot market: a review with discussion. 1412-1429
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  ManMohan S. Sodhi, S. Lee:
  An analysis of sources of risk in the consumer electronics industry. 1430-1439
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  Charles S. Tapiero, Konstantin Kogan:
  Risk and quality control in a supply chain: competitive and collaborative approaches. 1440-1448
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  Francisco J. Arcelus, S. Kumar, G. Srinivasan:
  Manufacturer's pricing strategies in a single-period framework under price-dependent stochastic demand with asymmetric risk-preference information. 1449-1458
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  Shoumen Datta, Clive William John Granger, Mahua Barari, T. Gibbs:
  Management of supply chain: an alternative modelling technique for forecasting. 1459-1469

Case-Oriented Papers

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  A. O. Kazakçi, Stelios Rozakis, Daniel Vanderpooten:
  Energy crop supply in France: a min-max regret approach. 1470-1479
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  Haritha Saranga:
  Multiple objective data envelopment analysis as applied to the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry. 1480-1493
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  Salwani Abdullah, Samad Ahmadi, Edmund K. Burke, Moshe Dror, Barry McCollum:
  A tabu-based large neighbourhood search methodology for the capacitated examination timetabling problem. 1494-1502

Theoretical Papers

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  Amanda J. Gregory:
  Target setting, lean systems and viable systems: a systems perspective on control and performance measurement. 1503-1517
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  Fraser N. McLeod:
  Estimating bus passenger waiting times from incomplete bus arrivals data. 1518-1525
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  P. P. Sutton, Rodney H. Green:
  Choice is a value statement. On inferring optimal multiple attribute portfolios from non-optimal nominations. 1526-1533

Volume 58, Number 12, December 2007

General Papers

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  Jonathan H. Klein, N. A. D. Connell, E. Meyer:
  Operational research practice as storytelling. 1535-1542
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  Cecilio Mar-Molinero, AiJie Xie:
  What do UK employers want from OR/MS? 1543-1553

Case-Oriented Papers

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  A. Fletcher, D. Halsall, S. Huxham, David J. Worthington:
  The DH Accident and Emergency Department model: a national generic model used locally. 1554-1562
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  John Paul Oddoye, Mohammad Ali Yaghoobi, Mehrdad Tamiz, Dylan F. Jones, P. Schmidt:
  A multi-objective model to determine efficient resource levels in a medical assessment unit. 1563-1573
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  Uwe Aickelin, Edmund K. Burke, Jingpeng Li:
  An estimation of distribution algorithm with intelligent local search for rule-based nurse rostering. 1574-1585
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  Gareth Beddoe, Sanja Petrovic:
  Enhancing case-based reasoning for personnel rostering with selected tabu search concepts. 1586-1598
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  Tolga Bektas, Seda Elmastas:
  Solving school bus routing problems through integer programming. 1599-1604

Theoretical Papers

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  C. J. Rhodes, E. M. J. Keefe:
  Social network topology: a Bayesian approach. 1605-1611
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  Nat Jack, D. N. Prabhakar Murthy:
  A flexible extended warranty and related optimal strategies. 1612-1620
• 
  L. Alberto Franco, Maureen Meadows:
  Exploring new directions for research in problem structuring methods: on the role of cognitive style. 1621-1629
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  Naveed Wassan:
  Reactive tabu adaptive memory programming search for the vehicle routing problem with backhauls. 1630-1641
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  Adam N. Letchford, Jens Lysgaard, Richard W. Eglese:
  A branch-and-cut algorithm for the capacitated open vehicle routing problem. 1642-1651
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  Andreas Drexl, Kurt Jørnsten:
  Reflections about pseudo-dual prices in combinatorial auctions. 1652-1659
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  Huijing Chen, John E. Boylan:
  Use of individual and group seasonal indices in subaggregate demand forecasting. 1660-1671

Technical Notes

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  John A. Sharp, W. Meng, W. Liu:
  A modified slacks-based measure model for data envelopment analysis with 'natural' negative outputs and inputs. 1672-1677
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  John M. Norman, Stephen R. Clarke:
  Dynamic programming in cricket: optimizing batting order for a sticky wicket. 1678-1682

Book Selections

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  Book Selection. 1683-1686
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  Book Selection. 1687-1689

Thank You to Referees

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  JORS Referees 2006. 1690-1692