Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume 60

Volume 60, Number 1, January 2009

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  Terry Williams, John Wilson:
  Editorial. 1

General Paper

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  Colin Eden, Fran Ackermann, J. M. Bryson, George P. Richardson, David F. Andersen, C. B. Finn:
  Integrating modes of policy analysis and strategic management practice: requisite elements and dilemmas. 2-13

Case-Oriented Papers

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  E. G. Tsagalidis, Andreas C. Georgiou:
  Using simulation modelling to support decisions in hail suppression programmes with airborne means. 14-22
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  Grigorios N. Beligiannis, Charalampos N. Moschopoulos, Spiridon D. Likothanassis:
  A genetic algorithm approach to school timetabling. 23-42
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  Korina Katsaliaki, Navonil Mustafee, Simon J. E. Taylor, Sally C. Brailsford:
  Comparing conventional and distributed approaches to simulation in a complex supply-chain health system. 43-51
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  Óscar González-Benito, María Pilar Martínez-Ruiz, Alejandro Mollá-Descals:
  Spatial mapping of price competition using logit-type market share models and store-level scanner-data. 52-62
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  David F. Percy:
  A mathematical analysis of badminton scoring systems. 63-71

Theoretical Papers

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  Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Walter Briec, Hervé Leleu:
  Linear programming solutions and distance functions under a constant returns to scale technology. 72-78
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  J. M. Freeman:
  Optimal policies for playing variable wager HI-LO. 79-83
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  Dirk Briskorn, Andreas Drexl:
  A branch-and-price algorithm for scheduling sport leagues. 84-93
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  Xiaomei Zhu, Hanif D. Sherali:
  Two-stage workforce planning under demand fluctuations and uncertainty. 94-103
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  Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto, Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Cecilio Mar-Molinero:
  Social efficiency in microfinance institutions. 104-119
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  Robert L. Bregman:
  Preemptive expediting to improve project due date performance. 120-129
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  Camille Beyrouthy, Edmund K. Burke, Dario Landa-Silva, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan, Andrew J. Parkes:
  Towards improving the utilization of university teaching space. 130-143

Volume 60, Number 2, February 2009

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  Babatunde Buraimo, David Forrest, Rob Simmons:
  Insights for clubs from modelling match attendance in football. 147-155

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Julien Pollack:
  Multimethodology in series and parallel: strategic planning using hard and soft OR. 156-167
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  John Mingers, W. Liu, W. Meng:
  Using SSM to structure the identification of inputs and outputs in DEA. 168-179
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  S. H. Choi, Sungmoon Bae:
  Strategic information systems selection with incomplete preferences: a case of a Korean electronics company. 180-190
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  Martin H. Kunc, John D. W. Morecroft:
  Resource-based strategies and problem structuring: using resource maps to manage resource systems. 191-199
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  A. Curseu, Tom Van Woensel, Jan Fransoo, Karel H. van Donselaar, Rob A. C. M. Broekmeulen:
  Modelling handling operations in grocery retail stores: an empirical analysis. 200-214

Theoretical Papers

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  Kevin Y. K. Ng, N. G. F. Sancho:
  Regional surveillance of disjoint rectangles: a travelling salesman formulation. 215-220
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  G. I. Zobolas, Christos D. Tarantilis, George Ioannou:
  A hybrid evolutionary algorithm for the job shop scheduling problem. 221-235
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  S. E. Stern:
  An adjusted Duckworth-Lewis target in shortened limited overs cricket matches. 236-251
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  Tuomo Kainulainen, Pekka Leskinen, Pekka Korhonen, A. Haara, Teppo Hujala:
  A statistical approach to assessing interval scale preferences in discrete choice problems. 252-258
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  Temel Öncan, I. Kuban Altinel:
  Parametric enhancements of the Esau-Williams heuristic for the capacitated minimum spanning tree problem. 259-267
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  Alec Morton, Barbara Fasolo:
  Behavioural decision theory for multi-criteria decision analysis: a guided tour. 268-275
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  Wade D. Cook, Liang Liang, Y. Zha, Joe Zhu:
  A modified super-efficiency DEA model for infeasibility. 276-281
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  Berna Dengiz, Cigdem Alabas-Uslu, Orhan Dengiz:
  A tabu search algorithm for the training of neural networks. 282-291

Volume 60, Number 3, March 2009

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  John C. Ranyard:
  Editorial. 295

General Paper

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  Antuela A. Tako, Stewart Robinson:
  Comparing discrete-event simulation and system dynamics: users' perceptions. 296-312

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Rajagopal, A. Rajagopal:
  Buyer-supplier relationship and operational dynamics. 313-320
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  Ruud H. Teunter, L. Duncan:
  Forecasting intermittent demand: a comparative study. 321-329
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  Xiaodong Li, Patrick Beullens, Dylan F. Jones, Mehrdad Tamiz:
  An integrated queuing and multi-objective bed allocation model with application to a hospital in China. 330-338
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  Andrew T. Brint:
  Predicting a house's selling price through inflating its previous selling price. 339-347
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  Jardar Andersen, Marielle Christiansen:
  Designing new European rail freight services. 348-360

Theoretical Papers

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  Andrew Lim, Zhou Xu:
  Searching optimal resequencing and feature assignment on an automated assembly line. 361-371
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  Moutaz Khouja, Hari K. Rajagopalan:
  Can piracy lead to higher prices in the music and motion picture industries? 372-383
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  Samia Nefti, Mourad Oussalah, Yacine Rezgui:
  A modified fuzzy clustering for documents retrieval: application to document categorization. 384-394
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  Malachy Carey:
  A framework for user equilibrium dynamic traffic assignment. 395-410
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  Des Laffey, C. Hunka, John A. Sharp, Z. Zeng:
  Estimating advertisers' values for paid search clickthroughs. 411-418
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  Hwa-Joong Kim, Dong-Ho Lee, Paul C. Xirouchakis, O. K. Kwon:
  A branch and bound algorithm for disassembly scheduling with assembly product structure. 419-430

Technical Note

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  Wen-Hung Kuo, Chou-Jung Hsu, Dar-Li Yang:
  A note on unrelated parallel machine scheduling with time-dependent processing times. 431-434

Volume 60, Number 4, April 2009

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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  The history and ideas of critical rationalism: the philosophy of Karl Popper and its implications for OR. 441-460

Case-Oriented Papers

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  E. K. Doyle, Chi-Guhn Lee, D. I. Cho:
  Justification for the next generation of maintenance modelling techniques. 461-470
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  Sameer Kumar, Daniel A. Nottestad, E. E. Murphy:
  Effects of product postponement on the distribution network: a case study. 471-480
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  Alain Hertz, Nadia Lahrichi:
  A patient assignment algorithm for home care services. 481-495
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  Sang Hyun Choi, Byeong Seok Ahn:
  IP-MAGS: an incomplete preference-based multiple attribute group support system. 496-505
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  M. D. Stevenson, Jeremy E. Oakley, Stephen E. Chick, K. Chalkidou:
  The cost-effectiveness of surgical instrument management policies to reduce the risk of vCJD transmission to humans. 506-518
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  L. Douglas Smith, Donald C. Sweeney II, James F. Campbell:
  Simulation of alternative approaches to relieving congestion at locks in a river transportion system. 519-533
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  S. Elfkih, María Luisa Feijoo, Carlos Romero:
  Agricultural sustainable management: a normative approach based on goal programming. 534-543

Theoretical Papers

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  Francisco Ruiz, Mariano Luque, Jose Manuel Cabello:
  A classification of the weighting schemes in reference point procedures for multiobjective programming. 544-553
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  G. A. Álvarez-Pérez, José Luis González Velarde, John W. Fowler:
  Crossdocking - Just in Time scheduling: an alternative solution approach. 554-564
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  Denis F. Cioffi, Homayoun Khamooshi:
  A practical method of determining project risk contingency budgets. 565-571
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  Byung-Jun Joo, Yeong-Dae Kim:
  A branch-and-bound algorithm for a two-machine flowshop scheduling problem with limited waiting time constraints. 572-582

Technical Note

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  Ji-Bo Wang:
  Single machine scheduling with a time-dependent learning effect and deteriorating jobs. 583-586

Volume 60, Number 5, May 2009

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  Anderson Amendoeira Namen, Claudio T. Bornstein, Jonathan Rosenhead:
  Robustness analysis for sustainable community development. 587-597
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  X. Zhang, A. Chakravarthy, Q. Gu:
  Equipment scheduling problem under disruptions in mail processing and distribution centres. 598-610
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  Aris A. Syntetos, M. Zied Babai, Yves Dallery, Ruud H. Teunter:
  Periodic control of intermittent demand items: theory and empirical analysis. 611-618
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  Lluís M. Plà-Aragonés, Javier Faulin, Sara V. Rodríguez:
  A linear programming formulation of a semi-Markov model to design pig facilities. 619-625
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  John Wyburn, John Hayward:
  OR and language planning: modelling the interaction between unilingual and bilingual populations. 626-636
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  Lassaad Lakhal:
  Impact of quality on competitive advantage and organizational performance. 637-645
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  H.-Y. Tsao, Pei-Chun Lin, Leyland F. Pitt, C. Campbell:
  The impact of loyalty and promotion effects on retention rate. 646-651
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  Daniel Thiel:
  Dynamic modelling of labour assignment flexibility in the French fresh food industry. 652-662
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  B. Zhang, P. Murali, Maged M. Dessouky, D. Belson:
  A mixed integer programming approach for allocating operating room capacity. 663-673

Theoretical Papers

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  Vladimir Marianov, T. Brian Boffey, Roberto D. Galvão:
  Optimal location of multi-server congestible facilities operating as M/E _r/m/N queues. 674-684
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  Humphrey K. K. Tung, Michael C. S. Wong:
  Financial risk forecasting with nonlinear dynamics and support vector regression. 685-695
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  Jurgen Martens, R. Peeters, Ferdi Put:
  Analysing steady-state simulation output using vector autoregressive processes with exogenous variables. 696-705
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  Sajjad M. Jasimuddin, Zuopeng Justin Zhang:
  The symbiosis mechanism for effective knowledge transfer. 706-716
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  Tarun Bhaskar, R. Sundararajan, P. G. Krishnan:
  A fuzzy mathematical programming approach for cross-sell optimization in retail banking. 717-727

Technical Note

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  Hélcio Vieira Jr., Marcos Pereira Estellita Lins:
  A WIN-WIN approach to multiple objective linear programming problems. 728-733

Volume 60, Number 6, June 2009

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  Ebru Angün, Jack P. C. Kleijnen, Dick den Hertog, Gül Gürkan:
  Response surface methodology with stochastic constraints for expensive simulation. 735-746
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  John Medhurst, I. M. Stanton, H. Bird, A. Berry:
  The value of information to decision makers: an experimental approach using card-based decision gaming. 747-757
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  E. D. Adamides, Panagiotis Mitropoulos, Ioannis Giannikos, Ioannis Mitropoulos:
  A multi-methodological approach to the development of a regional solid waste management system. 758-770
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  Zijiang Yang:
  Assessing the performance of Canadian bank branches using data envelopment analysis. 771-780
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  Giles A. Hindle, T. Hindle, S. Souli:
  Modelling and assessing local area differences in road casualties: a case study in England. 781-788
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  Wenbin Wang, Burairah Hussin:
  Plant residual time modelling based on observed variables in oil samples. 789-796

Theoretical Papers

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  Amy H. I. Lee, H. H. Chen, H.-Y. Kang:
  Operations management of new project development: innovation, efficient, effective aspects. 797-809
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  Kuo-Ching Ying:
  An iterated greedy heuristic for multistage hybrid flowshop scheduling problems with multiprocessor tasks. 810-817
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  J. Ben Atkinson:
  Two new heuristics for the GI/G/n/0 queueing loss system with examples based on the two-phase Coxian distribution. 818-830
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  Claudia Archetti, Dominique Feillet, Alain Hertz, Maria Grazia Speranza:
  The capacitated team orienteering and profitable tour problems. 831-842
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  Spiros H. Martzoukos:
  Real R&D options and optimal activation of two-dimensional random controls. 843-858
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  C. Martin, Mike Metcalfe, Howard Harris:
  Developing an implementation capacity: justifications from prior research. 859-868

Practice Notes

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  Danny C. Myers, M. Mohite:
  Locating automated external defibrillators in a university community. 869-872

Technical Notes

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  Rong-Hwa Huang, Chang-Lin Yang:
  An algorithm for minimizing flow time and maximum earliness on a single machine. 873-877

Volume 60, Number 7, July 2009

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  Marc J. Schniederjans, A. M. Schniederjans, Dara G. Schniederjans:
  Operations research methodology life cycle trend phases as recorded in journal articles. 881-894

Case-Oriented Papers

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  I. Gac, F. Martínez, Andrés Weintraub:
  A deterministic linear optimization model for allocating schools to zones. 895-905
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  George Mavrotas, Elena Georgopoulou, S. Mirasgedis, Y. Sarafidis, D. P. Lalas, V. Hontou, N. Gakis:
  Multi-objective combinatorial optimization for selecting best available techniques (BAT) in the industrial sector: the COMBAT tool. 906-920
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  Shu-Hsing Chung, Wen Lea Pearn, Y. T. Tai:
  Fast and effective algorithms for the liquid crystal display module (LCM) scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup time. 921-933
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  Alexander Ostertag, Karl F. Doerner, Richard F. Hartl, Éric D. Taillard, Philippe Waelti:
  POPMUSIC for a real-world large-scale vehicle routing problem with time windows. 934-943
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  Meltem Kiygi-Calli, M. Weverbergh:
  Forecasting newspaper demand with censored regression. 944-951
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  James Bekker, W. Lotz:
  Planning Formula One race strategies using discrete-event simulation. 952-961

Theoretical Papers

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  Adam R. Brentnall, Russell C. H. Cheng:
  Some effects of aircraft arrival sequence algorithms. 962-972
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  Tal Shima, Corey J. Schumacher:
  Assigning cooperating UAVs to simultaneous tasks on consecutive targets using genetic algorithms. 973-982
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  D. Zhang, X. Li, W. Meng, W. Liu:
  Measuring the performance of nations at the Olympic Games using DEA models with different preferences. 983-990
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  N. Madhushini, Chandrasekharan Rajendran, Y. Deepa:
  Branch-and-bound algorithms for scheduling in permutation flowshops to minimize the sum of weighted flowtime/sum of weighted tardiness/sum of weighted flowtime and weighted tardiness/sum of weighted flowtime, weighted tardiness and weighted earliness of jobs. 991-1004
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  Wen-Chin Tsai:
  Fuzzy measures of supplier evaluation under lean concepts. 1005-1011
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  Xiangyong Li, Peng Tian, Stephen C. H. Leung:
  An ant colony optimization metaheuristic hybridized with tabu search for open vehicle routing problems. 1012-1025
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  Eduardo Saliby, R. J. Paul:
  A farewell to the use of antithetic variates in Monte Carlo simulation. 1026-1035

Viewpoints

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  A. Hadi-Vencheh, M.-N. Mokhtarian:
  Three new models for preference voting and aggregation. 1036-1037
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  Y. M. Wang:
  Improved linear programming models for preference voting and aggregation: Reply to Hadi-Vencheh and Mokhtarian. 1037-1038

Volume 60, Number 8, August 2009

Special Issue: Data Mining and Operational Research

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  Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Victor J. Rayward-Smith:
  Data mining and operational research: techniques and applications. 1043-1044

Special Issue Papers

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  J. Yang, Sigurdur Ólafsson:
  Near-optimal feature selection for large databases. 1045-1055
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  Karolina J. Glowacka, Raymond M. Henry, Jerrold H. May:
  A hybrid data mining/simulation approach for modelling outpatient no-shows in clinic scheduling. 1056-1068
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  J. Kim, J. Yang, Sigurdur Ólafsson:
  An optimization approach to partitional data clustering. 1069-1084
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  Nikolaos Mastrogiannis, Ioannis Giannikos, Basilis Boutsinas, Gerasimos Antzoulatos:
  CL.E.KMODES: a modified k-modes clustering algorithm. 1085-1095
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  Elen Lima, Christophe Mues, Bart Baesens:
  Domain knowledge integration in data mining using decision tables: case studies in churn prediction. 1096-1106
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  H.-W. Cho, Seung H. Baek, Eunseog Youn, Myong K. Jeong, A. Taylor:
  A two-stage classification procedure for near-infrared spectra based on multi-scale vertical energy wavelet thresholding and SVM-based gradient-recursive feature elimination. 1107-1115
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  Ruxandra Stoean, Mike Preuss, Catalin Stoean, Elia El-Darzi, D. Dumitrescu:
  Support vector machine learning with an evolutionary engine. 1116-1122
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  Parag C. Pendharkar:
  Misclassification cost minimizing fitness functions for genetic algorithm-based artificial neural network classifiers. 1123-1134
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  R.-H. Lin:
  Potential use of FP-growth algorithm for identifying competitive suppliers in SCM. 1135-1141

Volume 60, Number 9, September 2009

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  John Mingers:
  Measuring the research contribution of management academics using the Hirsch-index. 1143-1153

Case-Oriented Papers

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  W. J. Hurley, Jack Brimberg, Andrey Pavlov:
  Optimal thresholds for fining speeders for a stationary speed-check operation when the traffic intensity is low. 1154-1159
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  Joseph Sarkis, James J. Cordeiro:
  Investigating technical and ecological efficiencies in the electricity generation industry: are there win-win opportunities? 1160-1172
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  Kjetil Fagerholt, Bjarne A. Foss, O. J. Horgen:
  A decision support model for establishing an air taxi service: a case study. 1173-1182
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  Miles G. Nicholls:
  The Use of Markov models as an aid to the evaluation, planning and benchmarking of Doctoral Programs. 1183-1190
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  Berna Dengiz, Cigdem Alabas-Uslu, Orhan Dengiz:
  Optimization of manufacturing systems using a neural network metamodel with a new training approach. 1191-1197

Theoretical Papers

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  T. E. van der Lei, Wil A. H. Thissen:
  Quantitative problem structuring methods for multi-actor problems: an analysis of reported applications. 1198-1206
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  Michael A. Haughton:
  An alternative tactic to deal with the contingency of driver absenteeism. 1207-1220
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  Yoichi Hayashi, Ming-Huei Hsieh, Rudy Setiono:
  Predicting consumer preference for fast-food franchises: a data mining approach. 1221-1229
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