Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume 54

Volume 54, Number 1, January 2003

Editorial

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  Terry Williams, John Wilson:
  Editorial. 1

General Papers

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  Nuno Melão, Michael Pidd:
  Use of business process simulation: A survey of practitioners. 2-10

Case-oriented Papers

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  Francis J. Vasko, Dennis D. Newhart, Kenneth L. Stott Jr., Floyd E. Wolf:
  A large-scale application of the partial coverage uncapacitated facility location problem. 11-20
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  Brian Boffey, Derek F. Yates, Roberto D. Galvão:
  An algorithm to locate perinatal facilities in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. 21-31

Theoretical Papers

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  S. Andrew Starbird:
  Effect of coordinated replenishment policies on quality. 32-39
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  Ali Haj Shirmohammadi, Charles Ernie Love, Zhe George Zhang:
  An optimal maintenance policy for skipping imminent preventive maintenance for systems experiencing random failures. 40-47
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  Ehsan H. Feroz, S. Kim, R. L. Raab:
  Financial statement analysis: A data envelopment analysis approach. 48-58
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  Bahar Yetis Kara, Barbaros C. Tansel:
  The single-assignment hub covering problem: Models and linearizations. 59-64
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  Christos D. Tarantilis, Chris T. Kiranoudis, Vassilios S. Vassiliadis:
  A list based threshold accepting metaheuristic for the heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem. 65-71
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  C. S. Sung, S. H. Song:
  Branch-and-price algorithm for a combined problem of virtual path establishment and traffic packet routing in a layered communication network. 72-82
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  Gudrun P. Kiesmüller, Stefan Minner:
  Simple expressions for finding recovery system inventory control parameter values. 83-88
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  Roger Hartley, Gauthier Lanot:
  On the design of lottery games. 89-100
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  C. A. Knox Lovell, A. P. B. Rouse:
  Equivalent standard DEA models to provide super-efficiency scores. 101-108
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  John E. Boylan, F. R. Johnston:
  Optimality and robustness of combinations of moving averages. 109-115

Volume 54, Number 2, February 2003

Editorial

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  John S. Edwards, Elayne W. Coakes:
  Editorial. 117-118

General Papers

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  Mikael Lind, Ulf Seigerroth:
  Team-based reconstruction for expanding organisational ability. 119-129
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  John S. Edwards, J. B. Kidd:
  Knowledge management sans frontières. 130-139
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  N. A. D. Connell, Jonathan H. Klein, Philip L. Powell:
  It's tacit knowledge but not as we know it: redirecting the search for knowledge. 140-152
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  Khalid Hafeez, Hossam AbdelMeguid:
  Dynamics of human resource and knowledge management. 153-164
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  Elena Revilla, Joseph Sarkis, A. Modrego:
  Evaluating performance of public-private research collaborations: A DEA analysis. 165-174
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  King-Tim Mak, Arkalgud Ramaprasad:
  Knowledge supply network. 175-183
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  Helen Hasan, Kate Crawford:
  Codifying or enabling: the challenge of knowledge management systems. 184-193
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  Fons Wijnhoven:
  Operational knowledge management: identification of knowledge objects, operation methods, and goals and means for the support function. 194-203
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  M. Millie Kwan, P. R. Balasubramanian:
  Process-oriented knowledge management: a case study. 204-211

Volume 54, Number 3, March 2003

General Papers

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  Mike Wright, N. Hirotsu:
  The professional foul in football: Tactics and deterrents. 213-221
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  Susan Howick:
  Using system dynamics to analyse disruption and delay in complex projects for litigation: can the modelling purposes be met? 222-229
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  Konstantinos Papoutsis, Christos Valouxis, Efthymios Housos:
  A column generation approach for the timetabling problem of Greek high schools. 230-238
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  Ion Georgiou:
  The idea of emergent property. 239-247

Theoretical Papers

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  Gengui Zhou, Mitsuo Gen:
  A genetic algorithm approach on tree-like telecommunication network design problem. 248-254
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  Wim C. M. Van Beers, Jack P. C. Kleijnen:
  Kriging for interpolation in random simulation. 255-262
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  Andrei Sleptchenko, M. C. van der Heijden, Aart van Harten:
  Trade-off between inventory and repair capacity in spare part networks. 263-272
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  Wenbin Wang:
  Modelling condition monitoring intervals: A hybrid of simulation and analytical approaches. 273-282
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  Søren Glud Johansen, Philipp Melchiors:
  Can-order policy for the periodic-review joint replenishment problem. 283-290
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  W.-K. Ching, E. S. Fung, Michael K. Ng:
  A higher-order Markov model for the Newsboy's problem. 291-298
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  Chris K. Anderson, John G. Wilson:
  Wait or buy? The strategic consumer: Pricing and profit implications. 299-306
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  James V. Hansen, Ray D. Nelson:
  Forecasting and recombining time-series components by using neural networks. 307-317

Technical Note

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  Hiroaki Sandoh, Toshio Nakagawa:
  How much should we reweigh? 318-321

Viewpoints

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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  Taket's suggestions for the OR toolkit. 322-323
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  Ann R. Taket:
  Reply to Ormerod. 324

Volume 54, Number 4, April 2003

General Paper

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  Werner Ulrich:
  Beyond methodology choice: critical systems thinking as critically systemic discourse. 325-342

Case-oriented Papers

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  Jake Ansell, Thomas W. Archibald, J. S. Dagpunar, Lyn C. Thomas, P. Abell, D. Duncalf:
  Analysing maintenance data to gain insight into systems performance. 343-349
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  Rodolfo García-Flores, X. Z. Wang, Thomas F. Burgess:
  Tuning inventory policy parameters in a small chemical company. 350-361

Theoretical Papers

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  Alain Billionnet:
  Minimising total average cycle stock subject to practical constraints. 362-370
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  S. Apeland, Philip A. Scarf:
  A fully subjective approach to capital equipment replacement. 371-378
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  P. S. Ansell, Kevin D. Glazebrook, Christopher Kirkbride:
  Generalised 'join the shortest queue' policies for the dynamic routing of jobs to multi-class queues. 379-389
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  Robert H. Currie, Saïd Salhi:
  Exact and heuristic methods for a full-load, multi-terminal, vehicle scheduling problem with backhauling and time windows. 390-400
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  H. Lee, D. H. Ahn, S. Kim:
  Optimal routing in non-geostationary satellite ATM networks with intersatellite link capacity constraints. 401-409
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  Saligrama R. Agnihothri, Ajay K. Mishra, D. E. Simmons:
  Workforce cross-training decisions in field service systems with two job types. 410-418

Technical Notes

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  Han-Lin Li, Jung-Fa Tsai, Nian-Ze Hu:
  A distributed global optimization method for packing problems. 419-425
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  Alf Kimms:
  Costing communication standards in information systems using a minimum cut approach. 426-431
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  Jinn-Tsair Teng, Hui-Ling Yang, Liang-Yuh Ouyang:
  On an EOQ model for deteriorating items with time-varying demand and partial backlogging. 432-436
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  Gur Mosheiov:
  Scheduling unit processing time jobs on an m-machine flow-shop. 437-441

Volume 54, Number 5, May 2003

General Paper

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  T. Williams:
  Learning from projects. 443-451

Case-oriented Papers

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  Ira Horowitz:
  Preference-neutral attribute weights in the journal-ranking problem. 452-457
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  Christelle Guéret, Narendra Jussien, Olivier Lhomme, C. Pavageau, Christian Prins:
  Loading aircraft for military operations. 458-465

Theoretical Papers

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  Lotfi Tadj:
  On an M/G/1 quorum queueing system under T-policy. 466-471
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  Ahmad Diponegoro, Bhaba R. Sarker:
  Machine assignment in a nonlinear multi-product flowline. 472-489
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  Khalil S. Hindi, Krzysztof Fleszar, Christoforos Charalambous:
  An effective heuristic for the CLSP with set-up times. 490-498
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  C. T. Daniel Ng, T. C. E. Cheng, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov:
  Batch scheduling with controllable setup and processing times to minimize total completion time. 499-506
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  Jack P. C. Kleijnen, Martin T. Smits:
  Performance metrics in supply chain management. 507-514
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  Kuo-Hsiung Wang, Y.-C. Chiang, Jau-Chuan Ke:
  Cost analysis of the unloader queueing system with a single unloader subject to breakdowns. 515-520
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  Antonella Basso, Stefania Funari:
  Measuring the performance of ethical mutual funds: a DEA approach. 521-531
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  J. González-Pachón, María Isabel Rodríguez-Galiano, Carlos Romero:
  Transitive approximation to pairwise comparison matrices by using interval goal programming. 532-538
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  Edgar Possani, Lyn C. Thomas, Thomas W. Archibald:
  Loans, ordering and shortage costs in start-ups: a dynamic stochastic decision approach. 539-548

Technical Note

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  P. K. Tripathy, W.-M. Wee, Priti Ranjan Majhi:
  An EOQ model with process reliability considerations. 549-554

Viewpoints

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  Ahmad Makui, Mir-Bahador Aryanezhad:
  A new method for measuring the static complexity in manufacturing. 555-557
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  Janet Efstathiou, Ani Calinescu:
  Reply to A Makui. 557-558

Volume 54, Number 6, June 2003

General Paper

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  John Mingers:
  A classification of the philosophical assumptions of management science methods. 559-570

Theoretical Papers

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  Paul M. E. Shutler:
  A priority list based heuristic for the job shop problem. 571-584
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  Yong-Wu Zhou, Shanlin Yang:
  An optimal replenishment policy for items with inventory-level-dependent demand and fixed lifetime under the LIFO policy. 585-593
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  Konstantin Kogan:
  Unbounded knapsack problem with controllable rates: the case of a random demand for items. 594-604
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  Tal Avinadav, Tzvi Raz:
  Economic optimization in a fixed sequence of unreliable inspections. 605-613
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  Javier Alcaraz, Concepción Maroto, Rubén Ruiz:
  Solving the Multi-Mode Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with genetic algorithms. 614-626
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  Bart Baesens, Tony Van Gestel, Stijn Viaene, M. Stepanova, Johan A. K. Suykens, Jan Vanthienen:
  Benchmarking state-of-the-art classification algorithms for credit scoring. 627-635
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  W.-K. Ching, W.-O. Yuen, A. W. Loh:
  An inventory model with returns and lateral transshipments. 636-641
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  JC-H Pan, J.-S. Chen:
  Minimizing makespan in re-entrant permutation flow-shops. 642-653
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  D. U. A. Galagedera, P. Silvapulle:
  Experimental evidence on robustness of data envelopment analysis. 654-660

Technical Note

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  Meral Azizoglu, Murat Köksalan, Suna Kondakci Köksalan:
  Scheduling to minimize maximum earliness and number of tardy jobs where machine idle time is allowed. 661-664

Viewpoints

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  Brian Lehaney, Steve Clarke:
  Comment to M Reynolds. 665
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  Martin Reynolds:
  Reply to B Lehaney and S Clarke. 665
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  M. K. Ahsan, D.-b Tsao:
  A comment on solving project-scheduling problems with a heuristic learning algorithm. 666-668
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  Reza Zamani, Li-Yen Shue:
  Reply to MK Ahsan and D-b Tsao. 668-670

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 671-674

List of Referees for 2002

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  JORS Referees 2002. 675-678

Volume 54, Number 7, July 2003

Review Paper

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  David J. Mayston:
  Measuring and managing educational performance. 679-691

General Papers

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  Duncan Shaw:
  Evaluating electronic workshops through analysing the 'brainstormed' ideas. 692-705
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  Özge Pala, Jac A. M. Vennix, T. van Mullekom:
  Validity in SSM: neglected areas. 706-712

Case-oriented Papers

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  Israel T. Vieira, Paul R. Harper, Arjan K. Shahani, Valter de Senna:
  Mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a simulation-based approach for the evaluation of intervention strategies. 713-722
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  Avinandan Mukherjee, Prithwiraj Nath, Manabendranath Pal:
  Resource, service quality and performance triad: a framework for measuring efficiency of banking services. 723-735
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  Armann Ingolfsson, Erhan Erkut, Susan Budge:
  Simulation of single start station for Edmonton EMS. 736-746

Theoretical Papers

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  Lyn C. Thomas:
  The best banking strategy when playing The Weakest Link. 747-750
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  William F. Bowlin, Celia J. Renner, J. M. Rives:
  A DEA study of gender equity in executive compensation. 751-757
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  L. C. Leung, Y. V. Hui, M. Zheng:
  Analysis of compatibility between interdependent matrices in ANP. 758-768
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  Oded Berman, Zvi Drezner, George O. Wesolowsky:
  The expropriation location problem. 769-776
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  Lauro Lins, Sóstenes Lins, Reinaldo Morabito:
  An L-approach for packing (ℓ, w)-rectangles into rectangular and L-shaped pieces. 777-789
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  Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Kendall Giles, Boontaree Kositanurit:
  Exploration of a hybrid feature selection algorithm. 790-797

Volume 54, Number 8, August 2003

Case-Oriented Papers

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  James W. Taylor:
  Short-term electricity demand forecasting using double seasonal exponential smoothing. 799-805
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  Siwate Rojanasoonthon, Jonathan F. Bard, S. D. Reddy:
  Algorithms for parallel machine scheduling: a case study of the tracking and data relay satellite system. 806-821
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  John Banasik, Jonathan Crook, Lyn C. Thomas:
  Sample selection bias in credit scoring models. 822-832
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  F. R. Johnston, John E. Boylan, Estelle A. Shale:
  An examination of the size of orders from customers, their characterisation and the implications for inventory control of slow moving items. 833-837

Theoretical Papers

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  Stephen R. Clarke, John M. Norman:
  Dynamic programming in cricket: choosing a night watchman. 838-845
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  Tsan-Ming Choi, Duan Li, Houmin Yan:
  Optimal two-stage ordering policy with Bayesian information updating. 846-859
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  Y.-L. Chen, L.-J. Hsiao, K. Tang:
  Time analysis for planning a path in a time-window network. 860-870
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  Oded Berman, Zvi Drezner:
  A probabilistic one-centre location problem on a network. 871-877
• 
  N. Hirotsu, Mike Wright:
  Determining the best strategy for changing the configuration of a football team. 878-887
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  S. H. Sheu, Y. C. Chen, W. Y. Wang, N. H. Shin:
  Economic optimization of off-line inspection with inspection errors. 888-895
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  Ping Ji, R. Jiang:
  Scale transitivity in the AHP. 896-905
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  M. Blais, Gilbert Laporte:
  Exact solution of the generalized routing problem through graph transformations. 906-910

Volume 54, Number 9, September 2003

Special Articles

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  Haridimos Tsoukas, Nikolaos A. Mylonopoulos:
  Part Special Issue Introduction: modelling organizational knowledge. 911-913
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  G. Tselekidis, Pavlos Peppas, Mary-Anne Williams:
  Belief revision and organisational knowledge dynamics. 914-923
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  Pi-Sheng Deng, Eleftherios G. Tsacle:
  A market-based computational approach to collaborative organizational learning. 924-935
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  Duncan Shaw, Fran Ackermann, Colin Eden:
  Approaches to sharing knowledge in group problem structuring. 936-948

General Papers

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  Thomas Reed Willemain, William A. Wallace, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Laurie B. Waisel, S. N. Ganaway:
  Bad numbers: coping with flawed decision support. 949-957

Theoretical Papers

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  Ergin Erdem, Nur Evin Özdemirel:
  An evolutionary approach for the target allocation problem. 958-969
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  Shubhabrata Das, Diptesh Ghosh:
  Binary knapsack problems with random budgets. 970-983
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  Moutaz Khouja:
  Synchronization in supply chains: implications for design and management. 984-994
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  Y.-C. Hsieh:
  New reliability bounds for coherent systems. 995-1001
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  J. Lu, H. Ohta:
  Digital contracts-driven method for pricing complex derivatives. 1002-1010

Technical Notes

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  Yung-Fu Huang:
  Optimal retailer's ordering policies in the EOQ model under trade credit financing. 1011-1015

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 1016-1019

Volume 54, Number 10, October 2003

Editorial

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  T. M. Williams, J. M. Wilson:
  Editorial. 1021

Case-oriented Papers

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  Geoff Royston, J. Halsall, D. Halsall, C. Braithwaite:
  Operational Research for informed innovation: NHS Direct as a case study in the design, implementation and evaluation of a new public service. 1022-1028
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  Y. C. Ng, M. K. Chang:
  Impact of computerization on firm performance: a case of Shanghai manufacturing enterprises. 1029-1037
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  Geun-Cheol Lee, Yeong-Dae Kim, J.-G. Kim, S.-H. Choi:
  A dispatching rule-based approach to production scheduling in a printed circuit board manufacturing system. 1038-1049

Theoretical Papers

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  C. Chapman, S. Ward:
  Constructively simple estimating: a project management example. 1050-1058
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  Rasaratnam Logendran, Y. Karim:
  Design of manufacturing cells in the presence of alternative cell locations and material transporters. 1059-1075
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  Mohamed Haouari, Talel Ladhari:
  A branch-and-bound-based local search method for the flow shop problem. 1076-1084
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  Sang-Ho Kwon, Young-Gun G, Maing-Kyu Kang:
  Application of the out-of-kilter algorithm to the asymmetric traveling salesman problem. 1085-1092
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  P.-S. You:
  Dynamic pricing of inventory with cancellation demand. 1093-1101

Technical Note

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  Edward F. Stafford Jr., Fan T. Tseng:
  On 'redundant' constraints in Stafford's MILP model for the flowshop problem. 1102-1105

Obituary

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  Dennis V. Lindley:
  Professor George A Barnard, 1915-2002. 1106-1107

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 1108-1126

Volume 54, Number 11, November 2003

General Paper

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  Maurice W. Kirby:
  The intellectual journey of Russell Ackoff: from OR apostle to OR apostate. 1127-1140

Case-oriented Papers

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  M. Blais, Sophie D. Lapierre, Gilbert Laporte:
  Solving a home-care districting problem in an urban setting. 1141-1147
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  J. van der Touw, A. Veevers:
  A dynamic programming method for matching rail-track monitoring data. 1148-1154
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  S. Keyvan Mirrazavi, Simon J. Mardle, Mehrdad Tamiz:
  A two-phase multiple objective approach to university timetabling utilising optimisation and evolutionary solution methodologies. 1155-1166
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  Chris Hope:
  When should you sack a football manager? Results from a simple model applied to the English Premiership. 1167-1176
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  Andrew T. Brint:
  Investigating buyer and seller strategies in online auctions. 1177-1188

Theoretical Papers

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  Jong Soo Kim, Ki Young Shin, Sun-Eung Ahn:
  A multiple replenishment contract with ARIMA demand processes. 1189-1197
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  Euthemia Stavrulaki, Duncan K. H. Fong, Dennis K. J. Lin:
  Two-resource stochastic capacity planning employing a Bayesian methodology. 1198-1208
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  Luc Muyldermans, Dirk Cattrysse, Dirk Van Oudheusden:
  District design for arc-routing applications. 1209-1221

Technical Note

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  Gur Mosheiov:
  Due-date assignment with asymmetric earliness-tardiness cost. 1222-1224

Viewpoints

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  Michael C. Jackson:
  Deeper complementarism: a brief response to Ulrich. 1225-1226
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  Werner Ulrich:
  Reply to the comments of Jackson. 1226-1229

Volume 54, Number 12, December 2003

Obituary

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  Jonathan Rosenhead:
  Obituary Stafford Beer. 1231-1233

Case-oriented Papers

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  John Quigley, Lesley Walls:
  Cost-benefit modelling for reliability growth. 1234-1241
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  N. Mohan, John Ruggiero:
  Compensation differences between male and female CEOs for publicly traded firms: a nonparametric analysis. 1242-1248

Theoretical Papers

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  M. J. Carr, Anthony H. Christer:
  Incorporating the potential for human error in maintenance models. 1249-1253
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  Jean Berger, Mohamed Barkaoui:
  A new hybrid genetic algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing problem. 1254-1262
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  Jatinder N. D. Gupta, Alex J. Ruiz-Torres, Scott Webster:
  Minimizing maximum tardiness and number of tardy jobs on parallel machines subject to minimum flow-time. 1263-1274
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  Erdal Erel, Jay B. Ghosh, J. T. Simon:
  New heuristic for the dynamic layout problem. 1275-1282
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  C. S. Sung, S. H. Song:
  Integrated service network design for a cross-docking supply chain network. 1283-1295

Technical Note

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  T. Zhao, C.-L. Tseng:
  A note on activity floats in activity-on-arrow networks. 1296-1299

Viewpoints

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  Mike C. Jackson:
  The power of multi-methodology: some thoughts for John Mingers. 1300-1304
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  Frank H. Gregory:
  Mingers on the classification of philosophical assumptions. 1301-1302
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  John Mingers:
  Replies to Jackson and Gregory. 1303-1304

Book Selection

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  Book Selection. 1305-1310