Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

1967 - 2009

Edited by Barnett R. Parker

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Volume 43, issue 4, 2009

Measuring productivity growth, technical progress, and efficiency changes of CPA firms prior to, and following the Sarbanes-Oxley Act pp. 221-228

Hsihui Chang, Hiu Lam Choy, William W. Cooper, Barnett R. Parker and Timothy W. Ruefli

Allocating U.S. Department of Homeland Security funds to States with explicit equity, population and energy facility security criteria pp. 229-239

Michael Greenberg, Will Irving and Rae Zimmerman

Measuring the impact of restructuring and country-specific factors on the efficiency of post-crisis East Asian banking systems: Integrating DEA with SFA pp. 240-252

Nakhun Thoraneenitiyan and Necmi K. Avkiran

A minimum expected response model: Formulation, heuristic solution, and application pp. 253-262

Hari K. Rajagopalan and Cem Saydam

Evaluating shifts in Japan's quality-of-life pp. 263-273

Akihiro Hashimoto, Takeshi Sugita and Shoko Haneda

A directional slacks-based measure of technical inefficiency pp. 274-287

Hirofumi Fukuyama and William L. Weber

Volume 43, issue 3, 2009

Studying the association between air pollution and lung cancer incidence in a large metropolitan area using a kernel density function pp. 141-150

Boris A. Portnov, Jonathan Dubnov and Micha Barchana

Using data envelopment analysis to quantify ILO objectives and identify policies conducive to decent work in a globalizing world pp. 151-164

Sten Thore and Ruzanna Tarverdyan

Can highway investment policies influence regional growth? pp. 165-176

John S. Miller, Lester A. Hoel and David B. Ellington

Congestion in the Chinese automobile and textile industries revisited pp. 177-191

A.T. Flegg and D.O. Allen

Defining efficient policies in a general equilibrium model: a multi-objective approach pp. 192-200

Francisco J. André and M. Alejandro Cardenete

A multi-division efficiency evaluation of U.S. electric power companies using a weighted slacks-based measure pp. 201-208

Miki Tsutsui and Mika Goto

Electronic medical record use and efficiency: A DEA and windows analysis of hospitals pp. 209-216

Abby Swanson Kazley and Yasar A. Ozcan

A note on 'Efficiency aggregation with enhanced Russell measures in data envelopment analysis' pp. 217-218

Sebastián Lozano

Response to: A note on 'Efficiency aggregation with enhanced Russell measures in data envelopment analysis' pp. 219-219

W.W. Cooper, Z. Huang, S.X. Li, B.R. Parker and J.T. Pastor

Volume 43, issue 2, 2009

Note from the Editor-in-Chief on this Special Issue: The Contributions of Charles S. ReVelle pp. 89-89

Barnett Richard Parker

The Contributions of Charles S. ReVelle pp. 90-91

Timothy C. Matisziw, Alan T. Murray and Jeffrey P. Osleeb

Application and extension of the Moore and ReVelle Hierarchical Maximal Covering Model pp. 92-101

Samuel J. Ratick, Jeffrey P. Osleeb and Dai Hozumi

Improving accessibility to rural health services: The maximal covering network improvement problem pp. 102-110

Lisa Murawski and Richard L. Church

A multiobjective modeling approach to locating incinerators pp. 111-120

Alçada-Almeida, Luís, Coutinho-Rodrigues, João and John Current

Gradual location set covering with service quality pp. 121-130

H.A. Eiselt and Vladimir Marianov

Siting a facility in continuous space to maximize coverage of a region pp. 131-139

Timothy C. Matisziw and Alan T. Murray

Volume 43, issue 1, 2009

Dispatching and routing of emergency vehicles in disaster mitigation using data fusion pp. 1-24

Arun Jotshi, Qiang Gong and Rajan Batta

An index aggregation approach to comparing the overall performance of emerging and developed countries pp. 25-39

Ye Chen, Xin Su and Keith W. Hipel

Weak congestion in output additive data envelopment analysis pp. 40-54

Quanling Wei and Hong Yan

Network planning of fuelling service stations in a near-term competitive scenario of the hydrogen economy pp. 55-71

Chiara Bersani, Riccardo Minciardi, Roberto Sacile and Eva Trasforini

Comparing two territory partitions in districting problems: Indices and practical issues pp. 72-88

Fernando Tavares Pereira, José Rui Figueira, Vincent Mousseau and Bernard Roy

Volume 42, issue 4, 2008

A new perspective on the competitiveness of nations pp. 221-246

Sule Önsel, Füsun Ülengin, Gündüz Ulusoy, Emel Aktas, Özgür Kabak and Y. Ilker Topcu

FEAR: A software package for frontier efficiency analysis with R pp. 247-254

Paul W. Wilson

Non-homogeneous servers in emergency medical systems: Practical applications using the hypercube queueing model pp. 255-270

Reinaldo Morabito, Fernando Chiyoshi and Roberto D. Galvão

The estimation of HIV prevalence for women of child bearing age in New York City pp. 271-285

Lawrence Lessner

HIV prevalence for New York State using Newborn Seroprevalence and AIDS Surveillance Data pp. 286-299

Lawrence Lessner

Volume 42, issue 3, 2008

Evaluation of research in efficiency and productivity: A survey and analysis of the first 30 years of scholarly literature in DEA pp. 151-157

Ali Emrouznejad, Barnett Richard Parker and Gabriel Tavares

A cross-national comparison and taxonomy of DEA-based hospital efficiency studies pp. 158-189

O'Neill, Liam, Marion Rauner, Kurt Heidenberger and Markus Kraus

Deepwater energy industry impacts on economic growth and public service provision in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana pp. 190-205

J. Matthew Fannin, David W. Hughes, Walter R. Keithly, Williams O. Olatubi and Jiemin Guo

Analyzing the financial distress of Chinese public companies using probabilistic neural networks and multivariate discriminate analysis pp. 206-220

Dash Wu, Liang Liang and Zijiang Yang

Volume 42, issue 2, 2008

A multistage method to measure efficiency and its application to Japanese banking industry pp. 75-91

Junming Liu and Kaoru Tone

A new pattern of risk management: The Hyogo Framework for Action and Italian practise pp. 92-111

Marialuce Stanganelli

Habitat and commodity production trade-offs in coastal Oregon pp. 112-128

Pete Bettinger and Kevin Boston

Zip codes and spatial analysis: Problems and prospects pp. 129-149

Tony H. Grubesic

Volume 42, issue 1, 2008

Estimating elasticities with frontier and other regressions in evaluating two advertising strategies for US Army recruiting pp. 1-17

Patrick L. Brockett, W.W. Cooper, Linda L. Golden, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Michael J. Kwinn , Brian Layton and Barnett Richard Parker

Reuses of closed schools in Windsor, Ontario pp. 18-30

Alan G. Phipps

A multiobjective model for the selection and timing of public enterprise projects pp. 31-45

Andres L. Medaglia, Darrell Hueth, Juan Carlos Mendieta and Jorge A. Sefair

Mapping verbal responses to numerical scales in the analytic hierarchy process pp. 46-55

Liang Liang, Guohua Wang, Zhongsheng Hua and Bin Zhang

The effects of barriers to entry on monopolistic intermediary online services: The case of a digital library pp. 56-73

Michael Y. Yuan

Volume 41, issue 4, 2007

Introduction to the Special Issue: The deregulation of electricity markets pp. 269-271

Erik R. Larsen, Ann van Ackere and Isaac Dyner

A model of vertical integration and investment in generation capacity in electricity markets: The case of the bidding game pp. 272-290

Eloy Perez

Deregulating the electricity industry in Nigeria: Lessons from the British reform pp. 291-304

Marilyn Chikaodili Amobi

Simulation of alternative regulations in the Colombian electricity market pp. 305-319

Santiago Arango

Evaluating the prospective effects of alternative regulatory policies on the investment behaviour and environmental performance of a newly liberalised electricity industry in Taiwan pp. 320-335

Shih, Hsin-Chin

Policy changes in the Swiss electricity market: Analysis of likely market responses pp. 336-349

Patricia Ochoa

Volume 41, issue 3, 2007

Perceived neighborhood quality in the United States: Measuring outdoor, housing and jurisdictional influences pp. 181-194

Michael Greenberg and Kristen Crossney

Adjusting inconsistency through learning in group decision-making, and its application to China's MBA recruiting interview pp. 195-207

Zhongsheng Hua, Wenqi Jiang and Liang Liang

Frequency competition and environmental costs: An application to European air transport liberalization pp. 208-223

Youdi Schipper, Piet Rietveld and Peter Nijkamp

Stability and integrity tests in data envelopment analysis pp. 224-234

Necmi K. Avkiran

Community design of a light rail transit-oriented development using casewise visual evaluation (CAVE) pp. 235-254

Keiron Bailey, Ted Grossardt and Pride-Wells, Michaele

Network flow-based strategies for identifying rail park-and-ride facility locations pp. 255-268

Mark W. Horner and Sara Groves

Volume 41, issue 2, 2007

Decomposition of cost efficiency and its application to Japanese-US electric utility comparisons pp. 91-106

Kaoru Tone and Miki Tsutsui

Economic development and resource degradation: Conflicts and policies pp. 107-129

E.A. Abdelgalil and S.. Cohen

A decision support system to improve the efficiency of resource allocation in healthcare management pp. 130-146

Emel Aktas, Fusun Ulengin and Sule Onsel Sahin

Spatial interaction modeling of interregional commodity flows pp. 147-162

H. Murat Celik and Guldmann, Jean-Michel

Transportation cost changes with statewide school district consolidation pp. 163-179

Paul F. Hanley

Volume 41, issue 1, 2007

Efficiency aggregation with enhanced Russell measures in data envelopment analysis pp. 1-21

W.W. Cooper, Zhimin Huang, Susan X. Li, Barnett Richard Parker and Jesus T. Pastor

Group decision-making: Head-count versus intensity of preference pp. 22-37

Thomas L. Saaty and Jen S. Shang

Solid waste planning under uncertainty using evolutionary simulation-optimization pp. 38-60

Julian Scott Yeomans

A flexible inventory model for municipal solid waste recycling pp. 61-89

Garrick Louis and Jhih-Shyang Shih