European Journal of Operational Research

1977 - 2025

Current editor(s): Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati

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Volume 5, issue 6, 1980

The changing role of analysts in effective implementation of operations research and management science pp. 359-365

Steen Hildebrandt

Energy models for decision making pp. 366-377

Richard John Ormerod

A comparative study of heuristics for a two-level routing-location problem pp. 378-387

S. K. Jacobsen and O. B. G. Madsen

Improved vehicle scheduling in public transport through systematic changes in the time-table pp. 388-395

Ulf Bokinge and Dick Hasselstrom

Evaluation and optimization of urban public transportation networks pp. 396-404

Christoph E. Mandl

Assessment of low-cost manufacturing process sequences pp. 405-409

Robert G. Chamberlain

Volume 5, issue 5, 1980

Foreword: Excerpts from a guest editor's diary pp. 289-291

Jakob Krarup

Report on EURO III pp. 292-301

Jakob Krarup and C. Bernhard Tilanus

Operations research and society pp. 302-308

G. Zoutendijk

A modelling framework for comparative testing of energy forecasts pp. 309-320

James W. Bryant and Stephen D. Thomas

A goal programming approach to energy forecasting pp. 321-331

Jesus E. Samouilidis and Ioannis A. Pappas

Application of operations research in Israel's water sector pp. 332-345

Uri Shamir

Complexity of spanning tree problems: Part I pp. 346-352

P. M. Camerini, G. Galbiati and F. Maffioli

Volume 5, issue 4, 1980

On the measurement of complexity in activity networks pp. 223-234

Salah E. Elmaghraby and Willy S. Herroelen

Cost minimization of m simultaneous projects that require the same scarce resource pp. 235-238

Mary N. Trypia

Planning at the University of Utrecht pp. 239-248

Bert J. M. Van Noord

Rake utilisation problem pp. 249-253

J. P. Saksena

Linear programming with partial information pp. 254-261

Johnnie R. Charnetski

A game theoretic approach to measuring efficiency pp. 262-266

Rajiv D. Banker

Optimum replacement and maintenance policies for units with a decreasing performance level pp. 267-275

Mynt Zijlstra

On the blocking process in queue networks pp. 276-283

F. G. Foster and H. G. Perros

Volume 5, issue 3, 1980

A tutorial on heuristic methods pp. 153-162

Edward A. Silver, R. Victor, V. Vidal and Dominique de Werra

Effectiveness in strategic planning pp. 163-170

R. G. Dyson and M. J. Foster

Teaching operational research to first year undergraduates: Experience at Lancaster pp. 171-176

Graham Rand

Single machine scheduling to minimize weighted sum of completion times with secondary criterion -- A branch and bound approach pp. 177-181

S. P. Bansal

Evaluation of scheduling algorithms for resources with high set-up time pp. 182-192

D. P. Bovet and M. Petrini

Damage models for multi-component systems pp. 193-197

Gary Gottlieb and Uri Yechiali

Maintenance policies under imperfect information pp. 198-204

Bhaskar Sengupta

A note on the duality gap in nonconvex optimization and a very simple procedure for bid evaluation type problems pp. 205-209

R. Horst

Volume 5, issue 2, 1980

A planning model for crisis management in the tourism sector pp. 77-85

Avner Arbel and Jona Bargur

An interactive visual simulation system for industrial management pp. 86-93

R. D. Hurrion

Analysis of gap acceptance in a complex traffic manoeuvre pp. 94-101

P. A. Storr, Dale F. Cooper and M. R. C. McDowell

Production planning of seasonal demanded products pp. 102-111

K. E. Kioulafas and K. Kapralos

Media selection by mean-variance analysis pp. 112-117

C. A. De Kluyver

On the use of Bayesian composite predictors in decision analysis pp. 118-123

Derek W. Bunn

Monotone control laws for noisy, countable-state Markov chains pp. 124-132

Chelsea C. White

The optimal strategy structure of an intermittently operated service channel pp. 133-141

Marvin Hersh and Israel Brosh

Volume 5, issue 1, 1980

Some models for fire protection locational decisions pp. 1-7

David A. Schilling, Charles Revelle, Jared Cohon and D. Jack Elzinga

The trim-loss and assortment problems: A survey pp. 8-18

A. I. Hinxman

An adaptive branching rule for the permutation flow-shop problem pp. 19-25

C. N. Potts

Reversed geometric programming: A branch-and-bound method involving linear subproblems pp. 26-35

F. Cole, W. Gochet, F. Van Assche, J. Ecker and Y. Smeers

Board wargames for decision making research pp. 36-41

Dale F. Cooper and Jonathan Klein

An intrinsic bound for the number of observations in an optimal sequential decision problem pp. 42-50

G. Andreatta and G. Romanin-Jacur

The dependency of automatically designed multicriterion decisions on scale transformations pp. 51-55

Hans Czap

A numerical solution for the gl(n)/Ck/r/N queue pp. 56-68

William J. Stewart and Raymond Marie

Volume 4, issue 6, 1980

An interactive system for the loading of cargo aircraft pp. 367-373

Ole Larsen and Gert Mikkelsen

Models for collective decision making in industry pp. 374-379

Samuel Eilon and G. P. Cosmetatos

Saaty's priority theory and the nomination of a senior professor in operations Research pp. 380-388

F. A. Lootsma

m-scheduling-period inventory model for deteriorating items with instantaneous demand pp. 389-394

Upendra Dave

Economic lot sizes and vehicle scheduling pp. 395-398

Sven Axsater

The G/M/r machine interference model pp. 399-402

B. D. Bunday and R. E. Scraton

Implementation and analysis of a variant of the dual method for the capacitated transshipment problem pp. 403-420

Ronald D. Armstrong, Darwin Klingman and David Whitman

A branch and bound algorithm with constraint partitioning for integer goal programming problems pp. 421-425

Jeffrey L. Arthur and A. Ravindran

Notes in decision theory: Optimality and efficiency II pp. 426-427

D. J. White

Volume 4, issue 5, 1980

Bidders and dispenser: manipulative hypergames in a multinational context pp. 293-306

Peter G. Bennett

A multicriteria approach to the location of public facilities pp. 307-321

G. Terry Ross and Richard M. Soland

Optimal and canonical solutions of the change making problem pp. 322-329

Silvano Martello and Paolo Toth

The blast furnaces problem pp. 330-336

D. Stengos and L. C. Thomas

Waiting time analysis for a tandem queue with correlated service pp. 337-345

Qui Hoon Choo and Brian Conolly

Optimality and efficiency I pp. 346-355

D. J. White

Volume 4, issue 4, 1980

Foreword pp. 223-355

Bruno Martinoli

Strengthening cuts for mixed integer programs pp. 224-234

Egon Balas and Robert G. Jeroslow

Ranking arborescences in O(Km log n) time pp. 235-242

Paolo M. Camerini, Luigi Fratta and Francesco Maffioli

Contributions to the quadratic assignment problem pp. 243-247

N. Christofides, A. Mingozzi and P. Toth

An algorithm for the min concave cost flow problem pp. 248-255

Giorgio Gallo, Claudio Sandi and Claudio Sodini

The impact of distance on location problems pp. 256-269

Jakob Krarup and Peter Mark Pruzan

Complexity results for scheduling chains on a single machine pp. 270-275

J. K. Lenstra and A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan

Solution of the zero-one multiple knapsack problem pp. 276-283

Silvano Martello and Paolo Toth

Volume 4, issue 3, 1980

Decision analysis in clinical practice pp. 153-159

Joseph S. Pliskin and Nava Pliskin

On the control of care supply and demand in a urology department pp. 160-172

D. Collart and A. Haurie

Modelling New Zealand's energy system pp. 173-184

B. R. Smith

Determination of economic packaging frequency in a multi-brand joint replenishment inventory system pp. 185-188

S. K. Goyal

Characterizing the set of feasible sequences for n jobs to be carried out on a single machine pp. 189-194

J. Erschler, F. Roubellat and J. P. Vernhes

Public and private optimization at a service facility with approximate information on congestion pp. 195-202

K. R. Balachandran and Mark E. Schaefer

On the trade-off between queue congestion and server's reward in an M/M/1 queue pp. 203-214

Guy Latouche

Volume 4, issue 2, 1980

Flow models for assessing human activities pp. 73-83

James W. Bryant

New product sales forecasting without past sales data pp. 84-94

Michael D. Geurts and James E. Reinmuth

Timing market entry with a contribution-maximization approach to location-allocation decisions pp. 95-106

William G. Truscott

Determining the optimal number of depots in a physical distribution system according to market characteristics pp. 107-117

R. B. Stoker

The optimal frequency of information purchases pp. 118-123

Itzhak Venezia

Variable block search with prior information pp. 124-131

Roy D. Shapiro

A variable holding cost rate EOQ model pp. 132-135

A. P. Muhlemann and N. P. Valtis-Spanopoulos

A marginal cost analysis for prevetive replacement policies pp. 136-142

Menachem Berg

Volume 4, issue 1, 1980

Models in solar water heating--a critical comparison pp. 1-6

J. Haslett and F. P. Hand

Long-term optimization model of tree water networks pp. 7-15

T. M. Lekane, D. E. Hellemans and C. M. Whitwam

A special problem of large scale forest management pp. 16-18

Olavi Hellman

Scheduling farm operations pp. 19-23

E. Van Elderen

Rotating schedules pp. 24-30

Gilbert Laporte, Yves Nobert and Jean Biron

The assignment-to-days problem in a school time-table, a heuristic approach pp. 31-41

D. B. Papoulias

Solving a bicriterion scheduling problem pp. 42-48

Luc N. Van Wassenhove and Ludo F. Gelders

Location of a discrete resource and its allocation according to a fractional objective pp. 49-53

K. M. Mjelde

Enumerative technique for an extreme point fractional program pp. 54-59

S. S. Chadha and Saroj Shivpuri

Comments on practical implementation of Gomory's fractional algorithm pp. 60-62

J. Manz

A note on "scheduling with list processing and problem oriented data structures" pp. 63-62

D. B. Papoulias

Letter to the editor pp. 64-65

James P. Ignizio