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Volume 52, issue 12, 2001

Editorial pp. 1303-1303

J C Ranyard

Theory and practice in OR and town planning: a continuing creative synergy? pp. 1304-1314

C J L Yewlett

Relating value-focused thinking and interactive planning pp. 1315-1326

R Bordley

Simulation for business process re-engineering: case study of a database management system pp. 1327-1337

B Zarei

Optimisation models for re-routing air traffic flows in Europe pp. 1338-1349

P Leal de Matos, B Chen and R J Ormerod

Allocation of buffer spaces in a flexible manufacturing system: a model and a case example pp. 1350-1358

Z Xiaobo

Goal programming using multiple objective tabu search pp. 1359-1369

A Baykasoǧlu

Joint determination of production quantity, inspection schedule, and quality control for an imperfect process with deteriorating products pp. 1370-1378

M A Rahim and M Ben-Daya

Sequencing and scheduling in flowshops with task redistribution pp. 1379-1389

R L Burdett and E Kozan

Solving one-dimensional cutting stock problems exactly with a cutting plane algorithm pp. 1390-1401

G Scheithauer, J Terno, A Müller and G Belov

Variance reduction for Markov chain processes using state space evaluation for control variates pp. 1402-1407

F A Dahl

Data Envelopment Analysis: A Comprehensive Text with Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software pp. 1408-1409

C S Sarrico

Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond: Integrating Your Entire Organization pp. 1408-1408

B W Hollocks

Advances in The Management of Organizational Quality: Volume 4 pp. 1410-1410

S New

Doing Critical Management Research pp. 1410-1412

A Taket

John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury pp. 1413-1414

George Mitchell and Pat Rivett

Volume 52, issue 11, 2001

The futures of OR pp. 1181-1190

M Pidd

Production of locomotive rosters for a multi-class multi-locomotive problem pp. 1191-1200

D H Noble, M Al-Amin and R G J Mills

Product life cycle analysis: a goal programming approach pp. 1201-1214

S Dowlatshahi

The multiple frequency delivery operations in the time-definite delivery industry pp. 1215-1224

Lin C-C and Wu Y-C

Combining two approaches to efficiency assessment pp. 1225-1231

C Tofallis

Bin covering algorithms in the second stage of the lot to order matching problem pp. 1232-1243

M Carlyle, K Knutson and J Fowler

Optimal advertising pulsation policies: a dynamic programming approach pp. 1244-1255

H I Mesak and H Zhang

An application of Lagrangian relaxation to a capacity planning problem under uncertainty pp. 1256-1266

C Lucas, S A MirHassani, G Mitra and C A Poojari

Potential inventory cost reductions using advanced time series forecasting techniques pp. 1267-1275

G L Shoesmith and J P Pinder

A sequential method for preventive maintenance and replacement of a repairable single-unit system pp. 1276-1283

K K Lai, K N F Leung, B Tao and S Y Wang

A servicing strategy for items sold under warranty pp. 1284-1288

N Jack and D N P Murthy

Lower bounding schemes for flowshops with blocking in-process pp. 1289-1297

D P Ronconi and V A Armentano

Comment on Makis and Jardine (1992): Optimal replacement policy for a general model with imperfect repair pp. 1298-1298

J J González-Henríquez and P Saavedra-Santana

Response to González-Henríquez and Saavedra-Santana pp. 1299-1299

A K S Jardine

Some notes on the optimal production stopping and restarting times for an EOQ model with deteriorating items pp. 1300-1301

Z T Balkhi, S K Goyal and B C Giri

Volume 52, issue 10, 2001

Measuring performance in Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary with the Balanced Scorecard pp. 1057-1066

M Wisniewski and A Dickson

Quantifying the potential savings in travel time resulting from parking guidance systems — a simulation case study pp. 1067-1077

B J Waterson, N B Hounsell and K Chatterjee

Incremental Operator Assistance Knowledge System—an intelligent aid for a general class of problems pp. 1078-1090

S Jenei

An effective heuristic algorithm to minimise stack shuffles in selecting steel slabs from the slab yard for heating and rolling pp. 1091-1097

L Tang, John Liu, A Rong and Z Yang

Order selection optimization in hybrid make-to-order and make-to-stock markets pp. 1098-1106

J Ashayeri and W J Selen

Models and a genetic algorithm for static aircraft-gate assignment problem pp. 1107-1120

A Bolat

A closed queuing maintenance network for automated manufacturing systems pp. 1121-1129

C Lin, Ding J-R and Yeh J-M

Optimal techniques for class-dependent attribute discretization pp. 1130-1143

N Bryson and A Joseph

Using mathematical programming to solve large ranking problems pp. 1144-1150

A C B Tse

On the inventory model with variable lead time and price–quantity discount pp. 1151-1158

Chang C-T and Chang S-C

Internet commerce security: issues and models for control checking pp. 1159-1164

J V Hansen

Parallel machine scheduling with a learning effect pp. 1165-1169

G Mosheiov

Education and a future for OR—a viewpoint pp. 1170-1175

J L Scott

The success and failure of methodologies—a comment on Connell (2001): evaluating soft OR pp. 1176-1179

R J Ormerod

Volume 52, issue 9, 2001

Editor's Introduction pp. 971-971

John Ranyard

Editorial overview pp. 972-973

J N Crook, D B Edelman and L C Thomas

A study in the combination of two consumer credit scores pp. 974-980

H Zhu, P A Beling and G A Overstreet

Recalibrating scorecards pp. 981-988

L C Thomas, J Banasik and J N Crook

Lookahead scorecards for new fixed term credit products pp. 989-996

D J Hand and M G Kelly

Scoring by usage pp. 997-1006

J Banasik, J Crook and L Thomas

PHAB scores: proportional hazards analysis behavioural scores pp. 1007-1016

M Stepanova and L C Thomas

Mining for classes and patterns in behavioural data pp. 1017-1024

N M Adams, D J Hand and R J Till

Efficient frontier cutoff policies in credit portfolios pp. 1025-1033

R M Oliver and E Wells

The planning of marketing strategies in consumer credit: an approach based on graphical chain models for ordinal variables pp. 1034-1044

Andrea Neri

The power to borrow and lend: investigating the cultural context as part of the lending decision pp. 1045-1056

M L Maznevski, R S Kemp, G A Overstreet and J N Crook

Volume 52, issue 8, 2001

Blackett Memorial Lecture Air safety: end of the golden age? pp. 849-854

A Barnett

JORS part special issue OR42 papers: an editorial overview pp. 855-855

B Lehaney, S Clarke and M Nicholls

Knowledge management and the framing of information: a contribution to OR/MS practice and pedagogy pp. 856-872

J Davies and V J Mabin

Enhancing management's understanding of operational research models pp. 873-887

K S Dhir

Yield management for privatised air traffic control? pp. 888-895

P Leal de Matos

Evaluating the effect of gap size in a single function mathematical programming model for the three-group classification problem pp. 896-904

R Pavur and C Loucopoulos

Soft with a hard centre: discrete-event simulation in facilitation pp. 905-915

S Robinson

Performance evaluation of a distributed application pp. 916-927

N Ahituv and Y Elovici

A unified tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problems with time windows pp. 928-936

Cordeau J-F, G Laporte and A Mercier

Component testing of repairable systems in multistage missions pp. 937-944

İ K Altınel, S Özekici and O Feyziog̃lu

The laser-plotter beam routing problem pp. 945-951

G Ghiani and G Improta

Solving the capacitated lot-sizing problem with backorder consideration pp. 952-959

C H Cheng, M S Madan, Y Gupta and S So

Comments on Romero C, Tamiz M and Jones DF (1998). Goal programming, compromise programming and reference point method formulations: linkages and utility interpretations pp. 960-962

Wlodzimierz Ogryczak

Reply to Professor Ogryczak pp. 962-963

C Romero, M Tamiz and D F Jones

Comments on Reply by Romero et al pp. 963-964

Wlodzimierz Ogryczak

Final reply to comments of Professor Ogryczak pp. 964-965

M Tamiz, D F Jones and C Romero

Comment on Bose S, Goswami A and Chaudhuri KS (1995). An EOQ model for deteriorating items with linear time-dependent demand rate and shortages under inflation and time discounting pp. 966-969

I Moon and B C Giri

Erratum:Skitmore M and Pemberton J (1994). A multivariate approach to construction contract bidding mark-up strategies pp. 970-970

J Pemberton and M Skitmore

Volume 52, issue 7, 2001

Postoptimal analysis in a multi-attribute decision model for restoring contaminated aquatic ecosystems pp. 727-738

A Mateos, S Ríos-Insua and E Gallego

Targeting quality improvement efforts through knowledge of capacity constraints: the case of a low technology ceramics manufacturer pp. 739-749

N E Shaw and T F Burgess

Just-in-time replenishment decisions for assembly manufacturing with investor-supplied finance pp. 750-761

J Betts and R B Johnston

The development of a hybrid intelligent maintenance optimisation system (HIMOS) pp. 762-778

K A H Kobbacy and J Jeon

Tools for resource-constrained project scheduling and control: forward and backward slack analysis pp. 779-788

P Tormos and A Lova

A methodology to customize pull control systems pp. 789-799

E G A Gaury, Jack Kleijnen and H Pierreval

Graphical method for identifying high outliers in construction contract auctions pp. 800-809

M Skitmore

Statistical process control for monitoring scheduling performance—addressing the problem of correlated data pp. 810-820

B L MacCarthy and T Wasusri

Constructive heuristics for the uncapacitated continuous location-allocation problem pp. 821-829

M D H Gamal and S Salhi

Multi-echelon multi-company inventory planning with limited information exchange pp. 830-838

J C Fransoo, M J F Wouters and T G de Kok

Effects of centralization on expected profits in a multi-location newsboy problem pp. 839-841

Lin C-T, Chen C-B and Hsieh H-J

A note on life expectancy in a nonhomogeneous population pp. 842-843

O A Adekola

Comment on Johnston (2000): Commentary on Burgin and Wild (1967): Stock control—experience and usable theory. J Opl Res Soc 51: 1111 pp. 844-844

J N Floyer

Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling (Third Edition) pp. 845-845

G K Rand

Scheduling of Resource-Constrained Projects pp. 846-846

J Wilson

Synergy Matters; Working with Systems in the 21st Century pp. 846-847

A Boyd

Managing in Uncertainty: Theory and Practice pp. 847-848

M J Norman

Volume 52, issue 6, 2001

Placing boxes on shelves: a case study pp. 605-614

N P Hoare and John Beasley

An algorithm to minimize queues at signalized intersections pp. 615-622

A Ceder and I Reshetnik

Assigning pupils to tutor groups in a comprehensive school pp. 623-629

B M Baker and C Benn

HRSOS: a decision support system to facilitate the privatization of military housing pp. 630-641

G A Forgionne

First-off inspection of capable manufacturing processes pp. 642-651

J Sheil

Time series forecasting with neural network ensembles: an application for exchange rate prediction pp. 652-664

G P Zhang and V L Berardi

A visual interactive approach for multiple criteria decision making with monotone utility functions pp. 665-672

M Köksalan and O Rizi

Job routing and operations scheduling: a network-based virtual cell formation approach pp. 673-681

B R Sarker and Z Li

Pricing/inventory decisions and profit shares in a non-integrated marketing channel for a single-period product pp. 682-690

Lau H-S, A H-L Lau and J F Kottas

On goal programming formulations of the reference point method pp. 691-698

Wlodzimierz Ogryczak

EWMA control charts for autoregressive processes pp. 699-707

A B Koehler, N B Marks and R T O'connell

NP-hard cases in scheduling deteriorating jobs on dedicated machines pp. 708-717

A Kononov and S Gawiejnowicz

A cast-off replacement policy for a component demanded by two parallel units pp. 718-723

B M Yakasai

Volume 52, issue 5, 2001

Scheduling aircraft landings at London Heathrow using a population heuristic pp. 483-493

John Beasley, J Sonander and P Havelock

A mathematical programming model for the bus deviation route problem pp. 494-502

A Pratelli and F Schoen

Market share in a post-entry game pp. 503-510

C B Lee, L R Fletcher, J M Binner and W D Murphy

Web based casting supplier evaluation using analytical hierarchy process pp. 511-522

M M Akarte, N V Surendra, B Ravi and N Rangaraj

A greedy look-ahead heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows pp. 523-537

G Ioannou, M Kritikos and G Prastacos

Extended clique initialisation in examination timetabling pp. 538-544

M W Carter and D G Johnson

Designing a mixed-model, open-station assembly line using mixed-integer programming pp. 545-558

B R Sarker and H Pan

Simultaneous optimisation of test and maintenance intervals of given components using non-homogenous semi-Markov models pp. 559-566

G Becker, J Nagel, L Camarinopoulos and G Zioutas

Preprocessing rules for integer programming solutions to the generalised assignment problem pp. 567-575

Kong M-T and N Shah

Solving electronic spreadsheet models by interactive multicriterion optimization: a budgeting illustration pp. 576-583

M D Troutt, B K Yew and A Zhang

A comment on Zhou YW and Lau H-S (1998). Optimal production lot sizing model considering the bounded learning case and shortages backordered. J Opl Res Soc 49: 1206-1211 pp. 584-590

M Y Jaber and M Bonney

Reply to Jaber and Bonney pp. 590-591

Zhou Y-W and Lau H-S

Comments on Zhou & Lau's reply pp. 591-592

M Y Jaber and M Bonney

Response to Jaber and Bonneys' comments pp. 593-593

Zhou Y-W and Lau H-S

A comment on Anandalingam (1988). A mathematical programming model of decentralized multi-level systems. J Opl Res Soc 39: 1021-1033 pp. 594-596

S Sinha

A note on Chang H-J and Dye C-Y (1999). An EOQ model for deteriorating items with time varying demand and partial backlogging. J Opl Res Soc 50: 1176-1182 pp. 597-598

Wang S-P

Response from Chang and Dye pp. 598-598

Chang H-J and Dye C-Y

Optimal production stopping and restarting times for an EOQ model with deteriorating items. A commentary on Yan and Cheng (1998). J Opl Res Soc 49: 1288-1295 pp. 599-599

S K Goyal

Queuing Networks: Customers, Signals and Product Form Solutions pp. 600-601

B Atkinson

Adaptive Search and the Management of Logistics Systems: Base Models for Learning Agents pp. 601-602

S Salhi

Project Scheduling: Recent Models, Algorithms and Applications pp. 602-603

V J Rayward-Smith

Multicriterion Decision in Management: Principles and Practice pp. 603-603

C Leake

Volume 52, issue 4, 2001

Generating networks for strategic planning by successive key factor modification pp. 369-382

J H Powell

A Bayesian approach to service level performance monitoring in supplier, provider relationships pp. 383-390

F P Wheeler

Optimal location of public health centres which provide free and paid services pp. 391-400

V Marianov and P Taborga

Assessing systems for offshore emergency evacuation pp. 401-408

G I Mould

Determination of the number of automated guided vehicles required at a semi-automated container terminal pp. 409-417

I F A Vis, R de Koster, K J Roodbergen and L W P Peeters

Analysis of a multi-part spares inventory system subject to ambiguous fault isolation pp. 418-432

C S Sung and S H Kim

Solving arc routing problems with turn penalties pp. 433-439

J Clossey, G Laporte and P Soriano

Assignment of add–drop multiplexer (ADM) rings and digital cross-connect system (DCS) mesh in telecommunication networks pp. 440-448

C Y Lee and S J Koh

Minimizing total completion time in a no-wait flowshop with sequence-dependent additive changeover times pp. 449-462

A Allahverdi and T Aldowaisan

Another heuristic for minimizing total average cycle stock subject to practical constraints pp. 463-470

Hsieh Y-C

Fair measures of performance: the World Cup of cricket pp. 471-479

S R Clarke and P Allsopp

Medal awards 2000 pp. 480-481

S Robinson

Volume 52, issue 3, 2001

Modelling in the absence of data: a case study of fleet maintenance in a developing country pp. 247-260

M I Desa and A H Christer

Analysing emergency medical service ambulance deployment on a Brazilian highway using the hypercube model pp. 261-270

F C Mendonça and R Morabito

Plant location and procurement planning in knockdown production systems pp. 271-282

Lim S-K and Kim Y-D

Decision support system for planning telecommunication networks: a case study applied to the Andalusian region pp. 283-290

P Cortes, Luis Onieva, J Larrañeta and J M Garcia

Nonlinear goal programming using multi-objective genetic algorithms pp. 291-302

K Deb

Prioritising highway accident sites: a data envelopment analysis model pp. 303-309

W D Cook, A Kazakov and B N Persaud

Efficient strategies for transporting mobile forces pp. 310-317

M Kress

Statistical multiplexing of correlated variable-length packet trains: an analytic performance study pp. 318-327

S De Vuyst, S Wittevrongel and H Bruneel

Classification accuracy in discriminant analysis: a mixed integer programming approach pp. 328-339

J J Glen

Optimization guided lower and upper bounds for the resource investment problem pp. 340-351

A Drexl and A Kimms

Variable wager HI-LO: a stochastic dynamic programming analysis pp. 352-357

J M Freeman

A new method for joint replenishment problems pp. 358-362

R Y K Fung and X Ma

A contibution to the Ormerod/Jackson debate. J Opl Res Soc 51: 882–886 pp. 363-364

I Munro

Book Selection pp. 365-367

J Crocker, S Salhi, E J Collins, J Edwards and Ann Harding

Volume 52, issue 2, 2001

A risk management model for improving operation and maintenance activities in electricity transmission networks pp. 125-134

V M Rao Tummala and C L Mak

The cost of weather in a floating oil production system pp. 135-142

J Bowers

Forecasting practice: organisational issues pp. 143-149

M C Hughes

Evaluating soft OR: some reflections on an apparently ‘unsuccessful’ implementation using a Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) based approach pp. 150-160

N A D Connell

The availability of unmanned air vehicles: a post-case study pp. 161-168

M A J Smith, Rommert Dekker, J Kos and J A M Hontelez

An improved branching rule for the symmetric travelling salesman problem pp. 169-175

P M E Shutler

IDEA (Imprecise Data Envelopment Analysis) with CMDs (Column Maximum Decision Making Units) pp. 176-181

W W Cooper, K S Park and G Yu

Maximal flow network modelling of production bottleneck problems pp. 182-187

M D Troutt, G P White and S K Tadisina

Multi-parameter maintenance optimisation via the marginal cost approach pp. 188-197

Rommert Dekker and R P Plasmeijer

Setting expediting repair policy in a multi-echelon repairable-item inventory system with limited repair capacity pp. 198-209

Y Perlman, A Mehrez and M Kaspi

New block properties for the permutation flow shop problem with application in tabu search pp. 210-220

J Grabowski and J Pempera

Validating absolute weight bounds in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models pp. 221-225

V V Podinovski

Stochastic scheduling with optimal customer service pp. 226-233

V Portougal and D Trietsch

An approximation algorithm for parallel machine scheduling with a common server pp. 234-237

Guoqing Wang and T C Edwin Cheng

A comment on Chang and Dye (1999): EOQ model for deteriorating items with time-varying demand and partial backlogging pp. 238-239

S K Goyal and B C Giri

Response by Dye pp. 239-239

Dye C-Y

A Comment on Brimberg and ReVelle (2000): The maximum return-on-investment plant location problem pp. 240-241

A Mercer

Response by Brimberg, ReVelle and Rosing pp. 241-242

J Brimberg, C ReVelle and K E Rosing

The Economic Value of Information pp. 243-244

S Kafandaris

Purchasing in the 21st Century pp. 244-245

H W Ittman

Numerical Optimization pp. 245-245

D K Smith

Measurement Made Accessible: A Research Approach Using Qualitative, Quantitative and Quality Improvement Methods pp. 245-246

M Simpson

Volume 52, issue 1, 2001

Editorial pp. 1-3

John Ranyard,

OR in strategic land-use planning pp. 4-13

C J L Yewlett

An integrated approach for risk response development in project planning pp. 14-25

Itzhak Ben-David and T Raz

The impact of disruption and delay when compressing large projects: going for incentives? pp. 26-34

S Howick and C Eden

Viable boundary critique pp. 35-47

M Yolles

An improved solution methodology for the arsenal exchange model (AEM) pp. 48-54

J D Weir, J T Moore and M G Stoecker

An incentive charging scheme for video-on-demand pp. 55-63

Leung Y-W and E W M Wong

Optimal pricing strategies for Internet-based software dissemination pp. 64-70

H Gurnani and K Karlapalem

Sensitivity analysis for ruin probabilities: canonical risk model pp. 71-81

F J Vázquez-Abad and P LeQuoc

Enhancing the performance of constraint programming through the introduction of linear programming pp. 82-92

J Little

Circular/wrap-around self-organizing map networks: an empirical study in clustering and classification pp. 93-101

M Y Kiang, U R Kulkarni and R St Louis

The first K minimum cost paths in a time-schedule network pp. 102-108

Chen Y-L, D Rinks and K Tang

Penalties, rewards, and inspection: provisions for quality in supply chain contracts pp. 109-115

S A Starbird

Complexity results and approximation algorithms for the two machine no-wait flow-shop with limited machine availability pp. 116-121

Espinouse M-L, P Formanowicz and B Penz

A comment on: Geetha K K and Archary K K (2000) pp. 122-123

R Ganeshan

Reply to Ganeshan pp. 123-124

K K Geetha and K K Achary