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Volume 61, issue 12, 2010

An investigation of the effect of educational background on performance in simulation studies pp. 1685-1693

S Robinson and R Davies

Justifying the methods of OR pp. 1694-1708

R J Ormerod

Operational complexity and supplier–customer integration: case study insights and complexity rebound pp. 1709-1718

S Sivadasan, J Smart, L Huaccho Huatuco and A Calinescu

On a periodic vehicle routing problem pp. 1719-1728

S Coene, A Arnout and F C R Spieksma

A bootstrap approach to analyse productivity growth in European banking pp. 1729-1745

C Murillo-Melchor, José Pastor and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Analysis of hedge fund strategies using slack-based DEA models pp. 1746-1760

U D Kumar, A B Roy, H Saranga and K Singal

OR as rational choice: a decision and game theory perspective pp. 1761-1776

R J Ormerod

Productivity and technical changes in the Indian pharmaceutical industry pp. 1777-1788

H Saranga and R D Banker

An improvement on the Tracy and Chen model ‘A generalized model for weight restrictions in DEA’ pp. 1789-1793

M Khalili, A S Camanho, M C A S Portela and M R Alirezaee

Volume 61, issue 11, 2010

Risk taking by decision makers—using card-based decision gaming to develop models of behaviour pp. 1561-1571

J Medhurst, I Stanton and A Berry

An evaluation of the applicability of system dynamics to patient flow modelling pp. 1572-1581

S Vanderby and M W Carter

Reducing the elastic generalized assignment problem to the standard generalized assignment problem pp. 1582-1595

M Büther

A graphical method for valuing switching options pp. 1596-1606

B R Cobb and J M Charnes

A network model for airport common use check-in counter assignments pp. 1607-1618

Ching-Hui Tang

Integrating heuristic information into exact methods: The case of the vertex p-centre problem pp. 1619-1631

S Salhi and A Al-Khedhairi

Automated selection of the number of replications for a discrete-event simulation pp. 1632-1644

K Hoad, S Robinson and R Davies

Retailer or e-tailer? Strategic pricing and economic-lot-size decisions in a competitive supply chain with drop-shipping pp. 1645-1653

W K Chiang and Y Feng

Multi-vendor integrated procurement-production system under shared transportation and just-in-time delivery system pp. 1654-1666

Z X Chen and B R Sarker

A scatter search methodology for the nurse rostering problem pp. 1667-1679

E K Burke, T Curtois, R Qu and G Vanden Berghe

Volume 61, issue 10, 2010

Impact of policy and process design on the performance of intake and treatment processes in mental health care: a system dynamics case study pp. 1437-1445

M Smits

Implementing a discrete-event simulation software selection methodology for supporting decision making at Accenture pp. 1446-1458

T W Tewoldeberhan, A Verbraeck and V Hlupic

A fuzzy multi-criteria decision analysis model for advanced technology assessment at Kennedy Space Center pp. 1459-1470

M Tavana and M A Sodenkamp

On Markovian approximations for virtual-build-to-order systems pp. 1471-1484

P G Brabazon and B L MacCarthy

DEA-based pre-merger planning tool pp. 1485-1497

S Lozano and G Villa

Saving-based algorithms for vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery pp. 1498-1509

Y Gajpal and P Abad

Wind energy management with battery storage pp. 1510-1522

L Zhang and A Wirth

Analysing consumer segments to budget for loyalty and promotion programmes and maximize market share pp. 1523-1529

Tsao H-Y, L Pitt and C Campbell

A Bayesian approach for predicting match outcomes: The 2006 (Association) Football World Cup pp. 1530-1539

A K Suzuki, L E B Salasar, J G Leite and F Louzada-Neto

Evaluating models for classifying customers in retail banking collections pp. 1540-1547

D J Hand and F Zhou

Progressing from uncertainty to risk for DEA-based decisions pp. 1548-1555

D T Barnum, J M Gleason, B Hemily, J Lin and P Wang

Erratum: Cost allocation in the establishment of a collaborative transportation agreement—an application in the furniture industry pp. 1559-1559

Audy J-F, S D'Amours and Rousseau L-M

Volume 61, issue 9, 2010

Content analysis of OR job advertisements to infer required skills pp. 1315-1327

M S Sodhi and Son B-G

Planning federal public investment in Mexico using multiobjective decision making pp. 1328-1339

B Cobacho, R Caballero, M González and J Molina

An ant colony optimization metaheuristic for single-path multicommodity network flow problems pp. 1340-1355

Li X-Y, Y P Aneja and F Baki

Local search-based metaheuristics for the split delivery vehicle routing problem pp. 1356-1364

U Derigs, B Li and U Vogel

An analytic network process approach to the selection of logistics service providers for air cargo pp. 1365-1376

Yongheng Yang, Y V Hui, L C Leung and G Chen

A structural model for sales in the e-retailing industry pp. 1377-1388

Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Yolanda Fuertes and C Mar-Molinero

Automating warm-up length estimation pp. 1389-1403

K Hoad, S Robinson and R Davies

A Benders decomposition method for discretely-constrained mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints pp. 1404-1419

S A Gabriel, Y Shim, A J Conejo, S de la Torre and R García-Bertrand

The impact of contingency factors on validation of problem structuring methods pp. 1420-1431

D Champion and J M Wilson

Volume 61, issue 8, 2010

Varying routes to the top: identifying different strategies in the MBA marketplace pp. 1193-1206

P Naudé, S Henneberg and Z Jiang

Rational inference: deductive, inductive and probabilistic thinking pp. 1207-1223

R J Ormerod

Assessing pupil and school performance by non-parametric and parametric techniques pp. 1224-1237

Kristof De Witte, E Thanassoulis, G Simpson, Giuliana Battisti and A Charlesworth-May

System Dynamic simulation of treatment policies to address colliding epidemics of tuberculosis, drug resistant tuberculosis and injecting drug users driven HIV in Russia pp. 1238-1248

R M Lebcir, R A Atun and R J Coker

Weighting the competitiveness factors for container ports under conflicting interests pp. 1249-1257

Yeo G-T, Song D-W, J Dinwoodie and M Roe

Capacity planning with sequential time constraints under various control policies in the back-end of wafer fabrications pp. 1258-1264

Ying-Mei Tu and Hsin-Nan Chen

A new end-of-auction model for curbing sniping pp. 1265-1272

R Malaga, D Porter, John Ord and B Montano

A multiple criteria decision-making approach for the selection of stocks pp. 1273-1287

P Xidonas, George Mavrotas and J Psarras

Robustness and duality in linear programming pp. 1288-1296

V Gabrel and C Murat

Linear programming solutions and distance functions under α-returns to scale pp. 1297-1301

Jean-Philippe Boussemart, W Briec and Hervé Leleu

Preserving preference rankings under non-financial background risk pp. 1302-1308

Yannick Malevergne and Beatrice Rey

Fine-tuning a parametric Clarke and Wright heuristic by means of EAGH (empirically adjusted greedy heuristics) pp. 1309-1314

A Corominas, A García-Villoria and R Pastor

Volume 61, issue 7, 2010

Changes in editorial team pp. 1071-1071

John Wilson

Some applications of the generalized vehicle routing problem pp. 1072-1077

R Baldacci, E Bartolini and G Laporte

Articulate intervention revisited pp. 1078-1094

R J Ormerod

A heuristic method for the capacitated arc routing problem with refill points and multiple loads pp. 1095-1103

Amaya C-A, A Langevin and M Trépanier

Staff rostering for the station personnel of a railway company pp. 1104-1111

M Lezaun, G Pérez and E Sáinz de la Maza

Integrating DEA into Six Sigma methodology for measuring health service efficiency pp. 1112-1121

Q Feng and J Antony

Analysis of complementary methodologies for the estimation of school value added pp. 1122-1132

M C A S Portela and A S Camanho

Dynamic scheduling of recreational rental vehicles with revenue management extensions pp. 1133-1143

A T Ernst, M Horn, P Kilby and M Krishnamoorthy

Finding relevant search engines results: a minimax linear programming approach pp. 1144-1150

G R Amin and A Emrouznejad

Quantifying the risk in age and block replacement policies pp. 1151-1158

B C Giri and T Dohi

Algorithms for partitioning of large routing networks pp. 1159-1167

A Awasthi, S S Chauhan, M Parent and Jean-Marie Proth

A heuristic approach for the truck and trailer routing problem pp. 1168-1180

M Caramia and F Guerriero

Single machine scheduling with sequence-dependent family setups to minimize maximum lateness pp. 1181-1189

F Jin, J N D Gupta, S Song and Chin-Chia Wu

JORS referees 2009 pp. 1190-1192

T Williams and J Wilson

Volume 61, issue 6, 2010

Special issue on operational research in project management: pragmatic solutions for real life problems pp. 891-892

E D Love and C M Tam

Problem-structuring methods and project management: an example of stakeholder involvement using Hierarchical Process Modelling methodology pp. 893-904

J Davis, A MacDonald and L White

An ANP- and AHP-based approach for weighting criteria in public works bidding pp. 905-916

J P Pastor-Ferrando, P Aragonés-Beltrán, A Hospitaler-Pérez and M García-Melón

Investment evaluation within project management: an information systems perspective pp. 917-928

Z Irani

Evaluating and modelling constructs for e-government decision making pp. 929-952

A M Sharif, Z Irani and V Weerakkoddy

Synthesis as conception shifting pp. 953-963

L Houghton and M Metcalfe

Challenges of operations research practice in agricultural value chains pp. 964-973

A J Higgins, C J Miller, A A Archer, T Ton, C S Fletcher and R R J McAllister

Dynamic preventive maintenance scheduling of the modules of fighter aircraft based on random effects regression model pp. 974-979

S Y Sohn and K B Yoon

Optimal batting orders in cricket pp. 980-986

J M Norman and S R Clarke

Location of single-server immobile facilities subject to a loss constraint pp. 987-999

B Boffey, R D Galvão and V Marianov

Optimal placement, scheduling, and routing to maximize lifetime in sensor networks pp. 1000-1012

Y B Türkoğulları, N Aras, İ K Altınel and C Ersoy

Solving the forward-reserve allocation problem in warehouse order picking systems pp. 1013-1021

J Gu, M Goetschalckx and L F McGinnis

The newsvendor problem with unknown distribution pp. 1022-1031

U Benzion, Y Cohen and Tal Shavit

New heuristics for flow shop problem to minimize makespan pp. 1032-1040

D Bai and L Tang

Scheduling jobs under an aging effect pp. 1041-1048

A Janiak and R Rudek

Correlation when data are missing pp. 1049-1056

M Parzen, S Lipsitz, R Metters and G Fitzmaurice

A stylized model of ‘Momentum’ processes: a research note pp. 1057-1062

S Bandyopadhyay and S Bandyopadhyay

Erratum: A spring-embedding approach for the facility layout problem pp. 1063-1063

I Castillo and T Sim

Volume 61, issue 5, 2010

Russell L Ackoff pp. 713-713

J M Wilson

Developing geographical indicators of mileage-related costs: a case study exploring travelling public services in English local areas pp. 714-722

G A Hindle and A Hindle

Models and algorithms for the scheduling of a doubles tennis training tournament pp. 723-731

A Ghoniem and H D Sherali

Using dynamic programming to determine an optimal strategy in a contract bridge tournament pp. 732-739

N Beaumont

An ANP framework for property pricing combining quantitative and qualitative attributes pp. 740-755

J Aznar, J Ferrís-Oñate and F Guijarro

Adapting and refining in multi-criteria decision-making pp. 756-767

D B O'Brien and C M Brugha

Modelling the size and skill-mix of hospital nursing teams pp. 768-779

P R Harper, N H Powell and J E Williams

Optimal multi-period service capacity allocation and pricing allowing for uncertain competitive entry pp. 780-789

H Zhang and H I Mesak

The effect of lifetime buys on warranty repair operations pp. 790-803

K Sahyouni, R C Savaskan and M S Daskin

Heuristics for feature selection in mathematical programming discriminant analysis models pp. 804-812

K Falangis and J J Glen

A fuzzy greedy heuristic for permutation flow-shop scheduling pp. 813-818

K Sheibani

Ant Local Search and its efficient adaptation to graph colouring pp. 819-826

M Plumettaz, D Schindl and N Zufferey

Models for cellular manufacturing systems design: matching processing requirements and operator capabilities pp. 827-839

R Bhatnagar and V Saddikuti

The loader problem: formulation, complexity and algorithms pp. 840-848

G Tang, F Chen, T C E Cheng, C T Ng and Chen Z-L

Parallel machine scheduling problems considering regular measures of performance and machine cost pp. 849-857

A J Ruiz-Torres, F J López, P J Wojciechowski and J C Ho

Analysing the impact of the implementation of lean manufacturing strategies on profitability pp. 858-871

D J Meade, S Kumar and B White

A Lagrangean relaxation based approach for the capacity allocation problem in flexible manufacturing systems pp. 872-877

S Özpeynirci and M Azizoğlu

Covering continuous demand in the plane pp. 878-881

Z Drezner and A Suzuki

Scheduling a deteriorating maintenance activity on a single machine pp. 882-887

G Mosheiov and J B Sidney

Volume 61, issue 4, 2010

Scheduling ambulance crews for maximum coverage pp. 543-550

G Erdoğan, E Erkut, A Ingolfsson and G Laporte

Fuzzy chance-constrained programming model for a multi-echelon reverse logistics network for household appliances pp. 551-560

L K Chu, Y Shi, S Lin, D Sculli and J Ni

Credit rating prediction using Ant Colony Optimization pp. 561-573

D Martens, T Van Gestel, M De Backer, R Haesen, J Vanthienen and B Baesens

Enhancing the inclusion of non-discretionary inputs in DEA pp. 574-584

J M Cordero-Ferrera, F Pedraja-Chaparro and Daniel Santín

Development of utility function for life insurance buyers in the Indian market pp. 585-593

G Dutta, S Basu and J John

A tabu search heuristic for ship routing and scheduling pp. 594-603

J E Korsvik, K Fagerholt and G Laporte

A compromise solution approach for finding common weights in DEA: an improvement to Kao and Hung's approach pp. 604-610

M Zohrehbandian, A Makui and A Alinezhad

A modified tabu search algorithm for cost-based job shop problem pp. 611-619

Z C Zhu, K M Ng and H L Ong

Beam search heuristics for quadratic earliness and tardiness scheduling pp. 620-631

J M S Valente

A portfolio model for performance assessment: the Financial Times MBA ranking pp. 632-639

A Jessop

Parallel machine scheduling with common due windows pp. 640-646

Huang R-H, Yang C-L and Huang H-T

Do market share and efficiency matter for each other? An application of the zero-sum gains data envelopment analysis pp. 647-657

Jin-Li Hu and Chin Yi Fang

Optimization of container process at seaport terminals pp. 658-665

A Wong and E Kozan

Technology credit scoring model considering both SME characteristics and economic conditions: The Korean case pp. 666-675

T H Moon and S Y Sohn

Linear programming based approaches for the discrete time/cost trade-off problem in project networks pp. 676-685

A B Hafızoğlu and M Azizoğlu

Comparison of policies in dynamic routing problems pp. 686-695

E Angelelli, N Bianchessi, R Mansini and M G Speranza

Effect of declining selling price: profit analysis for a single period inventory model with stochastic demand and lead time pp. 696-704

S Banerjee and N S Meitei

Research contribution: Citation and content analysis pp. 705-707

R J Ormerod

Volume 61, issue 3, 2010

Editorial pp. 357-358

L Thomas, J Crook and D Edelman

An overview and framework for PD backtesting and benchmarking pp. 359-373

G Castermans, D Martens, T Van Gestel, B Hamers and B Baesens

Cyclical adjustment of point-in-time PD pp. 374-380

S Ingolfsson and B T Elvarsson

Estimation error in regulatory capital requirements: theoretical implications for consumer bank profitability pp. 381-392

P Beling, G Overstreet and Kanshukan Rajaratnam

Modelling LGD for unsecured personal loans: decision tree approach pp. 393-398

A Matuszyk, C Mues and L C Thomas

Monte Carlo scenario generation for retail loan portfolios pp. 399-410

J L Breeden and D Ingram

Modelling credit risk of portfolio of consumer loans pp. 411-420

M Malik and L C Thomas

Scoring decisions in the context of economic uncertainty pp. 421-429

Kanshukan Rajaratnam, P Beling and G Overstreet

Modelling take-up and profitability pp. 430-442

P Ma, J Crook and J Ansell

Question selection responding to information on customers from heterogeneous populations to select offers that maximize expected profit pp. 443-454

Seow H-V

A new index of creditworthiness for retail credit products pp. 455-461

L Quirini and L Vannucci

Likelihood-ratio changepoint features for consumer-behaviour models pp. 462-472

A R Brentnall, M J Crowder and D J Hand

Reject inference in survival analysis by augmentation pp. 473-485

J Banasik and J Crook

Effects of missing data in credit risk scoring. A comparative analysis of methods to achieve robustness in the absence of sufficient data pp. 486-501

R Florez-Lopez

Editorial pp. 502-502

Tolga Bektas and Gilbert Laporte

A novel maximum dispersion territory design model arising in the implementation of the WEEE-directive pp. 503-514

E Fernández, J Kalcsics, S Nickel and R Z Ríos-Mercado

Vehicle routing and scheduling with time-varying data: A case study pp. 515-522

W Maden, R Eglese and D Black

Reducing fuel emissions by optimizing speed on shipping routes pp. 523-529

K Fagerholt, G Laporte and I Norstad

Minimizing greenhouse gas emissions in intermodal freight transport: an application to rail service design pp. 530-542

J Bauer, T Bektaş and T G Crainic

Volume 61, issue 2, 2010

Enterprise risk management: coping with model risk in a large bank pp. 179-190

D Wu and D L Olson

First, do no harm? A framework for evaluating new versus reprocessed medical devices pp. 191-201

T Sloan

Designing a flexible approach for higher professional education by means of simulation modelling pp. 202-210

A Schellekens, F Paas, A Verbraeck and J J G van Merriënboer

The impact of information technology on the banking industry pp. 211-221

S J Ho and Sushanta Mallick

Mean and bold? On separating merger economies from structural efficiency gains in the drinking water sector pp. 222-234

Kristof De Witte and Elbert Dijkgraaf

Electricity pool prices: long-term uncertainty characterization for futures-market trading and risk management pp. 235-245

A J Conejo, F J Nogales, M Carrión and J M Morales

Waiting list behaviour and the consequences for NHS targets pp. 246-254

J Bowers

A system dynamics-based simulation study for managing clinical governance and pathways in a hospital pp. 255-264

M Maliapen and B C Dangerfield

Analysing communication in a complex service process: an application of social network analysis in the Scottish Prison Service pp. 265-274

P G Hancock and R Raeside

Health network mergers and hospital re-planning pp. 275-283

E D Güneş and H Yaman

Measuring brand equity in the car market: a hedonic price analysis pp. 284-293

G Baltas and C Saridakis

The use of simple calibrations of individual locations in making transshipment decisions in a multi-location inventory network pp. 294-305

T W Archibald, D P Black and K D Glazebrook

An effective recursive partitioning approach for the packing of identical rectangles in a rectangle pp. 306-320

E G Birgin, R D Lobato and R Morabito

Capacity planning with working time accounts in services pp. 321-331

A Corominas, J Olivella and R Pastor

Conflict analysis using Bayesian neural networks and generalized linear models pp. 332-341

N Iswaran and D F Percy

Manufacturing costs in serial production systems with rework pp. 342-351

G C Hadjinicola

Single-machine scheduling with a sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect pp. 352-355

Kuo W-H and Dar-Li Yang

Response to Viewpoint on ‘Single-machine with a sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect’ pp. 355-355

Wang J-B

Volume 61, issue 1, 2010

60th Anniversary JORS—introduction pp. 1-3

Terry Williams, John Wilson and Susan Merchant

The challenge of publications pp. 4-10

K Brian Haley

OR—a personal perspective pp. 11-13

R S Stainton

Why modelling and model use matter pp. 14-24

M Pidd

Data envelopment analysis, operational research and uncertainty pp. 25-34

R G Dyson and E A Shale

A concise guide to the Traveling Salesman Problem pp. 35-40

G Laporte

Consumer finance: challenges for operational research pp. 41-52

L C Thomas

The challenge of optimizing expensive black boxes: a scatter search/rough set theory approach pp. 53-67

M Laguna, J Molina, F Pérez, R Caballero and A G Hernández-Díaz

The ‘invisible science’: operational research for the British Armed Forces after 1945 pp. 68-81

M W Kirby and M T Godwin

A profile of OR research and practice published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society pp. 82-94

K Katsaliaki, N Mustafee, Y K Dwivedi, T Williams and J M Wilson

Heuristics with a new block strategy for the single and multiple containers loading problems pp. 95-107

Kang M-K, Jang C-S and Yoon K-S

An approach for solving the lot-sizing problem of a market-driven foundry pp. 108-114

V S Tonaki and F M B Toledo

Scheduling policies in the M/G/1 make-to-stock queue pp. 115-123

N Sanajian, H Abouee-Mehrizi and B Balcıog̃lu

Defence and attack of systems with variable attacker system structure detection probability pp. 124-133

G Levitin and Kjell Hausken

In the determination of weight sets to compute cross-efficiency ratios in DEA pp. 134-143

K F Lam

A dispatching algorithm for parallel machines with rework processes pp. 144-155

Y H Kang, S S Kim and H J Shin

A normal approximation model for safety stock optimization in a two-echelon distribution system pp. 156-163

B Desmet, Aghezzaf E-H and H Vanmaele

Bayesian forecasting with the Holt–Winters model pp. 164-171

J D Bermúdez, J V Segura and E Vercher

Single-machine scheduling with a sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect pp. 172-177

Wang J-B