Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume 61

Volume 61, Number 1, January 2010

Part Special Issue for 60th Anniversary of the Journal: Challenges for OR

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  Terry Williams, John Wilson, Susan Merchant:
  60th Anniversary JORS - introduction. 1-3

Special Issue Papers

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  K. Brian Haley:
  The challenge of publications. 4-10
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  R. S. Stainton:
  OR - a personal perspective. 11-13
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  Michael Pidd:
  Why modelling and model use matter. 14-24
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  Robert G. Dyson, Estelle A. Shale:
  Data envelopment analysis, operational research and uncertainty. 25-34
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  Gilbert Laporte:
  A concise guide to the Traveling Salesman Problem. 35-40
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  Lyn C. Thomas:
  Consumer finance: challenges for operational research. 41-52
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  Manuel Laguna, Julián Molina Luque, Fatima Perez, Rafael Caballero, Alfredo García Hernández-Díaz:
  The challenge of optimizing expensive black boxes: a scatter search/rough set theory approach. 53-67
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  Maurice W. Kirby, M. T. Godwin:
  The 'invisible science': operational research for the British Armed Forces after 1945. 68-81
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  Korina Katsaliaki, Navonil Mustafee, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Terry Williams, John M. Wilson:
  A profile of OR research and practice published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society. 82-94

Theoretical Papers

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  M.-K. Kang, C.-S. Jang, K.-S. Yoon:
  Heuristics with a new block strategy for the single and multiple containers loading problems. 95-107
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  V. S. Tonaki, Franklina Maria Bragion Toledo:
  An approach for solving the lot-sizing problem of a market-driven foundry. 108-114
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  Nima Sanajian, Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi, Baris Balcioglu:
  Scheduling policies in the M/G/1 make-to-stock queue. 115-123
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  Gregory Levitin, Kjell Hausken:
  Defence and attack of systems with variable attacker system structure detection probability. 124-133
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  Kim Fung Lam:
  In the determination of weight sets to compute cross-efficiency ratios in DEA. 134-143
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  Yong Ha Kang, S. S. Kim, Hyun Joon Shin:
  A dispatching algorithm for parallel machines with rework processes. 144-155
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  Bram Desmet, El Houssaine Aghezzaf, Hendrik Vanmaele:
  A normal approximation model for safety stock optimization in a two-echelon distribution system. 156-163
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  José D. Bermúdez, José Vicente Segura, Enriqueta Vercher:
  Bayesian forecasting with the Holt-Winters model. 164-171

Technical Note

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  Ji-Bo Wang:
  Single-machine scheduling with a sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect. 172-177

Volume 61, Number 2, February 2010

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  Desheng Wu, David L. Olson:
  Enterprise risk management: coping with model risk in a large bank. 179-190
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  T. Sloan:
  First, do no harm? A framework for evaluating new versus reprocessed medical devices. 191-201
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  A. Schellekens, Fred Paas, Alexander Verbraeck, Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer:
  Designing a flexible approach for higher professional education by means of simulation modelling. 202-210
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  S. J. Ho, Sushanta K. Mallick:
  The impact of information technology on the banking industry. 211-221
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  Kristof De Witte, Elbert Dijkgraaf:
  Mean and bold? On separating merger economies from structural efficiency gains in the drinking water sector. 222-234
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  Antonio J. Conejo, Francisco J. Nogales, Miguel Carrión, Juan M. Morales:
  Electricity pool prices: long-term uncertainty characterization for futures-market trading and risk management. 235-245
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  John Bowers:
  Waiting list behaviour and the consequences for NHS targets. 246-254
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  M. Maliapen, Brian C. Dangerfield:
  A system dynamics-based simulation study for managing clinical governance and pathways in a hospital. 255-264
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  P. G. Hancock, R. Raeside:
  Analysing communication in a complex service process: an application of social network analysis in the Scottish Prison Service. 265-274
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  Evrim D. Günes, Hande Yaman:
  Health network mergers and hospital re-planning. 275-283
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  George Baltas, Charalampos Saridakis:
  Measuring brand equity in the car market: a hedonic price analysis. 284-293

Theoretical Papers

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  Thomas W. Archibald, D. P. Black, Kevin D. Glazebrook:
  The use of simple calibrations of individual locations in making transshipment decisions in a multi-location inventory network. 294-305
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  Ernesto G. Birgin, Rafael D. Lobato, Reinaldo Morabito:
  An effective recursive partitioning approach for the packing of identical rectangles in a rectangle. 306-320
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  Albert Corominas, Jordi Olivella, Rafael Pastor:
  Capacity planning with working time accounts in services. 321-331
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  N. Iswaran, David F. Percy:
  Conflict analysis using Bayesian neural networks and generalized linear models. 332-341
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  George C. Hadjinicola:
  Manufacturing costs in serial production systems with rework. 342-351

Viewpoints

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  Wen-Hung Kuo, Dar-Li Yang:
  Single-machine scheduling with a sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect. 352-355
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  Ji-Bo Wang:
  Response to Viewpoint on 'Single-machine with a sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect'. 355

Volume 61, Number 3, March 2010

Part 1: Consumer Credit Risk Modelling

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  Lyn C. Thomas, Jonathan N. Crook, David E. Edelman:
  Editorial. 357-358
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  G. Castermans, David Martens, Tony Van Gestel, Bart Hamers, Bart Baesens:
  An overview and framework for PD backtesting and benchmarking. 359-373
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  S. Ingolfsson, B. T. Elvarsson:
  Cyclical adjustment of point-in-time PD. 374-380
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  Peter A. Beling, George A. Overstreet Jr., Kanshukan Rajaratnam:
  Estimation error in regulatory capital requirements: theoretical implications for consumer bank profitability. 381-392
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  Ania Matuszyk, Christophe Mues, Lyn C. Thomas:
  Modelling LGD for unsecured personal loans: decision tree approach. 393-398
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  Joseph L. Breeden, D. Ingram:
  Monte Carlo scenario generation for retail loan portfolios. 399-410
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  M. Malik, Lyn C. Thomas:
  Modelling credit risk of portfolio of consumer loans. 411-420
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  Kanshukan Rajaratnam, Peter A. Beling, George A. Overstreet Jr.:
  Scoring decisions in the context of economic uncertainty. 421-429
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  P. Ma, Jonathan Crook, Jake Ansell:
  Modelling take-up and profitability. 430-442
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  Hsin-Vonn Seow:
  Question selection responding to information on customers from heterogeneous populations to select offers that maximize expected profit. 443-454
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  L. Quirini, L. Vannucci:
  A new index of creditworthiness for retail credit products. 455-461
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  Adam R. Brentnall, Martin Crowder, David J. Hand:
  Likelihood-ratio changepoint features for consumer-behaviour models. 462-472
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  John Banasik, Jonathan Crook:
  Reject inference in survival analysis by augmentation. 473-485
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  Raquel Flórez López:
  Effects of missing data in credit risk scoring. A comparative analysis of methods to achieve robustness in the absence of sufficient data. 486-501

Part 2: Transportation, Logistics and the Environment

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  Tolga Bektas, Gilbert Laporte:
  Editorial. 502
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  Elena Fernández, Jörg Kalcsics, Stefan Nickel, Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado:
  A novel maximum dispersion territory design model arising in the implementation of the WEEE-directive. 503-514
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  Will Maden, Richard W. Eglese, Dan Black:
  Vehicle routing and scheduling with time-varying data: A case study. 515-522
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  Kjetil Fagerholt, Gilbert Laporte, Inge Norstad:
  Reducing fuel emissions by optimizing speed on shipping routes. 523-529
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  J. Bauer, Tolga Bektas, Teodor Gabriel Crainic:
  Minimizing greenhouse gas emissions in intermodal freight transport: an application to rail service design. 530-542

Volume 61, Number 4, April 2010

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  Günes Erdogan, Erhan Erkut, Armann Ingolfsson, Gilbert Laporte:
  Scheduling ambulance crews for maximum coverage. 543-550
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  Lap Keung Chu, Yuan Shi, S. Lin, Domenic Sculli, Jian Ni:
  Fuzzy chance-constrained programming model for a multi-echelon reverse logistics network for household appliances. 551-560
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  David Martens, Tony Van Gestel, Manu De Backer, Raf Haesen, Jan Vanthienen, Bart Baesens:
  Credit rating prediction using Ant Colony Optimization. 561-573
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  José Manuel Cordero-Ferrera, Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro, Daniel Santín-González:
  Enhancing the inclusion of non-discretionary inputs in DEA. 574-584
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  Goutam Dutta, Sankarshan Basu, J. John:
  Development of utility function for life insurance buyers in the Indian market. 585-593

Theoretical Papers

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  Jarl Eirik Korsvik, Kjetil Fagerholt, Gilbert Laporte:
  A tabu search heuristic for ship routing and scheduling. 594-603
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  Majid Zohrehbandian, Ahmad Makui, Alireza Alinezhad:
  A compromise solution approach for finding common weights in DEA: an improvement to Kao and Hung's approach. 604-610
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  Z. C. Zhu, Kien Ming Ng, H. L. Ong:
  A modified tabu search algorithm for cost-based job shop problem. 611-619
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  Jorge M. S. Valente:
  Beam search heuristics for quadratic earliness and tardiness scheduling. 620-631
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  Alan Jessop:
  A portfolio model for performance assessment: the Financial Times MBA ranking. 632-639
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  Rong-Hwa Huang, Chang-Lin Yang, H.-T. Huang:
  Parallel machine scheduling with common due windows. 640-646
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  Jin-Li Hu, Chin-Yi Fang:
  Do market share and efficiency matter for each other? An application of the zero-sum gains data envelopment analysis. 647-657
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  Andy Wong, Erhan Kozan:
  Optimization of container process at seaport terminals. 658-665
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  Tae Hee Moon, So Young Sohn:
  Technology credit scoring model considering both SME characteristics and economic conditions: The Korean case. 666-675
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  A. Baykal Hafizoglu, Meral Azizoglu:
  Linear programming based approaches for the discrete time/cost trade-off problem in project networks. 676-685
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  Enrico Angelelli, Nicola Bianchessi, Renata Mansini, Maria Grazia Speranza:
  Comparison of policies in dynamic routing problems. 686-695
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  Snigdha Banerjee, Ningombam Sanjib Meitei:
  Effect of declining selling price: profit analysis for a single period inventory model with stochastic demand and lead time. 696-704

Viewpoint

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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  Research contribution: Citation and content analysis. 705-707

Volume 61, Number 5, May 2010

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  John M. Wilson:
  Russell L Ackoff. 713

Case-oriented Papers

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  Giles A. Hindle, Adam Hindle:
  Developing geographical indicators of mileage-related costs: a case study exploring travelling public services in English local areas. 714-722
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  Ahmed Ghoniem, Hanif D. Sherali:
  Models and algorithms for the scheduling of a doubles tennis training tournament. 723-731
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  N. Beaumont:
  Using dynamic programming to determine an optimal strategy in a contract bridge tournament. 732-739
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  Jerónimo Aznar, Javier Ferrís-Oñate, Francisco Guijarro:
  An ANP framework for property pricing combining quantitative and qualitative attributes. 740-755
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  D. B. O'Brien, Cathal M. Brugha:
  Adapting and refining in multi-criteria decision-making. 756-767
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  Paul R. Harper, N. H. Powell, Janet E. Williams:
  Modelling the size and skill-mix of hospital nursing teams. 768-779

Theoretical Papers

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  Hongkai Zhang, Hani I. Mesak:
  Optimal multi-period service capacity allocation and pricing allowing for uncertain competitive entry. 780-789
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  Kristin Sahyouni, R. Canan Savaskan, Mark S. Daskin:
  The effect of lifetime buys on warranty repair operations. 790-803
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  Konstantinos Falangis, John J. Glen:
  Heuristics for feature selection in mathematical programming discriminant analysis models. 804-812
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  K. Sheibani:
  A fuzzy greedy heuristic for permutation flow-shop scheduling. 813-818
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  Matthieu Plumettaz, David Schindl, Nicolas Zufferey:
  Ant Local Search and its efficient adaptation to graph colouring. 819-826
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  R. Bhatnagar, V. Saddikuti:
  Models for cellular manufacturing systems design: matching processing requirements and operator capabilities. 827-839
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  G. Tang, F. Chen, T. C. Edwin Cheng, C. T. Daniel Ng, Zhi-Long Chen:
  The loader problem: formulation, complexity and algorithms. 840-848
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  Alex J. Ruiz-Torres, Francisco J. López, Piotr J. Wojciechowski, Johnny C. Ho:
  Parallel machine scheduling problems considering regular measures of performance and machine cost. 849-857
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  D. J. Meade, S. Kumar, B. White:
  Analysing the impact of the implementation of lean manufacturing strategies on profitability. 858-871
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  Selin Özpeynirci, Meral Azizoglu:
  A Lagrangean relaxation based approach for the capacity allocation problem in flexible manufacturing systems. 872-877

Technical Notes

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  Zvi Drezner, Atsuo Suzuki:
  Covering continuous demand in the plane. 878-881
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  Gur Mosheiov, Jeffrey B. Sidney:
  Scheduling a deteriorating maintenance activity on a single machine. 882-887

Volume 61, Number 6, June 2010

Part Special Issue: Operational Research in Project Management: Pragmatic Solutions for Real Life Problems

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  E. D. Love, C. M. Tam:
  Special issue on operational research in project management: pragmatic solutions for real life problems. 891-892

Special Issue Papers

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  J. Davis, A. MacDonald, L. White:
  Problem-structuring methods and project management: an example of stakeholder involvement using Hierarchical Process Modelling methodology. 893-904
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  Juan-Pascual Pastor-Ferrando, Pablo Aragonés-Beltrán, Antonio Hospitaler-Pérez, Mónica García-Melón:
  An ANP- and AHP-based approach for weighting criteria in public works bidding. 905-916
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  Zahir Irani:
  Investment evaluation within project management: an information systems perspective. 917-928
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  Amir M. Sharif, Zahir Irani, V. Weerakkoddy:
  Evaluating and modelling constructs for e-government decision making. 929-952

General Papers

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  Luke Houghton, Mike Metcalfe:
  Synthesis as conception shifting. 953-963
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  Andrew J. Higgins, C. J. Miller, A. A. Archer, T. Ton, C. S. Fletcher, R. R. J. McAllister:
  Challenges of operations research practice in agricultural value chains. 964-973

Case-oriented Papers

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  So Young Sohn, Kyung Bok Yoon:
  Dynamic preventive maintenance scheduling of the modules of fighter aircraft based on random effects regression model. 974-979
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  John M. Norman, Stephen R. Clarke:
  Optimal batting orders in cricket. 980-986
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  Brian Boffey, Roberto D. Galvão, Vladimir Marianov:
  Location of single-server immobile facilities subject to a loss constraint. 987-999

Theoretical Papers

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  Yavuz Bogaç Türkogullari, Necati Aras, I. Kuban Altinel, Cem Ersoy:
  Optimal placement, scheduling, and routing to maximize lifetime in sensor networks. 1000-1012
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  Jinxiang Gu, Marc Goetschalckx, Leon F. McGinnis:
  Solving the forward-reserve allocation problem in warehouse order picking systems. 1013-1021
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  Uri Benzion, Yuval Cohen, Tal Shavit:
  The newsvendor problem with unknown distribution. 1022-1031
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  D. Bai, Lixin Tang:
  New heuristics for flow shop problem to minimize makespan. 1032-1040
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  Adam Janiak, Radoslaw Rudek:
  Scheduling jobs under an aging effect. 1041-1048

Technical Notes

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  M. Parzen, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Richard D. Metters, Garrett M. Fitzmaurice:
  Correlation when data are missing. 1049-1056
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  Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Seema Bandyopadhyay:
  A stylized model of 'Momentum' processes: a research note. 1057-1062

Corrigendum

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  Ignacio Castillo, Thaddeus Sim:
  A spring-embedding approach for the facility layout problem. 1063

Volume 61, Number 7, July 2010

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  John Wilson:
  Changes in editorial team. 1071

General Papers

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  Roberto Baldacci, Enrico Bartolini, Gilbert Laporte:
  Some applications of the generalized vehicle routing problem. 1072-1077
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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  Articulate intervention revisited. 1078-1094

Case-oriented Papers

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  Ciro-Alberto Amaya, André Langevin, Martin Trépanier:
  A heuristic method for the capacitated arc routing problem with refill points and multiple loads. 1095-1103
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  Mikel Lezaun, Gloria Pérez, Edoardo Sáinz de la Maza:
  Staff rostering for the station personnel of a railway company. 1104-1111
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  Qianmei Feng, J. Antony:
  Integrating DEA into Six Sigma methodology for measuring health service efficiency. 1112-1121
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  Maria Conceição A. Silva Portela, Ana S. Camanho:
  Analysis of complementary methodologies for the estimation of school value added. 1122-1132
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  Andreas T. Ernst, Mark E. T. Horn, Philip Kilby, Mohan Krishnamoorthy:
  Dynamic scheduling of recreational rental vehicles with revenue management extensions. 1133-1143

Theoretical Papers

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  Gholam R. Amin, Ali Emrouznejad:
  Finding relevant search engines results: a minimax linear programming approach. 1144-1150
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  Bibhas Chandra Giri, Tadashi Dohi:
  Quantifying the risk in age and block replacement policies. 1151-1158
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  Anjali Awasthi, Satyaveer Singh Chauhan, Michel Parent, Jean-Marie Proth:
  Algorithms for partitioning of large routing networks. 1159-1167
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  Massimiliano Caramia, Francesca Guerriero:
  A heuristic approach for the truck and trailer routing problem. 1168-1180
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  Feng Jin, Jatinder N. D. Gupta, Shiji Song, Cheng Wu:
  Single machine scheduling with sequence-dependent family setups to minimize maximum lateness. 1181-1189

Volume 61, Number 8, August 2010

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  Peter Naudé, Stephan Henneberg, Z. Jiang:
  Varying routes to the top: identifying different strategies in the MBA marketplace. 1193-1206
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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  Rational inference: deductive, inductive and probabilistic thinking. 1207-1223

Case-oriented Papers

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  Kristof De Witte, Emmanuel Thanassoulis, Gary Simpson, Guiliana Battisti, Andrew Charlesworth-May:
  Assessing pupil and school performance by non-parametric and parametric techniques. 1224-1237
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  Reda M. Lebcir, Rifat A. Atun, Richard J. Coker:
  System Dynamic simulation of treatment policies to address colliding epidemics of tuberculosis, drug resistant tuberculosis and injecting drug users driven HIV in Russia. 1238-1248
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  Gi-Tae Yeo, Dong-Wook Song, John Dinwoodie, Michael Roe:
  Weighting the competitiveness factors for container ports under conflicting interests. 1249-1257

Theoretical Papers

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  Ying-Mei Tu, Hsin-Nan Chen:
  Capacity planning with sequential time constraints under various control policies in the back-end of wafer fabrications. 1258-1264
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  Ross A. Malaga, Dawn Porter, K. Ord, Bonnie Montano:
  A new end-of-auction model for curbing sniping. 1265-1272
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  Panagiotis Xidonas, George Mavrotas, John E. Psarras:
  A multiple criteria decision-making approach for the selection of stocks. 1273-1287
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  Virginie Gabrel, Céline Murat:
  Robustness and duality in linear programming. 1288-1296

Technical Notes

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  Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Walter Briec, Hervé Leleu:
  Linear programming solutions and distance functions under alpha-returns to scale. 1297-1301
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  Yannick Malevergne, Béatrice Rey:
  Preserving preference rankings under non-financial background risk. 1302-1308
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  Albert Corominas, Alberto García-Villoria, Rafael Pastor:
  Fine-tuning a parametric Clarke and Wright heuristic by means of EAGH (empirically adjusted greedy heuristics). 1309-1314

Volume 61, Number 9, September 2010

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  ManMohan S. Sodhi, Byung-Gak Son:
  Content analysis of OR job advertisements to infer required skills. 1315-1327

Case-oriented Paper

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  B. Cobacho, Rafael Caballero, Mercedes González, Julián Molina:
  Planning federal public investment in Mexico using multiobjective decision making. 1328-1339

Theoretical Papers

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  Xiangyong Li, Yash P. Aneja, Md. Fazle Baki:
  An ant colony optimization metaheuristic for single-path multicommodity network flow problems. 1340-1355
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  Ulrich Derigs, B. Li, Ulrich Vogel:
  Local search-based metaheuristics for the split delivery vehicle routing problem. 1356-1364
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  Yongheng Yang, Yer Van Hui, Lawrence C. Leung, Gang Chen:
  An analytic network process approach to the selection of logistics service providers for air cargo. 1365-1376
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  Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Yolanda Fuertes-Callén, Cecilio Mar-Molinero:
  A structural model for sales in the e-retailing industry. 1377-1388
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  Kathryn Hoad, Stewart Robinson, Ruth Davies:
  Automating warm-up length estimation. 1389-1403
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  Steven A. Gabriel, Yohan Shim, Antonio J. Conejo, S. de la Torre, Raquel García-Bertrand:
  A Benders decomposition method for discretely-constrained mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints. 1404-1419
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  D. Champion, John M. Wilson:
  The impact of contingency factors on validation of problem structuring methods. 1420-1431

Volume 61, Number 10, October 2010

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  M. Smits:
  Impact of policy and process design on the performance of intake and treatment processes in mental health care: a system dynamics case study. 1437-1445
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  Tamrat W. Tewoldeberhan, Alexander Verbraeck, Vlatka Hlupic:
  Implementing a discrete-event simulation software selection methodology for supporting decision making at Accenture. 1446-1458
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  Madjid Tavana, Mariya A. Sodenkamp:
  A fuzzy multi-criteria decision analysis model for advanced technology assessment at Kennedy Space Center. 1459-1470

Theoretical Papers

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  Philip G. Brabazon, Bart L. MacCarthy:
  On Markovian approximations for virtual-build-to-order systems. 1471-1484
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  Sebastián Lozano, Gabriel Villa:
  DEA-based pre-merger planning tool. 1485-1497
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  Yuvraj Gajpal, Prakash L. Abad:
  Saving-based algorithms for vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery. 1498-1509
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  Lele Zhang, Andrew Wirth:
  Wind energy management with battery storage. 1510-1522
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  H.-Y. Tsao, Leyland F. Pitt, C. Campbell:
  Analysing consumer segments to budget for loyalty and promotion programmes and maximize market share. 1523-1529
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  Adriano K. Suzuki, Luis Ernesto Salasar, J. G. Leite, Francisco Louzada-Neto:
  A Bayesian approach for predicting match outcomes: The 2006 (Association) Football World Cup. 1530-1539
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  David J. Hand, F. Zhou:
  Evaluating models for classifying customers in retail banking collections. 1540-1547
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  Darold T. Barnum, John M. Gleason, B. Hemily, J. Lin, P. Wang:
  Progressing from uncertainty to risk for DEA-based decisions. 1548-1555

Erratum

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  Jean-François Audy, Sophie D'Amours, Louis-Martin Rousseau:
  Cost allocation in the establishment of a collaborative transportation agreement - an application in the furniture industry. 1559

Volume 61, Number 11, November 2010

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  John Medhurst, I. M. Stanton, A. Berry:
  Risk taking by decision makers - using card-based decision gaming to develop models of behaviour. 1561-1571
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  Sonia A. Vanderby, Michael W. Carter:
  An evaluation of the applicability of system dynamics to patient flow modelling. 1572-1581

Theoretical Papers

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  Marcel Büther:
  Reducing the elastic generalized assignment problem to the standard generalized assignment problem. 1582-1595
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  Barry R. Cobb, John M. Charnes:
  A graphical method for valuing switching options. 1596-1606
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  Ching-Hui Tang:
  A network model for airport common use check-in counter assignments. 1607-1618
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  Saïd Salhi, Abdulrahman Al-Khedhairi:
  Integrating heuristic information into exact methods: The case of the vertex p-centre problem. 1619-1631
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  Kathryn Hoad, Stewart Robinson, Ruth Davies:
  Automated selection of the number of replications for a discrete-event simulation. 1632-1644
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  W. K. Chiang, Y. Feng:
  Retailer or e-tailer? Strategic pricing and economic-lot-size decisions in a competitive supply chain with drop-shipping. 1645-1653
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  Zhixiang Chen, Bhaba R. Sarker:
  Multi-vendor integrated procurement-production system under shared transportation and just-in-time delivery system. 1654-1666
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  Edmund K. Burke, Timothy Curtois, Rong Qu, Greet Vanden Berghe:
  A scatter search methodology for the nurse rostering problem. 1667-1679

Volume 61, Number 12, December 2010

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  Stewart Robinson, Ruth Davies:
  An investigation of the effect of educational background on performance in simulation studies. 1685-1693
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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  Justifying the methods of OR. 1694-1708

Case-Oriented Papers

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  Suja Sivadasan, Janet Smart, Luisa Huaccho Huatuco, Ani Calinescu:
  Operational complexity and supplier-customer integration: case study insights and complexity rebound. 1709-1718
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  Sofie Coene, A. Arnout, Frits C. R. Spieksma:
  On a periodic vehicle routing problem. 1719-1728

Theoretical Papers

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  C. Murillo-Melchor, José Manuel Pastor, Emili Tortosa-Ausina:
  A bootstrap approach to analyse productivity growth in European banking. 1729-1745
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  U. Dinesh Kumar, A. B. Roy, Haritha Saranga, K. Singal:
  Analysis of hedge fund strategies using slack-based DEA models. 1746-1760
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  Richard J. Ormerod:
  OR as rational choice: a decision and game theory perspective. 1761-1776
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  Haritha Saranga, R. D. Banker:
  Productivity and technical changes in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. 1777-1788

Technical Note

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  Masoud Khalili, Ana S. Camanho, Maria C. A. S. Portela, M. R. Alirezaee:
  An improvement on the Tracy and Chen model 'A generalized model for weight restrictions in DEA'. 1789-1793