Journal: JORS

Volume 53, Issue 9

933 -- 943Janet E. Annetts, Eric Audsley. Multiple objective linear programming for environmental farm planning
944 -- 952Enrico Angelelli, M. Grazia Speranza. The application of a vehicle routing model to a waste-collection problem: two case studies
953 -- 960A. Antipov, Nigel Meade. Forecasting call frequency at a financial services call centre
961 -- 971Marcos Singer, Patricio Donoso, Sebastián Jara. Fleet configuration subject to stochastic demand: an application in the distribution of liquefied petroleum gas
972 -- 976Gilbert Laporte, Udatta S. Palekar. Some applications of the clustered travelling salesman problem
977 -- 984I. D. Giosa, I. L. Tansini, I. O. Viera. New assignment algorithms for the multi-depot vehicle routing problem
985 -- 991Nicole Adler, Boaz Golany. Including principal component weights to improve discrimination in data envelopment analysis
992 -- 1003Hirofumi Fukuyama, William L. Weber. Evaluating public school district performance via DEA gain functions
1004 -- 1015Ali Allahverdi, Tariq A. Aldowaisan. No-wait flowshops with bicriteria of makespan and total completion time
1016 -- 1026Salih O. Duffuaa, Mehmood Khan. An optimal repeat inspection plan with several classifications
1027 -- 1037J.-U. Kim, Y. D. Kim, S.-O. Shim. Heuristic algorithms for a multi-period multi-stop transportation planning problem
1038 -- 1047Juliane Dehnert, Jörn Freiheit, Armin Zimmermann. Modelling and evaluation of time aspects in business processes
1048 -- 1053Jason Chao-Hsien Pan, Yu-Cheng Hsiao, Chin-Jen Lee. Inventory models with fixed and variable lead time crash costs considerations
1054 -- 1062K. T. Park, K. H. Kim. Berth scheduling for container terminals by using a sub-gradient optimization technique

Volume 53, Issue 8

811 -- 821Lawrence R. Weatherford, Peter P. Belobaba. Revenue impacts of fare input and demand forecast accuracy in airline yield management
822 -- 832Renata Mansini, M. Grazia Speranza. A multidimensional knapsack model for asset-backed securitization
833 -- 841Jeffrey Lockledge, Dimitrios Mihailidis, John Sidelko, Kenneth Chelst. Prototype fleet optimization model
842 -- 854George Ioannou, Manolis N. Kritikos, Gregory P. Prastacos. Map-Route: a GIS-based decision support system for intra-city vehicle routing with time windows
855 -- 863Jianli Hu, Charles L. Munson. Dynamic demand lot-sizing rules for incremental quantity discounts
864 -- 874Wen Lea Pearn, S. H. Chung, M. H. Yang. The wafer probing scheduling problem (WPSP)
875 -- 884Martha García-Murillo, Hala Annabi. Customer knowledge management
885 -- 894Markus Arns, Markus Fischer, Peter Kemper, Carsten Tepper. Supply chain modelling and its analytical evaluation
895 -- 906Caroline Gagné, Wilson L. Price, Marc Gravel. Comparing an ACO algorithm with other heuristics for the single machine scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times
907 -- 914Cigdem Alabas-Uslu, Fulya Altiparmak, Berna Dengiz. A comparison of the performance of artificial intelligence techniques for optimizing the number of kanbans
915 -- 918J.-T. Teng. On the economic order quantity under conditions of permissible delay in payments
919 -- 921Olatunde A. Adekola. A generalised life-expectancy model for a population
922 -- 926C.-T. Su, C.-S. Shi. A manufacturer's optimal quantity discount strategy and return policy through game-theoretic approach
927 -- 929Ozhand Ganjavi, Belaïd Aouni, Z. Wang. Technical note on balanced solutions in goal programming, compromise programming and reference point method
929 -- 930Carlos Romero, Mehrdad Tamiz, Dylan F. Jones. et al
930 -- 931Ozhand Ganjavi, Belaïd Aouni, Z. Wang. Response to reply to the comments of Ganjavi, Aouni and Wang 2002
931 -- 0Carlos Romero, Mehrdad Tamiz, Dylan F. Jones. et al

Volume 53, Issue 7

697 -- 708K. Y. K. Ng, A. Ghanmi. An automated surface surveillance system
709 -- 718James Moffat, Susan Witty. Bayesian decision making and military command and control
719 -- 727Hui Zhu, Peter A. Beling, George A. Overstreet Jr.. A Bayesian framework for the combination of classifier outputs
728 -- 740Juan A. Díaz, Elena Fernández. A Branch-and-Price algorithm for the Single Source Capacitated Plant Location Problem
741 -- 751Mario Vanhoucke, Erik Demeulemeester, Willy Herroelen. Discrete time/cost trade-offs in project scheduling with time-switch constraints
752 -- 767Anshuman Tyagi, Janelle J. Harms, A. Kamal. Analysis of M/M/S queues with 1-limited service
768 -- 782Niaz A. Wassan, Ibrahim H. Osman. Tabu search variants for the mix fleet vehicle routing problem
783 -- 791S. H. Choi, Y. D. Kim. A traffic control algorithm for Clos network type ATM switches
792 -- 799Mohamed Haouari, Jouhaina Chaouachi. A probabilistic greedy search algorithm for combinatorial optimisation with application to the set covering problem
800 -- 806Jaideep T. Naidu, Jatinder N. D. Gupta, Bahram Alidaee. Insights into two solution procedures for the single machine tardiness problem
807 -- 808Adam N. Letchford. Approximation Algorithms
808 -- 809Simon J. Mardle. Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods
808 -- 0S. French. Decision Making: Recent Developments and Worldwide Applications
809 -- 0S. French. Evaluation and Decision Models: a Critical Perspective

Volume 53, Issue 6

593 -- 602John E. Beasley, H. Howells, Julia Sonander. Improving short-term conflict alert via tabu search
603 -- 609Tim Van Voorhis. Highly constrained college basketball scheduling
610 -- 619Tom J. Cherrett, Fraser N. McLeod, H. Bell, M. Mcdonald. Journey time estimation using single inductive loop detectors on non-signalised links
620 -- 629Ilkyeong Moon, B. C. Giri, K. Choi. Economic lot scheduling problem with imperfect production processes and setup times
630 -- 636Edward J. Anderson. Markov chain modelling of the solution surface in local search
637 -- 646Allan Larsen, Oli B. G. Madsen, Marius M. Solomon. Partially dynamic vehicle routing - models and algorithms
647 -- 654H. G. Li, David J. Hand. Direct versus indirect credit scoring classifications
655 -- 663Amy Hing Ling Lau, Hon-Shiang Lau, Lawrence W. Robinson. R) system with backordering
664 -- 671K.-N. Lau, P.-Y. Lam. Economic freedom ranking of 161 countries in year 2000: a minimum disagreement approach
672 -- 679M. K. Lauren. Firepower concentration in cellular automaton combat models - an alternative to Lanchester
680 -- 687Hong Yan 0002, Quanling Wei. Determining compromise weights for group decision making
688 -- 693Aleksander Bachman, T. C. Edwin Cheng, Adam Janiak, C. T. Daniel Ng. Scheduling start time dependent jobs to minimize the total weighted completion time
694 -- 696T. M. Williams, John M. Wilson 0001. JORS Referees 2001

Volume 53, Issue 5

475 -- 491Richard J. Ormerod. On the nature of OR: taking stock
492 -- 500Tser-yieth Chen. A comparison of chance-constrained DEA and stochastic frontier analysis: bank efficiency in Taiwan
501 -- 511Sebastián Lozano, Gabriel Villa, Fernando Guerrero, Pablo Cortés. Measuring the performance of nations at the Summer Olympics using data envelopment analysis
512 -- 522Jean-François Cordeau, Michel Gendreau, Gilbert Laporte, Jean-Yves Potvin, Frédéric Semet. A guide to vehicle routing heuristics
523 -- 543Mike R. Neighbour, Peter Bailey, Marcus Hawthorn, Connie Lensing, Hamish Robson, Stuart Smith, Bernd Zimmerman. Providing operational analysis to a peace support operation: the Kosovo experience
544 -- 551Celia A. Glass. Bag rationalisation for a food manufacturer
552 -- 558Leon Y. O. Li, Zhuo Fu. The school bus routing problem: a case study
559 -- 573Stewart Robinson, Roger J. Brooks, Colin D. Lewis. Detecting shifts in the mean of a simulation output process
574 -- 582Vitaly A. Strusevich, Inna G. Drobouchevitch, Natalia V. Shakhlevich. Three-machine shop scheduling with partially ordered processing routes
583 -- 586Giuseppe Bruno, Gilbert Laporte. A simple enhancement of the Esau-Williams heuristic for the capacitated minimum spanning tree problem
587 -- 591Y.-G. G, M.-K. Kang. A new upper bound for unconstrained two-dimensional cutting and packing
592 -- 0S. K. Goyal. A comment on 'A new method for joint replenishment problems' by Fung and Ma

Volume 53, Issue 4

369 -- 378Ian Munro 0001, John Mingers. The use of multimethodology in practice - results of a survey of practitioners
379 -- 386Pierrette Zouein, W. Abillama, E. Tohme. A multiple period capacitated inventory model for airline fuel management: a case study
387 -- 396Mar Arenas Parra, Amelia Bilbao-Terol, Rafael Caballero 0002, Trinidad Gómez, Maria Victoria Rodríguez, Francisco Ruiz 0002. Analysis via goal programming of the minimum achievable stay in surgical waiting lists
397 -- 404Kenneth R. Baker, Stephen G. Powell. Methods for assigning students to groups: a study of alternative objective functions
405 -- 414Arno Sprecher. Network decomposition techniques for resource-constrained project scheduling
415 -- 426J.-G. Kang, Y. D. Kim. Stowage planning in maritime container transportation
427 -- 435Ángel Corberán, Elena Fernández, Manuel Laguna, Rafael Martí. Heuristic solutions to the problem of routing school buses with multiple objectives
436 -- 446Zhenxin Yu, Hong Yan 0002, T. C. Edwin Cheng. Modelling the benefits of information sharing-based partnerships in a two-level supply chain
447 -- 456René Y. Darmon, Dominique Rouziès. Optimal sales force compensation plans: an operational procedure
457 -- 467D. Johnson. Triangular approximations for continuous random variables in risk analysis
468 -- 469Justo Puerto, Jose Gutiérrez, Joaquín Sicilia. Bicriteria trade-off analysis in a two-echelon inventory/distribution system
470 -- 471S. D. Clark. Handbook of Transportation Science
471 -- 472A. Boyd. Partnership and Participation: Decision-making in the Multiagency Setting
472 -- 473J. Swanson. Business Dynamics - Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
473 -- 474S. D. Clark. Practical Optimization Methods with Mathematica Applications (& CD-ROM)

Volume 53, Issue 3

245 -- 246M. Shutler, James E. Storbeck. Performance management
247 -- 255Peter C. Smith, Maria Goddard. Performance management and Operational Research: a marriage made in heaven?
256 -- 262R. Johnston, S. Brignall, L. Fitzgerald. 'Good enough' performance measurement: a trade-off between activity and action
263 -- 271A. Harrison, Colin New. The role of coherent supply chain strategy and performance management in achieving competitive advantage: an international survey
272 -- 282David J. Hamblin. Rethinking the management of flexibility - a study in the aerospace defence industry
283 -- 291G. Francis, J. Holloway. Beyond comparisons - the role for the operational researcher in benchmarking
292 -- 302Emmanuel Thanassoulis. Comparative performance measurement in regulation: the case of English and Welsh sewerage services
303 -- 313Minoo Meimand, Robert Y. Cavana, Robert Laking. Using DEA and survival analysis for measuring performance of branches in New Zealand's Accident Compensation Corporation
314 -- 323Dimitris K. Despotis. Improving the discriminating power of DEA: focus on globally efficient units
324 -- 335Teresa Galvão Dias, Jorge Pinho de Sousa, João Falcão e Cunha. Genetic algorithms for the bus driver scheduling problem: a case study
336 -- 341Yuan Lin Zhang, R. C. M. Yam, Ming Jian Zuo. Optimal replacement policy for a multistate repairable system
342 -- 346Jan Ondrich, John Ruggiero. Outlier detection in data envelopment analysis: an analysis of jackknifing
347 -- 351Richard J. Ormerod. Should critical realism really be critical for OR? A comment on Mingers (2000): the contribution of critical realism as an underpinning philosophy for OR/MS and systems
351 -- 354John C. Mingers. Reply to Ormerod - the importance of being real
354 -- 357Richard J. Ormerod. Response to Mingers - an overarching philosophy for OR/MS - Sed Quis Custodet Custodies? [But who is to guard the guards themselves] (Juvenal, c. AD 60-130)
357 -- 359John C. Mingers. Response to Ormerod: play it again, Sam
360 -- 363Richard J. Ormerod. A comment on Yolles (2001): Viable boundary critique
363 -- 367M. I. Yolles. Reply to Ormerod

Volume 53, Issue 2

123 -- 125P. Keys, Gerald Midgley. Part Special Issue Editorial: The process of OR
126 -- 136Ann R. Taket. Facilitation: some contributions to theorising the practice of operational research
137 -- 148Z. Zhu. Towards user-friendly OR: a Chinese experience
149 -- 160L. White. Size matters: large group methods and the process of operational research
161 -- 184Franz Liebl. The anatomy of complex societal problems and its implications for OR
185 -- 192S. I. Harewood. Emergency ambulance deployment in Barbados: a multi-objective approach
193 -- 202P. J. Vlok, J. L. Coetzee, Dragan Banjevic, Andrew K. S. Jardine, Viliam Makis. Optimal component replacement decisions using vibration monitoring and the proportional-hazards model
203 -- 210John Bowers 0002, Gillian Mould. Concentration and the variability of orthopaedic demand
211 -- 221T. Yang, L. Tseng. Solving a multi-objective simulation model using a hybrid response surface method and lexicographical goal programming approach - a case study on integrated circuit ink-marking machines
222 -- 231Ming S. Hung, Murali Shanker, Michael Y. Hu. Estimating breast cancer risks using neural networks
232 -- 242B. Tan. Managing manufacturing risks by using capacity options
243 -- 0John C. Mingers, Frances A. O'Brien. A comment on Baker and Benn 2001: 'Assigning pupils to tutor groups in a comprehensive school'
243 -- 0Barrie M. Baker, C. Benn. Response to Mingers and O'Brien

Volume 53, Issue 12

1297 -- 1307Marilyn C. Mabini, Anthony H. Christer. Controlling multi-indenture repairable inventories of multiple aircraft parts
1308 -- 1316Mohammad Modarres, B. Zarei. Application of network theory and AHP in urban transportation to minimize earthquake damages
1317 -- 1323Rafael Pastor 0002, Carlos Andrés, A. Duran, M. Pérez. Tabu search algorithms for an industrial multi-product and multi-objective assembly line balancing problem, with reduction of the task dispersion
1324 -- 1329Martin Butler, H. Paul Williams. Fairness versus efficiency in charging for the use of common facilities
1330 -- 1337S.-P. Chen, T.-S. Wei. The practice of operational research in Taiwan
1338 -- 1346Y. Cui, R. Zhou. Generating optimal cutting patterns for rectangular blanks of a single size
1347 -- 1356William W. Cooper, H. Deng, Zhimin Huang, Susan X. Li. Chance constrained programming approaches to technical efficiencies and inefficiencies in stochastic data envelopment analysis
1357 -- 1366Marcos Colebrook, Jose Gutiérrez, S. Alonso, Joaquín Sicilia. A new algorithm for the undesirable 1-center problem on networks
1367 -- 1373W. H. Yang. Group scheduling in a two-stage flowshop
1374 -- 1379Marcelo Seido Nagano, J. V. Moccellin. A high quality solution constructive heuristic for flow shop sequencing
1380 -- 1384X. Jia, Anthony H. Christer. A prototype cost model of functional check decisions in reliability-centred maintenance
1385 -- 1389Saul I. Gass, S. M. Standard. Characteristics of positive reciprocal matrices in the analytic hierarchy process
1390 -- 1392James W. Bryant. A comment on Yolles (2001): Viable boundary critique
1392 -- 1395M. Yolles. Reply to Bryant
1396 -- 0J. S. Edwards. Capitalizing on Knowledge: From e-business to k-business
1396 -- 1397S. Kafandaris. ELECTRE and Decision Support: Methods and Applications in Engineering and Infrastructure Investment
1397 -- 1398S. French. Decision Modeling in Policy Management: An Introduction to the Analytic Concepts
1398 -- 0Thomas F. Burgess. Systems Analysis and Modeling: A Macro-to-Micro Approach with Multidisciplinary Applications
1399 -- 0Albert P. M. Wagelmans. Logistic Systems Analysis: Third Revised and Enlarged Edition
1399 -- 1400A. Harding. Reliability, Maintenance and Logistic Support: A Life Cycle Approach
1401 -- 0Ann R. Taket. Organizing and Organizations: An Introduction
1401 -- 1402J. Crocker. Turning Lead into Gold: The Demystification of Outsourcing

Volume 53, Issue 11

1175 -- 1184Mercedes Bertomeu, Carlos Romero. Forest management optimisation models and habitat diversity: a goal programming approach
1185 -- 1196Jonathan D. Linton, Julian Scott Yeomans, Reena Yoogalingam. Supply planning for industrial ecology and remanufacturing under uncertainty: a numerical study of leaded-waste recovery from television disposal
1197 -- 1203Ai Cheo Yeo, Kate A. Smith, Robert J. Willis, Malcolm Brooks. A mathematical programming approach to optimise insurance premium pricing within a data mining framework
1204 -- 1214Timo Kuosmanen, Thierry Post. Quadratic data envelopment analysis
1215 -- 1224P. P. Sutton, R. H. Green. A data envelopment approach to decision analysis
1225 -- 1231Kaoru Tone. A strange case of the cost and allocative efficiencies in DEA
1232 -- 1238Wout Dullaert, Gerrit K. Janssens, Kenneth Sörensen, Bert Vernimmen. New heuristics for the Fleet Size and Mix Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
1239 -- 1246Thomas Lorigeon, Jean-Charles Billaut, Jean-Louis Bouquard. A dynamic programming algorithm for scheduling jobs in a two-machine open shop with an availability constraint
1247 -- 1255Hani I. Mesak. On the impact of initial performance on the effectiveness of advertising pulsation policies
1256 -- 1267Julian Scott Yeomans. Automatic generation of efficient policy alternatives via simulation-optimization
1268 -- 1274J. J. A. Moors, Leo W. G. Strijbosch. R, s, S) inventory control with gamma distributed demand
1275 -- 1280Federico Della Croce, Vincent T'Kindt. A Recovering Beam Search algorithm for the one-machine dynamic total completion time scheduling problem
1281 -- 1285David J. Robb, Edward A. Silver. Using composite moving averages to forecast sales
1286 -- 1290S. Viswanathan 0001. On optimal algorithms for the joint replenishment problem
1291 -- 1295C. Chiang. Ordering policies for inventory systems with expediting

Volume 53, Issue 10

1063 -- 1064John M. Wilson 0001, Ken Darby-Dowman. Introduction
1065 -- 1071Ken Darby-Dowman, John M. Wilson 0001. Developments in linear and integer programming
1072 -- 1092Belen Dominguez-Ballesteros, Gautam Mitra, Cormac Lucas, Nikitas-Spiros Koutsoukis. Modelling and solving environments for mathematical programming (MP): a status review and new directions
1093 -- 1100Sarah Fores, Les G. Proll, Anthony Wren. TRACS II: a hybrid IP/heuristic driver scheduling system for public transport
1101 -- 1108Albert Corominas, Amaia Lusa, Rafael Pastor 0002. Using MILP to plan annualised working hours
1109 -- 1117Julia A. Bennell, Chris N. Potts, J. Douglass Whitehead. Local search algorithms for the min-max loop layout problem
1118 -- 1126Uwe Aickelin. An indirect genetic algorithm for set covering problems
1127 -- 1132G. Appa. On the uniqueness of solutions to linear programs
1133 -- 1141P. Wackrill. The out-of-kilter algorithm applied to traffic congestion
1142 -- 1149Ibrahim H. Osman, M. Hasan, A. Abdullah. Linear programming based meta-heuristics for the weighted maximal planar graph
1150 -- 1154J. Luo, P. Huang. EOQ under date-term supplier credit: a comment on a paper by Carlson and Rousseau
1154 -- 1155M. L. Carlson, J. J. Rousseau. Reply to Luo and Huang
1156 -- 1158M. Weverbergh. A comment on 'Predicting the probability of winning sealed bid auctions: a comparison of models'
1158 -- 0T. M. Williams. Editor's note
1159 -- 1160F. C. Duckworth, A. J. Lewis. Comment on Clarke and Allsopp (2001). Fair measures of performance: The World Cup of Cricket
1160 -- 1161Stephen R. Clarke, Paul Allsopp. Response to Duckworth and Lewis, comment on Clarke and Allsopp (2001). Fair measures of performance: The World Cup of Cricket
1162 -- 1165M. Reynolds. In defence of knowledge constitutive interests. A comment on 'What is this thing called CST?' (Midgely, 1996)
1165 -- 1168Gerald Midgley. Renewing the critique of the theory of knowledge-constitutive interests: a reply to Martin Reynolds
1169 -- 1171M. Reynolds. Response to Midgley - renewing critique or renewing fears?
1171 -- 1173Gerald Midgley. Final reply to Reynolds - towards an enhanced OR for environmental management
1174 -- 0N. Hirotsu, M. Wright. Hirotsu N and Wright M (2002). Using a Markov process model of an association football match to determine the optimal timing of substitution and tactical decisions

Volume 53, Issue 1

1 -- 0T. M. Williams, John M. Wilson 0001. Editorial
2 -- 10J. L. Scott. Stimulating awareness of actual learning processes
11 -- 18Paul R. Harper, Arjan K. Shahani. Modelling for the planning and management of bed capacities in hospitals
19 -- 24Florin Gorunescu, Sally I. McClean, Peter H. Millard. A queueing model for bed-occupancy management and planning of hospitals
25 -- 35C. Mullinax, Mark Lawley. Assigning patients to nurses in neonatal intensive care
36 -- 46Alan Jessop. Prioritisation of an IT budget within a local authority
47 -- 56M. Skitmore. Predicting the probability of winning sealed bid auctions: a comparison of models
57 -- 68Alexander Poot, Goos Kant, Albert P. M. Wagelmans. A savings based method for real-life vehicle routing problems
69 -- 78O. F. Demirel, Thomas R. Willemain. Generation of simulation input scenarios using bootstrap methods
79 -- 87Yanping Xiang, Kim-Leng Poh. Knowledge-based time-critical dynamic decision modelling
88 -- 96N. Hirotsu, M. Wright. Using a Markov process model of an association football match to determine the optimal timing of substitution and tactical decisions
97 -- 107Hai-Jun Huang, William H. K. Lam. Quasi-continuous dynamic equilibrium assignment with departure time choice in congested unidirectional pedestrian networks
108 -- 114D. Ronen. Marine inventory routing: shipments planning
115 -- 118Jan Dethloff. Relation between vehicle routing problems: an insertion heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pick-up applied to the vehicle routing problem with backhauls
119 -- 122J. Walker. A sequential discovery sampling procedure