Journal: JORS

Volume 59, Issue 9

1149 -- 0Terry Williams, John Wilson, John C. Ranyard. Editorial
1150 -- 1172Robert Fildes, K. Nikolopoulos, Sven F. Crone, Aris A. Syntetos. Forecasting and operational research: a review
1173 -- 1181K. Cooper, Ruth Davies, James G. Raftery, Paul Roderick. Use of a coronary heart disease simulation model to evaluate the costs and effectiveness of drugs for the prevention of heart disease
1182 -- 1190René de Koster, Mengfei Yu. Minimizing makespan and throughput times at Aalsmeer flower auction
1191 -- 1200W. L. Ng, S. C. H. Leung, J. K. P. Lam, S. W. Pan. Petrol delivery tanker assignment and routing: a case study in Hong Kong
1201 -- 1210Z. Liao, W. K. Wong. The determinants of customer interactions with internet-enabled e-banking services
1211 -- 1219D. Petrovic, O. Aköz. A fuzzy goal programming approach to integrated loading and scheduling of a batch processing machine
1220 -- 1228R. A. Russell, T. L. Urban. Vehicle routing with soft time windows and Erlang travel times
1229 -- 1238F. Silva, D. Serra. Locating emergency services with different priorities: the priority queuing covering location problem
1239 -- 1252M. A. Lejeune. Preprocessing techniques and column generation algorithms for stochastically efficient demand
1253 -- 1268G. Özerol, E. Karasakal. Interactive outranking approaches for multicriteria decision-making problems with imprecise information
1269 -- 1280Ali Husseinzadeh Kashan, Behrooz Karimi. Scheduling a single batch-processing machine with arbitrary job sizes and incompatible job families: An ant colony framework
1281 -- 1287Uri Benzion, Y. Cohen, R. Peled, Tal Shavit. Decision-making and the newsvendor problem: an experimental study

Volume 59, Issue 8

1013 -- 1025J. Mingers. Exploring the dynamics of journal citations: Modelling with s-curves
1026 -- 1037Christine S. M. Currie, Russell C. H. Cheng, Honora K. Smith. Dynamic pricing of airline tickets with competition
1038 -- 1046A. P. Antunes, J. C. Teixeira, M. S. Coutinho. Managing solid waste through discrete location analysis: A case study in central Portugal
1047 -- 1054D. Ronen, C. A. Goodhart. Tactical store delivery planning
1055 -- 1065E.-H. Aghezzaf. Robust distribution planning for supplier-managed inventory agreements when demand rates and travel times are stationary
1066 -- 1076D. J. Pedregal, P. C. Young. Development of improved adaptive approaches to electricity demand forecasting
1077 -- 1090Caroline Gagné, Marc Gravel, Sara Morin, Wilson L. Price. car-sequencing problem
1091 -- 1099Mike Metcalfe. Pragmatic inquiry
1100 -- 1108S. Yan, C.-H. Tang, C.-H. Chen. Reassignments of common-use check-in counters following airport incidents
1109 -- 1119Shih-Wei Lin, K. C. Ying. A hybrid approach for single-machine tardiness problems with sequence-dependent setup times
1120 -- 1127F.-M. Tseng. Quadratic interval innovation diffusion models for new product sales forecasting
1128 -- 1135Y. K. Chen, H. H. Chang. X̅ control charts for processes with fuzzy mean shifts
1136 -- 1141Lei Fang, Chuan-qin Zhang. Resource allocation based on the DEA model
1142 -- 1144K.-J. Chung, S.-D. Lin, G.-F. Yen. The complete proof on the economic order quantity under conditions of permissible delay in payments
1144 -- 0J.-T. Teng. Reply to Chung, Lin and Yence
1145 -- 1147. Book Selection
1148 -- 0. Book Selection

Volume 59, Issue 7

875 -- 883Francisco J. André, M. A. Cardenete, C. Romero. Using compromise programming for macroeconomic policy making in a general equilibrium framework: theory and application to the Spanish economy
884 -- 891R. Bachan, B. Reilly, R. Witt. The hazard of being an English football league manager: empirical estimates for three recent league seasons
892 -- 901M. J. Mancebón, M. A. Muñiz. Private versus public high schools in Spain: disentangling managerial and programme efficiencies
902 -- 910Hazel Pilgrim, Jim Chilcott. Assessment of a 7-day turn-around for the reporting of cervical smear results using discrete event simulation
911 -- 920Jian Liu, Ravindra K. Ahuja, Güvenç Sahin. Optimal network configuration and capacity expansion of railroads
921 -- 931S. M. Finlay. Towards profitability: a utility approach to the credit scoring problem
932 -- 938B. Wagner. Model formulations for hub covering problems
939 -- 945M. S. Nagano, J. V. Moccellin. Reducing mean flow time in permutation flow shop
946 -- 955A. A. Kranenburg, G. J. van Houtum. Service differentiation in spare parts inventory management
956 -- 962David J. Hand, Christopher Whitrow, Niall M. Adams, Piotr Juszczak, David John Weston. Performance criteria for plastic card fraud detection tools
963 -- 976F. Alonso, M. J. Alvarez, J. E. Beasley. A tabu search algorithm for the periodic vehicle routing problem with multiple vehicle trips and accessibility restrictions
977 -- 987Adam Janiak, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov. Scheduling jobs in a contaminated area: a model and heuristic algorithms
988 -- 996Cigdem Alabas-Uslu. A self-tuning heuristic for a multi-objective vehicle routing problem
997 -- 1003Gur Mosheiov, Assaf Sarig. A due-window assignment problem with position-dependent processing times
1004 -- 1011J. Y. Lee. Quantity discounts based on the previous order in a two-period inventory model with demand uncertainty

Volume 59, Issue 6

729 -- 742A. J. Lewis. Extending the range of player-performance measures in one-day cricket
743 -- 755G. Kendall. Scheduling English football fixtures over holiday periods
756 -- 761L. Anastasakis, C. W. Olphert, J. M. Wilson. Experiences in using a contingency factor-based validation methodology for spreadsheet DSS
762 -- 775S. P. Santos, Valerie Belton, Susan Howick. Enhanced performance measurement using OR: a case study
776 -- 787Marie-Claude Bolduc, J. Renaud, Fayez F. Boctor, Gilbert Laporte. A perturbation metaheuristic for the vehicle routing problem with private fleet and common carriers
788 -- 797S. C. Ray. The directional distance function and measurement of super-efficiency: an application to airlines data
798 -- 804Christian Larsen, Anders Thorstenson. A comparison between the order and the volume fill rate for a base-stock inventory control system under a compound renewal demand process
805 -- 811Oded Berman, Zvi Drezner, George O. Wesolowsky. The multiple location of transfer points
812 -- 822A. Lusa, C. N. Potts. A variable neighbourhood search algorithm for the constrained task allocation problem
823 -- 832Gleb Belov, Guntram Scheithauer, E. A. Mukhacheva. One-dimensional heuristics adapted for two-dimensional rectangular strip packing
833 -- 841Y. H. Lee, J. I. Kim, K. H. Kang, K. H. Kim. A heuristic for vehicle fleet mix problem using tabu search and set partitioning
842 -- 856N. C. P. Edirisinghe, X. Zhang. Portfolio selection under DEA-based relative financial strength indicators: case of US industries
857 -- 859W.-H. Kuo, D. L. Yang. A note on due-date assignment and single-machine scheduling with deteriorating jobs
860 -- 862C.-P. Bao, T. H. Chen, S. Y. Chang. Slack-based ranking method: an interpretation to the cross-efficiency method in DEA
863 -- 865Young H. Chun. Economic optimization of off-line inspection procedures with inspection errors
865 -- 867W. Y. Wang, S. H. Sheu, Y.-C. Chen, D. J. Horng. On a more general formulation of off-line inspection with inspection errors
867 -- 870Tsu-Pang Hsieh, Chung-Yuan Dye, Liang-Yuh Ouyang. Comment on 'An ordering policy for deteriorating items with allowable shortage and permissible delay in payment' by Jamal, Sarker and Wang
871 -- 873. Book Selection

Volume 59, Issue 5

575 -- 589Gilberto Montibeller, Valerie Belton, Fran Ackermann, L. Ensslin. Reasoning maps for decision aid: an integrated approach for problem-structuring and multi-criteria evaluation
590 -- 599L. Tang, X. Wang. An iterated local search heuristic for the capacitated prize-collecting travelling salesman problem
600 -- 606Glaydston Mattos Ribeiro, Luiz Antonio Nogueira Lorena. Optimizing the woodpulp stowage using Lagrangean relaxation with clusters
607 -- 615Fabien Cornillier, Fayez F. Boctor, Gilbert Laporte, Jacques Renaud. An exact algorithm for the petrol station replenishment problem
616 -- 623E. G. Gomes, M. P. E. Lins. Modelling undesirable outputs with zero sum gains data envelopment analysis models
624 -- 636K. Sörensen. Investigation of practical, robust and flexible decisions for facility location problems using tabu search and simulation
637 -- 651Wen Lea Pearn, S. H. Chung, M. H. Yang, K. P. Shiao. Solution strategies for multi-stage wafer probing scheduling problem with reentry
652 -- 662S. Mudchanatongsuk, F. Ordóñez, J. Liu. Robust solutions for network design under transportation cost and demand uncertainty
663 -- 673Zhuo Fu, Richard W. Eglese, L. Y. O. Li. A unified tabu search algorithm for vehicle routing problems with soft time windows
674 -- 684Emmett J. Lodree Jr., Selda Taskin. An insurance risk management framework for disaster relief and supply chain disruption inventory planning
685 -- 692C. Shi, B. Chen. Pareto quantity flexibility contracts for a supply chain under multiple objectives
693 -- 702A. Lim, Z. Xu, F. Wang. The bidding selection and assignment problem with minimum quantity commitment
703 -- 713G. C. McIntosh, M. K. Lauren. Incorporating fractal concepts into equations of attrition for military conflicts
714 -- 718K. M. Jung, L. C. Thomas. A note on coarse classifying in acceptance scorecards
719 -- 721Richard J. Ormerod. Comments on Córdoba and Midgley: the Javeriana case
721 -- 724J.-R. Córdoba. The Javeriana Case: Systems Thinking, Power and Ethics in IS (and OR?) Strategy
725 -- 728. Book Selection

Volume 59, Issue 4

421 -- 422Khairy Kobbacy, Sunil Vadera. Editorial
423 -- 430A. Chan, K. R. McNaught. Using Bayesian networks to improve fault diagnosis during manufacturing tests of mobile telephone infrastructure
431 -- 442Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Nima Safaei, M. M. O. Kah. Accessing feasible space in a generalized job shop scheduling problem with the fuzzy processing times: a fuzzy-neural approach
443 -- 454Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Nima Safaei, Farrokh Sassani. A new solution for a dynamic cell formation problem with alternative routing and machine costs using simulated annealing
455 -- 463A. Lawrynowicz. Integration of production planning and scheduling using an expert system and a genetic algorithm
464 -- 472Farid Meziane, Mohd Khairudin Kasiran. Evaluating trust in electronic commerce: a study based on the information provided on merchants' websites
473 -- 481John E. Boylan, Aris A. Syntetos, G. C. Karakostas. Classification for forecasting and stock control: a case study
482 -- 493J. Antony, M. Kumar, A. Labib. Gearing Six Sigma into UK manufacturing SMEs: results from a pilot study
494 -- 502M. Pearson. Prioritizing edge over node: process control in supply chain networks and push-pull strategies
503 -- 509M. Alardhi, A. W. Labib. Preventive maintenance scheduling of multi-cogeneration plants using integer programming
510 -- 520S. Karabuk. Production planning under uncertainty in textile manufacturing
521 -- 539Y. Shim, S. A. Gabriel, A. Desai, P. Sahakij, S. Milner. A fast heuristic method for minimizing traffic congestion on reconfigurable ring topologies
540 -- 547David Soler, Eulalia Martínez, Joan C. Micó. A transformation for the mixed general routing problem with turn penalties
548 -- 555C. Lin, Y. T. Lin. Robust analysis on promotion duration for two competitive brands
556 -- 562Filipa D. Carvalho, Maria Teresa Almeida. A three-phase algorithm for the cell suppression problem in two-dimensional statistical tables
563 -- 570Deniz Nadirler, Esra Köktener Karasakal. Mixed integer programming-based solution procedure for single-facility location with maximin of rectilinear distance
571 -- 573T. Williams, J. Wilson. JORS Referees 2007

Volume 59, Issue 3

267 -- 277A. H. Ahmed, Chandra A. Poojari. An overview of the issues in the airline industry and the role of optimization models and algorithms
278 -- 290S. Robinson. Conceptual modelling for simulation Part I: definition and requirements
291 -- 304S. Robinson. Conceptual modelling for simulation Part II: a framework for conceptual modelling
305 -- 312C. Turcanu, B. Carlé, F. Hardeman. Agricultural countermeasures in nuclear emergency management: a stakeholders' survey for multi-criteria model development
313 -- 321P. C. Bell. Short selling and replaning as tools to enhance revenues
322 -- 330B. S. Ahn, S. H. Choi. ERP system selection using a simulation-based AHP approach: a case of Korean homeshopping company
331 -- 341Fulya Altiparmak, Ismail Karaoglan. An adaptive tabu-simulated annealing for concave cost transportation problems
342 -- 352D. Nowicki, U. D. Kumar, H. J. Steudel, D. Verma. Spares provisioning under performance-based logistics contract: profit-centric approach
353 -- 361Laurie B. Waisel, William A. Wallace, Thomas R. Willemain. Visualization and model formulation: an analysis of the sketches of expert modellers
362 -- 371Tammy Drezner, Zvi Drezner. Lost demand in a competitive environment
372 -- 380H. Jiang. A Lagrangian relaxation approach for network inventory control of stochastic revenue management with perishable commodities
381 -- 387S.-P. Chen. Measuring performances of multiple-channel queueing systems with imprecise data: a membership function approach
388 -- 398Temel Öncan, Santosh N. Kabadi, K. P. K. Nair, Abraham P. Punnen. VLSN search algorithms for partitioning problems using matching neighbourhoods
399 -- 406Jack Brimberg, Pierre Hansen, Gilbert Laporte, Nenad Mladenovic, Dragan Urosevic. The maximum return-on-investment plant location problem with market share
407 -- 415P. Leskinen. Numerical scaling of ratio scale utilities in multi-criteria decision analysis with geometric model
416 -- 420W.-H. Kuo, Dar-Li Yang. Minimizing the makespan in a single-machine scheduling problem with the cyclic process of an aging effect

Volume 59, Issue 2

147 -- 0Jane Parkin, Hiroko Plant. Operational Research in Government
148 -- 162H. S. Turner. Government Operational Research Service: Civil OR in UK Central Government
163 -- 0H. S. Turner. Government Operational Research Service: Civil OR In UK Central Government
164 -- 170I. M. Newsome. Using system dynamics to model the impact of policing activity on performance
171 -- 181Murat M. Günal, Bhakti Stephan Onggo, Michael Pidd. Improving police control rooms using simulation
182 -- 185E. Rappos, E. B. Thompson. An integer programming approach to optimize Housing Benefit data retrieval
186 -- 197M. C. Jackson, N. Johnston, J. Seddon. Evaluating systems thinking in housing
198 -- 202D. I. Calvert, R. Kaufman. Using analysis to influence strategic-decision making: option valuation at ECGD
203 -- 212J. Rios, D. Rios Insua. A framework for participatory budget elaboration support
213 -- 224David C. Lane, Elke Husemann. System dynamics mapping of acute patient flows
225 -- 230T. Gardener, J. Moffat. Changing behaviours in defence acquisition: a game theory approach
231 -- 238H. Seol, H. Lee, S. Kim, Y. Park. The impact of information technology on organizational efficiency in public services: a DEA-based DT approach
239 -- 251Laurens Cherchye, Willem Moesen, Nicky Rogge, Tom Van Puyenbroeck, Michaela Saisana, Andrea Saltelli, R. Liska, Stefano Tarantola. Creating composite indicators with DEA and robustness analysis: the case of the Technology Achievement Index
252 -- 258Eugene D. Hahn, C. L. Knott. Assessing quality improvement initiatives when expert judgements are uncertain
259 -- 265I. Y.-F. Huang, W.-W. Wu, Y. T. Lee. Simplifying essential competencies for Taiwan civil servants using the rough set approach

Volume 59, Issue 12

1573 -- 1590Richard J. Ormerod. The history and ideas of Marxism: the relevance for OR
1591 -- 1602Ahmed Ghanmi, R. H. A. David Shaw. Modelling and analysis of Canadian Forces strategic lift and pre-positioning options
1603 -- 1613J. Renaud, A. Ruiz. Improving product location and order picking activities in a distribution centre
1614 -- 1623Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Maria Teresa Sánchez-Polo. Linking the individual forgetting context with customer capital from a seller's perspective
1624 -- 1632H. J. Jeon, S. Y. Sohn. The risk management for technology credit guarantee fund
1633 -- 1643J. H. Powell, J. Swart. Scaling knowledge: how does knowledge accrue in systems?
1644 -- 1651Sami El-Ferik, Mohamed Ben-Daya. Model for imperfect age-based preventive maintenance with age reduction
1652 -- 1658C. G. Lennon, J. M. McGowan, K.-Y. Lin. A game-theoretic model for repeated assignment problem between two selfish agents
1659 -- 1673Christos D. Tarantilis, Emmanouil E. Zachariadis, Chris T. Kiranoudis. A guided tabu search for the heterogeneous vehicle routeing problem
1674 -- 1684Francisco J. López, José H. Dulá. Adding and removing an attribute in a DEA model: theory and processing
1685 -- 1695J. Faulin, Alejandro Garcia del Valle. Solving the capacitated vehicle routing problem using the ALGELECT electrostatic algorithm
1696 -- 1697Chung-Lun Li. A note on unrelated parallel machine scheduling with time-dependent processing times
1697 -- 0D. L. Yang. Reply to Chung-Lun Li
1698 -- 1699Christos D. Tarantilis, Emmanouil E. Zachariadis, Chris T. Kiranoudis. A guided tabu search for the heterogeneous vehicle routeing problem

Volume 59, Issue 11

1435 -- 1448Richard J. Ormerod. The transformation competence perspective
1449 -- 1459Irina V. Gribkovskaia, Gilbert Laporte, A. Shlopak. A tabu search heuristic for a routing problem arising in servicing of offshore oil and gas platforms
1460 -- 1470Edgar Alberto Cabral, Erhan Erkut, Gilbert Laporte, Raymond A. Patterson. Wide area telecommunication network design: application to the Alberta SuperNet
1471 -- 1482Jeffery K. Cochran, Kevin T. Roche. A queuing-based decision support methodology to estimate hospital inpatient bed demand
1483 -- 1491Marta Anna Krajewska, Herbert Kopfer, Gilbert Laporte, Stefan Ropke, G. Zaccour. Horizontal cooperation among freight carriers: request allocation and profit sharing
1492 -- 1505J. J. Glen. An additive utility mixed integer programming model for nonlinear discriminant analysis
1506 -- 1519Robert Aboolian, Oded Berman, Dmitry Krass. Optimizing pricing and location decisions for competitive service facilities charging uniform price
1520 -- 1531C. Alves, J. M. Valério de Carvalho. New integer programming formulations and an exact algorithm for the ordered cutting stock problem
1532 -- 1546S. Mitra. A parallel clustering technique for the vehicle routing problem with split deliveries and pickups
1547 -- 1556E. Bustamante-Cedeño, S. Arora. Stochastic and minimum regret formulations for transmission network expansion planning under uncertainties
1557 -- 1567Tolga Bektas, Jean-François Cordeau, Erhan Erkut, Gilbert Laporte. A two-level simulated annealing algorithm for efficient dissemination of electronic content
1568 -- 1572Maria Battarra, Bruce L. Golden, Daniele Vigo. Tuning a parametric Clarke-Wright heuristic via a genetic algorithm

Volume 59, Issue 10

1289 -- 1298K. Saeed, O. V. Pavlov. Dynastic cycle: a generic structure describing resource allocation in political economies, markets and firms
1299 -- 1311S. Howick, J. Whalley. Understanding the drivers of broadband adoption: the case of rural and remote Scotland
1312 -- 1320Assem Kaylani, Mansooreh Mollaghasemi, Dayana Cope, S. Fayez, Ghaith Rabadi, Martin J. Steele. A generic environment for modelling future launch operations - GEM-FLO: a success story in generic modelling
1321 -- 1331Diederik Lugtigheid, Xiaoyue Jiang, Andrew K. S. Jardine. A finite horizon model for repairable systems with repair restrictions
1332 -- 1339Brian Lehaney, D. Malindzák, Z. Khan. Simulation modelling for problem understanding: a case study in the East Slovakia Coal Industry
1340 -- 1351Georgios N. Angelou, Anastasios A. Economides. A real options approach for prioritizing ICT business alternatives: a case study from broadband technology business field
1352 -- 1362S. Lozano, E. Gutiérrez. TSD-consistent performance assessment of mutual funds
1363 -- 1372M. J. Brusco. Scheduling advertising slots for television
1373 -- 1386Fan T. Tseng, Edward F. Stafford Jr.. New MILP models for the permutation flowshop problem
1387 -- 1397Ruibin Bai, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall. Heuristic, meta-heuristic and hyper-heuristic approaches for fresh produce inventory control and shelf space allocation
1398 -- 1405O. Berman, J. Wang. The probabilistic 1-maximal covering problem on a network with discrete demand weights
1406 -- 1414D. F. Percy, P. A. Scarf. On the development of decision rules for bar quiz handicapping
1415 -- 1421A. Nilsson, E. A. Silver. A simple improvement on Silver's heuristic for the joint replenishment problem
1422 -- 1424Gur Mosheiov. Minimizing total absolute deviation of job completion times: extensions to position-dependent processing times and parallel identical machines
1425 -- 1429K.-J. Chung. An EOQ model for deteriorating items under trade credits by Ouyang, Chang and Teng
1429 -- 1430J.-T. Teng. Reply to Kun-Jen Chung
1430 -- 0Adam Janiak, Radoslaw Rudek. Complexity results for single-machine scheduling with positional learning effects
1431 -- 1433. Book Selection

Volume 59, Issue 1

1 -- 0Terry Williams, John Wilson. Editorial
2 -- 12Chandra A. Poojari, Caro Lucas, G. Mitra. Robust solutions and risk measures for a supply chain planning problem under uncertainty
13 -- 24Miles G. Nicholls, Barbara J. Cargill. Determining best practice production in an aluminium smelter involving sub-processes based substantially on tacit knowledge: an application of Communities of Practice
25 -- 33Xuwei Chen, F. Benjamin Zhan. Agent-based modelling and simulation of urban evacuation: relative effectiveness of simultaneous and staged evacuation strategies
34 -- 43Salem M. Al-Yakoob, Hanif D. Sherali. A column generation approach for an employee scheduling problem with multiple shifts and work locations
44 -- 53Lixin Tang, G. Liu, Jiyin Liu. Raw material inventory solution in iron and steel industry using Lagrangian relaxation
54 -- 63M. C. Gouveia, Luis C. Dias, Carlos Henggeler Antunes. Additive DEA based on MCDA with imprecise information
64 -- 79Necati Aras, M. Orbay, I. Kuban Altinel. Efficient heuristics for the rectilinear distance capacitated multi-facility Weber problem
80 -- 89M.-G. Yoon, John R. Current. The hub location and network design problem with fixed and variable arc costs: formulation and dual-based solution heuristic
90 -- 104Nafee Rizk, Alain Martel, Sophie D'Amours. Synchronized production-distribution planning in a single-plant multi-destination network
105 -- 118S. Raut, J. N. D. Gupta, S. Swami. Single machine scheduling with time deteriorating job values
119 -- 136C. S. Sung, W. Yang. An exact algorithm for a cross-docking supply chain network design problem
137 -- 138Richard J. Ormerod. Evaluating PSMs
138 -- 139L. White. Reply to Ormerod
139 -- 142Richard J. Ormerod. OR and systems - some comments on Checkland's reply to Eden and Ackerman
143 -- 145. Book Selection