Journal: JORS

Volume 61, Issue 9

1315 -- 1327M. S. Sodhi, B.-G. Son. Content analysis of OR job advertisements to infer required skills
1328 -- 1339B. Cobacho, R. Caballero, M. González, J. Molina. Planning federal public investment in Mexico using multiobjective decision making
1340 -- 1355Xiangyong Li, Yash P. Aneja, Md. Fazle Baki. An ant colony optimization metaheuristic for single-path multicommodity network flow problems
1356 -- 1364Ulrich Derigs, B. Li, Ulrich Vogel. Local search-based metaheuristics for the split delivery vehicle routing problem
1365 -- 1376Y. H. Yang, Yer Van Hui, Lawrence C. Leung, G. Chen. An analytic network process approach to the selection of logistics service providers for air cargo
1377 -- 1388Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Yolanda Fuertes-Callén, Cecilio Mar-Molinero. A structural model for sales in the e-retailing industry
1389 -- 1403K. Hoad, S. Robinson, R. Davies. Automating warm-up length estimation
1404 -- 1419S. A. Gabriel, Y. Shim, Antonio J. Conejo, S. de la Torre, Raquel García-Bertrand. A Benders decomposition method for discretely-constrained mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints
1420 -- 1431D. Champion, J. M. Wilson. The impact of contingency factors on validation of problem structuring methods

Volume 61, Issue 8

1193 -- 1206Peter Naudé, Stephan Henneberg, Z. Jiang. Varying routes to the top: identifying different strategies in the MBA marketplace
1207 -- 1223Richard J. Ormerod. Rational inference: deductive, inductive and probabilistic thinking
1224 -- 1237K. De Witte, Emmanuel Thanassoulis, G. Simpson, G. Battisti, A. Charlesworth-May. Assessing pupil and school performance by non-parametric and parametric techniques
1238 -- 1248Reda 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
1258 -- 1264Ying-Mei Tu, Hsin-Nan Chen. Capacity planning with sequential time constraints under various control policies in the back-end of wafer fabrications
1265 -- 1272Ross A. Malaga, Dawn Porter, K. Ord, Bonnie Montano. A new end-of-auction model for curbing sniping
1273 -- 1287Panagiotis Xidonas, George Mavrotas, John E. Psarras. A multiple criteria decision-making approach for the selection of stocks
1288 -- 1296Virginie Gabrel, Céline Murat. Robustness and duality in linear programming
1297 -- 1301Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Walter Briec, Hervé Leleu. Linear programming solutions and distance functions under alpha-returns to scale
1302 -- 1308Yannick Malevergne, B. Rey. Preserving preference rankings under non-financial background risk
1309 -- 1314Albert Corominas, Alberto García-Villoria, Rafael Pastor. Fine-tuning a parametric Clarke and Wright heuristic by means of EAGH (empirically adjusted greedy heuristics)

Volume 61, Issue 7

1071 -- 0John Wilson. Changes in editorial team
1072 -- 1077Roberto Baldacci, E. Bartolini, Gilbert Laporte. Some applications of the generalized vehicle routing problem
1078 -- 1094Richard J. Ormerod. Articulate intervention revisited
1095 -- 1103Ciro-Alberto Amaya, André Langevin, Martin Trépanier. A heuristic method for the capacitated arc routing problem with refill points and multiple loads
1104 -- 1111M. Lezaun, G. Pérez, E. Sáinz de la Maza. Staff rostering for the station personnel of a railway company
1112 -- 1121Q. Feng, J. Antony. Integrating DEA into Six Sigma methodology for measuring health service efficiency
1122 -- 1132Maria Conceição A. Silva Portela, A. S. Camanho. Analysis of complementary methodologies for the estimation of school value added
1133 -- 1143Andreas T. Ernst, Mark Horn, Philip Kilby, Mohan Krishnamoorthy. Dynamic scheduling of recreational rental vehicles with revenue management extensions
1144 -- 1150Gholam R. Amin, Ali Emrouznejad. Finding relevant search engines results: a minimax linear programming approach
1151 -- 1158Bibhas Chandra Giri, Tadashi Dohi. Quantifying the risk in age and block replacement policies
1159 -- 1167Anjali Awasthi, Satyaveer Singh Chauhan, Michel Parent, Jean-Marie Proth. Algorithms for partitioning of large routing networks
1168 -- 1180Massimiliano Caramia, Francesca Guerriero. A heuristic approach for the truck and trailer routing problem
1181 -- 1189Feng Jin, Jatinder N. D. Gupta, Shiji Song, Cheng Wu. Single machine scheduling with sequence-dependent family setups to minimize maximum lateness

Volume 61, Issue 6

891 -- 892E. D. Love, C. M. Tam. Special issue on operational research in project management: pragmatic solutions for real life problems
893 -- 904J. Davis, A. MacDonald, L. White. Problem-structuring methods and project management: an example of stakeholder involvement using Hierarchical Process Modelling methodology
905 -- 916J. P. Pastor-Ferrando, Pablo Aragonés-Beltrán, A. Hospitaler-Pérez, Mónica García-Melón. An ANP- and AHP-based approach for weighting criteria in public works bidding
917 -- 928Zahir Irani. Investment evaluation within project management: an information systems perspective
929 -- 952Amir M. Sharif, Zahir Irani, V. Weerakkoddy. Evaluating and modelling constructs for e-government decision making
953 -- 963L. Houghton, M. Metcalfe. Synthesis as conception shifting
964 -- 973A. 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
974 -- 979So Young Sohn, Kyung Bok Yoon. Dynamic preventive maintenance scheduling of the modules of fighter aircraft based on random effects regression model
980 -- 986J. M. Norman, S. R. Clarke. Optimal batting orders in cricket
987 -- 999Brian Boffey, Roberto D. Galvão, V. Marianov. Location of single-server immobile facilities subject to a loss constraint
1000 -- 1012Yavuz Bogaç Türkogullari, Necati Aras, I. Kuban Altinel, Cem Ersoy. Optimal placement, scheduling, and routing to maximize lifetime in sensor networks
1013 -- 1021Jinxiang Gu, Marc Goetschalckx, Leon F. McGinnis. Solving the forward-reserve allocation problem in warehouse order picking systems
1022 -- 1031Uri Benzion, Y. Cohen, Tal Shavit. The newsvendor problem with unknown distribution
1032 -- 1040D. Bai, L. Tang. New heuristics for flow shop problem to minimize makespan
1041 -- 1048Adam Janiak, Radoslaw Rudek. Scheduling jobs under an aging effect
1049 -- 1056M. Parzen, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Richard D. Metters, Garrett M. Fitzmaurice. Correlation when data are missing
1057 -- 1062S. Bandyopadhyay. A stylized model of Momentum processes: a research note
1063 -- 0I. Castillo, T. Sim. A spring-embedding approach for the facility layout problem

Volume 61, Issue 5

713 -- 0J. M. Wilson. Russell L Ackoff
714 -- 722G. A. Hindle, A. Hindle. Developing geographical indicators of mileage-related costs: a case study exploring travelling public services in English local areas
723 -- 731Ahmed Ghoniem, Hanif D. Sherali. Models and algorithms for the scheduling of a doubles tennis training tournament
740 -- 755Jerónimo Aznar, Javier Ferrís-Oñate, Francisco Guijarro. An ANP framework for property pricing combining quantitative and qualitative attributes
756 -- 767D. B. O Brien, Cathal M. Brugha. Adapting and refining in multi-criteria decision-making
768 -- 779Paul R. Harper, N. H. Powell, J. E. Williams. Modelling the size and skill-mix of hospital nursing teams
780 -- 789H. Zhang, H. I. Mesak. Optimal multi-period service capacity allocation and pricing allowing for uncertain competitive entry
790 -- 803Kristin Sahyouni, R. Canan Savaskan, Mark S. Daskin. The effect of lifetime buys on warranty repair operations
804 -- 812Konstantinos Falangis, J. J. Glen. Heuristics for feature selection in mathematical programming discriminant analysis models
819 -- 826Matthieu Plumettaz, David Schindl, Nicolas Zufferey. Ant Local Search and its efficient adaptation to graph colouring
827 -- 839R. Bhatnagar, V. Saddikuti. Models for cellular manufacturing systems design: matching processing requirements and operator capabilities
840 -- 848G. Tang, F. Chen, T. C. Edwin Cheng, C. T. Daniel Ng, Zhi-Long Chen. The loader problem: formulation, complexity and algorithms
849 -- 857Alex J. Ruiz-Torres, Francisco J. López, P. J. Wojciechowski, Johnny C. Ho. Parallel machine scheduling problems considering regular measures of performance and machine cost
858 -- 871D. J. Meade, S. Kumar, B. White. Analysing the impact of the implementation of lean manufacturing strategies on profitability
872 -- 877Selin Özpeynirci, Meral Azizoglu. A Lagrangean relaxation based approach for the capacity allocation problem in flexible manufacturing systems
878 -- 881Zvi Drezner, Atsuo Suzuki. Covering continuous demand in the plane
882 -- 887Gur Mosheiov, Jeffrey B. Sidney. Scheduling a deteriorating maintenance activity on a single machine

Volume 61, Issue 4

543 -- 550Günes Erdogan, Erhan Erkut, Armann Ingolfsson, Gilbert Laporte. Scheduling ambulance crews for maximum coverage
551 -- 560L. K. Chu, Y. Shi, S. Lin, Domenic Sculli, J. Ni. Fuzzy chance-constrained programming model for a multi-echelon reverse logistics network for household appliances
561 -- 573David Martens, Tony Van Gestel, Manu De Backer, Raf Haesen, Jan Vanthienen, Bart Baesens. Credit rating prediction using Ant Colony Optimization
574 -- 584J. M. Cordero-Ferrera, Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro, D. Santín-González. Enhancing the inclusion of non-discretionary inputs in DEA
585 -- 593G. Dutta, S. Basu, J. John. Development of utility function for life insurance buyers in the Indian market
594 -- 603Jarl Eirik Korsvik, Kjetil Fagerholt, Gilbert Laporte. A tabu search heuristic for ship routing and scheduling
604 -- 610M. Zohrehbandian, A. Makui, A. Alinezhad. A compromise solution approach for finding common weights in DEA: an improvement to Kao and Hung s approach
611 -- 619Z. C. Zhu, K. M. Ng, H. L. Ong. A modified tabu search algorithm for cost-based job shop problem
620 -- 631Jorge M. S. Valente. Beam search heuristics for quadratic earliness and tardiness scheduling
632 -- 639Alan Jessop. A portfolio model for performance assessment: the ::::Financial Times:::: MBA ranking
640 -- 646R.-H. Huang, C.-L. Yang, H.-T. Huang. Parallel machine scheduling with common due windows
647 -- 657Jin-Li Hu, C. Y. Fang. Do market share and efficiency matter for each other? An application of the zero-sum gains data envelopment analysis
658 -- 665A. Wong, Erhan Kozan. Optimization of container process at seaport terminals
666 -- 675Tae Hee Moon, So Young Sohn. Technology credit scoring model considering both SME characteristics and economic conditions: The Korean case
676 -- 685A. Baykal Hafizoglu, Meral Azizoglu. Linear programming based approaches for the discrete time/cost trade-off problem in project networks
686 -- 695Enrico Angelelli, Nicola Bianchessi, Renata Mansini, Maria Grazia Speranza. Comparison of policies in dynamic routing problems
696 -- 704S. Banerjee, N. S. Meitei. Effect of declining selling price: profit analysis for a single period inventory model with stochastic demand and lead time
705 -- 707Richard J. Ormerod. Research contribution: Citation and content analysis

Volume 61, Issue 3

357 -- 358Lyn C. Thomas, Jonathan N. Crook, David Edelman. Editorial
359 -- 373G. Castermans, David Martens, Tony Van Gestel, B. Hamers, Bart Baesens. An overview and framework for PD backtesting and benchmarking
381 -- 392Peter A. Beling, G. Overstreet, K. Rajaratnam. Estimation error in regulatory capital requirements: theoretical implications for consumer bank profitability
393 -- 398Ania Matuszyk, C. Mues, Lyn C. Thomas. Modelling LGD for unsecured personal loans: decision tree approach
399 -- 410J. L. Breeden, D. Ingram. Monte Carlo scenario generation for retail loan portfolios
411 -- 420M. Malik, Lyn C. Thomas. Modelling credit risk of portfolio of consumer loans
421 -- 429K. Rajaratnam, Peter A. Beling, G. Overstreet. Scoring decisions in the context of economic uncertainty
430 -- 442P. Ma, Jonathan Crook, Jake Ansell. Modelling take-up and profitability
443 -- 454Hsin-Vonn Seow. Question selection responding to information on customers from heterogeneous populations to select offers that maximize expected profit
455 -- 461L. Quirini, L. Vannucci. A new index of creditworthiness for retail credit products
462 -- 472Adam R. Brentnall, Martin Crowder, David J. Hand. Likelihood-ratio changepoint features for consumer-behaviour models
473 -- 485John Banasik, Jonathan Crook. Reject inference in survival analysis by augmentation
486 -- 501Raquel Flórez López. Effects of missing data in credit risk scoring. A comparative analysis of methods to achieve robustness in the absence of sufficient data
502 -- 0Tolga Bektas, Gilbert Laporte. Editorial
503 -- 514Elena Fernández, Jörg Kalcsics, Stefan Nickel, Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado. A novel maximum dispersion territory design model arising in the implementation of the WEEE-directive
515 -- 522Will Maden, Richard W. Eglese, D. Black. Vehicle routing and scheduling with time-varying data: A case study
523 -- 529Kjetil Fagerholt, Gilbert Laporte, I. Norstad. Reducing fuel emissions by optimizing speed on shipping routes
530 -- 542J. Bauer, Tolga Bektas, Teodor Gabriel Crainic. Minimizing greenhouse gas emissions in intermodal freight transport: an application to rail service design

Volume 61, Issue 2

179 -- 190D. Wu, D. L. Olson. Enterprise risk management: coping with model risk in a large bank
202 -- 210A. Schellekens, F. Paas, Alexander Verbraeck, Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer. Designing a flexible approach for higher professional education by means of simulation modelling
211 -- 221S. J. Ho, Sushanta K. Mallick. The impact of information technology on the banking industry
222 -- 234K. De Witte, E. Dijkgraaf. Mean and bold? On separating merger economies from structural efficiency gains in the drinking water sector
235 -- 245Antonio J. Conejo, Francisco J. Nogales, M. Carrión, J. M. Morales. Electricity pool prices: long-term uncertainty characterization for futures-market trading and risk management
246 -- 254J. Bowers. Waiting list behaviour and the consequences for NHS targets
255 -- 264M. Maliapen, B. C. Dangerfield. A system dynamics-based simulation study for managing clinical governance and pathways in a hospital
265 -- 274P. G. Hancock, R. Raeside. Analysing communication in a complex service process: an application of social network analysis in the Scottish Prison Service
275 -- 283E. D. Günes, H. Yaman. Health network mergers and hospital re-planning
284 -- 293George Baltas, C. Saridakis. Measuring brand equity in the car market: a hedonic price analysis
294 -- 305Thomas 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
306 -- 320Ernesto G. Birgin, R. D. Lobato, Reinaldo Morabito. An effective recursive partitioning approach for the packing of identical rectangles in a rectangle
321 -- 331Albert Corominas, Jordi Olivella, Rafael Pastor. Capacity planning with working time accounts in services
332 -- 341N. Iswaran, David F. Percy. Conflict analysis using Bayesian neural networks and generalized linear models
342 -- 351George C. Hadjinicola. Manufacturing costs in serial production systems with rework
352 -- 355W.-H. Kuo, D. L. Yang. Single-machine scheduling with a sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect
355 -- 0J.-B. Wang. Response to Viewpoint on Single-machine with a sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect

Volume 61, Issue 12

1685 -- 1693S. Robinson, R. Davies. An investigation of the effect of educational background on performance in simulation studies
1694 -- 1708Richard J. Ormerod. Justifying the methods of OR
1709 -- 1718S. Sivadasan, J. Smart, L. Huaccho Huatuco, A. Calinescu. Operational complexity and supplier-customer integration: case study insights and complexity rebound
1719 -- 1728Sofie Coene, A. Arnout, Frits C. R. Spieksma. On a periodic vehicle routing problem
1729 -- 1745C. Murillo-Melchor, J. M. Pastor, Emili Tortosa-Ausina. A bootstrap approach to analyse productivity growth in European banking
1746 -- 1760U. Dinesh Kumar, A. B. Roy, Haritha Saranga, K. Singal. Analysis of hedge fund strategies using slack-based DEA models
1761 -- 1776Richard J. Ormerod. OR as rational choice: a decision and game theory perspective
1777 -- 1788Haritha Saranga, R. D. Banker. Productivity and technical changes in the Indian pharmaceutical industry
1789 -- 1793M. Khalili, A. S. Camanho, M. C. A. S. Portela, M. R. Alirezaee. An improvement on the Tracy and Chen model A generalized model for weight restrictions in DEA

Volume 61, Issue 11

1561 -- 1571John Medhurst, I. M. Stanton, A. Berry. Risk taking by decision makers - using card-based decision gaming to develop models of behaviour
1572 -- 1581Sonia A. Vanderby, Michael W. Carter. An evaluation of the applicability of system dynamics to patient flow modelling
1582 -- 1595Marcel Büther. Reducing the elastic generalized assignment problem to the standard generalized assignment problem
1596 -- 1606Barry R. Cobb, John M. Charnes. A graphical method for valuing switching options
1607 -- 1618Ching-Hui Tang. A network model for airport common use check-in counter assignments
1619 -- 1631S. Salhi, A. Al-Khedhairi. Integrating heuristic information into exact methods: The case of the vertex p-centre problem
1632 -- 1644K. Hoad, S. Robinson, R. Davies. Automated selection of the number of replications for a discrete-event simulation
1645 -- 1653W. K. Chiang, Y. Feng. Retailer or e-tailer? Strategic pricing and economic-lot-size decisions in a competitive supply chain with drop-shipping
1654 -- 1666Z. X. Chen, B. R. Sarker. Multi-vendor integrated procurement-production system under shared transportation and just-in-time delivery system
1667 -- 1679Edmund K. Burke, Timothy Curtois, Rong Qu, Greet Vanden Berghe. A scatter search methodology for the nurse rostering problem

Volume 61, Issue 10

1446 -- 1458Tamrat W. Tewoldeberhan, Alexander Verbraeck, V. Hlupic. Implementing a discrete-event simulation software selection methodology for supporting decision making at Accenture
1459 -- 1470Madjid Tavana, M. A. Sodenkamp. A fuzzy multi-criteria decision analysis model for advanced technology assessment at Kennedy Space Center
1471 -- 1484Philip G. Brabazon, Bart L. MacCarthy. On Markovian approximations for virtual-build-to-order systems
1485 -- 1497Sebastián Lozano, Gabriel Villa. DEA-based pre-merger planning tool
1498 -- 1509Yuvraj Gajpal, Prakash L. Abad. Saving-based algorithms for vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery
1510 -- 1522L. Zhang, A. Wirth. Wind energy management with battery storage
1523 -- 1529H.-Y. Tsao, L. Pitt, C. Campbell. Analysing consumer segments to budget for loyalty and promotion programmes and maximize market share
1530 -- 1539A. K. Suzuki, L. E. B. Salasar, J. G. Leite, Francisco Louzada-Neto. A Bayesian approach for predicting match outcomes: The 2006 (Association) Football World Cup
1540 -- 1547D. J. Hand, F. Zhou. Evaluating models for classifying customers in retail banking collections
1548 -- 1555D. T. Barnum, J. M. Gleason, B. Hemily, J. Lin, P. Wang. Progressing from uncertainty to risk for DEA-based decisions
1559 -- 0Jean-François Audy, Sophie D Amours, L.-M. Rousseau. Cost allocation in the establishment of a collaborative transportation agreement - an application in the furniture industry

Volume 61, Issue 1

1 -- 3Terry Williams, John Wilson, Susan Merchant. 60th Anniversary JORS - introduction
4 -- 10K. Brian Haley. The challenge of publications
14 -- 24Michael Pidd. Why modelling and model use matter
25 -- 34R. G. Dyson, E. A. Shale. Data envelopment analysis, operational research and uncertainty
35 -- 40Gilbert Laporte. A concise guide to the Traveling Salesman Problem
41 -- 52L. C. Thomas. Consumer finance: challenges for operational research
53 -- 67Manuel 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
68 -- 81Maurice W. Kirby, M. T. Godwin. The 'invisible science': operational research for the British Armed Forces after 1945
82 -- 94Korina Katsaliaki, Navonil Mustafee, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, T. Williams, J. M. Wilson. A profile of OR research and practice published in the ::::Journal of the Operational Research Society::::
95 -- 107M.-K. Kang, C. S. Jang, K. S. Yoon. Heuristics with a new block strategy for the single and multiple containers loading problems
108 -- 114V. S. Tonaki, Franklina Maria Bragion Toledo. An approach for solving the lot-sizing problem of a market-driven foundry
115 -- 123Nima Sanajian, H. Abouee-Mehrizi, Baris Balcioglu. Scheduling policies in the ::::M::::/::::G::::/1 make-to-stock queue
124 -- 133Gregory Levitin, Kjell Hausken. Defence and attack of systems with variable attacker system structure detection probability
134 -- 143K. F. Lam. In the determination of weight sets to compute cross-efficiency ratios in DEA
144 -- 155Y. H. Kang, S. S. Kim, H. J. Shin. A dispatching algorithm for parallel machines with rework processes
156 -- 163B. Desmet, El Houssaine Aghezzaf, H. Vanmaele. A normal approximation model for safety stock optimization in a two-echelon distribution system
164 -- 171José D. Bermúdez, José Vicente Segura, Enriqueta Vercher. Bayesian forecasting with the Holt-Winters model
172 -- 177J.-B. Wang. Single-machine scheduling with a sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect