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Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume 58
Volume 58, Number 1, January 2007
- Terry Williams, John Wilson:
Editorial. 1
- S. J. Cox:
Blackett Memorial Lecture: the nuclear option - human factors in safety. 2-9
- Khairy A. H. Kobbacy, Sunil Vadera, Mohamed Hassan Rasmy:
AI and OR in management of operations: history and trends. 10-28
- Ricardo Bañuelas, Jiju Antony:
Application of stochastic analytic hierarchy process within a domestic appliance manufacturer. 29-38 - Fran Ackermann
, Colin Eden
, Terry Williams, Susan Howick
:
Systemic risk assessment: a case study. 39-51 - Z. S. Hua, B. Zhang, J. Yang, D. S. Tan:
A new approach of forecasting intermittent demand for spare parts inventories in the process industries. 52-61
- Mohamed Haouari
, Talel Ladhari
:
Minimizing maximum lateness in a flow shop subject to release dates. 62-72 - A. Volgenant, I. Y. Zwiers:
Partial enumeration in heuristics for some combinatorial optimization problems. 73-79 - Kwanniti Khammuang, Amir H. Abdekhodaee, Andrew Wirth:
On-line scheduling with forbidden zones. 80-90 - Oded Berman, Zvi Drezner:
The multiple server location problem. 91-99 - Ibrahim H. Osman, Samad Ahmadi:
Guided construction search metaheuristics for the capacitated p-median problem with single source constraint. 100-114 - Timo Knuutila
, Sami Pyöttiälä, Olli S. Nevalainen:
Minimizing the number of pickups on a multi-head placement machine. 115-121 - Dong-Ping Song
:
Characterizing optimal empty container reposition policy in periodic-review shuttle service systems. 122-133
- I. N. Kamal Abadi:
A new algorithm for minimizing makespan, C max, in blocking flow-shop problem through slowing down the operations. 134-140
Volume 58, Number 2, February 2007
- Sally C. Brailsford, Paul R. Harper:
Editorial. 141-144
- Nathan C. Proudlove
, S. Black, A. Fletcher:
OR and the challenge to improve the NHS: modelling for insight and improvement in in-patient flows. 145-158 - Ramesh C. Sachdeva, Terry Williams, John Quigley:
Mixing methodologies to enhance the implementation of healthcare operational research. 159-167 - Keith Cooper, Sally C. Brailsford, Ruth Davies:
Choice of modelling technique for evaluating health care interventions. 168-176 - E. Ekaette, R. C. Lee, K.-L. Kelly, P. Dunscombe:
A Monte Carlo simulation approach to the characterization of uncertainties in cancer staging and radiation treatment decisions. 177-185 - C. Thunhurst:
Refocusing upstream: Operational Research for population health. 186-194 - Tobias Andersson Granberg
, Peter Värbrand:
Decision support tools for ambulance dispatch and relocation. 195-201 - Christos Vasilakis
, Boris G. Sobolev, L. Kuramoto, A. R. Levy:
A simulation study of scheduling clinic appointments in surgical care: individual surgeon versus pooled lists. 202-211 - Barry Shaw, Adele H. Marshall
:
Modelling the flow of congestive heart failure patients through a hospital system. 212-218 - Korina Katsaliaki, Sally C. Brailsford:
Using simulation to improve the blood supply chain. 219-227 - C. Sherlaw-Johnson, P. Wilson, Steve Gallivan:
The development and use of tools for monitoring the occurrence of surgical wound infections. 228-234 - Jonathan Patrick, Martin L. Puterman:
Improving resource utilization for diagnostic services through flexible inpatient scheduling: A method for improving resource utilization. 235-245 - R. Ceglowski, Leonid Churilov, J. Wasserthiel:
Combining Data Mining and Discrete Event Simulation for a value-added view of a hospital emergency department. 246-254 - Sally I. McClean
, Peter H. Millard:
Where to treat the older patient? Can Markov models help us better understand the relationship between hospital and community care? 255-261 - Tillal Eldabi
, Ray J. Paul, Terry Young
:
Simulation modelling in healthcare: reviewing legacies and investigating futures. 262-270
Volume 58, Number 3, March 2007
- Hen van de Water, M. Schinkel, R. Rozier:
Fields of application of SSM: a categorization of publications. 271-287
- Daniel De Ladurantaye, Michel Gendreau, Jean-Yves Potvin:
Scheduling a hot rolling mill. 288-300 - Miles G. Nicholls:
A small-to-medium-sized conference scheduling heuristic incorporating presenter and limited attendee preferences. 301-308 - C.-H. Lan, C.-C. Chen:
Optimal purchase of two-itemized drugs for a disease. 309-316 - Ekrem Duman
:
Modelling the operations of a component placement machine with rotational turret and stationary component magazine. 317-325 - Alfonso Mateos
, Sixto Ríos-Insua, A. Jiménez:
Dominance, potential optimality and alternative ranking in imprecise multi-attribute decision making. 326-336
- Yan-Kwang Chen:
Economic design of an adaptive T 2 control chart. 337-345 - Sang-Oh Shim, Yeong-Dae Kim:
Minimizing total tardiness in an unrelated parallel-machine scheduling problem. 346-354 - Panagiotis P. Repoussis
, Christos D. Tarantilis, George Ioannou:
The open vehicle routing problem with time windows. 355-367 - Sujit Kumar Samanta
, U. C. Gupta, R. K. Sharma:
Analysis of finite capacity discrete-time GI/Geo/1 queueing system with multiple vacations. 368-377 - Oded Berman, Q. Wang:
Locating semi-obnoxious facilities with expropriation: minisum criterion. 378-390 - H. Wang, W. Wang, K. A. H. Kobaccy:
Analysis and design of returns policies from a supplier's perspective. 391-401
- Gilbert Babin, S. Deneault, Gilbert Laporte:
Improvements to the Or-opt heuristic for the symmetric travelling salesman problem. 402-407
- Book Selection. 408-411
Volume 58, Number 4, April 2007
- Stephen C. H. Leung, K. K. Lai
, Wan-Lung Ng, Yue Wu:
A robust optimization model for production planning of perishable products. 413-422 - John W. Hearne
:
A market-driven approach to the optimal stocking problem on African game ranches. 423-428 - Kathryn A. Dowsland, M. Gilbert, Graham Kendall
:
A local search approach to a circle cutting problem arising in the motor cycle industry. 429-438 - Mike B. Wright:
Case study: problem formulation and solution for a real-world sports scheduling problem. 439-445 - Haifeng Xie, Thierry J. Chaussalet
, Wayne A. Thompson, Peter H. Millard:
A simple graphical decision aid for the placement of elderly people in long-term care. 446-453
- Irit Talmor
, David Mahalel:
Signal design for an isolated intersection during congestion. 454-466 - L. Vogt, Chandra A. Poojari, John E. Beasley
:
A tabu search algorithm for the single vehicle routing allocation problem. 467-480 - Maria C. A. S. Portela
, Emmanuel Thanassoulis
:
Developing a decomposable measure of profit efficiency using DEA. 481-490 - Amy Hing Ling Lau, Hon-Shiang Lau, Jian-Cai Wang:
Some properties of buyback and other related schemes in a newsvendor-product supply chain with price-sensitive demand. 491-504 - Hong Seo Ryoo:
A compact mean-variance-skewness model for large-scale portfolio optimization and its application to the NYSE market. 505-515 - Corey J. Schumacher, Phillip R. Chandler, Meir Pachter, Lior S. Pachter
:
Optimization of air vehicles operations using mixed-integer linear programming. 516-527
- L. Zeng, H. L. Ong, Kien Ming Ng
:
A generalized crossing local search method for solving vehicle routing problems. 528-532 - K. S. Park:
Efficiency bounds and efficiency classifications in DEA with imprecise data. 533-540
- Book Selection. 541-543
Volume 58, Number 5, May 2007
- L. Alberto Franco
, Duncan Shaw, Mark Westcombe:
Taking problem structuring methods forward. 545-546
- Alec Morton, Fran Ackermann
, Valerie Belton:
Problem structuring without workshops? Experiences with distributed interaction within a PSM process. 547-556 - Frances A. O'Brien
, Maureen Meadows
:
Developing a visioning methodology: Visioning Choices for the future of operational research. 557-575 - Simon Bell
, Steve Morse:
Problem structuring methods: theorizing the benefits of deconstructing sustainable development projects. 576-587
- T. Horlick-Jones, Jonathan Rosenhead:
The uses of observation: combining problem structuring methods and ethnography. 588-601 - J. Bryant:
Drama theory: dispelling the myths. 602-613 - K. Nadia Papamichail
, G. Alves, Simon French, Jian-Bo Yang, R. Snowdon:
Facilitation practices in decision workshops. 614-632
- H.-Y. Wong:
Using Robustness Analysis to structure online marketing and communication problems. 633-644 - Jeff L. Foote
, J. E. Gregor, M. C. Hepi, V. E. Baker, D. J. Houston, Gerald Midgley:
Systemic problem structuring applied to community involvement in water conservation. 645-654 - Hay V. Vo, Bongsug (Kevin) Chae, David L. Olson:
Developing unbounded systems thinking: using causal mapping with multiple stakeholders within a Vietnamese company. 655-668 - Mariëlle den Hengst, Gert-Jan de Vreede
, R. Maghnouji:
Using soft OR principles for collaborative simulation: a case study in the Dutch airline industry. 669-682
- John Mingers
:
Operational research: the science of better? 683-686 - N. Morrill:
Are the benefits of PSMs being sold sufficiently? A practitioner's view. 686-689 - Stewart Robinson
:
PSMs: looking in from the outside. 689-691 - David F. Andersen, Jac A. M. Vennix, George P. Richardson, Etiënne A. J. A. Rouwette
:
Group model building: problem structuring, policy simulation and decision support. 691-694
- Problem structuring methods: Book Reviews. 695-700
Volume 58, Number 6, June 2007
- Alberto Paucar-Caceres
, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ulloa
:
An application of Soft Systems Dynamics Methodology (SSDM). 701-713 - K. B. Yoon, S. Y. Sohn:
Forecasting both time varying MTBF of fighter aircraft module and expected demand of minor parts. 714-719
- Haim Shore
, Diamanta Benson-Karhi:
Forecasting S-shaped diffusion processes via response modelling methodology. 720-728 - Tong Zhao, C.-L. Tseng:
Flexible facility interior layout: a real options approach. 729-739 - Hassan Younies, George O. Wesolowsky:
Planar maximal covering location problem under block norm distance measure. 740-750 - Chunming Victor Shi, Bintong Chen:
Pareto-optimal contracts for a supply chain with satisficing objectives. 751-759 - L. Alberto Franco
:
Assessing the impact of problem structuring methods in multi-organizational settings: an empirical investigation. 760-768 - J. S. Kim, T. C. Kwak:
Game theoretic analysis of the bargaining process over a long-term replenishment contract. 769-778 - R. Rajagopal, Enrique del Castillo
:
A Bayesian approach for multiple criteria decision making with applications in Design for Six Sigma. 779-790 - Peter A. Huegler, Francis J. Vasko:
Metaheuristics for meltshop scheduling in the steel industry. 791-796 - Zhaohui Fu, Yanzhi Li
, Andrew Lim
, Brian Rodrigues:
Port space allocation with a time dimension. 797-807 - Edmund P. Robinson, Arunachalam Narayanan
, Li-Lian Gao:
Effective heuristics for the dynamic demand joint replenishment problem. 808-815 - Suh-Wen Chiou
:
A hybrid optimization algorithm for area traffic control problem. 816-823
- Andy An-Kai Jeng, Bertrand M. T. Lin
:
A note on parallel-machine scheduling with deteriorating jobs. 824-826 - Srimathy Mohan, M. Gopalakrishnan, Hari Balasubramanian, A. Chandrashekar:
A lognormal approximation of activity duration in PERT using two time estimates. 827-831
- Richard J. Ormerod:
On the history and future of OR. 832-835 - Michael C. Jackson
:
Reply to Ormerod. 835
- Book Selection. 836-839
Volume 58, Number 7, July 2007
- Wen-Min Lu, Shih-Fang Lo:
A benchmark-learning roadmap for regional sustainable development in China. 841-849
- Steven A. Gabriel, Prawat Sahakij, Mark Ramirez, Chris Peot:
A multiobjective optimization model for processing and distributing biosolids to reuse fields. 850-864 - Joao Quariguasi Frota Neto, Lidia Angulo Meza
:
Alternative targets for data envelopment analysis through multi-objective linear programming: Rio de Janeiro Odontological Public Health System Case Study. 865-873 - Cecilio Mar-Molinero
, John Mingers
:
An evaluation of the limitations of, and alternatives to, the Co-Plot methodology. 874-886
- Wenbin Wang:
A prognosis model for wear prediction based on oil-based monitoring. 887-893 - Po-Chung Yang, Hui-Ming Wee, Jonas C. P. Yu:
Collaborative pricing and replenishment policy for hi-tech industry. 894-900 - Ahmad Diponegoro
, Bhaba R. Sarker:
Operations policy for a supply chain system with fixed-interval delivery and linear demand. 901-910 - Joe Whittaker, C. Whitehead, Mark Somers:
A dynamic scorecard for monitoring baseline performance with application to tracking a mortgage portfolio. 911-921 - Robert E. Stanford, W. Martin:
Towards a normative model for inventory cost management in a generalized ABC classification system. 922-928 - Ying-Ming Wang, Kwai-Sang Chin
, Jian-Bo Yang:
Measuring the performances of decision-making units using geometric average efficiency. 929-937 - Ching-Jong Liao, C.-M. Chen, C.-H. Lin:
Minimizing makespan for two parallel machines with job limit on each availability interval. 938-947 - Thomas W. Archibald
:
Modelling replenishment and transshipment decisions in periodic review multilocation inventory systems. 948-956 - Jerónimo Aznar, Francisco Guijarro
:
Modelling aesthetic variables in the valuation of paintings: an interval goal programming approach. 957-963 - Y. Feng, S. Viswanathan:
Impact of demand uncertainty on coordinating supply chain inventories through common replenishment epochs. 964-971 - S.-W. Choi, Yeong-Dae Kim:
Minimizing makespan on a two-machine re-entrant flowshop. 972-981
Volume 58, Number 8, August 2007
- Stephen G. Powell, Thomas R. Willemain:
How novices formulate models. Part I: qualitative insights and implications for teaching. 983-995 - Víctor Giménez
, Diego Prior
, Claudio Thieme:
Technical efficiency, managerial efficiency and objective-setting in the educational system: an international comparison. 996-1007
- C.-C. Chang, R.-S. Chen:
Project advancement and its applications to multi-air-route quality budget allocation. 1008-1020 - Martin Read, Tony Gear:
Developing professional judgement with the aid of a 'low-profile' group support system. 1021-1029 - L. Wan, Jonathan F. Bard:
Weekly staff scheduling with workstation group restrictions. 1030-1046 - J. Zhao, A. H. C. Chan, M. P. N. Burrow:
Reliability analysis and maintenance decision for railway sleepers using track condition information. 1047-1055
- Angela Espinosa, R. Harnden:
Team syntegrity and democratic group decision making: theory and practice. 1056-1064 - G. J. King, Huseyin Topaloglu:
Incorporating the pricing decisions into the dynamic fleet management problem. 1065-1074 - Wen Lea Pearn, Ya-Chen Hsu
, Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau:
Tool replacement policy for one-sided processes with low fraction defective. 1075-1083 - Alexandra Medina-Borja
, Kalyan S. Pasupathy
, Konstantinos P. Triantis:
Large-scale data envelopment analysis (DEA) implementation: a strategic performance management approach. 1084-1098
- Bertrand M. T. Lin
:
Complexity results for single-machine scheduling with positional learning effects. 1099-1102 - T. C. E. Cheng
, L. Y. Kang, C. T. Ng
:
Due-date assignment and parallel-machine scheduling with deteriorating jobs. 1103-1108
- Werner Ulrich:
Philosophy for professionals: towards critical pragmatism. 1109-1113 - Richard J. Ormerod:
The ethics of pragmatism: a response to Werner Ulrich. 1113-1117