FREE ARTICLES

A set of significant papers appearing in Journal of the Operational Research Society (or Operational Research Quarterly) over the 60 years 1950-2009.

Palgrave Macmillan and the editorial team have selected this set of papers from the archive of the journal to give a representative sample of the best of our content.

These papers, listed in chronological order, are available free to read and download.

For more information about the journal visit www.palgrave-journals.com/jors.

  1. The future of operational research is past FREE

    Russell L. Ackoff

  2. Resurrecting the future of operational research FREE

    Russell L. Ackoff

  3. Generalised ‘join the shortest queue’ policies for the dynamic routing of jobs to multi-class queues FREE

    P S Ansell, K D Glazebrook and C Kirkbride

  4. An econometric approach to short-run analysis in the UK economy FREE

    R. J. Ball and T. Burns

  5. Not if but when will borrowers default FREE

    J Banasik, J N Crook and L C Thomas

  6. Improving short-term conflict alert via tabu search FREE

    J E Beasley, H Howells and J Sonander

  7. Displacement problem and dynamically scheduling aircraft landings FREE

    J E Beasley, M Krishnamoorthy, Y M Sharaiha and D Abramson

  8. The use of a simple multi-criteria model to assist in selection from a shortlist. FREE

    Valerie Belton

  9. Operational Research FREE

    P. M. S. Blackett

  10. Emergency and on-demand health care: modelling a large complex system FREE

    S C Brailsford, V A Lattimer, P Tarnaras and J C Turnbull

  11. Stock control - experience and usable theory FREE

    T. A. Burgin and A. R. Wild

  12. Achieving ‘desirable and feasible’ change: an application of soft systems methodology FREE

    Peter Checkland

  13. IDEA (Imprecise Data Envelopment Analysis) with CMDs (Column Maximum Decision Making Units) FREE

    W W Cooper, K S Park and G Yu

  14. A fair method for resetting the target in interrupted one-day cricket matches FREE

    F C Duckworth and A J Lewis

  15. Improving the cost effectiveness of Chlamydia screening with targeted screening strategies FREE

    D Evenden, P R Harper, S C Brailsford and V Harindra

  16. On the design of lottery games FREE

    R Hartley and G Lanot

  17. The impact of disruption and delay when compressing large projects: going for incentives? FREE

    S Howick and C Eden

  18. Rate control for communication networks: shadow prices, proportional fairness and stability FREE

    F P Kelly, A K Maulloo and D K H Tan

  19. An analytic model for capacity planning of prisons in the Netherlands FREE

    R Korporaal, A Ridder, P Kloprogge and R Dekker

  20. Supranational operational research FREE

    A. M. Lee

  21. A steel-works production game FREE

    P. Mellor and K. D. Tocher

  22. An education in robustness FREE

    Jonathan Rosenhead

  23. The solution of massive generalized set partitioning problems in aircrew rostering FREE

    D. M. Ryan

  24. Operational research for “multi-organisations”  FREE

    J. Stringer

  25. Modelling the feedback effects of reconfiguring health services FREE

    K Taylor and B Dangerfield

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