TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 50, Issue 10 (October 1999)

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Blackett Lecture 1998

The Blackett Memorial Lecture: 3rd December 1998
Blackett in the 'white heat' of the scientific revolution: industrial modernisation under the Labour governments, 1964–1970

M W Kirby

J Oper Res Soc 50: 985-993; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600811

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Survey Paper

OR Practice: survey results and reflections of practising INFORMS members

L Abdel-Malek, C Wolf, F Johnson and T Spencer III

J Oper Res Soc 50: 994-1003; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600805

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Case-oriented Papers

Production of locomotive rosters for a multi-class single-locomotive problem

Md Al-Amin, M A Forbes and D H Noble

J Oper Res Soc 50: 1004-1010; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600802

The art and science of designing rotating schedules

G Laporte

J Oper Res Soc 50: 1011-1017; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600803

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Theoretical Papers

A comparison of factorial and random experimental design methods for the development of regression and neural network simulation metamodels

R D Hurrion and S Birgil

J Oper Res Soc 50: 1018-1033; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600812

A cluster insertion heuristic for single and multiple depot vehicle routing problems with backhauling

S Salhi and G Nagy

J Oper Res Soc 50: 1034-1042; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600808

Integer programming methods for normalisation and variable selection in mathematical programming discriminant analysis models

J J Glen

J Oper Res Soc 50: 1043-1053; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600804

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Technical Notes

An efficient algorithm for the regular W1 packing of polygons in the infinite plane

P D Watson and A M Tobias

J Oper Res Soc 50: 1054-1062; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600807

Minimising the maximum relative regret for linear programmes with interval objective function coefficients

H E Mausser and M Laguna

J Oper Res Soc 50: 1063-1070; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600789

Scheduling the maintenance on a single machine

X Qi, T Chen and F Tu

J Oper Res Soc 50: 1071-1078; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600791

Lead time demand for simple exponential smoothing: an adjustment factor for the standard deviation

R D Snyder, A B Koehler and J K Ord

J Oper Res Soc 50: 1079-1082; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600806