TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 50, Issue 9 (September 1999)

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Case-oriented Papers

A case of an intervention in an outpatients department

B Lehaney, S A Clarke and R J Paul

J Oper Res Soc 50: 877-891; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600796

Deployment of rural health facilities in a developing country

S-U Rahman and D K Smith

J Oper Res Soc 50: 892-902; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600795

Efficiency, size, benchmarks and targets for bank branches: an application of data envelopment analysis

A S Camanho and R G Dyson

J Oper Res Soc 50: 903-915; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600792

Vendor rating for an entrepreneur development programme: a case study using the analytic hierarchy process method

S Yahya and B Kingsman

J Oper Res Soc 50: 916-930; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600797

Integrating the use of linear and dynamic programming methods for dairy cow diet formulation

F Polimeno, T Rehman, H Neal and C M Yates

J Oper Res Soc 50: 931-942; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600787

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Theoretical Papers

Multicriteria decision making for contract research organisation choice in the pharmaceutical industry

E Varlan and R Le Paillier

J Oper Res Soc 50: 943-948; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600784

Comparative evaluation of some interactive reference point-based methods for multi-objective optimisation

K Miettinen and M M Mäkelä

J Oper Res Soc 50: 949-959; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600786

Solution of goal programming models using a basic taboo search algorithm

A Baykasoglu, S Owen and N Gindy

J Oper Res Soc 50: 960-973; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600788

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Technical Notes

Using DEA as a tool for MCDM: some remarks

D Bouyssou

J Oper Res Soc 50: 974-978; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600800

Multiple shift scheduling of workforce on four-day workweeks

R Burns and R Narasimhan

J Oper Res Soc 50: 979-981; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600726

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Viewpoint

Interdisciplinary and how over the years the meaning of the term operational research has changed

Hugh J Miser

J Oper Res Soc 50: 982-983; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600822