TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 54, Issue 10 (October 2003)

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Editorial

Editorial

T M Williams and J M Wilson

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1021; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601613

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Case-oriented Papers

Operational Research for informed innovation: NHS Direct as a case study in the design, implementation and evaluation of a new public service

G Royston, J Halsall, D Halsall and C Braithwaite

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1022-1028; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601617

Impact of computerization on firm performance: a case of Shanghai manufacturing enterprises

Y C Ng and M K Chang

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1029-1037; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601609

A dispatching rule-based approach to production scheduling in a printed circuit board manufacturing system

G-C Lee, Y-D Kim, J-G Kim and S-H Choi

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1038-1049; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601601

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Theoretical Papers

Constructively simple estimating: a project management example

C Chapman and S Ward

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1050-1058; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601610

Design of manufacturing cells in the presence of alternative cell locations and material transporters

R Logendran and Y Karim

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1059-1075; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601608

A branch-and-bound-based local search method for the flow shop problem

M Haouari and T Ladhari

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1076-1084; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601612

Application of the out-of-kilter algorithm to the asymmetric traveling salesman problem

K Sang-Ho, G Young-Gun and K Maing-Kyu

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1085-1092; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601614

Dynamic pricing of inventory with cancellation demand

P-S You

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1093-1101; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601619

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Technical Note

On 'redundant' constraints in Stafford's MILP model for the flowshop problem

E F Stafford Jr and F T Tseng

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1102-1105; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601615

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Obituary

Professor George A Barnard, 1915–2002

Dennis V Lindley

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1106-1107; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601600

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Book Selection

Book Selection

J Oper Res Soc 54: 1108-1126; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601602