TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 59, Issue 10 (October 2008)

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General Paper

Dynastic cycle: a generic structure describing resource allocation in political economies, markets and firms

K Saeed and O V Pavlov

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1289-1298; advance online publication, July 25, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602456

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Case-Oriented Papers

Understanding the drivers of broadband adoption: the case of rural and remote Scotland

S Howick and J Whalley

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1299-1311; advance online publication, August 22, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602486

A generic environment for modelling future launch operations—GEM-FLO: a success story in generic modelling

A Kaylani, M Mollaghasemi, D Cope, S Fayez, G Rabadi and M Steele

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1312-1320; advance online publication, August 8, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602478

A finite horizon model for repairable systems with repair restrictions

D Lugtigheid, X Jiang and A K S Jardine

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1321-1331; advance online publication, July 25, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602471

Simulation modelling for problem understanding: a case study in the East Slovakia Coal Industry

B Lehaney, D Malindzak and Z Khan

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1332-1339; advance online publication, August 8, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602451

A real options approach for prioritizing ICT business alternatives: a case study from broadband technology business field

G Angelou and A Economides

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1340-1351; advance online publication, August 15, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602477

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Theoretical Papers

TSD-consistent performance assessment of mutual funds

S Lozano and E Gutiérrez

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1352-1362; advance online publication, July 25, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602462

Scheduling advertising slots for television

M J Brusco

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1363-1372; advance online publication, August 29, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602481

New MILP models for the permutation flowshop problem

F T Tseng and E F Stafford Jr

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1373-1386; advance online publication, August 8, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602455

Heuristic, meta-heuristic and hyper-heuristic approaches for fresh produce inventory control and shelf space allocation

R Bai, E K Burke and G Kendall

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1387-1397; advance online publication, August 8, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602463

The probabilistic 1-maximal covering problem on a network with discrete demand weights

O Berman and J Wang

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1398-1405; advance online publication, August 29, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602466

On the development of decision rules for bar quiz handicapping

D F Percy and P A Scarf

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1406-1414; advance online publication, August 15, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602487

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Technical Notes

A simple improvement on Silver's heuristic for the joint replenishment problem

A Nilsson and E A Silver

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1415-1421; advance online publication, July 18, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602446

Minimizing total absolute deviation of job completion times: extensions to position-dependent processing times and parallel identical machines

G Mosheiov

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1422-1424; advance online publication, August 8, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602480

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Viewpoints

An EOQ model for deteriorating items under trade credits by Ouyang, Chang and Teng

K-J Chung

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1425-1429; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602583

Reply to Kun-Jen Chung

J-T Teng

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1429-1430; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602584

Complexity results for single-machine scheduling with positional learning effects

Adam Janiak and Radosl strokeaw Rudek

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1430; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602622

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Book Selection

Book Selection

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1431-1433; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602602