TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 59, Issue 4 (April 2008)

Part Special Issue: Intelligent Management Systems in Operations
Guest Editors: Khairy Kobbacy and Sunil Vadera

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Editorial

Editorial

Khairy Kobbacy and Sunil Vadera

J Oper Res Soc 59: 421-422; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602563

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Special Issue Papers

Using Bayesian networks to improve fault diagnosis during manufacturing tests of mobile telephone infrastructure

A Chan and K R McNaught

J Oper Res Soc 59: 423-430; advance online publication, February 28, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602388

Accessing feasible space in a generalized job shop scheduling problem with the fuzzy processing times: a fuzzy-neural approach

R Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, N Safaei and M M O Kah

J Oper Res Soc 59: 431-442; advance online publication, February 14, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602351

A new solution for a dynamic cell formation problem with alternative routing and machine costs using simulated annealing

R Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, N Safaei and F Sassani

J Oper Res Soc 59: 443-454; advance online publication, June 20, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602436

Integration of production planning and scheduling using an expert system and a genetic algorithm

L strokeawrynowicz

J Oper Res Soc 59: 455-463; advance online publication, May 16, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602423

Evaluating trust in electronic commerce: a study based on the information provided on merchants' websites

F Meziane and M K Kasiran

J Oper Res Soc 59: 464-472; advance online publication, August 29, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602430

Classification for forecasting and stock control: a case study

J E Boylan, A A Syntetos and G C Karakostas

J Oper Res Soc 59: 473-481; advance online publication, October 18, 2006; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602312

Gearing Six Sigma into UK manufacturing SMEs: results from a pilot study

J Antony, M Kumar and A Labib

J Oper Res Soc 59: 482-493; advance online publication, July 25, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602437

Prioritizing edge over node: process control in supply chain networks and push-pull strategies

M Pearson

J Oper Res Soc 59: 494-502; advance online publication, October 11, 2006; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602314

Preventive maintenance scheduling of multi-cogeneration plants using integer programming

M Alardhi and A W Labib

J Oper Res Soc 59: 503-509; advance online publication, April 11, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602386

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Theoretical Papers

Production planning under uncertainty in textile manufacturing

S Karabuk

J Oper Res Soc 59: 510-520; advance online publication, January 31, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602370

A fast heuristic method for minimizing traffic congestion on reconfigurable ring topologies

Y Shim, S A Gabriel, A Desai, P Sahakij and S Milner

J Oper Res Soc 59: 521-539; advance online publication, February 7, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602360

A transformation for the mixed general routing problem with turn penalties

D Soler, E Martínez and J C Micó

J Oper Res Soc 59: 540-547; advance online publication, February 14, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602385

Robust analysis on promotion duration for two competitive brands

C Lin and Y-T Lin

J Oper Res Soc 59: 548-555; advance online publication, February 28, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602387

A three-phase algorithm for the cell suppression problem in two-dimensional statistical tables

F D Carvalho and M T Almeida

J Oper Res Soc 59: 556-562; advance online publication, February 28, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602389

Mixed integer programming-based solution procedure for single-facility location with maximin of rectilinear distance

D Nadirler and E Karasakal

J Oper Res Soc 59: 563-570; advance online publication, January 31, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602372

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Thank you to our Referees

JORS Referees 2007

T Williams and J Wilson Editors

J Oper Res Soc 59: 571-573; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602571