TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 59, Issue 7 (July 2008)

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General Papers

Using compromise programming for macroeconomic policy making in a general equilibrium framework: theory and application to the Spanish economy

F J André, M A Cardenete and C Romero

J Oper Res Soc 59: 875-883; advance online publication, April 11, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602415

The hazard of being an English football league manager: empirical estimates for three recent league seasons

R Bachan, B Reilly and R Witt

J Oper Res Soc 59: 884-891; advance online publication, April 4, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602408

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Case-Oriented Papers

Private versus public high schools in Spain: disentangling managerial and programme efficiencies

M J Mancebón and M A Muñiz

J Oper Res Soc 59: 892-901; advance online publication, May 30, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602427

Assessment of a 7-day turn-around for the reporting of cervical smear results using discrete event simulation

H Pilgrim and J Chilcott

J Oper Res Soc 59: 902-910; advance online publication, May 16, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602431

Optimal network configuration and capacity expansion of railroads

J Liu, R K Ahuja and G S cedilahin

J Oper Res Soc 59: 911-920; advance online publication, April 4, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602403

Towards profitability: a utility approach to the credit scoring problem

S M Finlay

J Oper Res Soc 59: 921-931; advance online publication, April 4, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602394

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Theoretical Papers

Model formulations for hub covering problems

B Wagner

J Oper Res Soc 59: 932-938; advance online publication, May 23, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602424

Reducing mean flow time in permutation flow shop

M S Nagano and J V Moccellin

J Oper Res Soc 59: 939-945; advance online publication, April 4, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602395

Service differentiation in spare parts inventory management

A A Kranenburg and G J van Houtum

J Oper Res Soc 59: 946-955; advance online publication, April 11, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602414

Performance criteria for plastic card fraud detection tools

D J Hand, C Whitrow, N M Adams, P Juszczak and D Weston

J Oper Res Soc 59: 956-962; advance online publication, May 9, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602418

A tabu search algorithm for the periodic vehicle routing problem with multiple vehicle trips and accessibility restrictions

F Alonso, M J Alvarez and J E Beasley

J Oper Res Soc 59: 963-976; advance online publication, April 18, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602405

Scheduling jobs in a contaminated area: a model and heuristic algorithms

A Janiak and M Y Kovalyov

J Oper Res Soc 59: 977-987; advance online publication, April 11, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602406

A self-tuning heuristic for a multi-objective vehicle routing problem

C Alabas-Uslu

J Oper Res Soc 59: 988-996; advance online publication, April 4, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602409

A due-window assignment problem with position-dependent processing times

G Mosheiov and A Sarig

J Oper Res Soc 59: 997-1003; advance online publication, May 23, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602439

Quantity discounts based on the previous order in a two-period inventory model with demand uncertainty

J-Y Lee

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1004-1011; advance online publication, May 16, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602426