TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 59, Issue 9 (September 2008)

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Editorial

Editorial

Terry Williams, John Wilson (Joint Editors) and John C Ranyard

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1149; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602631

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Review Paper

Forecasting and operational research: a review

R Fildes, K Nikolopoulos, S F Crone and A A Syntetos

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1150-1172; advance online publication, May 14, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602597

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Case-Oriented Papers

Use of a coronary heart disease simulation model to evaluate the costs and effectiveness of drugs for the prevention of heart disease

K Cooper, R Davies, J Raftery and P Roderick

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1173-1181; advance online publication, August 1, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602468

Minimizing makespan and throughput times at Aalsmeer flower auction

R de Koster and M Yu

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1182-1190; advance online publication, July 25, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602474

Petrol delivery tanker assignment and routing: a case study in Hong Kong

W L Ng, S C H Leung, J K P Lam and S W Pan

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1191-1200; advance online publication, July 25, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602464

The determinants of customer interactions with internet-enabled e-banking services

Z Liao and W K Wong

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1201-1210; advance online publication, October 17, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602429

A fuzzy goal programming approach to integrated loading and scheduling of a batch processing machine

D Petrovic and O Aköz

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1211-1219; advance online publication, July 25, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602467

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Theoretical Papers

Vehicle routing with soft time windows and Erlang travel times

R A Russell and T L Urban

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1220-1228; advance online publication, July 25, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602465

Locating emergency services with different priorities: the priority queuing covering location problem

F Silva and D Serra

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1229-1238; advance online publication, July 25, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602473

Preprocessing techniques and column generation algorithms for stochastically efficient demand

M A Lejeune

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1239-1252; advance online publication, July 25, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602475

Interactive outranking approaches for multicriteria decision-making problems with imprecise information

G Özerol and E Karasakal

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1253-1268; advance online publication, July 25, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602458

Scheduling a single batch-processing machine with arbitrary job sizes and incompatible job families: An ant colony framework

A H Kashan and B Karimi

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1269-1280; advance online publication, July 11, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602448

Decision-making and the newsvendor problem: an experimental study

U Benzion, Y Cohen, R Peled and T Shavit

J Oper Res Soc 59: 1281-1287; advance online publication, July 11, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602470