TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 60, Issue 4 (April 2009)
General Paper
The history and ideas of critical rationalism: the philosophy of Karl Popper and its implications for OR
R J Ormerod
J Oper Res Soc 60: 441-460; advance online publication, March 5, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602573
Case-Oriented Papers
Justification for the next generation of maintenance modelling techniques
E K Doyle, C-G Lee and D I Cho
J Oper Res Soc 60: 461-470; advance online publication, February 20, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602561
Effects of product postponement on the distribution network: a case study
S Kumar, D A Nottestad and E E Murphy
J Oper Res Soc 60: 471-480; advance online publication, March 5, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602572
A patient assignment algorithm for home care services
A Hertz and N Lahrichi
J Oper Res Soc 60: 481-495; advance online publication, March 5, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602574
IP-MAGS: an incomplete preference-based multiple attribute group support system
S H Choi and B S Ahn
J Oper Res Soc 60: 496-505; advance online publication, March 5, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602578
The cost-effectiveness of surgical instrument management policies to reduce the risk of vCJD transmission to humans
M D Stevenson, J E Oakley, S E Chick and K Chalkidou
J Oper Res Soc 60: 506-518; advance online publication, April 2, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602580
Simulation of alternative approaches to relieving congestion at locks in a river transportion system
L D Smith, D C Sweeney II and J F Campbell
J Oper Res Soc 60: 519-533; advance online publication, April 2, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602587
Agricultural sustainable management: a normative approach based on goal programming
S Elfkih, M L Feijoo and C Romero
J Oper Res Soc 60: 534-543; advance online publication, March 19, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602588
Theoretical Papers
A classification of the weighting schemes in reference point procedures for multiobjective programming
F Ruiz, M Luque and J M Cabello
J Oper Res Soc 60: 544-553; advance online publication, March 12, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602577
Crossdocking— Just in Time scheduling: an alternative solution approach
G A Álvarez-Pérez, J L González-Velarde and J W Fowler
J Oper Res Soc 60: 554-564; advance online publication, March 19, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602590
A practical method of determining project risk contingency budgets
D F Cioffi and H Khamooshi
J Oper Res Soc 60: 565-571; advance online publication, March 19, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602586
A branch-and-bound algorithm for a two-machine flowshop scheduling problem with limited waiting time constraints
B-J Joo and Y-D Kim
J Oper Res Soc 60: 572-582; advance online publication, April 23, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602598


