TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 60, Issue 7 (July 2009)

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General Paper

Operations research methodology life cycle trend phases as recorded in journal articles

M J Schniederjans, A M Schniederjans and D G Schniederjans

J Oper Res Soc 60: 881-894; advance online publication, June 18, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602629

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Case-Oriented Papers

A deterministic linear optimization model for allocating schools to zones

I Gac, F Martínez and A Weintraub

J Oper Res Soc 60: 895-905; advance online publication, June 25, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602630

Multi-objective combinatorial optimization for selecting best available techniques (BAT) in the industrial sector: the COMBAT tool

G Mavrotas, E Georgopoulou, S Mirasgedis, Y Sarafidis, D Lalas, V Hontou and N Gakis

J Oper Res Soc 60: 906-920; advance online publication, June 4, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602618

Fast and effective algorithms for the liquid crystal display module (LCM) scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup time

S H Chung, W L Pearn and Y T Tai

J Oper Res Soc 60: 921-933; advance online publication, June 4, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602604

POPMUSIC for a real-world large-scale vehicle routing problem with time windows

A Ostertag, K F Doerner, R F Hartl, E D Taillard and P Waelti

J Oper Res Soc 60: 934-943; advance online publication, June 18, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602633

Forecasting newspaper demand with censored regression

M Kiygi Calli and M Weverbergh

J Oper Res Soc 60: 944-951; advance online publication, June 25, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602637

Planning Formula One race strategies using discrete-event simulation

J Bekker and W Lotz

J Oper Res Soc 60: 952-961; advance online publication, July 9, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602626

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Theoretical Papers

Some effects of aircraft arrival sequence algorithms

A R Brentnall and R C H Cheng

J Oper Res Soc 60: 962-972; advance online publication, June 18, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602636

Assigning cooperating UAVs to simultaneous tasks on consecutive targets using genetic algorithms

T Shima and C Schumacher

J Oper Res Soc 60: 973-982; advance online publication, July 9, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602617

Measuring the performance of nations at the Olympic Games using DEA models with different preferences

D Zhang, X Li, W Meng and W Liu

J Oper Res Soc 60: 983-990; advance online publication, July 9, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602638

Branch-and-bound algorithms for scheduling in permutation flowshops to minimize the sum of weighted flowtime/sum of weighted tardiness/sum of weighted flowtime and weighted tardiness/sum of weighted flowtime, weighted tardiness and weighted earliness of jobs

N Madhushini, C Rajendran and Y Deepa

J Oper Res Soc 60: 991-1004; advance online publication, July 16, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602642

Fuzzy measures of supplier evaluation under lean concepts

W C Tsai

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1005-1011; advance online publication, July 9, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602643

An ant colony optimization metaheuristic hybridized with tabu search for open vehicle routing problems

X-Y Li, P Tian and S C H Leung

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1012-1025; advance online publication, July 9, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602644

A farewell to the use of antithetic variates in Monte Carlo simulation

E Saliby and R J Paul

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1026-1035; advance online publication, July 9, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602645

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Viewpoints

Three new models for preference voting and aggregation

A Hadi-Vencheh and M-N Mokhtarian

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1036-1037; doi:10.1057/jors.2008.153

Improved linear programming models for preference voting and aggregation: Reply to Hadi-Vencheh and Mokhtarian

Y M Wang

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1037-1038; doi:10.1057/jors.2008.156

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Book Selection

Book Selection

J Oper Res Soc 60: 1039-1041; doi:10.1057/jors.2009.22