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Journal of the Operational Research Society

March 1995, Volume 46, Issue 3
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Case-oriented Papers

Putting Soft OR Methods to Work: Information Systems Strategy Development at Sainsbury's 277
Richard Ormerod
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The Army Training Mix Model 294
Katta G Murty, Philipp Djang, Walter Butler & Richard Laferriere
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Review Paper

Characteristics of Decisions in Decision Analysis Practice 304
James L Corner & Patricia D Corner
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Theoretical Papers

Designing Effective Simulation-based Decision Support Systems: An Empirical Assessment of Three types of Decision Support Systems 315
Patrick Y K Chau & Peter C Bell
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Line Search Techniques for the Logarithmic Barrier Function in Quadratic Programming 332
M Ben-Daya
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Heuristics to Schedule Service Engineers Within Time Windows 339
Stuart Johns
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The Solution of Travelling Salesman Problems Based on Industrial Data 347
Buddhadev Roychoudhury & John F Muth
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On the Generation of Markov Decision Processes 354
T W Archibald, K I M McKinnon & L C Thomas
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Object-orientation, Discrete Simulation and the Three-Phase Approach 362
Michael Pidd
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Joint Vendor-buyer Policy in JIT Manufacturing 375
Rotimi Aderohunmu, Ayodele Mobolurin & Noel Bryson
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The General Two-Server Queuing Loss System: Discrete-Time Analysis and Numerical Approximation of Continuous-Time Systems 386
J Ben Atkinson
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Technical Notes

An EOQ Model for Deteriorating Items with Shortages and Time-Varying Demand 398
Moncer Hariga
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Estimating a Markov Transition Matrix from Observational Data 405
Chris Sherlaw-Johnson, Steve Gallivan & Jim Burridge
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