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Journal of the Operational Research Society

May 2000, Volume 51, Issue 5
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50th Anniversary Paper

Commentary on Ball and Burns (1968): An econometric approach to short-run analysis in the UK economy, 1955-66 509
JR Lawrence, Editor
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Case-oriented Papers

Community operational research issues and public art practice: the art director system 510
EH Norman & JM Norman
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Looking in the wrong place for healthcare improvements: A system dynamics study of an accident and emergency department 518
DC Lane, C Monefeldt & JV Rosenhead
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An analysis of customer retention and insurance claim patterns using data mining: a case study 532
KA Smith, RJ Willis & M Brooks
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Mixing methodologies for information systems development and strategy: A higher education case study 542
S Clarke & B Lehaney
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Group preference aggregation rules: The results of a comparative analysis with in situ data 557
MJ Read, JS Edwards & AE Gear
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Theoretical Papers

A heuristic method for the open vehicle routing problem 564
D Sariklis & S Powell
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Survivable capacitated network design problem: new formulation and Lagrangean relaxation 574
M Ríos, V Marianov & M Gutierrez
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A consumer purchasing model with learning and departure behaviour 583
C Wu & H-L Chen
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Examination of flexibility acquisition policies in dual resource constrained job shops with simultaneous worker learning and forgetting effects 592
HV Kher
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The multi-item newsvendor problem with a budget constraint and fixed ordering costs 602
I Moon & EA Silver
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Machine duplication and part subcontracting in the presence of alternative cell locations in manufacturing cell design 609
R Logendran & V Sirikrai
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Technical Notes

A compromise weight for multi-criteria group decision making with individual preference 625
Q Wei, H Yan, J Ma & Z Fan
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Reorder quantities for (Q,R) inventory models 635
BC Vasconcelos & MP Marques
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Viewpoints

A note on production capacity planning and control in multi-stage manufacturing 639
RA Sarker
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Reply to Sarker 640
A Gunasekaran
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A note with respect to Gregory and Lau's paper `Logical soft systems modelling for information source analysis - the case of Hong Kong Telecom" 642
JB Kidd & J Leung
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A reply to Kidd and Leung 642
F Gregory
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A reply from Kidd (Leung, in absentia) 644
JB Kidd
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Book Selection

647
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JORS Referees 1999

651
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