Volume 30, Number 1, January 2003

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  Chih-Hsiung Wang, Shey-Huei Sheu: Determining the optimal production-maintenance policy with inspection errors: using a Markov chain. 1-17
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  W. Wang, A. H. Christer: Solution algorithms for a nonhomogeneous multi-component inspection model. 19-34
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  Seong Whan Shinn, Hark Hwang: Optimal pricing and ordering policies for retailers under order-size-dependent delay in payments. 35-50
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  T. C. Edwin Cheng, Qing Ding: Scheduling start time dependent tasks with deadlines and identical initial processing times on a single machine. 51-62
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  Prakash L. Abad: Optimal price and lot size when the supplier offers a temporary price reduction over an interval. 63-74
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  Mélanie Bourgeois, Gilbert Laporte, Frédéric Semet: Heuristics for the black and white traveling salesman problem. 75-85
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  Fernando Y. Chiyoshi, Roberto D. Galvão, Reinaldo Morabito: A note on solutions to the maximal expected covering location problem. 87-96
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  Raymond A. Patterson, Erik Rolland: The cardinality constrained covering traveling salesman problem. 97-116
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  Kyu-Yeul Lee, Seong-Nam Han, Myung-Il Roh: An improved genetic algorithm for facility layout problems having inner structure walls and passages. 117-138
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  Dieter Fiems, Bart Steyaert, Herwig Bruneel: Analysis of a discrete-time GI-G-1 queueing model subjected to bursty interruptions. 139-153
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  Kim Fung Lam, Jane W. Moy: A simple weighting scheme for classification in two-group discriminant problems. 155-164

Volume 30, Number 2, February 2003

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  Luis Gonzalo Acosta Espejo, Roberto D. Galvão, Brian Boffey: Dual-based heuristics for a hierarchical covering location problem. 165-180
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  John J. Glen: An iterative mixed integer programming method for classification accuracy maximizing discriminant analysis. 181-198
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  Parag C. Pendharkar: Characterization of aggregate fuzzy membership functions using Saaty's eigenvalue approach. 199-212
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  W. H. Ip, Min Huang, Kai-Leung Yung, Dingwei Wang: Genetic algorithm solution for a risk-based partner selection problem in a virtual enterprise. 213-231
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  Chuen-Lung Chen, Rong-Ho Lin, Jianping Zhang: Genetic algorithms for MD-optimal follow-up designs. 233-252
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  Antoine Kreidi, Brunilde Sansò: Optimization of an internationally distributed air-ground airline telecommunication system. 253-277
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  Shouhong Wang: Adaptive non-parametric efficiency frontier analysis: a neural-network-based model. 279-295
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  Kefeng Xu, Philip T. Evers: Managing single echelon inventories through demand aggregation and the feasibility of a correlation matrix. 297-308
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  Ali Tozkapan, Ömer Kirca, Chia-Shin Chung: A branch and bound algorithm to minimize the total weighted flowtime for the two-stage assembly scheduling problem. 309-320

Volume 30, Number 3, March 2003

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  Barrie M. Baker, Carlos A. C. Carreto: A visual interactive approach to vehicle routing. 321-337
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  Peter Xiaoping Liu, Ming J. Zuo, Max Q.-H. Meng: Using neural network function approximation for optimal design of continuous-state parallel-series systems. 339-352
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  Nam K. Kim, Kyung C. Chae: Transform-free analysis of the GI/G/1/K queue through the decomposed Little's formula. 353-365
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  Kevin R. Gue: A dynamic distribution model for combat logistics. 367-381
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  Jose Gutiérrez, Antonio Sedeño-Noda, Marcos Colebrook, Joaquin Sicilia: A new characterization for the dynamic lot size problem with bounded inventory. 383-395
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  G. Levitin, R. Abezgaouz: Optimal routing of multiple-load AGV subject to LIFO loading constraints. 397-410
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  Esmail Mohebbi: Supply interruptions in a lost-sales inventory system with random lead time. 411-426
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  Hiroyuki Kubotani, Kazuyuki Yoshimura: Performance evaluation of acceptance probability functions for multi-objective SA. 427-442
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  Patrick R. McMullen, Mark Clark, David Albritton, John E. Bell: A correlation and heuristic approach for obtaining production sequences requiring a minimum of tool replacements. 443-462
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  Rosangela Helena Loschi, Frederico R. B. Cruz, Pilar Loreto Iglesias, Reinaldo Boris Arellano-Valle: A Gibbs sampling scheme to the product partition model: an application to change-point problems. 463-482

Volume 30, Number 4, April 2003

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  Kun-Jen Chung, Kuo-Lung Hou: An optimal production run time with imperfect production processes and allowable shortages. 483-490
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  Fayez F. Boctor, Gilbert Laporte, Jacques Renaud: Heuristics for the traveling purchaser problem. 491-504
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  Vincent T'Kindt, Jatinder N. D. Gupta, Jean-Charles Billaut: Two-machine flowshop scheduling with a secondary criterion. 505-526
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  Elkafi Hassini, Raymond G. Vickson: A two-carousel storage location problem. 527-539
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  Chiang Kao, Chang-Chung Li, Shih-Pin Chen: Simulation response optimization via direct conjugate direction method. 541-552
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  Joy Bhadury, Horst A. Eiselt, Jorge H. Jaramillo: An alternating heuristic for medianoid and centroid problems in the plane. 553-565
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  Yi-Kuei Lin: Extend the quickest path problem to the system reliability evaluation for a stochastic-flow network. 567-575
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  Donald E. K. Martin: An algorithm to compute the probability of a run in binary fourth-order Markovian trials. 577-588
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  Kuo-Hwa Chang, Wen-Fang Chen: Admission control policies for two-stage tandem queues with no waiting spaces. 589-601
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  Gloria Galán Marín, Enrique Mérida Casermeiro, José Muñoz-Pérez: Modelling competitive Hopfield networks for the maximum clique problem. 603-624
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  Dennis C. Dietz, Amie J. Elcan, Daphne E. Skipper: Optimization models for ATM network planning. 625-641

Volume 30, Number 5, April 2003

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  John W. Chinneck, Vitória Pureza, Rafik A. Goubran, Gerald M. Karam, Marco Lavoie: A fast task-to-processor assignment heuristic for real-time multiprocessor DSP applications. 643-670
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  Po-Chung Yang, Hui-Ming Wee: An integrated multi-lot-size production inventory model for deteriorating item. 671-682
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  Muhammad El-Taha: Allocation of service time in a two-server system. 683-693
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  N. Hemachandra, Sarat Kumar Eedupuganti: Performance analysis and buffer allocations in some open assembly systems. 695-704
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  José-Manuel Belenguer, Enrique Benavent: A cutting plane algorithm for the capacitated arc routing problem. 705-728
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  Celik Parkan: Measuring the effect of a new point of sale system on the performance of drugstore operations. 729-744
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  Jonathan F. Bard, Canan Binici, Anura H. deSilva: Staff scheduling at the United States Postal Service. 745-771
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  In-Chan Choi, Seong-In Kim, Hak-Soo Kim: A genetic algorithm with a mixed region search for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem. 773-786
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  Barrie M. Baker, M. A. Ayechew: A genetic algorithm for the vehicle routing problem. 787-800
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  Hongyi Sun, Guoqing Wang: Parallel machine earliness and tardiness scheduling with proportional weights. 801-808

Volume 30, Number 6, May 2003

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  Sohail Chaudhry, Huaizu Li, Hong Zhang, Li D. Xu: Computers and operations research in emerging economies. 809-810
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  Zhili Zhou, Ling Li: Single hoist cyclic scheduling with multiple tanks: a material handling solution. 811-819
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  Feng Shan, Ling Li, Ling Cen, Jingping Huang: Using MLP networks to design a production scheduling system. 821-832
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  Vasile Bostan, Ling Li: A decision model for reducing active power losses during electric power dispatching. 833-849
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  Zongbin Li, Lida Xu: Polychromatic sets and its application in simulating complex objects and systems. 851-860
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  Kin Keung Lai, J. Xue, B. Xu: A cross-border transportation system under supply and demand constraints. 861-875
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  Shiying Xu, Li Da Xu, Xiufang Chen: Determining optimum edible films for kiwifruits using an analytical hierarchy process. 877-886
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  An-Sing Chen, Mark T. Leung: A Bayesian vector error correction model for forecasting exchange rates. 887-900
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  An-Sing Chen, Mark T. Leung, Hazem Daouk: Application of neural networks to an emerging financial market: forecasting and trading the Taiwan Stock Index. 901-923
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  Yi Xu, Bhaba R. Sarker: Models for a family of products with shelf life, and production and shortage costs in emerging markets. 925-938

Volume 30, Number 7, June 2003

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  Shiwei He, Rui Song, Sohail S. Chaudhry: An integrated dispatching model for rail yards operations. 939-966
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  Boris Goldengorin, Diptesh Ghosh, Gerard Sierksma: Branch and peg algorithms for the simple plant location problem. 967-981
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  Vladimir Marianov, Daniel Serra: Location models for airline hubs behaving as M/D/c queues. 983-1003
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  Juan A. Carrasco: Computation of bounds for transient measures of large rewarded Markov models using regenerative randomization. 1005-1035
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  Yen-Liang Chen, Li-Jen Hsiao: Shipping problems with body clock constraints. 1037-1049
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  Hsi-Mei Chen: An optimal control problem in determining the optimal reinforcement schedules for the Lanchester equations. 1051-1066
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  Patrick P. A. Storms, Frits C. R. Spieksma: An LP-based algorithm for the data association problem in multitarget tracking. 1067-1085
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  Jeffery K. Cochran, Shwu-Min Horng, John W. Fowler: A multi-population genetic algorithm to solve multi-objective scheduling problems for parallel machines. 1087-1102

Volume 30, Number 8, July 2003

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  Chung-Chi Hsieh, Yi-Che Hsieh: Reliability and cost optimization in distributed computing systems. 1103-1119
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  Jukka K. Nurminen: Using software complexity measures to analyze algorithms - an experiment with the shortest-paths algorithms. 1121-1134
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  G. Viswanathkumar, G. Srinivasan: A branch and bound algorithm to minimize completion time variance on a single processor. 1135-1150
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  Yeo Keun Kim, Kitae Park, Jesuk Ko: A symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the integration of process planning and job shop scheduling. 1151-1171
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  C. T. Daniel Ng, T. C. Edwin Cheng, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov, S. S. Lam: Single machine scheduling with a variable common due date and resource-dependent processing times. 1173-1185
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  Monica Gentili: Visiting a network of services with time constraints. 1187-1217
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  Tariq A. Aldowaisan, Ali Allahverdi: New heuristics for no-wait flowshops to minimize makespan. 1219-1231
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  Madhu Jain, Poonam Singh: Performance prediction of loss and delay Markovian queueing model with nopassing and removable additional servers. 1233-1253
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  Bruce J. Chaderjian, Tangan Gao: Comments on "An efficient search direction for linear programming problems" by H. Luh and R. Tsaih. 1255-1258

Volume 30, Number 9, August 2003

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  Surabhi Sinha: Fuzzy mathematical programming applied to multi-level programming problems. 1259-1268
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  Roberto Wolfler Calvo, Roberto Cordone: A heuristic approach to the overnight security service problem. 1269-1287
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  Bong Dae Choi, Bara Kim, Sung Ho Choi: An M/G/1 queue with multiple types of feedback, gated vacations and FCFS policy. 1289-1309
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  Kun-Jen Chung: An algorithm for an inventory model with inventory-level-dependent demand rate. 1311-1317
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  Fang-Chuan Lee, Ming-Jong Yao: A global optimum search algorithm for the joint replenishment problem under power-of-two policy. 1319-1333
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  C. J. Liao, W. J. Chen: Single-machine scheduling with periodic maintenance and nonresumable jobs. 1335-1347
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  Bülent Çatay, S. Selçuk Erengüç, Asoo J. Vakharia: Tool capacity planning in semiconductor manufacturing. 1349-1366
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  Nikolaos F. Giannelos, Michael C. Georgiadis: Efficient scheduling of consumer goods manufacturing processes in the continuous time domain. 1367-1381
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  Konstantinos Paparrizos, Nikolaos Samaras, George Stephanides: A new efficient primal dual simplex algorithm. 1383-1399
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  Bong-Ryong Jung, Byung-Geun Sun, Jong-Soo Kim, Sun-Eung Ahn: Modeling lateral transshipments in multiechelon repairable-item inventory systems with finite repair channels. 1401-1417

Volume 30, Number 10, September 2003

Part Special Issue: Analytic Hierarchy Process

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  Edward A. Wasil, Bruce L. Golden: Celebrating 25 years of AHP-based decision making. 1419-1420
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  Matthew J. Liberatore, Ronald E. Myers, Robert L. Nydick, Michael Steinberg, Earl R. Brown, Roy Gay, Thomas Powell, Roberta Lee Powell: Decision counseling for men considering prostate cancer screening. 1421-1434
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  Edward M. Condon, Bruce L. Golden, Edward A. Wasil: Visualizing group decisions in the analytic hierarchy process. 1435-1445
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  Elliot B. Sloane, Matthew J. Liberatore, Robert L. Nydick, Wenhong Luo, Q. B. Chung: Using the analytic hierarchy process as a clinical engineering tool to facilitate an iterative, multidisciplinary, microeconomic health technology assessment. 1447-1465
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  Qing Li, Hanif D. Sherali: An approach for analyzing foreign direct investment projects with application to China's Tumen River Area development. 1467-1485
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  Lawrence Bodin, Saul I. Gass: On teaching the analytic hierarchy process. 1487-1497
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  Kun-Jen Chung: Approximations to production lot sizing with machine breakdowns. 1499-1507
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  Dirk Biskup, Dirk Simons, Hermann Jahnke: The effect of capital lockup and customer trade credits on the optimal lot size - a confirmation of the EPQ. 1509-1524
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  Alexander Simampo, Sarah M. Ryan: Capacity expansion for a loss system with exponential demand growth. 1525-1537
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  Zelda B. Zabinsky, Robert L. Smith, Birna P. Kristinsdottir: Optimal estimation of univariate black-box Lipschitz functions with upper and lower error bounds. 1539-1553
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  Christos Valouxis, Efthymios Housos: Constraint programming approach for school timetabling. 1555-1572

Volume 30, Number 11, September 2003

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  Evelyn C. Brown, Robert T. Sumichrast: Impact of the replacement heuristic in a grouping genetic algorithm. 1575-1593
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  Yi-Kuei Lin: Using minimal cuts to study the system capacity for a stochastic-flow network in two-commodity case. 1595-1607
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  M. D. H. Gamal, Said Salhi: A cellular heuristic for the multisource Weber problem. 1609-1624
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  Jaydeep Balakrishnan, Chun Hung Cheng, Kam-Fai Wong: FACOPT: a user friendly FACility layout OPTimization system. 1625-1641
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  Ekaterina M. Gratcheva, James E. Falk: Optimal deviations from an asset allocation. 1643-1659
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  Mak A. Kaboudan: Forecasting with computer-evolved model specifications: a genetic programming application. 1661-1681
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  Oded Berman, Zvi Drezner, George O. Wesolowsky: Locating service facilities whose reliability is distance dependent. 1683-1695
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  Min-Sheng Lin: Linear-time algorithms for computing the reliability of bipartite and (#<=2) star distributed computing systems. 1697-1712
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  Erwin Kalvelagen: On solving the progressive party problem as a MIP. 1713-1726
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  P. Patrick Wang, Minqing Gong, Tanyu Lee: Waiting time in a combined first-come-first-served and shortest-time-first queue. 1727-1743
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  Avital Lann, Gur Mosheiov: A note on the maximum number of on-time jobs on parallel identical machines. 1745-1749

Volume 30, Number 12, October 2003

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  Yong-Wu Zhou, Hon-Shiang Lau, Shan-Lin Yang: A new variable production scheduling strategy for deteriorating items with time-varying demand and partial lost sale. 1753-1776
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  Ching-Fang Liaw, Yang-Kuei Lin, Chun-Yuan Cheng, Mingchih Chen: Scheduling unrelated parallel machines to minimize total weighted tardiness. 1777-1789
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  Hani I. Mesak: On deriving and validating comparative statics of a symmetric model of advertising competition. 1791-1806
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  Joris Walraevens, Bart Steyaert, Herwig Bruneel: Performance analysis of a single-server ATM queue with a priority scheduling. 1807-1829
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  Masao Yokoyama, Harold W. Lewis III: Optimization of the stochastic dynamic production cycling problem by a genetic algorithm. 1831-1849
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  Dong Hwan Han, Chul Geun Park, Kwang Hyun Baik: Performance analysis of an AAL multiplexer with dynamic bandwidth allocation in an IP/ATM environment. 1851-1864
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  M. Eugénia V. Captivo, João C. N. Clímaco, José Rui Figueira, Ernesto Martins, José Luis Santos: Solving bicriteria 0-1 knapsack problems using a labeling algorithm. 1865-1886
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  Robert L. Bulfin Jr., Rym M'Hallah: Minimizing the weighted number of tardy jobs on a two-machine flow shop. 1887-1900
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  S. Khanra, K. S. Chaudhuri: A note on an order-level inventory model for a deteriorating item with time-dependent quadratic demand. 1901-1916

Volume 30, Number 13, November 2003

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  Koo-Min Ahn, Sehun Kim: Optimal bandwidth allocation for bandwidth adaptation in wireless multimedia networks. 1917-1929
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  Tetsuya Fujie: An exact algorithm for the maximum leaf spanning tree problem. 1931-1944
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  Jose A. Ventura, Daecheol Kim: Parallel machine scheduling with earliness-tardiness penalties and additional resource constraints. 1945-1958
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  David C. Novak, Daniel Rowland, Luiz A. DaSilva: Modeling dialup internet access: an examination of user-to-modem ratios, blocking probability, and capacity planning in a modem pool. 1959-1976
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  Joana Dias, M. Eugénia V. Captivo, João C. N. Clímaco: An interactive procedure dedicated to a bicriteria plant location model. 1977-2002
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  Thomas Yew Sing Lee: Analysis of random polling system with an infinite number of coupled servers and correlated input process. 2003-2020
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  Ho Woo Lee, No Ik Park, Jongwoo Jeon: A new approach to the queue length and waiting time of BMAP/G/1 queues. 2021-2045
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  Qian Wang, Rajan Batta, Joyendu Bhadury, Christopher M. Rump: Budget constrained location problem with opening and closing of facilities. 2047-2069
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  Philippe Baptiste: A note on scheduling multiprocessor tasks with identical processing times. 2071-2078
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  Sigurdur Ólafsson: Focused issue on operations research and data mining. 2079-2080

Volume 30, Number 14, December 2003

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  Ching-Fang Liaw: An efficient tabu search approach for the two-machine preemptive open shop scheduling problem. 2081-2095
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  Adel A. Ghobbar, Chris H. Friend: Evaluation of forecasting methods for intermittent parts demand in the field of aviation: a predictive model. 2097-2114
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  Yong-Wu Zhou: A multi-warehouse inventory model for items with time-varying demand and shortages. 2115-2134
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  Hong Yan, Zhenxin Yu, T. C. Edwin Cheng: A strategic model for supply chain design with logical constraints: formulation and solution. 2135-2155
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  Kathleen Steinhöfel, Andreas Alexander Albrecht, C. K. Wong: An experimental analysis of local minima to improve neighbourhood search. 2157-2173
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  William Ho, Ping Ji: Component scheduling for chip shooter machines: a hybrid genetic algorithm approach. 2175-2189
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  Emanuel Melachrinoudis, Zaharias Xanthopulos: Semi-obnoxious single facility location in Euclidean space. 2191-2209
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  Jihong Ou, B. Madhu Rao: Benefits of providing amenities to impatient waiting customers. 2211-2225
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  Nam K. Kim, Kyung C. Chae: Erratum to "Transform-free analysis of the GI/G/1/K queue through the decomposed Little's formula" [Comput. Oper. Res. 30(3) 353-365]. 2227