European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 173

Volume 173, Number 1, August 2006

• Sergiy Butenko, Wilbert E. Wilhelm:
  Clique-detection models in computational biochemistry and genomics. 1-17
  
• Chunhui Xu, Peggy Ng:
  A soft approach for hard continuous optimization. 18-29
  
• Chiang Kao, Shih-Pin Chen:
  A stochastic quasi-Newton method for simulation response optimization. 30-46
  
• Ioan M. Stancu-Minasian:
  Optimality and duality in nonlinear programming involving semilocally B-preinvex and related functions. 47-58
  
• Hong Ye, Zhiping Lin:
  Speed-up simulated annealing by parallel coordinates. 59-71
  
• Sathaporn Opasanon, Elise Miller-Hooks:
  Multicriteria adaptive paths in stochastic, time-varying networks. 72-91
  
• Dvir Shabtay, Moshe Kaspi:
  Parallel machine scheduling with a convex resource consumption function. 92-107
  
• Yann Hendel, Francis Sourd:
  Efficient neighborhood search for the one-machine earliness-tardiness scheduling problem. 108-119
  
• Pasquale Avella, Bernardo D'Auria, Saverio Salerno:
  A LP-based heuristic for a time-constrained routing problem. 120-124
  
• Adam Janiak, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov:
  Scheduling in a contaminated area: A model and polynomial algorithms. 125-132
  
• B. L. Hollis, M. A. Forbes, B. E. Douglas:
  Vehicle routing and crew scheduling for metropolitan mail distribution at Australia Post. 133-150
  
• Stephen M. Disney, I. Farasyn, Marc Lambrecht, Denis R. Towill, W. Van de Velde:
  Taming the bullwhip effect whilst watching customer service in a single supply chain echelon. 151-172
  
• S. Ali Torabi, S. M. T. Fatemi Ghomi, Behrooz Karimi:
  A hybrid genetic algorithm for the finite horizon economic lot and delivery scheduling in supply chains. 173-189
  
• I. K. Moon, B. C. Cha:
  The joint replenishment problem with resource restriction. 190-198
  
• Nirmal Kumar Mandal, Tapan Kumar Roy, Manoranjan Maiti:
  Inventory model of deteriorated items with a constraint: A geometric programming approach. 199-210
  
• Ashish Agarwal, Ravi Shankar, M. K. Tiwari:
  Modeling the metrics of lean, agile and leagile supply chain: An ANP-based approach. 211-225
  
• Esaignani Selvarajah, George Steiner:
  Batch scheduling in a two-level supply chain - a focus on the supplier. 226-240
  
• Michael Freimer, Douglas Thomas, John Tyworth:
  The value of setup cost reduction and process improvement for the economic production quantity model with defects. 241-251
  
• Burhaneddin Sandikçi, Ihsan Sabuncuoglu:
  Analysis of the behavior of the transient period in non-terminating simulations. 252-267
  
• Laura J. Kornish:
  Technology choice and timing with positive network effects. 268-282
  
• Juta Pichitlamken, Barry L. Nelson, L. Jeff Hong:
  A sequential procedure for neighborhood selection-of-the-best in optimization via simulation. 283-298
  
• Donald E. Smith:
  How big is too big? Trading off the economies of scale of larger telecommunications network elements against the risk of larger outages. 299-312
  
• José A. Gómez-Limón, Yolanda Martínez:
  Multi-criteria modelling of irrigation water market at basin level: A Spanish case study. 313-336
  
• Pieter Vansteenwegen, Dirk Van Oudheusden:
  Developing railway timetables which guarantee a better service. 337-350
  

Volume 173, Number 2, September 2006

• Harold P. Benson:
  Fractional programming with convex quadratic forms and functions. 351-369
  
• Ching-Ter Chang:
  Formulating the mixed integer fractional posynomial programming. 370-386
  
• Sahidul Islam, Tapan Kumar Roy:
  A new fuzzy multi-objective programming: Entropy based geometric programming and its application of transportation problems. 387-404
  
• S. K. Mishra, Shouyang Wang, K. K. Lai:
  Optimality and duality for a multi-objective programming problem involving generalized d. 405-418
  
• Yi Shang, Markus P. J. Fromherz, Lara S. Crawford:
  A new constraint test-case generator and the importance of hybrid optimizers. 419-443
  
• Claus Still, Tapio Westerlund:
  A sequential cutting plane algorithm for solving convex NLP problems. 444-464
  
• Maria Albareda-Sambola, Maarten H. van der Vlerk, Elena Fernández:
  Exact solutions to a class of stochastic generalized assignment problems. 465-487
  
• Salem M. Al-Yakoob, Hanif D. Sherali:
  Mathematical programming models and algorithms for a class-faculty assignment problem. 488-507
  
• André R. S. Amaral:
  On the exact solution of a facility layout problem. 508-518
  
• Gautam Appa, Dimitris Magos, Ioannis Mourtos:
  Searching for Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares via integer and constraint programming. 519-530
  
• Igor Averbakh, Oded Berman, Ilya Chernykh:
  The routing open-shop problem on a network: Complexity and approximation. 531-539
  
• José Brandão:
  A new tabu search algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with backhauls. 540-555
  
• José Miguel Díaz-Báñez, Mario Alberto López, Joan Antoni Sellarès:
  Locating an obnoxious plane. 556-564
  
• Bosun Kim, Esma Senturk Gel, John W. Fowler, W. Matthew Carlyle, Jyrki Wallenius:
  Evaluation of nondominated solution sets for k. 565-582
  
• Daniel Dajun Zeng, Moshe Dror, Hsinchun Chen:
  Efficient scheduling of periodic information monitoring requests. 583-599
  
• Abraham Grosfeld-Nir, Shoshana Anily, Tal Ben-Zvi:
  Lot-sizing two-echelon assembly systems with random yields and rigid demand. 600-616
  
• Jeon G. Kim, Dean C. Chatfield, Terry P. Harrison, Jack C. Hayya:
  Quantifying the bullwhip effect in a supply chain with stochastic lead time. 617-636
  
• W. L. Pearn, Chien-Wei Wu:
  Production quality and yield assurance for processes with multiple independent characteristics. 637-647
  
• Tiaojun Xiao, Gang Yu:
  Supply chain disruption management and evolutionarily stable strategies of retailers in the quantity-setting duopoly situation with homogeneous goods. 648-668
  
• Gary C. Lin, Dennis E. Kroll, C. J. Lin:
  Determining a common production cycle time for an economic lot scheduling problem with deteriorating items. 669-682
  
• Atakan Öztürk, Sinan Kayaligil, Nur E. Özdemirel:
  Manufacturing lead time estimation using data mining. 683-700
  

Volume 173, Number 3, September 2006

• Bülent Karasözen, Alexander Rubinov, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber:
  Optimization in Data Mining. 701-704
  
• Elena Abascal Fernández, Ignacio García Lautre, F. Mallor:
  Data mining in a bicriteria clustering problem. 705-716
  
• Gleb Beliakov, Matthew King:
  Density based fuzzy C. 717-728
  
• Jolita Bernataviciene, Gintautas Dzemyda, Olga Kurasova, Virginijus Marcinkevicius:
  Optimal decisions in combining the SOM with nonlinear projection methods. 729-745
  
• Emilio Carrizosa, Belen Martin-Barragan:
  Two-group classification via a biobjective margin maximization model. 746-761
  
• Yen-Liang Chen, Hui-Ling Hu:
  An overlapping cluster algorithm to provide non-exhaustive clustering. 762-780
  
• Sven F. Crone, Stefan Lessmann, Robert Stahlbock:
  The impact of preprocessing on data mining: An evaluation of classifier sensitivity in direct marketing. 781-800
  
• Paulo S. A. Freitas, António J. L. Rodrigues:
  Model combination in neural-based forecasting. 801-814
  
• Ioan Bogdan Hodrea, Radu Ioan Bot, Gert Wanka:
  The Rose-Gurewitz-Fox approach applied for patents classification. 815-826
  
• Anne-Lise Huyet:
  Optimization and analysis aid via data-mining for simulated production systems. 827-838
  
• Chang-Chun Lin:
  Optimal Web site reorganization considering information overload and search depth. 839-848
  
• Alex M. Rubinov, N. V. Soukhorokova, Julien Ugon:
  Classes and clusters in data analysis. 849-865
  
• Burcu Saglam, F. Sibel Salman, Serpil Sayin, Metin Türkay:
  A mixed-integer programming approach to the clustering problem with an application in customer segmentation. 866-879
  
• Hsin-Vonn Seow, Lyn C. Thomas:
  Using adaptive learning in credit scoring to estimate take-up probability distribution. 880-892
  
• Theodore B. Trafalis, Robin C. Gilbert:
  Robust classification and regression using support vector machines. 893-909
  
• Fadime Üney Yüksektepe, Metin Türkay:
  A mixed-integer programming approach to multi-class data classification problem. 910-920
  
• Sung-Shun Weng, Yuan-Hung Liu:
  Mining time series data for segmentation by using Ant Colony Optimization. 921-937
  
• Wai-Tak Wong, Sheng-Hsun Hsu:
  Application of SVM and ANN for image retrieval. 938-950
  

• Zahir Irani, Angappa Gunasekaran, Peter E. D. Love:
  Quantitative and qualitative approaches to information systems evaluation. 951-956
  
• Angappa Gunasekaran, Eric W. T. Ngai, Ronald E. McGaughey:
  Information technology and systems justification: A review for research and applications. 957-983
  
• Shi-Ming Huang, Chin-Shyh Ou, Chyi-Miaw Chen, Binshan Lin:
  An empirical study of relationship between IT investment and firm performance: A resource-based perspective. 984-999
  
• Hussein Al-Yaseen, Tillal Eldabi, David Y. Lees, Ray J. Paul:
  Operational Use evaluation of IT investments: An investigation into potential benefits. 1000-1011
  
• Jose L. Salmeron, Salvador Bueno:
  An information technologies and information systems industry-based classification in small and medium-sized enterprises: An institutional view. 1012-1025
  
• Tzy-Yuan Chou, Seng-cho Timothy Chou, Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng:
  Evaluating IT/IS investments: A fuzzy multi-criteria decision model approach. 1026-1046
  
• Qi Feng, Vijay S. Mookerjee, Suresh P. Sethi:
  Optimal policies for the sizing and timing of software maintenance projects. 1047-1066
  
• Subodha Kumar, Varghese S. Jacob, Chelliah Sriskandarajah:
  Scheduling advertisements on a web page to maximize revenue. 1067-1089
  
• Rosemary Stockdale, Craig Standing:
  An interpretive approach to evaluating information systems: A content, context, process framework. 1090-1102
  
• Zahir Irani, Ahmad Ghoneim, Peter E. D. Love:
  Evaluating cost taxonomies for information systems management. 1103-1122
  
• Michael J. Cuellar, Michael J. Gallivan:
  A framework for ex ante project risk assessment based on absorptive capacity. 1123-1138
  
• Shan Ling Pan, Gary S. C. Pan, Michael Newman, Donal J. Flynn:
  Escalation and de-escalation of commitment to information systems projects: Insights from a project evaluation model. 1139-1160
  
• Ray Hackney, Huinan Xu, Ashok Ranchhod:
  Evaluating Web Services: Towards a framework for emergent. 1161-1174
  
• Amir M. Sharif, Zahir Irani:
  Exploring Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping for IS Evaluation. 1175-1187