Volume 199, Number 1, November 2009

Continuous Optimization

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  Harold P. Benson, Erjiang Sun: Branch-and-reduce algorithm for convex programs with additional multiplicative constraints. 1-8
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  Ching-Ter Chang, Teng-Chiao Lin: Interval goal programming for S-shaped penalty function. 9-20
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  Meral Çetin: Robust model selection criteria for robust Liu estimator. 21-24

Discrete Optimization

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  Melih Özlen, Meral Azizoglu: Multi-objective integer programming: A general approach for generating all non-dominated solutions. 25-35
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  Marco César Goldbarg, Ligia B. Bagi, Elizabeth Ferreira Gouvea Goldbarg: Transgenetic algorithm for the Traveling Purchaser Problem. 36-45
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  Khaled Moumene, Jacques A. Ferland: Activity list representation for a generalization of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem. 46-54
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  Hari Balasubramanian, John W. Fowler, Ahmet B. Keha, Michele E. Pfund: Scheduling interfering job sets on parallel machines. 55-67
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  Augusto Eusébio, José Rui Figueira: On the computation of all supported efficient solutions in multi-objective integer network flow problems. 68-76
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  Ada Che, Chengbin Chu: Multi-degree cyclic scheduling of a no-wait robotic cell with multiple robots. 77-88
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  C. A. Poojari, J. E. Beasley: Improving benders decomposition using a genetic algorithm. 89-97
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  Prasanna Balaprakash, Mauro Birattari, Thomas Stützle, Marco Dorigo: Adaptive sample size and importance sampling in estimation-based local search for the probabilistic traveling salesman problem. 98-110
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  Hans Kellerer, Mikhail A. Kubzin, Vitaly A. Strusevich: Two simple constant ratio approximation algorithms for minimizing the total weighted completion time on a single machine with a fixed non-availability interval. 111-116
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  Oleg A. Prokopyev, Sergiy Butenko, Andrew C. Trapp: Checking solvability of systems of interval linear equations and inequalities via mixed integer programming. 117-121

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Jun-Yeon Lee, Leroy B. Schwarz: Leadtime management in a periodic-review inventory system: A state-dependent base-stock policy. 122-129
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  Denise Emerson, Wei Zhou, Selwyn Piramuthu: Goodwill, inventory penalty, and adaptive supply chain management. 130-138
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  Andreas Weidenhiller, Herbert Jodlbauer: Equivalence classes of problem instances for a continuous-time lot sizing and scheduling problem. 139-149
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  Stephan M. Wagner, Christoph Bode, Philipp Koziol: Supplier default dependencies: Empirical evidence from the automotive industry. 150-161
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  M. A. Darwish: Economic selection of process mean for single-vendor single-buyer supply chain. 162-169

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Peixia Gao, Sabine Wittevrongel, Joris Walraevens, Marc Moeneclaey, Herwig Bruneel: Calculation of delay characteristics for multiserver queues with constant service times. 170-175
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  Ad Ridder: Importance sampling algorithms for first passage time probabilities in the infinite server queue. 176-186
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  Wee Meng Yeo, Xue-Ming Yuan: Optimal warranty policies for systems with imperfect repair. 187-197
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  Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, James C. Bean: Resource-constrained management of heterogeneous assets with stochastic deterioration. 198-208

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Konstantinos Kounetas, Ioannis Mourtos, Konstantinos Tsekouras: Efficiency decompositions for heterogeneous technologies. 209-218
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  Toshiyuki Sueyoshi, Jennifer Shang, Wen-Chyuan Chiang: A decision support framework for internal audit prioritization in a rental car company: A combined use between DEA and AHP. 219-231
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  Emerson C. Colin: Mathematical programming accelerates implementation of agro-industrial sugarcane complex. 232-235
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  Arne Bang Huseby, Nils F. Haavardsson: Multi-reservoir production optimization. 236-251
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  Z. Caner Taskin, A. Tamer Ünal: Tactical level planning in float glass manufacturing with co-production, random yields and substitutable products. 252-261

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Alessandro Avenali: Exploring the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions: The threshold revenue and the threshold-price rule. 262-275
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  Rung-Wei Po, Yuh-Yuan Guh, Miin-Shen Yang: A new clustering approach using data envelopment analysis. 276-284
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  Pär Holmberg: Numerical calculation of an asymmetric supply function equilibrium with capacity constraints. 285-295
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  Andreas Drexl, Kurt Jørnsten, Diether Knof: Non-linear anonymous pricing combinatorial auctions. 296-302
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  Sergio Perelman, Daniel Santín: How to generate regularly behaved production data? A Monte Carlo experimentation on DEA scale efficiency measurement. 303-310

Book Review

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  Luís Paquete: Erik D. Demaine and Joseph O'Rouke, Review of Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra , Cambridge University Press (2007). 311-313

Volume 199, Number 2, December 2009

Continuous Optimization

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  Huseyin Topaloglu: A tighter variant of Jensen's lower bound for stochastic programs and separable approximations to recourse functions. 315-322
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  Feng Zhou, Gordon H. Huang, Guo-Xian Chen, Huai-Cheng Guo: Enhanced-interval linear programming. 323-333
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  S. J. Li, X. B. Li, L. N. Wang, K. L. Teo: The Hölder continuity of solutions to generalized vector equilibrium problems. 334-338

Discrete Optimization

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  Christophe Wilbaut, Saïd Salhi, Saïd Hanafi: An iterative variable-based fixation heuristic for the 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problem. 339-348
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  Carlos A. Silva, João Miguel da Costa Sousa, Thomas A. Runkler, José M. G. Sá da Costa: Distributed supply chain management using ant colony optimization. 349-358
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  Christian Becker, Armin Scholl: Balancing assembly lines with variable parallel workplaces: Problem definition and effective solution procedure. 359-374
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  Seong-Woo Choi, Yeong-Dae Kim: Minimizing total tardiness on a two-machine re-entrant flowshop. 375-384
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  Udo Buscher, Liji Shen: An integrated tabu search algorithm for the lot streaming problem in job shops. 385-399

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Ningxiong Xu: Optimal policy for a dynamic, non-stationary, stochastic inventory problem with capacity commitment. 400-408
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  Peter Schütz, Asgeir Tomasgard, Shabbir Ahmed: Supply chain design under uncertainty using sample average approximation and dual decomposition. 409-419
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  Dali Zhang, Huifu Xu, Yue Wu: Single and multi-period optimal inventory control models with risk-averse constraints. 420-434

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Snorre Lindset, Arne-Christian Lund, Egil Matsen: Optimal information acquisition for a linear quadratic control problem. 435-441
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  Jeroen Kuipers, János Flesch, Gijs Schoenmakers, Koos Vrieze: Pure subgame-perfect equilibria in free transition games. 442-447
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  Bert Bettonvil, Enrique del Castillo, Jack P. C. Kleijnen: Statistical testing of optimality conditions in multiresponse simulation-based optimization. 448-458

Decision Support

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  Roman V. Efremov, David Ríos Insua, Alexander V. Lotov: A framework for participatory decision support using Pareto frontier visualization, goal identification and arbitration. 459-467
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  Denis Bouyssou, Marc Pirlot: An axiomatic analysis of concordance-discordance relations. 468-477
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  José Rui Figueira, Salvatore Greco, Bernard Roy: ELECTRE methods with interaction between criteria: An extension of the concordance index. 478-495
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  Michael Doumpos, Yannis Marinakis, Magdalene Marinaki, Constantin Zopounidis: An evolutionary approach to construction of outranking models for multicriteria classification: The case of the ELECTRE TRI method. 496-505

Computational Intelligence and Information Management

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  Joaquín A. Pacheco, Silvia Casado, Laura Núñez: A variable selection method based on Tabu search for logistic regression models. 506-511
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  Miroslaw Krzysko, Waldemar Wolynski: New variants of pairwise classification. 512-519
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  Stefan Lessmann, Stefan Voß: A reference model for customer-centric data mining with support vector machines. 520-530

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Y. M. Zhang, Guo H. Huang, X. D. Zhang: Inexact de Novo programming for water resources systems planning. 531-541
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  Fulya Altiparmak, Berna Dengiz: A cross entropy approach to design of reliable networks. 542-552
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  Yanzhi Li, Yi Tao, Fan Wang: A compromised large-scale neighborhood search heuristic for capacitated air cargo loading planning. 553-560
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  Toshiyuki Sueyoshi, Mika Goto: Methodological comparison between DEA (data envelopment analysis) and DEA-DA (discriminant analysis) from the perspective of bankruptcy assessment. 561-575
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  Toshiyuki Sueyoshi, Mika Goto: DEA-DA for bankruptcy-based performance assessment: Misclassification analysis of Japanese construction industry. 576-594

Short Communications

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  Svetlana A. Kravchenko, Frank Werner: Minimizing the number of machines for scheduling jobs with equal processing times. 595-600
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  Tonguç Ünlüyurt, Endre Boros: A note on "Optimal resource allocation for security in reliability systems". 601-603
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  Bosco Wing-Tong Yu, Wan-Kai Pang, Marvin D. Troutt, Shui-Hung Hou: Objective comparisons of the optimal portfolios corresponding to different utility functions. 604-610
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  Kun-Jen Chung: A note on optimal ordering policies when the supplier provides a progressive interest scheme. 611-617

Volume 199, Number 3, December 2009

Feature Cluster: Cooperative Combinatorial Optimization

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  El-Ghazali Talbi, Clarisse Dhaenens: Cooperative combinatorial optimization. 619
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  Laetitia Jourdan, Matthieu Basseur, El-Ghazali Talbi: Hybridizing exact methods and metaheuristics: A taxonomy. 620-629
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  Walid Ibrahim, Hesham El-Sayed, Amr El-Chouemi, Hoda H. Amer: An adaptive heuristic algorithm for VLSI test vectors selection. 630-639
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  Éric Grégoire, Bertrand Mazure, Cédric Piette: Using local search to find MSSes and MUSes. 640-646
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  Krzysztof Rzadca, Denis Trystram: Promoting cooperation in selfish computational grids. 647-657
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  Vincent Boyer, Moussa Elkihel, Didier El Baz: Heuristics for the 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problem. 658-664
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  Mohand Ou Idir Khemmoudj, Hachemi Bennaceur: Clique inference process for solving Max-CSP. 665-673
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  Nadia Souai, Jacques Teghem: Genetic algorithm based approach for the integrated airline crew-pairing and rostering problem. 674-683
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  Jürgen Branke, B. Scheckenbach, Michael Stein, Kalyanmoy Deb, Hartmut Schmeck: Portfolio optimization with an envelope-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. 684-693

Feature Cluster: Planning and Scheduling in Industrial and Logistic Systems

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  Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès, Nathalie Sauer: Feature cluster: Planning and scheduling in industrial and logistic systems. 694
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  Cyril Duron, Mohamed Aly Ould Louly, Jean-Marie Proth: The one machine scheduling problem: Insertion of a job under the real-time constraint. 695-701
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  Gerd Finke, Pierre Lemaire, Jean-Marie Proth, Maurice Queyranne: Minimizing the number of machines for minimum length schedules. 702-705
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  Anthony Caumond, Philippe Lacomme, A. Moukrim, Nikolay Tchernev: An MILP for scheduling problems in an FMS with one vehicle. 706-722
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  Mohamed Aly Ould Louly, Alexandre Dolgui: Calculating safety stocks for assembly systems with random component procurement lead times: A branch and bound algorithm. 723-731

Feature Cluster: Supply Chain Design

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  James A. Rappold, Nikolay Tchernev: Special Issue on Supply Chain Design. 732-733
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  Elizabeth M. Jewkes, Attahiru Sule Alfa: A queueing model of delayed product differentiation. 734-743
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  Kathryn E. Caggiano, Peter L. Jackson, John A. Muckstadt, James A. Rappold: Efficient computation of time-based customer service levels in a multi-item, multi-echelon supply chain: A practical approach for inventory optimization. 744-749
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  Patrícia Belfiore, Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki: Scatter search for a real-life heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem with time windows and split deliveries in Brazil. 750-758
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  Eda Yücel, Fikri Karaesmen, F. Sibel Salman, Metin Türkay: Optimizing product assortment under customer-driven demand substitution. 759-768
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  Vincent Hovelaque, Sabine Duvaleix-Tréguer, Jean Cordier: Effects of constrained supply and price contracts on agricultural cooperatives. 769-780
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  James A. Rappold, Ben D. Van Roo: Designing multi-echelon service parts networks with finite repair capacity. 781-792
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  Cecilia Temponi, Michael D. Bryant, Benito Fernandez: Integration of business function models into an aggregate enterprise systems model. 793-800

Feature Cluster: Facilitated Problem Structuring and Decision Analysis (EURO 2007)

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  L. Alberto Franco, Josef Jablonsky, Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger, Gilberto Montibeller: Feature cluster: Facilitated problem structuring and decision analysis (EURO 2007). 801-802
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  René Victor Valqui Vidal: Community facilitation of problem structuring and decision making processes: Experiences from the EU LEADER+ programme. 803-810
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  Félix Antonio Cortés-Aldana, Mónica García-Melón, Ignacio Fernández-de-Lucio, Pablo Aragonés-Beltrán, Rocío Poveda-Bautista: University objectives and socioeconomic results: A multicriteria measuring of alignment. 811-822
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  Leroy White: Understanding problem structuring methods interventions. 823-833
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  L. P. Neves, Luis C. Dias, Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Antonio Gomes Martins: Structuring an MCDA model using SSM: A case study in energy efficiency. 834-845
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  Gilberto Montibeller, L. Alberto Franco, Ewan Lord, Aline Iglesias: Structuring resource allocation decisions: A framework for building multi-criteria portfolio models with area-grouped options. 846-856
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  Detlof von Winterfeldt, Barbara Fasolo: Structuring decision problems: A case study and reflections for practitioners. 857-866
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  Thomas L. Saaty, Hsu-Shih Shih: Structures in decision making: On the subjective geometry of hierarchies and networks. 867-872
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  Tsai-Ching Lu, Marek J. Druzdzel: Interactive construction of graphical decision models based on causal mechanisms. 873-882
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  Alexander Engau: Tradeoff-based decomposition and decision-making in multiobjective programming. 883-891
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  Robin Pope, Johannes Leitner, Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger: Expected utility versus the changes in knowledge ahead. 892-901
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  Heiko Hahn, Silja Meyer-Nieberg, Stefan Pickl: Electric load forecasting methods: Tools for decision making. 902-907
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  A. A. Kranenburg, G. J. van Houtum: A new partial pooling structure for spare parts networks. 908-921
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  Aharon Ben-Tal, Boaz Golany, Shimrit Shtern: Robust multi-echelon multi-period inventory control. 922-935
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  Jörg Doege, Max Fehr, Juri Hinz, Hans-Jakob Lüthi, Martina Wilhelm: Risk management in power markets: The Hedging value of production flexibility. 936-943