Computers & Operations Research, Volume 27

Volume 27, Number 1, January 2000

• Ali Amiri, Reza Barkhi:
  The multi-hour bandwidth packing problem. 1-14
  
• George J. Kyparisis, Christos Koulamas:
  Open shop scheduling with makespan and total completion time criteria. 15-27
  
• Mondher Hachicha, M. John Hodgson, Gilbert Laporte, Frédéric Semet:
  Heuristics for the multi-vehicle covering tour problem. 29-42
  
• Lushu Li, Kin Keung Lai:
  A fuzzy approach to the multiobjective transportation problem. 43-57
  
• Bhaba R. Sarker, A. M. M. Jamal, Shaojun Wang:
  Supply chain models for perishable products under inflation and permissible delay in payment. 59-75
  
• James Boyd Bankston, R. Michael Harnett:
  An heuristic algorithm for a multi-product, single machine capacitated production scheduling problem. 77-92
  

Volume 27, Number 2, February 2000

• Donald E. K. Martin:
  On the distribution of the number of successes in fourth- or lower-order Markovian trials. 93-109
  
• Ali Allahverdi:
  Minimizing mean flowtime in a two-machine flowshop with sequence-independent setup times. 111-127
  
• Ming-Sang Chang, Deng-Jyi Chen, Min-Sheng Lin, Kuo-Lung Ku:
  The distributed program reliability analysis on star topologies. 129-142
  
• Jian Ma, Peng Tian, Dong-Mo Zhang:
  Global optimization by Darwin and Boltzmann mixed strategy. 143-159
  
• Ignacy Kaliszewski:
  Using trade-off information in decision-making algorithms. 161-182
  
• Angel Corberán, Rafael Martí, Antonio Romero:
  Heuristics for the Mixed Rural Postman Problem. 183-203
  

Volume 27, Number 3, March 2000

• Lawrence Bodin, Eddie Epstein:
  Who's on first-with probability 0.4. 205-215
  
• Asher Tishler, Stan Lipovetsky:
  Modelling and forecasting with robust canonical analysis: method and application. 217-232
  
• A. Kharab:
  An advanced macro spreadsheet program for the simplex method. 233-243
  
• Ralf Östermark:
  A flexible multicomputer algorithm for elementary matrix operations. 245-268
  
• Bong Dae Choi, Bara Kim, Sung Ho Choi:
  On the M/G/1 Bernoulli feedback queue with multi-class customers. 269-286
  
• Wun-Hwa Chen, Chin-Shien Lin:
  A hybrid heuristic to solve a task allocation problem. 287-303
  

Volume 27, Number 4, April 2000

• Roy Gelbard, Israel Spiegler:
  Hempel's Raven paradox: a positive approach to cluster analysis. 305-320
  
• Zhe George Zhang, C. E. Love:
  A simple recursive Markov chain model to determine the optimal replacement policies under general repairs. 321-333
  
• N. E. Abboud, M. Y. Jaber, N. A. Noueihed:
  Economic lot sizing with the consideration of random machine unavailability time. 335-351
  
• Martin J. Fischer, Carl M. Harris, Jennifer Xie:
  An interpolation approximation for expected wait in a time-limited polling system. 353-366
  
• Jin Woo Lee, Soung Hie Kim:
  Using analytic network process and goal programming for interdependent information system project selection. 367-382
  
• Fayez F. Boctor, Jacques Renaud:
  The column-circular, subsets-selection problem: complexity and solutions. 383-398
  

Volume 27, Number 5, April 2000

• Sheng-Pen Wang, Kenneth L. Judd:
  Solving a savings allocation problem by numerical dynamic programming with shape-preserving interpolation. 399-408
  
• Yusen Xia, Baoding Liu, Shouyang Wang, Kin Keung Lai:
  A model for portfolio selection with order of expected returns. 409-422
  
• Sehun Kim, Jae-In Kim:
  An adaptive time slot assignment algorithm for variable bandwidth switching systems. 423-435
  
• Saligrama R. Agnihothri, Ji Soo Lee, Jeongseob Kim:
  Lot sizing with random yields and tardiness costs. 437-459
  

Volume 27, Number 6, May 2000

• Bibhas Chandra Giri, T. Chakrabarty, K. S. Chaudhuri:
  A note on a lot sizing heuristic for deteriorating items with time-varying demands and shortages. 495-505
  
• Anders J. V. Skriver, Kim Allan Andersen:
  A label correcting approach for solving bicriterion shortest-path problems. 507-524
  
• Hemant V. Kher:
  Examination of worker assignment and dispatching rules for managing vital customer priorities in dual resource constrained job shop environments. 525-537
  
• W. Wang:
  A model of multiple nested inspections at different intervals. 539-558
  
• Jean-Marie Bourjolly, Gilbert Laporte, Gilles Pesant:
  Heuristics for finding k-clubs in an undirected graph. 559-569
  
• Maciej Drozdowski, Paolo Dell'Olmo:
  Scheduling multiprocessor tasks for mean flow time criterion. 571-585
  
• Jaydeep Balakrishnan, Chun Hung Cheng:
  Genetic search and the dynamic layout problem. 587-593
  

Volume 27, Numbers 7-8, June 2000

• Constantin Zopounidis:
  Artificial intelligence and decision support with multiple criteria - Special Issue. 595-
  
• Constantin Zopounidis:
  Special issue on artificial intelligence and decision support with multiple criteria. 597-599
  
• Minghe Sun, Antonie Stam, Ralph E. Steuer:
  Interactive multiple objective programming using Tchebycheff programs and artificial neural networks. 601-620
  
• Jacques Teghem, Daniel Tuyttens, Ekunda L. Ulungu:
  An interactive heuristic method for multi-objective combinatorial optimization. 621-634
  
• Ertunga C. Özelkan, Lucien Duckstein:
  Multi-objective fuzzy regression: a general framework. 635-652
  
• Nikos I. Karacapilidis, Costas Pappis:
  Computer-supported collaborative argumentation and fuzzy similarity measures in multiple criteria decision making. 653-671
  
• Raymond Bisdorff:
  Logical foundation of fuzzy preferential systems with application to the electre decision aid methods. 673-687
  
• Nikolaos F. Matsatsinis, Andreas P. Samaras:
  Brand choice model selection based on consumers' multicriteria preferences and experts' knowledge. 689-707
  
• Kaisa Miettinen, Marko M. Mäkelä:
  Interactive multiobjective optimization system WWW-NIMBUS on the Internet. 709-723
  
• Concha Bielza, Manuel Gómez, Sixto Ríos-Insua, Juan A. Fernández del Pozo:
  Structural, elicitation and computational issues faced when solving complex decision making problems with influence diagrams. 725-740
  
• Gérard Colson:
  The OR's prize winner and the software ARGOS: how a multijudge and multicriteria ranking GDSS helps a jury to attribute a scientific award. 741-755
  
• Vincent Mousseau, Roman Slowinski, Piotr Zielniewicz:
  A user-oriented implementation of the ELECTRE-TRI method integrating preference elicitation support. 757-777
  
• Constantin Zopounidis, Michael Doumpos:
  PREFDIS: a multicriteria decision support system for sorting decision problems. 779-797
  
• Evangelos Grigoroudis, Yannis Siskos, Olivier Saurais:
  TELOS: a customer satisfaction evaluation software. 799-817
  

Volume 27, Number 9, August 2000

• Safaai Deris, Sigeru Omatu, Hiroshi Ohta:
  Timetable planning using the constraint-based reasoning. 819-840
  
• Linet Özdamar, Melek Demirhan:
  Experiments with new stochastic global optimization search techniques. 841-865
  
• Guangting Chen, Guochuan Zhang:
  A constrained minimum spanning tree problem. 867-875
  
• Antonio Galvão Naclério Novaes, José E. Souza de Cursi, Odacir Deonísio Graciolli:
  A continuous approach to the design of physical distribution systems. 877-893
  
• Gülay Barbarosoglu, Linet Özdamar:
  Analysis of solution space-dependent performance of simulated annealing: the case of the multi-level capacitated lot sizing problem. 895-903
  
• Jacques Renaud, Fayez F. Boctor, Jamal Ouenniche:
  A heuristic for the pickup and delivery traveling salesman problem. 905-916
  

Volume 27, Number 10, September 2000

• Ravindra K. Ahuja, James B. Orlin, Ashish Tiwari:
  A greedy genetic algorithm for the quadratic assignment problem. 917-934
  
• Jing-Shing Yao, San-Chyi Chang, Jin-Shieh Su:
  Fuzzy inventory without backorder for fuzzy order quantity and fuzzy total demand quantity. 935-962
  
• Hepu Deng, Chung-Hsing Yeh, Robert J. Willis:
  Inter-company comparison using modified TOPSIS with objective weights. 963-973
  
• Dar-Li Yang, Maw-Sheng Chern:
  Two-machine flowshop group scheduling problem. 975-985
  
• C. K. Y. Lin, K. F. Lai, S. L. Hung:
  Development of a workforce management system for a customer hotline service. 987-1004
  
• Ching-Ter Chang, Chi-Chiao Chang:
  A linearization method for mixed 0-1 polynomial programs. 1005-1016
  

Volume 27, Numbers 11-12, September 2000

• Kate A. Smith, Jatinder N. D. Gupta:
  Neural networks in business: techniques and applications for the operations researcher. 1023-1044
  
• Bo K. Wong, Vincent S. Lai, Jolie Lam:
  A bibliography of neural network business applications research: 1994-1998. 1045-1076
  
• Caron H. St. John, Nagraj Balakrishnan, James O. Fiet:
  Modeling the relationship between corporate strategy and wealth creation using neural networks. 1077-1092
  
• Mark T. Leung, An-Sing Chen, Hazem Daouk:
  Forecasting exchange rates using general regression neural networks. 1093-1110
  
• Luvai F. Motiwalla, Mahmoud Wahab:
  Predictable variation and profitable trading of US equities: a trading simulation using neural networks. 1111-1129
  
• David West:
  Neural network credit scoring models. 1131-1152
  
• Mary R. Lind, Joanne M. Sulek:
  A methodology for forecasting knowledge work projects. 1153-1169
  
• Raymond A. Patterson, Hasan Pirkul:
  Heuristic procedure neural networks for the CMST problem. 1171-1200
  
• Nicola Secomandi:
  Comparing neuro-dynamic programming algorithms for the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands. 1201-1225
  
• Thomas Reutterer, Martin Natter:
  Segmentation-based competitive analysis with MULTICLUS and topology representing networks. 1227-1247
  

Volume 27, Number 13, November 2000

• F. Baita, Raffaele Pesenti, Walter Ukovich, Daniela Favaretto:
  A comparison of different solution approaches to the vehicle scheduling problem in a practical case. 1249-1269
  
• T.-J. Chang, Nigel Meade, J. E. Beasley, Yazid M. Sharaiha:
  Heuristics for cardinality constrained portfolio optimisation. 1271-1302
  
• Mario Conrado Cavichia, Marcos Nereu Arenales:
  Piecewise linear programming via interior points. 1303-1324
  
• Osman Kazan, Rakesh Nagi, Christopher M. Rump:
  New lot-sizing formulations for less nervous production schedules. 1325-1345
  
• Dennis Ridley:
  Complementary antithetic weights for lognormal time-series forecasting. 1347-1349
  
• David Pokrass Jacobs, John C. Peck, J. Steve Davis:
  A simple heuristic for maximizing service of carousel storage. 1351-1356
  

Volume 27, Number 14, December 2000

• Christian Hofmann:
  Supplier's pricing policy in a Just-in-Time environment. 1357-1373
  
• Young-Myoung Kim, Jai-Hyun Kim, Soung-Hie Kim:
  Use of multi-attribute decision analysis for designing operations system framework in telecommunications management network. 1375-1388
  
• Gyu C. Kim, John Emery:
  An application of zero-one goal programming in project selection and resource planning - a case study from the Woodward Governor Company. 1389-1408
  
• Konstantin Kogan:
  Scheduling concurrent production over a finite planning horizon: polynomially solvable cases. 1409-1419