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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH European Journal of Operational Research 88 (1996) 637-638 Contents Volume 88 Editorial Stochastic vehicle routing (Invited Review) M. Gendreau, G. Laporte and R. Séguin Variations in price elasticities J. George, A. Mercer and H. Wilson On the impact of infrequent trading on the APT systematic risk components — Evidence from a thin security market T. Martikainen, J. Perttunen, P. Yli-Olli and A. Gunasekaran Choosing regulatory options when environmental costs are uncertain H.W. Gottinger AHP-based synergy allocation to the partners in a merger W. Ossadnik Optimal procedures for the discrete time /cost trade-off problem in project networks E.L. Demeulemeester, W.S. Herroelen and S.E. Elmaghraby Stock cutting to minimize cutting length J. Bhadury and R. Chandrasekaran A Stochastic Dynamic Programming model for scheduling of offshore petroleum fields with resource uncertainty K.K. Haugen Heuristics and exact algorithms for solving the Monden problem J. Bautista, R. Companys and A. Corominas A Lagrangean heuristic for the maximal covering location problem R.D. Galvao and C. ReVelle Scheduling programs with repetitive projects: A comparison of 2 simulated annealing, a genetic and a pair-wise swap algorithm A. Shtub, L.J. LeBlanc and Z. Cai Mechanisms for local search E.J. Anderson Analyzing service blueprints using phase distributions BJ. Berkley On genetic algorithms for the packing of polygons S. Jakobs Computational comparison on the partitioning strategies in multiple choice integer programming E.Y.H. Lin.and D.L. Bricker Statistical quality control and improvement (Invited Review) M. Stuart, E. Mullins and E. Drew Strategic planning of transportation services for petroleum products: an application of capacitated gravity models L.D. Smith and S.W. Moses Scheduling crackdowns on illicit drug markets A.V. Naik, A. Baveja, R. Batta and J.P. Caulkins Economical and ecological utility oriented analysis of the process of anaerobic digestion of waste waters Yu. Pavlov, D. Grancharov and V. Momchev Determination of the portfolio selection for a property-liability insurance company S.X. Li and Z. Huang SIMPSON: An intelligent assistant for short-term manufacturing scheduling J.H. May and L.G. Vargas Setting planned lead times for multi-operation jobs H. Matsuura, H. Tsubone and M. Kanezashi On the estimation of optimal batch sizes in the analysis of simulation output W.T. Song Contents Volume 88 Project management with time, cost, and quality considerations A.J.G. Babu and N. Suresh Scheduling about a given common due date to minimize mean squared deviation of completion times X. Weng and J.A. Ventura Scheduling jobs with different, job-dependent earliness and tardiness penalties using the SLK method G.I. Adamopoulos and C.P. Pappis A dominant subset of V-shaped sequences for a class of single machine sequencing problems U.M. Al-Turki, J. Mittenthal and M. Raghavachari Arbitrated matching: Formulation and protocol W.-Y. Ng, K.-W. Choi and K.-H. Shum Minimizing deviations from the group mean: A new linear programming approach for the two-group classification problem K.F. Lam, E.U. Choo and J.W. Moy A combined constraint-space, objective-space approach for determining high-dimensional maximal efficient faces of multiple objective linear programs J.P. Dauer and R.J. Gallagher Conditional subgradient optimization - Theory and applications T. Larsson, M. Patriksson and A.-B. Stromberg A strategy for evolution of algorithms to increase the computational effectiveness of NP-hard scheduling problems D.-C. Li, H.-K. Lin and K.-Y. Torng Optimization and sensitivity analysis of computer simulation models by the score function method (Invited Review) J.P.C. Kleijnen and R.Y. Rubinstein Modelling resource availability in general hospitals. Design and implementation of a decision support model R.J. Kusters and P.M.A. Groot Integration of operation routing and economic production quantity decisions in batch manufacturing systems PJ. Egbelu The team orienteering problem I-M. Chao, B.L. Golden and E.A. Wasil A fast and effective heuristic for the orienteering problem I-M. Chao, B.L. Golden and E.A. Wasil The capacitated distribution and waste disposal problem J.M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard, M. Salomon and L.N. Van Wassenhove Cash flow optimization in delivery scheduling M. Dror and P. Trudeau An SA/TS mixture algorithm for the scheduling tardiness problem B. Adenso-Diaz Robustly efficient parametric frontiers via Multiplicative DEA for domestic and international operations of the Latin American airline industry A. Charnes, A. Gallegos and H. Li Implied constraints and an alternate unified development of nonlinear programming theory P.K. Johri Finding improving directions in Lagrangian relaxation by fictitious play: A NASA scheduling application C.E. Bell A simple Tabu Search method to solve the mixed-integer linear bilevel programming problem U.P. Wen and A.D. Huang Pseudo-invexity and duality in nonlinear programming S. Nanda and L.N. Das Testing integer knapsacks for feasibility P. Hansen and J. Ryan A note on returns to scale in DEA R.D. Banker, I. Bardhan and W.W. Cooper Optimizing flow rates in a queueing network with side constraints B. Pourbabai, J.P.C. Blanc and F.A. van der Duyn Schouten A simple heuristic for buffer design in finite-capacity queues F.N. Gouweleeuw and H.C. Tijms Discrete NT-policy single server queue with Markovian arrival process and phase type service A.S. Alfa and I. Frigui Queueing models with delayed state-dependent service times P.P. Wang A K-step look-ahead analysis of Value Iteration algorithms for Markov decision processes M. Herzberg and U. Yechiali Contents Volume 88 Farce: ene