EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH ELSEVIER European Journal of Operational Research 97 (1997) 611-613 Contents Volume 97 Strategic financial risk management and operations research (Invited Review) J.M. Mulvey, D.P. Rosenbaum and B. Shetty A note on the design of a two-sided, two-stage screening procedure with a prescribed outgoing quality D.S. Bai and H.M. Kwon Audit scheduling with overlapping activities and sequence-dependent setup costs B. Dodin and A.A, Elimam The application of reliability constrained stochastic capacity planning models to the service sector J.S. Boronico The DH/KD algorithm: a hybrid approach for unconstrained two-dimensional cutting problems M. Hifi Preference programming and inconsistent interval judgments R. Islam, M.P. Biswal and S.S. Alam A Lagrangean heuristic for the facility location problem with staircase costs K. Holmberg and J. Ling Heuristic concentration: two stage solution construction K.E. Rosing and C.S. ReVelle Weber problems with alternative transportation systems E. Carrizosa and A.M. Rodriguez-Chia A combined transportation and scheduling problem L. Equi, G. Gallo, S. Marziale and A. Weintraub Linear programs for constraint satisfaction problems H.J. Zimmermann and A. Monfroglio Mean value cross decomposition applied to integer programming problems K. Holmberg Fixing variables and generating classical cutting planes when using an interior point branch and cut method to solve integer programming problems J.E. Mitchell Fuzzy programming for multiobjective O—1 programming problems through revised genetic algorithms M. Sakawa, K. Kato, H. Sunada and T. Shibano Connectedness of efficient solutions in multiple criteria combinatorial optimization M. Ehrgott and K. Klamroth Symmetric dual multiobjective programming L.N. Das and S. Nanda The partial sum criterion for Steiner trees in graphs and shortest paths C.W. Duin and A. Volgenant Algorithms for network piecewise-linear programs: A comparative study F.A.S. Marins, E.L.F. Senne, K. Darby-Dowman, A.F. Machado and C. Perin Simple Lagrangian heuristic for the set covering problem S. Haddadi A method for convex curve approximation X.Q. Yang and C.J. Goh Error noted in a Case Study on fund allocation using goal programming Mad.F. Baki and N.M. Fraser 612 Contents Volume 97 Feature Issue: Large-Scale, High-Priced Applications A Large-scale, high-priced applications: An introduction M. Dror 220 Operations Research applications: Opportunities and accomplishments H. Luss and M.B. Rosenwein 245 Crew pairing at Air France G. Desaulniers, J. Desrosiers, Y. Dumas, S. Marc, B. Rioux, M.M. Solomon and F. Soumis 260 Solving large scale crew scheduling problems H.D. Chu, E. Gelman and E.L. Johnson 269 Optimizing nuclear power plant refueling with mixed-integer programming F. Fourcade, E. Johnson, M. Bara and P. Cortey-Dumont 281 Locomotive assignment with heterogeneous consists at CN North America K. Ziarati, F. Soumis, J. Desrosiers, S. Gélinas and A. Saintonge 293 Evaluating the demand for supergauge trucks-on-trains services in Western Europe J. Higginson, T. Hogan and M. Weil 308 Environmental integrated production and recycling management Th. Spengler, H. Piichert, T. Penkuhn and O. Rentz 327 Environmental integrated production planning for the ammonia synthesis T. Penkuhn, Th. Spengler, H. Piichert and O. Rentz 337 Reducing overcapacity in chemical plants by linear programming G. Oxé 348 Scheduling of flexible flow lines in an automobile assembly plant A. Agnetis, A. Pacifici, F. Rossi, M. Lucertini, S. Nicoletti, F. Nicolo, G. Oriolo, D. Pacciarelli and E. Pesaro 363 HADTS: A decision technology system to support Army housing management G.A. Forgionne 380 Developing scheduling systems for Daewoo Shipbuilding: DAS project J.K. Lee, K.J. Lee, H.K. Park, J.S. Hong and J.S. Lee 396 Intelligent control and optimization under uncertainty with application to hydro power G.B. Dantzig and G. Infanger 409 Planning models for freight transportation (Invited Review) T.G. Crainic and G. Laporte 439 Application of ELECTRE III for the integrated management of municipal solid wastes in the Greater Athens Area A. Karagiannidis and N. Moussiopoulos 450 The relative performance of bivariate causality tests in small samples J.R. Bult, P.S.H. Leeflang and D.R. Wittink 465 Improving PRETREE’s predictive capabilities D.H. Gensch and S. Ghose 480 Models for multi-echelon repairable item inventory systems with limited repair capacity A. Diaz and M.C. Fu 493 The single-vendor single-buyer integrated production-inventory model with a generalised policy R.M. Hill 500 An improved algorithm for cyclic flowshop scheduling in a robotic cell E. Levner, V. Kats and V.E. Levit 509 Computational investigations of maximum flow algorithms R.K. Ahuja, M. Kodialam, A.K. Mishra and J.B. Orlin 543 Stochastic decision making using multiplicative AHP R. Ramanathan 550 Model choice in multicriteria decision aid T. Al-Shemmeri, B. Al-Kloub and A. Pearman 561 A linear approximation model for the parameter design problem Y. Fathi 571 A branch and bound algorithm for the traveling purchaser problem K.N. Singh and D.L. van Oudheusden Contents Volume 97 613 A generalization of K6nig—Egervary graphs and heuristics for maximum independent set problem with improved approximation ratios V.Th. Paschos and M. Demange Selecting the CP metric: A risk aversion approach E. Ballestero A note on ‘‘A discussion of testing DMUs’ returns to scale’’ by Zhu and Shen. European Journal of Operational Research 81 (1995) 590-596 K.-P. Chang A ranked voting system using a DEA/AR exclusion model: A note A. Hashimoto OR Software H. Thiriez Book Reviews H. Fleuren (ed.) Contents Volume 97