international journal of es production is economics ELSE Int. J. Production Economics 91 (2004) 297-298 www.elsevier.com/locate/dsw Contents Volume 91 Vol. 91. No. 1 Product-driven supply chain selection using integrated multi-criteria decision-making methodology G.Wang, S.H. Huang and J.P. Dismukes Estimating and decomposing the rate of technical change in the Swedish pulp and paper industry: A general index approach R. Lundmark and P. Sdderholm Mean flowtime and inventory in production systems: A finite time analogue to Little's Law J.J. Kanet Multi-product capacity-constrained lot sizing with economic objectives S. Choi and S.T. Enns Production smoothing in the Japanese vehicle industry AN. Mollick A comparison of Hybrid Push/Pull and CONWIP/Pull production inventory control policies J. Geraghty and C. Heavey An optimal policy for a single-vendor single-buyer integrated production-inventory problem with pro- cess unreliability consideration Diary of Events Vol. 91. No. 2 Approach of just-in-time distribution requirements planning for supply chain management W. Wang, R.Y.K. Fung andY . Chai A finite horizon lot-sizing problem with time-varying deterministic demand and waiting-time-dependent partial backlogging Y.-W. Zhou, H.-S. Lau and S.-L. Yang Parallel-machine batch scheduling to minimize the maximum lateness and the number of tardy jobs B.M.T. Lin and A.A.K. Jeng doi:10.1016/S0925-5273(04)00184-7 298 Contents Volume 91 Modelling the slab stack shuffling problem in developing steel rolling schedules and its solution using im- proved Parallel Genetic Algorithms K.A. Singh, Srinivas and M.K. Tiwari Cost-optimization heuristic algorithm in safety engineering Parametric vs. neural network models for the estimation of production costs: A case study in the automo- tive industry S. Cavalieri, PD. Maccarrone and R. Pinto Order arrival control of an M/M/1 failure prone service station Exact, approximate, and generic iterative models for the multi-product Newsboy problem with budget constraint L. Abdel-Malek, R. Montanari and L.C. Morales Diary of Events Call for Papers Vol. 91. No. 3 Agile manufacturing systems in the automotive industry D.A. Elkins, N. Huang and J.M. Alden Bridging the gap between probabilistic and fuzzy-parameter EOQ models Note on an economic lot scheduling problem under budgetary and capacity constraints B.C. Giri and |. Moon Prioritizing engineering characteristics in quality function deployment with incomplete information: A lin- ear partial ordering approach C.H. Han, J.K. Kim and S.H. Choi Queueing networks and the topological design of supply chain systems L. Kerbache and J.M. Smith Configuring products to address the customization-responsiveness squeeze: A survey of management issues and opportunities F. Salvador and C. Forza Diary of Events Author index to this Volume Contents of thisVolume .