International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR)

International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) aims to advance the understanding and practice of Operational Research (OR) and Management Science internationally. Its scope includes:

• international problems, such as those of fisheries management, environmental issues, and global competitivenes
• international work done by major OR figures
• studies of world-wide interest from nations with emerging OR communities
• national or regional OR work which has the potential for application in other nations
• technical developments of international interest
• specific organizational examples that can be applied in other countries
• national and international presentations of trans-national interest
• broadly relevant professional issues, such as those of ethics and practice

Online Access:

ITOR is available electronically for all subscribers. All current issues are made available online and the journal is fully archived back to Volume 1, 1994. All (institutional and individual) subscribers now have free online access to the journal.

Highlights:

Analysis of a ring-based loss network
Mark Thompson

Applying combinatorial optimization metaheuristics to the golf scramble problem
Roger G. Dear and Zvi Drezner

Classical and modern heuristics for the vehicle routing problem
Gilbert Laporte, Michel Gendreau, Jean-Yves Potvin and Frederic Semet

Cointegration of stochastic multifractals with application to foreign exchange rates
V.V. Anh, Q.M. Tieng and Y.K. Tse

Evolutionary algorithms for flowshop sequencing with non-unique jobs
R.L. Burdett and E. Kozan

Heuristic approaches to the asymmetric travelling salesman problem with replenishment arcs
Vicky Mak and Natashia Boland

Modelling congestion in closed queuing networks
P. K. Pollett

IFORS Member Discount:

IFORS members have a special discount of 20% on the usual subscription rate. For more information, or to subscribe visit the journal's website.

Submit a Paper:

The Editors welcome all articles which fit the remit of the journal. For full submission guidelines visit the Blackwell website.

Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of their paper to either the Editor or appropriate Regional Editor:

Editor Celso C. Ribeiro Universidade Federal Fluminense Department of Computing Science Rua Passo da Pátria 156 Niterói, RJ 24210-240 Brazil Email: celso@ic.uff.br

Asia-Pacific Editor Vicky Mabin Victoria Management School Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington New Zealand Email: Vicky.Mabin@Vuw.Ac.Nz

African Editor Theodor J Stewart Department of Statistical Sciences University of Cape Town 7701 Rondebosch South Africa Email: Tjstew@Stats.Uct.Ac.Za