1. Editorial

   • C. Zopounidis
   • M. Doumpos
   • P. M. Pardalos

   EditorialNotes Pages: 209 - 210

2. Pattern classification by goal programming and support vector machines

   • Takeshi Asada
   • Yeboon Yun
   • Tetsuzo Tanino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 230

3. Decision trees for monotone price models

   • Marina Velikova
   • Hennie Daniels

   OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 244

4. A multiple decision trees architecture for medical diagnosis: The differentiation of opening snap, second heart sound split and third heart sound

   • A. Ch Stasis
   • E. N. Loukis
   • D. Koutsouris

   OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 274

5. Design of cellular manufacturing systems using Latent Semantic Indexing and Self Organizing Maps

   • Nikolaos Ampazis
   • Ioannis Minis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 292

6. A hybrid genetic model for the prediction of corporate failure

   • Anthony Brabazon
   • Peter B. Keenan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 293 - 310

7. Evolving technical trading rules for spot foreign-exchange markets using grammatical evolution

   • Anthony Brabazon
   • Michael O’Neill

   OriginalPaper Pages: 311 - 327

8. Foreign versus domestic banks’ performance in the UK: a multicriteria approach

   • K. Kosmidou
   • F. Pasiouras
   • C. Zopounidis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 329 - 343