1. Editorial

   • Jian Chen

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. Knowledge sciences and Nanatsudaki: A new model of knowledge creation processes

   • Andrzej P. Wierzbicki
   • Yoshiteru Nakamori

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2 - 21

3. Multiple criteria decision making: Discordant preferences and problem description

   • Alexey B. Petrovsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 22 - 33

4. Data crystallization applied for designing new products

   • Kenichi Horie
   • Yoshiharu Maeno
   • Yukio Ohsawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 34 - 49

5. Two-way road network design problem with variable lanes

   • Haozhi Zhang
   • Ziyou Gao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 50 - 61

6. A perishable inventory system with service facilities, MAP arrivals and PH — Service times

   • Paul Manuel
   • B. Sivakumar
   • G. Arivarignan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 62 - 73

7. A multi-objective robust operation model for electronic market enabled supply Chain with uncertain demands

   • Jiawang Xu
   • Xiaoyuan Huang
   • Nina Yan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 74 - 87

8. Fuzzy satisfying interactive multiobjective thermal power dispatch: SWT approach

   • Lakhwinder Singh
   • J. S. Dhillon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 88 - 106

9. Random evolving networks under the diameter and average connectivity constraint

   • Jianguo Liu
   • Zhongtuo Wang
   • Yanzhong Dang

   Technical Note Pages: 107 - 112

10. An approach to group decision making based on interval fuzzy preference relations

    • Yunliang Jiang

    Technical Note Pages: 113 - 120

11. The M/M/1 queue with working vacations and vacation interruptions

    • Jihong Li
    • Naishuo Tian

    Technical Note Pages: 121 - 127