1. Preface

   • Liming Liu
   • Shouyang Wang
   • Shaohui Zheng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 0 - 0

2. Sequential quality control in batch manufacturing

   • D.D. Yao
   • S. Zheng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 30

3. A review and interpretations of process capability indices

   • K. Palmer
   • K.-L. Tsui

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 47

4. Impact of dynamic decision making on hub‐and‐spoke freight transportationnetworks

   • R.K. Cheung
   • B. Muralidharan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 71

5. Estimation of the most likely equilibrium traffic queueing pattern in a capacityconstrained network

   • H. Yang
   • S.C. Wong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 85

6. Optimal pacing in an assembly-based multi-stage production system

   • J.J. Liu
   • H. Chen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 101

7. A discrete‐time model for perishable inventory systems

   • Z. Lian
   • L. Liu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 116

8. Fuzzy criterion models for inventory systems with partial backorders

   • B. Liu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 126

9. A comparison of unconstrained and constrained OLS for the combination ofdemand forecasts: A case study of the ordering and stocking of bank printed forms

   • C.K. Chan
   • B.G. Kingsman
   • H. Wong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 140

10. Modeling Shanghai stock market volatility

    • J. Xu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 152

11. An econometric analysis of development dynamics in modern Chinese industry

    • A.B. Hammer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 164

12. Logical analysis of Chinese labor productivity patterns

    • A.B. Hammer
    • P.L. Hammer
    • I. Muchnik

    OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 176

13. Modelling and forecasting the money demand in China: Cointegration and non‐linearanalysis

    • S. Deng
    • B. Liu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 189

14. A forecasting method for manpower requirement and related optimal decisions

    • Y. Guo
    • D. Pan
    • L. Zheng

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 198

15. Decision modelling of diversified project selection

    • K.K. Lai
    • J. Xue

    OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 212

16. Estimating the performance of Sino‐Hong Kong joint ventures using neuralnetwork ensembles

    • M.Y. Hu
    • M.S. Hung
    • M.S. Shanker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 232

17. Measuring the timing ability of mutual fund managers

    • Y. Yan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 234

18. A decomposition approximation for assembly‐disassembly queueing networkswith finite buffer and blocking

    • N. Asadathorn
    • X. Chao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 261

19. On performance potentials and conditional Monte Carlo for gradient estimationfor Markov chains

    • X.-R. Cao
    • M.C. Fu
    • J.-Q. Hu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 272

20. Basic adjoint relation for transient and stationary analysis of some Markovprocesses

    • H. Chen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 303

21. Revisiting the state transition frequency formula

    • D. Shi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 317

22. Busy periods of two‐stage tandem service systems and their algorithmic implementation

    • X.-M. Yuan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 332

23. A multi‐class cyclic arrival queue with a single server

    • H. Zhang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 350

24. A generalized projection quasi‐Newton method for nonlinear optimization problems

    • Y. Lai
    • Z. Gao
    • G. He

    OriginalPaper Pages: 353 - 362

25. A unified limited column generation approach for facility location problems ontrees

    • D.X. Shaw

    OriginalPaper Pages: 363 - 382

26. A class of constraint qualifications in nonsmooth optimization

    • G. Tian
    • X. Li
    • T. Zhao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 383 - 391

27. On quadratic convergence of the \(O\left( {\sqrt {nL} } \right)\)-iteration homogeneous and self‐duallinear programming algorithm

    • F. Wu
    • S. Wu
    • Y. Ye

    OriginalPaper Pages: 393 - 406

28. Trust region dogleg path algorithms for unconstrained minimization

    • J.-Z. Zhang
    • C.-X. Xu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 407 - 418