European Journal of Operational Research

Co-ordinating Editor: R. Slowinski Inst. of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 2, PL-60-965 Poznan, Poland, Fax: 48 61 8771525, Editors: I. Bomze Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, 1010 Wien, Austria, Tel: +43-1-4277.38652, Fax: +43-1-4277.38699, J.-C. Billaut Lab. of Computer Science, Université Francois Rabelais de Tours, 64 avenue Jean Portalis, 37200 Tours, France, Fax: +33-2-47-36-14-22, R. Dyson Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK, L. Peccati Dept. of Decision Sciences, Università Bocconi, Via Roentgen 1, 20139 Milano, Italy, Editorial Board: S. Axsäter Lund University, Lund, Sweden, E. Balas Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, V. Belton University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, A. Ben-Tal Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, E. Borgonovo Università Bocconi, Milano, Italy, R.E. Burkard Technische Universität Graz, Graz, Austria, J. Carlier Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, Compiegne Cedex, France, W.D. Cook York University, Toronto, Canada, W.W. Cooper The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, D. de Werra École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, K. Deb Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, S.M. Disney Cardiff Business School, Cardiff, UK, J. Fodor Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary, M. Gendreau Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, R.P Hämäläinen Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, M. Inuiguchi Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, J.P.C. Kleijnen Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands, C. Koulamas Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA, M.Y. Kovalyov National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), Minsk, Belarus, U. Leopold-Wildburger Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, Austria, B. Matarazzo Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy, V. Paschos Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris Cedex 16, France, E. Pesch Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany, D. Pisinger University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, J.A.C. Resing Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands, B. Roy Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris Cedex 16, France, R. Ruiz Garcia Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, Y. Siskos University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece, F. Sourd Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France, T.S. Spengler Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, E. Taillard University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Yverdon Les Bains, Switzerland, K.C. Tan National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore, J. Teghem Université de Mons, Mons, Belgium, J.E Teich New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA, T. Terlaky Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, E. Thanassoulis Aston University, Birmingham, UK, M.K. Tiwari IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, P. Toth Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, J. Wallenius Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, J. Weglarz Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, H. Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, C. Zopounidis Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, Book Review Editor: J.R. Figueira Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal