European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 200

Volume 200, Number 1, January 2010

Discrete Optimization

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  Jitamitra Desai, Suvrajeet Sen:
  A global optimization algorithm for reliable network design. 1-8
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  Xueliang Li, Bolian Liu, Jianxi Liu:
  Complete solution to a conjecture on Randic index. 9-13
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  Nenad Mladenovic, Dragan Urosevic, Dionisio Pérez-Brito, Carlos G. García-González:
  Variable neighbourhood search for bandwidth reduction. 14-27
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  Carlos Obreque, Macarena Donoso, Gabriel Gutiérrez, Vladimir Marianov:
  A branch and cut algorithm for the hierarchical network design problem. 28-35
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  Rafael Martí, Micael Gallego, Abraham Duarte:
  A branch and bound algorithm for the maximum diversity problem. 36-44
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  Clarisse Dhaenens, Julien Lemesre, El-Ghazali Talbi:
  K-PPM: A new exact method to solve multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems. 45-53

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Gudrun P. Kiesmüller:
  Multi-item inventory control with full truckloads: A comparison of aggregate and individual order triggering. 54-62
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  Cheng-Min Feng, Pei-Ju Wu, Kai-Chieh Chia:
  A hybrid fuzzy integral decision-making model for locating manufacturing centers in China: A case study. 63-73
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  Kai Huang, Shabbir Ahmed:
  A stochastic programming approach for planning horizons of infinite horizon capacity planning problems. 74-84
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  Robert L. Burdett, Erhan Kozan:
  A disjunctive graph model and framework for constructing new train schedules. 85-98
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  Pankaj Dutta, Debjani Chakraborty:
  Incorporating one-way substitution policy into the newsboy problem with imprecise customer demand. 99-110
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  Wei-yu Kevin Chiang:
  Product availability in competitive and cooperative dual-channel distribution with stock-out based substitution. 111-126
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  Emanuele Borgonovo:
  Sensitivity analysis with finite changes: An application to modified EOQ models. 127-138
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  Geir Brønmo, Bjørn Nygreen, Jens Lysgaard:
  Column generation approaches to ship scheduling with flexible cargo sizes. 139-150

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Bernd Frick, Carlos Pestana Barros, Joachim Prinz:
  Analysing head coach dismissals in the German "Bundesliga" with a mixed logit approach. 151-159
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  Yi-Kuei Lin:
  Calculation of minimal capacity vectors through k minimal paths under budget and time constraints. 160-169
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  U. Dinesh Kumar, Haritha Saranga:
  Optimal selection of obsolescence mitigation strategies using a restless bandit model. 170-180

Decision Support

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  Eva-María Ortega, Laureano F. Escudero:
  On expected utility for financial insurance portfolios with stochastic dependencies. 181-186
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  Yujia Wang, Yupu Yang:
  Particle swarm with equilibrium strategy of selection for multi-objective optimization. 187-197
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  Majid Behzadian, Reza Baradaran Kazemzadeh, Amir Albadvi, Mohammad Aghdasi:
  PROMETHEE: A comprehensive literature review on methodologies and applications. 198-215

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Pierre Ouellette, Patrick Petit, Louis-Philippe Tessier-Parent, Stéphane Vigeant:
  Introducing regulation in the measurement of efficiency, with an application to the Canadian air carriers industry. 216-226
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  Edward J. Anderson, Yong Bao:
  Price competition with integrated and decentralized supply chains. 227-234
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  Zhipeng Lü, Jin-Kao Hao:
  Adaptive Tabu Search for course timetabling. 235-244
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  Carlos Bohle, Sergio Maturana, Jorge R. Vera:
  A robust optimization approach to wine grape harvesting scheduling. 245-252
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  Jordi Olivella, Albert Corominas, Rafael Pastor:
  An entropy-based measurement of working time flexibility. 253-260
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  Panos L. Lorentziadis:
  Post-objective determination of weights of the evaluation factors in public procurement tenders. 261-267
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  Zu-Hsu Lee, Shiming Deng, Beixin Lin, James G. S. Yang:
  Decision model and analysis for investment interest expense deduction and allocation. 268-280

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Stanko Dimitrov, Warren Sutton:
  Promoting symmetric weight selection in data envelopment analysis: A penalty function approach. 281-288
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  K. Sam Park:
  Duality, efficiency computations and interpretations in imprecise DEA. 289-296
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  Ali Emrouznejad, Abdel Latef Anouze, Emmanuel Thanassoulis:
  A semi-oriented radial measure for measuring the efficiency of decision making units with negative data, using DEA. 297-304

Short Communications

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  Stanislaw Gawiejnowicz, Alexander V. Kononov:
  Complexity and approximability of scheduling resumable proportionally deteriorating jobs. 305-308
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  Linhui Sun, Linyan Sun, Kai Cui, Ji-Bo Wang:
  A note on flow shop scheduling problems with deteriorating jobs on no-idle dominant machines. 309-311
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  Chenpeng Fu, Ali Lari-Lavassani, Xun Li:
  Dynamic mean-variance portfolio selection with borrowing constraint. 312-319
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  Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf:
  Directional distance functions and slacks-based measures of efficiency. 320-322

Volume 200, Number 2, January 2010

Discrete Optimization

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  Agha Iqbal Ali, Debra J. O'Connor:
  The impact of distribution system characteristics on computational tractability. 323-333
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  Irina N. Lushchakova, Vitaly A. Strusevich:
  Scheduling incompatible tasks on two machines. 334-346
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  Albert Corominas, Wieslaw Kubiak, Rafael Pastor:
  Mathematical programming modeling of the Response Time Variability Problem. 347-357
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  Sigrid Knust:
  Scheduling non-professional table-tennis leagues. 358-367

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Jinxing Xie, Deming Zhou, Jerry C. Wei, Xiande Zhao:
  Price discount based on early order commitment in a single manufacturer-multiple retailer supply chain. 368-376
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  Igor Averbakh:
  On-line integrated production-distribution scheduling problems with capacitated deliveries. 377-384
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  Pratik J. Parikh, Russell D. Meller:
  A travel-time model for a person-onboard order picking system. 385-394
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  Luigi De Giovanni, Ferdinando Pezzella:
  An Improved Genetic Algorithm for the Distributed and Flexible Job-shop Scheduling problem. 395-408
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  Dmitry A. Ivanov, Boris V. Sokolov, Joachim Kaeschel:
  A multi-structural framework for adaptive supply chain planning and operations control with structure dynamics considerations. 409-420
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  Kwangyeol Ryu, Enver Yücesan:
  A fuzzy newsvendor approach to supply chain coordination. 421-438
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  Christopher S. Tang, Rui Yin:
  The implications of costs, capacity, and competition on product line selection. 439-450
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  Shib Sankar Sana:
  A production-inventory model in an imperfect production process. 451-464

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Pedro Miranda, Michel Grabisch:
  k-Balanced games and capacities. 465-472
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  Kilhwan Kim, Kyung C. Chae:
  Discrete-time queues with discretionary priorities. 473-485
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  Anand Krishnamoorthy, Ashutosh Prasad, Suresh P. Sethi:
  Optimal pricing and advertising in a durable-good duopoly. 486-497
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  Jian Yang, Juan Cabrera, Tao Wang:
  Nonlinearity, data-snooping, and stock index ETF return predictability. 498-507
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  Young Hoon Lee:
  Group-specific stochastic production frontier models with parametric specifications. 508-517

Decision Support

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  Malgorzata Plaza, Ojelanki K. Ngwenyama, Katrin Rohlf:
  A comparative analysis of learning curves: Implications for new technology implementation management. 518-528
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  Nicholas Kalouptsidis, V. Psaraki:
  Approximations of choice probabilities in mixed logit models. 529-535
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  Yongping Li, Gordon H. Huang, Ping Guo, Z. F. Yang, Son-Lin Nie:
  A dual-interval vertex analysis method and its application to environmental decision making under uncertainty. 536-550
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  Nikolai Dokuchaev:
  Optimality of myopic strategies for multi-stock discrete time market with management costs. 551-556
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  Jingqiao Zhang, Viswanath Avasarala, Raj Subbu:
  Evolutionary optimization of transition probability matrices for credit decision-making. 557-567

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Andreas Behr:
  Quantile regression for robust bank efficiency score estimation. 568-581
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  Qiying Hu, Yihua Wei, Yusen Xia:
  Revenue management for a supply chain with two streams of customers. 582-598
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  Christian Almeder:
  A hybrid optimization approach for multi-level capacitated lot-sizing problems. 599-606
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  Luciano de Moraes, Renato Garcia, Leonardo Ensslin, Mário José da Conceição, Stella Maris de Carvalho:
  The multicriteria analysis for construction of benchmarkers to support the Clinical Engineering in the Healthcare Technology Management. 607-615

Short communications

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  Keiji Konishi:
  A tuning strategy to avoid blocking and starving in a buffered production line. 616-620
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  C. T. Ng, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov, T. C. E. Cheng:
  A simple FPTAS for a single-item capacitated economic lot-sizing problem with a monotone cost structure. 621-624
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  Dimitrios G. Pandelis:
  Markov decision processes with multidimensional action spaces. 625-628

Volume 200, Number 3, February 2010

Invited Review

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  Bernard Roy:
  Robustness in operational research and decision aiding: A multi-faceted issue. 629-638

Continuous Optimization

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  Thai Doan Chuong, Nguyen Quang Huy, Jen-Chih Yao:
  Pseudo-Lipschitz property of linear semi-infinite vector optimization problems. 639-644
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  Jin-Bao Jian, Chun-Ming Tang, Hai-Yan Zheng:
  Sequential quadratically constrained quadratic programming norm-relaxed algorithm of strongly sub-feasible directions. 645-657
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  Claus Still, Tapio Westerlund:
  A linear programming-based optimization algorithm for solving nonlinear programming problems. 658-670
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  Jianzhong Zhang, Chengxian Xu:
  Inverse optimization for linearly constrained convex separable programming problems. 671-679

Discrete Optimization

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  Adam Kasperski, Pawel Zielinski:
  Minmax regret approach and optimality evaluation in combinatorial optimization problems with interval and fuzzy weights. 680-687
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  Armin Scholl, Malte Fliedner, Nils Boysen:
  Absalom: Balancing assembly lines with assignment restrictions. 688-701
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  Chung-Lun Li, Xiuli Wang:
  Scheduling parallel machines with inclusive processing set restrictions and job release times. 702-710

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Cristián E. Cortés, Martín Matamala, Claudio Contardo:
  The pickup and delivery problem with transfers: Formulation and a branch-and-cut solution method. 711-724
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  Fredrik Olsson:
  An inventory model with unidirectional lateral transshipments. 725-732
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  Stefan Bock:
  Real-time control of freight forwarder transportation networks by integrating multimodal transport chains. 733-746
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  Mariá Cristina Vasconcelos Nascimento, Mauricio G. C. Resende, Franklina Maria Bragion Toledo:
  GRASP heuristic with path-relinking for the multi-plant capacitated lot sizing problem. 747-754
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  Christophe Theys, Olli Bräysy, Wout Dullaert, Birger Raa:
  Using a TSP heuristic for routing order pickers in warehouses. 755-763
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  Amir Rastpour, M. S. Esfahani:
  Mathematical models for selection of optimal place and size of connections considering the time-value of money. 764-773

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Desheng Dash Wu, Yidong Zhang, Dexiang Wu, David L. Olson:
  Fuzzy multi-objective programming for supplier selection and risk modeling: A possibility approach. 774-787
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  Gerwald van Gulick, Peter Borm, Anja De Waegenaere, Ruud Hendrickx:
  Deposit games with reinvestment. 788-799
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  Dong Ling Han, Loon Ching Tang, Huei Chuen Huang:
  A Markov model for single-leg air cargo revenue management under a bid-price policy. 800-811

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Anderson J. Brito, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Caroline M. M. Mota:
  A multicriteria model for risk sorting of natural gas pipelines based on ELECTRE TRI integrating Utility Theory. 812-821
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  Athanassios N. Avramidis, Wyean Chan, Michel Gendreau, Pierre L'Ecuyer, Ornella Pisacane:
  Optimizing daily agent scheduling in a multiskill call center. 822-832
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  Tomohiro Hayashida, Ichiro Nishizaki, Yoshifumi Ueda:
  Multiattribute utility analysis for policy selection and financing for the preservation of the forest. 833-843
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  Füsun Ülengin, Özgür Kabak, Sule Önsel, Burç Ülengin, Emel Aktas:
  A problem-structuring model for analyzing transportation-environment relationships. 844-859
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  Alain Hertz, Nadia Lahrichi, Marino Widmer:
  A flexible MILP model for multiple-shift workforce planning under annualized hours. 860-873
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  Siamak Haji Yakhchali, Seyed Hassan Ghodsypour:
  Computing latest starting times of activities in interval-valued networks with minimal time lags. 874-880
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  Jens Egeblad, Achille Claudio Garavelli, Stefano Lisi, David Pisinger:
  Heuristics for container loading of furniture. 881-892

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Martín Egozcue, Wing-Keung Wong:
  Gains from diversification on convex combinations: A majorization and stochastic dominance approach. 893-900
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  Kaoru Tone:
  Variations on the theme of slacks-based measure of efficiency in DEA. 901-907
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  Nigel Meade, Towhidul Islam:
  Using copulas to model repeat purchase behaviour - An exploratory analysis via a case study. 908-917

Short Communications

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  Benoît Sévi:
  The newsvendor problem under multiplicative background risk. 918-923
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  Jingyang Yang, Yoon Choi, Shenghong Li, Jinping Yu:
  A note on "Monte Carlo analysis of convertible bonds with reset clause". 924-925
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  Christos Koulamas, George J. Kyparisis:
  A note on the effects of downstream efficiency on upstream pricing. 926-928