European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 252

Volume 252, Number 1, July 2016

Invited Review

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  Aris A. Syntetos, M. Zied Babai, John E. Boylan, Stephan Kolassa, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos:
  Supply chain forecasting: Theory, practice, their gap and the future. 1-26

Discrete Optimization

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  Yuan Li, Haoxun Chen, Christian Prins:
  Adaptive large neighborhood search for the pickup and delivery problem with time windows, profits, and reserved requests. 27-38
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  Pieter Vansteenwegen, Thijs Dewilde, Sofie Burggraeve, Dirk Cattrysse:
  An iterative approach for reducing the impact of infrastructure maintenance on the performance of railway systems. 39-53
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  Andreas Holzapfel, Alexander H. Hübner, Heinrich Kuhn, Michael G. Sternbeck:
  Delivery pattern and transportation planning in grocery retailing. 54-68
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  Xiandong Zhang, Yeming (Yale) Gong, Shuyu Zhou, René de Koster, Steef L. van de Velde:
  Increasing the revenue of self-storage warehouses by optimizing order scheduling. 69-78
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  Dvir Shabtay:
  Optimal restricted due date assignment in scheduling. 79-89
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  Ahmed Gara-Ali, Gerd Finke, Marie-Laure Espinouse:
  Parallel-machine scheduling with maintenance: Praising the assignment problem. 90-97
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  Frank Plastria:
  How bad can the centroid be? 98-102
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  Hossein Zolfagharinia, Michael A. Haughton:
  Effective truckload dispatch decision methods with incomplete advance load information. 103-121
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  Leonardo Taccari:
  Integer programming formulations for the elementary shortest path problem. 122-130
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  Christos Koulamas, S. S. Panwalkar:
  The proportionate two-machine no-wait job shop scheduling problem. 131-135

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Bissan Ghaddar, Nizar Sakr, Yaw Asiedu:
  Spare parts stocking analysis using genetic programming. 136-144
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  Margarita Protopappa-Sieke, Marcel A. Sieke, Ulrich W. Thonemann:
  Optimal two-period inventory allocation under multiple service level contracts. 145-155
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  Dirk Briskorn, Philipp Zeise, Josef Packowski:
  Quasi-fixed cyclic production schemes for multiple products with stochastic demand. 156-169
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  Fei Qin, Feng Mai, Michael J. Fry, Amitabh S. Raturi:
  Supply-chain performance anomalies: Fairness concerns under private cost information. 170-182

Decision Support

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  Junseok Kim, Taekkeun Kim, Jae-Hyun Jo, Yongho Choi, Seunggyu Lee, Hyeongseok Hwang, Minhyun Yoo, Darae Jeong:
  A practical finite difference method for the three-dimensional Black-Scholes equation. 183-190
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  Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco, Roman Slowinski:
  Multiple Criteria Hierarchy Process for ELECTRE Tri methods. 191-203
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  Alexandre S. Freire, Eduardo Moreno, Wilfredo F. Yushimito:
  A branch-and-bound algorithm for the maximum capture problem with random utilities. 204-212
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  Jianqiang Cheng, Janny Leung, Abdel Lisser:
  Random-payoff two-person zero-sum game with joint chance constraints. 213-219
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  Raphael N. Markellos, Dimitris Psychoyios, Friedrich Schneider:
  Sovereign debt markets in light of the shadow economy. 220-231
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  Orrin Cooper, Idil Yavuz:
  Linking validation: A search for coherency within the Supermatrix. 232-245
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  Fei He, Jun Zhuang:
  Balancing pre-disaster preparedness and post-disaster relief. 246-256

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Thije van Barneveld, Sandjai Bhulai, Robert D. van der Mei:
  The effect of ambulance relocations on the performance of ambulance service providers. 257-269
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  Aude Ridier, Karim Chaib, Caroline Roussy:
  A Dynamic Stochastic Programming model of crop rotation choice to test the adoption of long rotation under price and production risks. 270-279
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  Yizhe Dong, Michael Firth, Wenxuan Hou, Weiwei Yang:
  Evaluating the performance of Chinese commercial banks: A comparative analysis of different types of banks. 280-295
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  Chiara Bordin, Angelo Gordini, Daniele Vigo:
  An optimization approach for district heating strategic network design. 296-307
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  Bjarne Steffen, Christoph Weber:
  Optimal operation of pumped-hydro storage plants with continuous time-varying power prices. 308-321
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  Bradford S. Westgate, Dawn B. Woodard, David S. Matteson, Shane G. Henderson:
  Large-network travel time distribution estimation for ambulances. 322-333
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  Duncan T. Wilson, Glenn I. Hawe, Graham Coates, Roger S. Crouch:
  Online optimization of casualty processing in major incident response: An experimental analysis. 334-348

Corrigendum

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  Armand Hatchuel, Hugues Molet:
  Corrigendum to "Rational modelling in understanding and aiding human decision-making: About two case studies" [European Journal of Operational Research 24 (1986) 178-186]. 349

Volume 252, Number 2, July 2016

Invited Review

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  Walter J. Gutjahr, Pamela C. Nolz:
  Multicriteria optimization in humanitarian aid. 351-366

Discrete Optimization

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  Byung-Cheon Choi, Kwanghun Chung:
  Min-max regret version of a scheduling problem with outsourcing decisions under processing time uncertainty. 367-375
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  B. Q. Fan, T. C. E. Cheng:
  Two-agent scheduling in a flowshop. 376-384
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  Raca Todosijevic, Rachid Benmansour, Saïd Hanafi, Nenad Mladenovic, Abdelhakim Artiba:
  Nested general variable neighborhood search for the periodic maintenance problem. 385-396
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  Mirko Ruokokoski, Janne Sorsa, Marja-Liisa Siikonen, Harri Ehtamo:
  Assignment formulation for the Elevator Dispatching Problem with destination control and its performance analysis. 397-406
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  Charly Lersteau, André Rossi, Marc Sevaux:
  Robust scheduling of wireless sensor networks for target tracking under uncertainty. 407-417
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  Kenneth D. Kuhn, Andrea Raith, Marie Schmidt, Anita Schöbel:
  Bi-objective robust optimisation. 418-431
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  J. Manuel Colmenar, Peter Greistorfer, Rafael Martí, Abraham Duarte:
  Advanced Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure for the Obnoxious p-Median problem. 432-442

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Yu Xiong, Pei Zhao, Zhongkai Xiong, Gendao Li:
  The impact of product upgrading on the decision of entrance to a secondary market. 443-454
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  Min Wen, Rui Li, Kim Bang Salling:
  Optimization of preventive condition-based tamping for railway tracks. 455-465
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  Masoumeh Kazemi Zanjani, Omid Sanei Bajgiran, Mustapha Nourelfath:
  A hybrid scenario cluster decomposition algorithm for supply chain tactical planning under uncertainty. 466-476

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Yiannis Dimitrakopoulos, Apostolos N. Burnetas:
  Customer equilibrium and optimal strategies in an M/M/1 queue with dynamic service control. 477-486
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  Alois Pichler, Asgeir Tomasgard:
  Nonlinear stochastic programming-With a case study in continuous switching. 487-501
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  Gurcan Comert:
  Queue length estimation from probe vehicles at isolated intersections: Estimators for primary parameters. 502-521
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  Miguel A. Lejeune, Siqian Shen:
  Multi-objective probabilistically constrained programs with variable risk: Models for multi-portfolio financial optimization. 522-539
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  Georg Schildbach, Manfred Morari:
  Scenario-based model predictive control for multi-echelon supply chain management. 540-549

Decision Support

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  Naoshi Shiono, Hisatoshi Suzuki:
  Optimal pipe-sizing problem of tree-shaped gas distribution networks. 550-560
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  Deron Liang, Chia-Chi Lu, Chih-Fong Tsai, Guan-An Shih:
  Financial ratios and corporate governance indicators in bankruptcy prediction: A comprehensive study. 561-572
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  Daniel Jornada, V. Jorge Leon:
  Biobjective robust optimization over the efficient set for Pareto set reduction. 573-586
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  Georgia Dede, Thomas Kamalakis, Thomas Sphicopoulos:
  Theoretical estimation of the probability of weight rank reversal in pairwise comparisons. 587-600
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  Radko Mesiar, Anna Kolesárová, Humberto Bustince, Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro, Benjamín R. C. Bedregal:
  Fusion functions based discrete Choquet-like integrals. 601-609
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  Elisabeth C. Paulson, Igor Linkov, Jeffrey M. Keisler:
  A game theoretic model for resource allocation among countermeasures with multiple attributes. 610-622

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Inkyung Sung, Taesik Lee:
  Optimal allocation of emergency medical resources in a mass casualty incident: Patient prioritization by column generation. 623-634
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  Fabricio Oliveira, P. M. Nunes, R. Blajberg, Silvio Hamacher:
  A framework for crude oil scheduling in an integrated terminal-refinery system under supply uncertainty. 635-645
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  Tobias Baltensperger, Rudolf M. Füchslin, Pius Krütli, John Lygeros:
  Multiplicity of equilibria in conjectural variations models of natural gas markets. 646-656
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  Keith A. Willoughby, Benjamin T. B. Chan, Shauna Marques:
  Using simulation to test ideas for improving speech language pathology services. 657-664

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Barnabé Walheer:
  Growth and convergence of the OECD countries: A multi-sector production-frontier approach. 665-675
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  Winston S. Buckley, Hongwei Long, Mario Marshall:
  Numerical approximations of optimal portfolios in mispriced asymmetric Lévy markets. 676-686
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  Tom Pape:
  Prioritising data items for business analytics: Framework and application to human resources. 687-698

Volume 252, Number 3, August 2016

In Memoriam

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  Jakob Krarup, Graham K. Rand:
  Maurice F. Shutler (1931-2015). 699-700

Invited Review

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  Fani Boukouvala, Ruth Misener, Christodoulos A. Floudas:
  Global optimization advances in Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming, MINLP, and Constrained Derivative-Free Optimization, CDFO. 701-727

Discrete Optimization

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  Sheng Liu, Hongxia Zhao, Xisong Dong, Changjian Cheng:
  A heuristic algorithm for container loading of pallets with infill boxes. 728-736
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  Yunqiang Yin, T. C. E. Cheng, Dujuan Wang:
  Rescheduling on identical parallel machines with machine disruptions to minimize total completion time. 737-749
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  Boris Detienne, Ruslan Sadykov, Shunji Tanaka:
  The two-machine flowshop total completion time problem: Branch-and-bound algorithms based on network-flow formulation. 750-760
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  Isma Dahmani, Mhand Hifi, Lei Wu:
  An exact decomposition algorithm for the generalized knapsack sharing problem. 761-774

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Ahmad Hemmati, Lars Magnus Hvattum, Marielle Christiansen, Gilbert Laporte:
  An iterative two-phase hybrid matheuristic for a multi-product short sea inventory-routing problem. 775-788
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  Foad Iravani, Sriram Dasu, Reza H. Ahmadi:
  Beyond price mechanisms: How much can service help manage the competition from gray markets? 789-800
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  Pedro Amorim, Eduardo Curcio, Bernardo Almada-Lobo, Ana Paula F. D. Barbosa-Póvoa, Ignacio E. Grossmann:
  Supplier selection in the processed food industry under uncertainty. 801-814
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  Joseph Geunes, H. Edwin Romeijn, Wilco van den Heuvel:
  Improving the efficiency of decentralized supply chains with fixed ordering costs. 815-828

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Liangxing Shi, Dennis K. J. Lin, John J. Peterson:
  A confidence region for the ridge path in multiple response surface optimization. 829-836
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  Haixiang Yao, Zhongfei Li, Duan Li:
  Multi-period mean-variance portfolio selection with stochastic interest rate and uncontrollable liability. 837-851
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  Juan Eloy Ruiz-Castro:
  Complex multi-state systems modelled through marked Markovian arrival processes. 852-865
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  Na Li, David A. Stanford:
  Multi-server accumulating priority queues with heterogeneous servers. 866-878

Decision Support

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  Wei Wang, Liying Wang, Yingjie Lan, Jean X. Zhang:
  Competitive difference analysis of the one-way trading problem with limited information. 879-887
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  David Ríos Insua, Javier Cano-Montero, Michael Pellot, Ricardo Ortega:
  Multithreat multisite protection: A security case study. 888-899
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  Geoffrey A. Chua, Wei Shi Lim, Wee Meng Yeo:
  Market structure and the value of overselling under stochastic demands. 900-909
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  Edward N. C. Tong, Christophe Mues, Iain Brown, Lyn C. Thomas:
  Exposure at default models with and without the credit conversion factor. 910-920
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  D. V. Borrero, Miguel A. Hinojosa, Amparo M. Mármol:
  DEA production games and Owen allocations. 921-930
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  Thomas Fliedner, Juuso Liesiö:
  Adjustable robustness for multi-attribute project portfolio selection. 931-946
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  Malgorzata Przybyla-Kasperek, Alicja Wakulicz-Deja:
  The strength of coalition in a dispersed decision support system with negotiations. 947-968

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Kanchana Sethanan, Woraya Neungmatcha:
  Multi-objective particle swarm optimization for mechanical harvester route planning of sugarcane field operations. 969-984
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  Xinan Yang, Alexei Vernitski, Laura Carrea:
  An approximate dynamic programming approach for improving accuracy of lossy data compression by Bloom filters. 985-994
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  Gerhard Hiermann, Jakob Puchinger, Stefan Ropke, Richard F. Hartl:
  The Electric Fleet Size and Mix Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Recharging Stations. 995-1018
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  Matthieu Gérard, François Clautiaux, Ruslan Sadykov:
  Column generation based approaches for a tour scheduling problem with a multi-skill heterogeneous workforce. 1019-1030
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  Dusan Ku, Tiru S. Arthanari:
  Container relocation problem with time windows for container departure. 1031-1039