European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 204

Volume 204, Number 1, July 2010

Invited Review

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  Ramón M. Rodríguez-Dagnino, Hideaki Takagi:
  Application of renewal theory to call handover counting and dynamic location management in cellular mobile networks. 1-13

Discrete Optimization

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  Xiandong Zhang, Steef L. van de Velde:
  On-line two-machine open shop scheduling with time lags. 14-19
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  Margarida Corte-Real, Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia:
  A node rooted flow-based model for the local access network expansion problem. 20-34

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Géraldine Strack, Yves Pochet:
  An integrated model for warehouse and inventory planning. 35-50
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  Seow Lim, Michael J. Kuby:
  Heuristic algorithms for siting alternative-fuel stations using the Flow-Refueling Location Model. 51-61
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  Thierry Garaix, Christian Artigues, Dominique Feillet, Didier Josselin:
  Vehicle routing problems with alternative paths: An application to on-demand transportation. 62-75
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  Marco Bijvank, Ger Koole, Iris F. A. Vis:
  Optimising a general repair kit problem with a service constraint. 76-85
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  Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi, Jafar Heydari:
  Supply chain coordination for the joint determination of order quantity and reorder point using credit option. 86-95
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  Mingming Leng, Mahmut Parlar:
  Game-theoretic analyses of decentralized assembly supply chains: Non-cooperative equilibria vs. coordination with cost-sharing contracts. 96-104

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Laureano F. Escudero, María Araceli Garín, María Merino, Gloria Pérez:
  An exact algorithm for solving large-scale two-stage stochastic mixed-integer problems: Some theoretical and experimental aspects. 105-116
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  Baris Çiftçi, Peter Borm, Herbert Hamers:
  Highway games on weakly cyclic graphs. 117-124
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  Néstor E. Aguilera, Silvia C. Di Marco, Mariana S. Escalante:
  The Shapley value for arbitrary families of coalitions. 125-138
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  James W. Taylor:
  Triple seasonal methods for short-term electricity demand forecasting. 139-152

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Sophocles N. Brissimis, Manthos D. Delis, Efthymios G. Tsionas:
  Technical and allocative efficiency in European banking. 153-163
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  Ines Herrero, Inmaculada Algarrada:
  Is the new ECTS system better than the traditional one? An application to the ECTS pilot-project at the University Pablo de Olavide. 164-172
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  Frédéric Babonneau, Jean-Philippe Vial:
  A partitioning algorithm for the network loading problem. 173-179
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  Elías Moreno, Francisco Javier Girón, F. J. Vázquez-Polo, Miguel A. Negrín:
  Optimal healthcare decisions: Comparing medical treatments on a cost-effectiveness basis. 180-187

Volume 204, Number 2, July 2010

Invited Review

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  Meryem Duygun Fethi, Fotios Pasiouras:
  Assessing bank efficiency and performance with operational research and artificial intelligence techniques: A survey. 189-198

Discrete Optimization

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  João C. N. Clímaco, M. Eugénia V. Captivo, Marta M. B. Pascoal:
  On the bicriterion - minimal cost/minimal label - spanning tree problem. 199-205
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  Xavier Delorme, Xavier Gandibleux, Fabien Degoutin:
  Evolutionary, constructive and hybrid procedures for the bi-objective set packing problem. 206-217
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  Stefan Irnich:
  A new branch-and-price algorithm for the traveling tournament problem. 218-228
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  Yumei Huo, Joseph Y.-T. Leung:
  Parallel machine scheduling with nested processing set restrictions. 229-236
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  Isabel Correia, Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama:
  Discretized formulations for capacitated location problems with modular distribution costs. 237-244
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  Yaodong Cui, Yuli Yang:
  A heuristic for the one-dimensional cutting stock problem with usable leftover. 245-250
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  Raf Jans:
  Classification of Dantzig-Wolfe reformulations for binary mixed integer programming problems. 251-254

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Ying Wei, Tsan-Ming Choi:
  Mean-variance analysis of supply chains under wholesale pricing and profit sharing schemes. 255-262
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  Kevin M. Taaffe, Joseph Geunes, H. Edwin Romeijn:
  Supply capacity acquisition and allocation with uncertain customer demands. 263-273
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  Xiao Huang, Greys Sosic:
  Repeated newsvendor game with transshipments under dual allocations. 274-284

Decision Support

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  Deok-Hwan Kim, Kwang-Jae Kim, Kyung Sam Park:
  Compromising prioritization from pairwise comparisons considering type I and II errors. 285-293
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  Jianyong Chen, Qiuzhen Lin, Zhen Ji:
  A hybrid immune multiobjective optimization algorithm. 294-302
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  Lucie Galand, Patrice Perny, Olivier Spanjaard:
  Choquet-based optimisation in multiobjective shortest path and spanning tree problems. 303-315

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Özgür Özlük, Abdelghani A. Elimam, Eduardo Interaminense:
  Optimum service capacity and demand management with price incentives. 316-327
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  Fotios Pasiouras, Chrysovalantis Gaganis, Constantin Zopounidis:
  Multicriteria classification models for the identification of targets and acquirers in the Asian banking sector. 328-335
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  Nils Boysen, Malte Fliedner:
  Determining crane areas in intermodal transshipment yards: The yard partition problem. 336-342

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Homing Chen, Cheng-Feng Hu:
  A relaxed cutting plane algorithm for solving the Vasicek-type forward interest rate model. 343-354
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  Carlos R. García-Alonso, Mercedes Torres-Jiménez, César Hervás-Martínez:
  Income prediction in the agrarian sector using product unit neural networks. 355-365
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  Dimitrios A. Andritsos, Christopher S. Tang:
  Launching new products through exclusive sales channels. 366-375

Volume 204, Number 3, August 2010

Invited Review

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  Josefa Mula, David Peidro, Manuel Díaz-Madroñero, Eduardo Vicens:
  Mathematical programming models for supply chain production and transport planning. 377-390

Continuous Optimization

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  Bingsheng He, Xiaozheng He, Henry X. Liu:
  Solving a class of constrained 'black-box' inverse variational inequalities. 391-401
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  Izhar Ahmad, Z. Husain:
  On multiobjective second order symmetric duality with cone constraints. 402-409
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  Neculai Andrei:
  Accelerated scaled memoryless BFGS preconditioned conjugate gradient algorithm for unconstrained optimization. 410-420

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Kenan Arifoglu, Süleyman Özekici:
  Optimal policies for inventory systems with finite capacity and partially observed Markov-modulated demand and supply processes. 421-438
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  Margarita Protopappa-Sieke, Ralf W. Seifert:
  Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory control. 439-448
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  Xianghua Gan, Suresh P. Sethi, Jing Zhou:
  Commitment-penalty contracts in drop-shipping supply chains with asymmetric demand information. 449-462
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  Daniel Scholz, Florian Jaehn, Andreas Junker:
  Extensions to STaTS for practical applications of the facility layout problem. 463-472
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  Mohammed A. Darwish, O. M. Odah:
  Vendor managed inventory model for single-vendor multi-retailer supply chains. 473-484

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Emanuele Borgonovo:
  The reliability importance of components and prime implicants in coherent and non-coherent systems including total-order interactions. 485-495
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  Maikol Diasparra, Rosario Romera:
  Inequalities for the ruin probability in a controlled discrete-time risk process. 496-504
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  Matthias König, Joern Meissner:
  List pricing versus dynamic pricing: Impact on the revenue risk. 505-512
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  Phuc Do Van, Anne Barros, Christophe Bérenguer:
  From differential to difference importance measures for Markov reliability models. 513-521
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  Jesús Mario Bilbao, N. Jiménez, J. J. López:
  The selectope for bicooperative games. 522-532

Decision Support

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  Anna Syberfeldt, Amos H. C. Ng, Robert Ivor John, Philip R. Moore:
  Evolutionary optimisation of noisy multi-objective problems using confidence-based dynamic resampling. 533-544
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  Charles Audet, Gilles Savard, Walid Zghal:
  A mesh adaptive direct search algorithm for multiobjective optimization. 545-556
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  Mariano Luque, Francisco Ruiz, Ralph E. Steuer:
  Modified interactive Chebyshev algorithm (MICA) for convex multiobjective programming. 557-564
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  Juscelino Almeida Dias, José Rui Figueira, Bernard Roy:
  Electre Tri-C: A multiple criteria sorting method based on characteristic reference actions. 565-580
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  Markus Hirschberger, Yue Qi, Ralph E. Steuer:
  Large-scale MV efficient frontier computation via a procedure of parametric quadratic programming. 581-588
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  Michael Zhang, Peter C. Bell, Gangshu (George) Cai, Xiangfeng Chen:
  Optimal fences and joint price and inventory decisions in distinct markets with demand leakage. 589-596

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Joshua Landon, Fabrizio Ruggeri, Refik Soyer, M. Murat Tarimcilar:
  Modeling latent sources in call center arrival data. 597-603
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  Yash P. Aneja, Ramaswamy Chandrasekaran, Xiangyong Li, K. P. K. Nair:
  A branch-and-cut algorithm for the strong minimum energy topology in wireless sensor networks. 604-612
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  Manuela Pulina, Claudio Detotto, Antonello Paba:
  An investigation into the relationship between size and efficiency of the Italian hospitality sector: A window DEA approach. 613-620
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  Abdellah Menou, Abdelhanine Benallou, Risto Lahdelma, Pekka Salminen:
  Decision support for centralizing cargo at a Moroccan airport hub using stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis. 621-629
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  Nicolas Quérou, Mabel Tidball:
  Incomplete information, learning, and natural resource management. 630-638
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  Lana Mara Rodrigues dos Santos, Alysson M. Costa, Marcos Nereu Arenales, Ricardo Henrique Silva Santos:
  Sustainable vegetable crop supply problem. 639-647

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Sanjeev Swami, Arindam Dutta:
  Advertising strategies for new product diffusion in emerging markets: Propositions and analysis. 648-661
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  Sriram Dasu, Chunyang Tong:
  Dynamic pricing when consumers are strategic: Analysis of posted and contingent pricing schemes. 662-671
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  Biresh K. Sahoo, Debashis Acharya:
  An alternative approach to monetary aggregation in DEA. 672-682

Section end

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  Kun-Jen Chung:
  Some comments on the economic lot size of a three-stage supply chain with backordering derived without derivatives. 683-689
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  Anshul Sheopuri, Eitan Zemel:
  A note on the properties of the optimal solution(s) of the Greed and Regret problem. 690-693
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  Juan Du, Liang Liang, Joe Zhu:
  A slacks-based measure of super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis: A comment. 694-697

Book Review

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  Alec Morton:
  Decision behaviour, analysis and support, Simon French, John Maule, Nadia Papamichail. Cambridge University Press (2009). 472pp., GBP34.99. 698-699