European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 201

Volume 201, Number 1, February 2010

Invited Review

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  Etienne de Klerk:
  Exploiting special structure in semidefinite programming: A survey of theory and applications. 1-10

Continuous Optimization

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  César Gutiérrez, Bienvenido Jiménez, Vicente Novo:
  Optimality conditions via scalarization for a new epsilon-efficiency concept in vector optimization problems. 11-22
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  Alejandro Balbás, Raquel Balbás, José Garrido:
  Extending pricing rules with general risk functions. 23-33
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  Gregory A. Graman:
  A partial-postponement decision cost model. 34-44

Discrete Optimization

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  Boris Detienne, Eric Pinson, David Rivreau:
  Lagrangian domain reductions for the single machine earliness-tardiness problem with release dates. 45-54
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  Prahalad Venkateshan, Kamlesh Mathur, Ronald H. Ballou:
  Locating and staffing service centers under service level constraints. 55-70
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  Maria Albareda-Sambola, Juan A. Díaz, Elena Fernández:
  Lagrangean duals and exact solution to the capacitated p-center problem. 71-81
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  Reza Zamani, Sim Kim Lau:
  Embedding learning capability in Lagrangean relaxation: An application to the travelling salesman problem. 82-88
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  Fatih Safa Erenay, Ihsan Sabuncuoglu, Aysegül Toptal, Manoj Kumar Tiwari:
  New solution methods for single machine bicriteria scheduling problem: Minimization of average flowtime and number of tardy jobs. 89-98

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Lawrence D. Fredendall, Divesh Ojha, J. Wayne Patterson:
  Concerning the theory of workload control. 99-111
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  L. Yang, C. T. Ng, T. C. Edwin Cheng:
  Evaluating the effects of distribution centres on the performance of vendor-managed inventory systems. 112-122
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  Zhe Song, Andrew Kusiak:
  Mining Pareto-optimal modules for delayed product differentiation. 123-128
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  Fei Tao, Dongming Zhao, Yefa Hu, Zude Zhou:
  Correlation-aware resource service composition and optimal-selection in manufacturing grid. 129-143
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  Mariano Gallo, Luca D'Acierno, Bruno Montella:
  A meta-heuristic approach for solving the Urban Network Design Problem. 144-157
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  Shib Sankar Sana:
  An economic production lot size model in an imperfect production system. 158-170
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  Alan R. McKendall Jr., Artak Hakobyan:
  Heuristics for the dynamic facility layout problem with unequal-area departments. 171-182
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  Frederico R. B. Cruz, Tom Van Woensel, James MacGregor Smith, Kris Lieckens:
  On the system optimum of traffic assignment in M/G/c/c state-dependent queueing networks. 183-193

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Athanasios L. Athanasenas:
  Credit, income, and causality: A contemporary co-integration analysis. 194-205
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  Piotr Nowak, Maciej Romaniuk:
  Computing option price for Levy process with fuzzy parameters. 206-210
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  Ricardo Josa-Fombellida, Juan Pablo Rincón-Zapatero:
  Optimal asset allocation for aggregated defined benefit pension funds with stochastic interest rates. 211-221
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  Toshikazu Kimura:
  Valuing continuous-installment options. 222-230
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  Roberto da Costa Quinino, Emerson C. Colin, Linda Lee Ho:
  Diagnostic errors and repetitive sequential classifications in on-line process control by attributes. 231-238
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  Wenbin Wang:
  A model for maintenance service contract design, negotiation and optimization. 239-246
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  Nir Perel, Uri Yechiali:
  Queues with slow servers and impatient customers. 247-258

Decision Support

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  Harri Ehtamo, Kimmo Berg, Mitri Kitti:
  An adjustment scheme for nonlinear pricing problem with two buyers. 259-266
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  Arthur Hau:
  Comparative statics of changes in risk on monotonically and partially responsive kinked payoffs. 267-276
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  Silvia Angilella, Salvatore Greco, Benedetto Matarazzo:
  Non-additive robust ordinal regression: A multiple criteria decision model based on the Choquet integral. 277-288

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Domenico Conforti, Francesca Guerriero, Rosita Guido:
  Non-block scheduling with priority for radiotherapy treatments. 289-296
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  Subhash C. Ray, Abhiman Das:
  Distribution of cost and profit efficiency: Evidence from Indian banking. 297-307
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  Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Gernot Tragler, Dagmar Wallner:
  When in a drug epidemic should the policy objective switch from use reduction to harm reduction? 308-318

Short Communications

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  Tarik Driouchi, David J. Bennett, Gary Simpson:
  A path-dependent contingent-claims approach to capacity investments. 319-323
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  Mustafa Karakul, Lap Mui Ann Chan:
  Joint pricing and procurement of substitutable products with random demands - A technical note. 324-328
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  Michael Short:
  A note on 'Efficient scheduling of periodic information monitoring requests'. 329-335

Corrigendum

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  Rafael Pastor, Carlos Andrés, Cristóbal Miralles:
  Corrigendum to "Balancing and scheduling tasks in assembly lines with sequence-dependent setup" [European Journal of Operational Research 187 (2008) 1212-1223]. 336

Volume 201, Number 2, March 2010

Invited Review

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  Francisco Jareño, Eliseo Navarro:
  Stock interest rate risk and inflation shocks. 337-348

Continuous Optimization

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  Mei Yu, Satoru Takahashi, Hiroshi Inoue, Shouyang Wang:
  Dynamic portfolio optimization with risk control for absolute deviation model. 349-364
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  Sissy da S. Souza, P. Roberto Oliveira, João Xavier da Cruz Neto, Antoine Soubeyran:
  A proximal method with separable Bregman distances for quasiconvex minimization over the nonnegative orthant. 365-376
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  Peng-Yeng Yin, Fred W. Glover, Manuel Laguna, Jia-Xian Zhu:
  Cyber Swarm Algorithms - Improving particle swarm optimization using adaptive memory strategies. 377-389
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  Vincent Charles, A. Udhayakumar, V. Rhymend Uthariaraj:
  An approach to find redundant objective function(s) and redundant constraint(s) in multi-objective nonlinear stochastic fractional programming problems. 390-398

Discrete Optimization

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  Jurij Mihelic, Amine Mahjoub, Christophe Rapine, Borut Robic:
  Two-stage flexible-choice problems under uncertainty. 399-403
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  Gur Mosheiov, Assaf Sarig:
  Minimum weighted number of tardy jobs on an m-machine flow-shop with a critical machine. 404-408
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  Vincent Van Peteghem, Mario Vanhoucke:
  A genetic algorithm for the preemptive and non-preemptive multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem. 409-418

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Brigitte Werners, Thomas Wülfing:
  Robust optimization of internal transports at a parcel sorting center operated by Deutsche Post World Net. 419-426
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  J. MacGregor Smith, Frederico R. B. Cruz, Tom Van Woensel:
  Topological network design of general, finite, multi-server queueing networks. 427-441
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  Onur Kaya:
  Incentive and production decisions for remanufacturing operations. 442-453
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  Qi Fu, Kaijie Zhu:
  Endogenous information acquisition in supply chain management. 454-462
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  Xiaolei Guo, Hai Yang, Tian-Liang Liu:
  Bounding the inefficiency of logit-based stochastic user equilibrium. 463-469

Decision Support

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  Murat Köksalan, Tayyar Büyükbasaran, Özgür Özpeynirci, Jyrki Wallenius:
  A flexible approach to ranking with an application to MBA Programs. 470-476
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  Yu-Chiun Chiou, Lawrence W. Lan, Barbara T. H. Yen:
  A joint measurement of efficiency and effectiveness for non-storable commodities: Integrated data envelopment analysis approaches. 477-489
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  Giuseppe Paleologo, André Elisseeff, Gianluca Antonini:
  Subagging for credit scoring models. 490-499
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  Emilio Carrizosa:
  Unequal probability sampling from a finite population: A multicriteria approach. 500-504
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  Carlo Alberto Magni:
  Residual income and value creation: An investigation into the lost-capital paradigm. 505-519
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  Ethem Çanakoglu, Süleyman Özekici:
  Portfolio selection in stochastic markets with HARA utility functions. 520-536
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  Eduardo Conde, María de la Paz Rivera Pérez:
  A linear optimization problem to derive relative weights using an interval judgement matrix. 537-544
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  Cyril Ryu, Raj Sharman, H. Raghav Rao, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya:
  Security protection design for deception and real system regimes: A model and analysis. 545-556

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Olivier Guyon, Pierre Lemaire, Eric Pinson, David Rivreau:
  Cut generation for an integrated employee timetabling and production scheduling problem. 557-567
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  Mithun J. Sharma, Song Jin Yu:
  Benchmark optimization and attribute identification for improvement of container terminals. 568-580
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  Charles L. Munson, Jianli Hu:
  Incorporating quantity discounts and their inventory impacts into the centralized purchasing decision. 581-592
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  G. Yazgi Tütüncü:
  An interactive GRAMPS algorithm for the heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem with and without backhauls. 593-600
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  Jhieh-Yu Shyng, How-Ming Shieh, Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng, Shu-Huei Hsieh:
  Using FSBT technique with Rough Set Theory for personal investment portfolio analysis. 601-607

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Rick L. Andrews, Michael J. Brusco, Imran S. Currim:
  Amalgamation of partitions from multiple segmentation bases: A comparison of non-model-based and model-based methods. 608-618
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  Liang-Hsuan Chen, Wen-Chang Ko:
  Fuzzy linear programming models for NPD using a four-phase QFD activity process based on the means-end chain concept. 619-632
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  Luiza Badin, Cinzia Daraio, Léopold Simar:
  Optimal bandwidth selection for conditional efficiency measures: A data-driven approach. 633-640

Short Communications

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  Yuan-Shyi Peter Chiu, Chia-Kuan Ting:
  A note on "Determining the optimal run time for EPQ model with scrap, rework, and stochastic breakdowns". 641-643
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  Emmett J. Lodree Jr., Christopher D. Geiger:
  A note on the optimal sequence position for a rate-modifying activity under simple linear deterioration. 644-648
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  Shiv Kumar Gupta, Navdeep Kailey:
  A note on multiobjective second-order symmetric duality. 649-651

Volume 201, Number 3, March 2010

Continuous Optimization

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  Pavlo A. Krokhmal, Policarpio Soberanis:
  Risk optimization with p-order conic constraints: A linear programming approach. 653-671
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  Manuel Arana-Jiménez, Gabriel Ruiz Garzón, Antonio Rufián-Lizana, Rafaela Osuna Gómez:
  A necessary and sufficient condition for duality in multiobjective variational problems. 672-681
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  Ya-Ping Fang, Nan-Jing Huang, Jen-Chih Yao:
  Well-posedness by perturbations of mixed variational inequalities in Banach spaces. 682-692

Discrete Optimization

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  Ming Liu, Chengbin Chu, Yinfeng Xu, Feifeng Zheng:
  An optimal online algorithm for single machine scheduling with bounded delivery times. 693-700
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  Harald Reinertsen, Thomas W. M. Vossen:
  The one-dimensional cutting stock problem with due dates. 701-711
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  Gur Mosheiov, Assaf Sarig:
  Scheduling identical jobs and due-window on uniform machines. 712-719
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  Marie E. Matta, Salah E. Elmaghraby:
  Polynomial time algorithms for two special classes of the proportionate multiprocessor open shop. 720-728
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  Marie-Christine Plateau, Yasmín Á. Ríos-Solís:
  Optimal solutions for unrelated parallel machines scheduling problems using convex quadratic reformulations. 729-736

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Jun Lin, Yanjun Qian, Wentian Cui, Zhanli Miao:
  Overlapping and communication policies in product development. 737-750
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  Guenther Fuellerer, Karl F. Doerner, Richard F. Hartl, Manuel Iori:
  Metaheuristics for vehicle routing problems with three-dimensional loading constraints. 751-759
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  Jun Ru, Yunzeng Wang:
  Consignment contracting: Who should control inventory in the supply chain? 760-769

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Mustafa Ç. Pinar, Aslihan Altay-Salih, Ahmet Camci:
  Expected gain-loss pricing and hedging of contingent claims in incomplete markets by linear programming. 770-785
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  Gennadi Falin:
  A single-server batch arrival queue with returning customers. 786-790
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  Sophie Hautphenne, Benny Van Houdt:
  On the link between Markovian trees and tree-structured Markov chains. 791-798
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  Yanfeng Ouyang, Xiaopeng Li:
  The bullwhip effect in supply chain networks. 799-810
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  Gustavo Bergantiños, Juan J. Vidal-Puga:
  Realizing fair outcomes in minimum cost spanning tree problems through non-cooperative mechanisms. 811-820
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  Effie Papageorgiou, George Kokolakis:
  Reliability analysis of a two-unit general parallel system with (n-2) warm standbys. 821-827

Decision Support

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  Luis C. Dias, Claude Lamboray:
  Extensions of the prudence principle to exploit a valued outranking relation. 828-837
• 
  Hong Sik Kim, So Young Sohn:
  Support vector machines for default prediction of SMEs based on technology credit. 838-846
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  Parag C. Pendharkar:
  Valuing interdependent multi-stage IT investments: A real options approach. 847-859
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  Jesús Marín-Solano, Jorge Navas:
  Consumption and portfolio rules for time-inconsistent investors. 860-872

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Maria Psillaki, Ioannis E. Tsolas, Dimitris Margaritis:
  Evaluation of credit risk based on firm performance. 873-881
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  Masoumeh Kazemi Zanjani, Daoud Ait-Kadi, Mustapha Nourelfath:
  Robust production planning in a manufacturing environment with random yield: A case in sawmill production planning. 882-891
• 
  Manuel Abellanas, M. Dolores López, Javier Rodrigo:
  Searching for equilibrium positions in a game of political competition with restrictions. 892-896
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  Shaoxiang Chen, Guillermo Gallego, Michael Z. F. Li, Bing Lin:
  Optimal seat allocation for two-flight problems with a flexible demand segment. 897-908
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  Carlos Manuel Ferreira Monteiro, Sally Dibb, Luis Tadeu Almeida:
  Revealing doctors' prescribing choice dimensions with multivariate tools: A perceptual mapping approach. 909-920
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  Brecht Cardoen, Erik Demeulemeester, Jeroen Beliën:
  Operating room planning and scheduling: A literature review. 921-932
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  Kankana Mukherjee:
  Measuring energy efficiency in the context of an emerging economy: The case of indian manufacturing. 933-941
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  Suvankar Ghosh, Marvin D. Troutt, John H. Thornton, O. Felix Offodile:
  An empirical method for assessing the research relevance gap. 942-948
• 
  Xiu-Hao Ding, Rui-Hua Huang:
  Effects of knowledge spillover on inter-organizational resource sharing decision in collaborative knowledge creation. 949-959

Short Communications

• 
  Kit-Nam Francis Leung:
  Some comments on "A simple method to compute economic order quantities". 960-961
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  A. Hadi-Vencheh:
  An improvement to multiple criteria ABC inventory classification. 962-965
• 
  Cheng He, Yixun Lin, Jinjiang Yuan:
  A note on the single machine scheduling to minimize the number of tardy jobs with deadlines. 966-970

Erratum

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  Retraction notice to "Pricing Currency Option Based on Fuzzy Techniques" [EOR 193 (2009) 530-540]. 971