European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 221

Volume 221, Number 1, August 2012

Discrete Optimization

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  C. W. Duin, A. Volgenant:
  On weighting two criteria with a parameter in combinatorial optimization problems. 1-6
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  S. S. Panwalkar, Christos Koulamas:
  An O(n²) algorithm for the variable common due date, minimal tardy jobs bicriteria two-machine flow shop problem with ordered machines. 7-13
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  Liji Shen, Udo Buscher:
  Solving the serial batching problem in job shop manufacturing systems. 14-26
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  Julia Rieck, Jürgen Zimmermann, Thorsten Gather:
  Mixed-integer linear programming for resource leveling problems. 27-37
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  Xiaojin Zheng, Xiaoling Sun, Duan Li, Xueting Cui:
  Lagrangian decomposition and mixed-integer quadratic programming reformulations for probabilistically constrained quadratic programs. 38-48

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Elena Ciancimino, Salvatore Cannella, Manfredi Bruccoleri, Jose M. Framiñan:
  On the Bullwhip Avoidance Phase: The Synchronised Supply Chain. 49-63
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  Xinjia Jiang, Loo Hay Lee, Ek Peng Chew, Yongbin Han, Kok Choon Tan:
  A container yard storage strategy for improving land utilization and operation efficiency in a transshipment hub port. 64-73
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  Purushothaman Damodaran, Maria Hulett:
  Analytical approximations to predict performance measures of manufacturing systems with general distributions, job failures and parallel processing. 74-86
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  Wei Xing, Shouyang Wang, Liming Liu:
  Optimal ordering and pricing strategies in the presence of a B2B spot market. 87-98
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  Xueping Li, Jiao Wang, Rapinder Sawhney:
  Reinforcement learning for joint pricing, lead-time and scheduling decisions in make-to-order systems. 99-109
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  M. Ali Ülkü, James H. Bookbinder:
  Optimal quoting of delivery time by a third party logistics provider: The impact of shipment consolidation and temporal pricing schemes. 110-117
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  Haitao Li, Keith Womer:
  Optimizing the supply chain configuration for make-to-order manufacturing. 118-128

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Ethem Çanakoglu, Süleyman Özekici:
  HARA frontiers of optimal portfolios in stochastic markets. 129-137
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  Yong Wang, Lin Li, Shuhong Huang, Qing Chang:
  Reliability and covariance estimation of weighted k-out-of-n multi-state systems. 138-147
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  Qing Cao, Bradley T. Ewing, Mark A. Thompson:
  Forecasting wind speed with recurrent neural networks. 148-154

Decision Support

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  Gregor Dorfleitner, Sebastian Utz:
  Safety first portfolio choice based on financial and sustainability returns. 155-164
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  Hirofumi Fukuyama, Kazuyuki Sekitani:
  Decomposing the efficient frontier of the DEA production possibility set into a smallest number of convex polyhedrons by mixed integer programming. 165-174
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  Michel Grabisch, Yukihiko Funaki:
  A coalition formation value for games in partition function form. 175-185
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  Antonio Miguel Cruz, Adriana Maria Rios Rincon:
  Medical device maintenance outsourcing: Have operation management research and management theories forgotten the medical engineering community? A mapping review. 186-197
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  Vladislav V. Podinovski:
  Sensitivity analysis for choice problems with partial preference relations. 198-204
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  Arturo J. Fernández:
  Minimizing the area of a Pareto confidence region. 205-212
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  Jinpeng Xu, Wei Jiang, Gengzhong Feng, Jun Tian:
  Comparing improvement strategies for inventory inaccuracy in a two-echelon supply chain. 213-221
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  Brett Houlding, Frank P. A. Coolen:
  Nonparametric predictive utility inference. 222-230
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  Tangbin Xia, Lifeng Xi, Xiaojun Zhou, Jay Lee:
  Dynamic maintenance decision-making for series-parallel manufacturing system based on MAM-MTW methodology. 231-240

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Zhen He, Peng-Fei Zhu, Sung-Hyun Park:
  A robust desirability function method for multi-response surface optimization considering model uncertainty. 241-247
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  Shouke Wei, Hong Yang, Jinxi Song, Karim C. Abbaspour, Zongxue Xu:
  System dynamics simulation model for assessing socio-economic impacts of different levels of environmental flow allocation in the Weihe River Basin, China. 248-262
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  Afshin Shariat-Mohaymany, Mohsen Babaei, Saeed Moadi, Sayyed Mahdi Amiripour:
  Linear upper-bound unavailability set covering models for locating ambulances: Application to Tehran rural roads. 263-272

Book Review

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  Gustav Feichtinger:
  Mathematical Optimization and Economic Analysis. 273-274

Volume 221, Number 2, September 2012

Invited Review

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  Monique Bakker, Jan Riezebos, Ruud H. Teunter:
  Review of inventory systems with deterioration since 2001. 275-284

Discrete Optimization

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  Anand Subramanian, Puca Huachi Vaz Penna, Eduardo Uchoa, Luiz Satoru Ochi:
  A hybrid algorithm for the Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem. 285-295
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  Alessandro Agnetis, Hans Kellerer, Gaia Nicosia, Andrea Pacifici:
  Parallel dedicated machines scheduling with chain precedence constraints. 296-305
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  Ibrahim Muter, S. Ilker Birbil, Kerem Bülbül, Güvenç Sahin:
  A note on "A LP-based heuristic for a time-constrained routing problem". 306-307
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  Marta M. B. Pascoal, Antonio Sedeño-Noda:
  Enumerating K best paths in length order in DAGs. 308-316

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Colin Paterson, Ruud H. Teunter, Kevin D. Glazebrook:
  Enhanced lateral transshipments in a multi-location inventory system. 317-327
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  Kan Wu, Leon F. McGinnis:
  Performance evaluation for general queueing networks in manufacturing systems: Characterizing the trade-off between queue time and utilization. 328-339
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  Sven Axsäter, S. Viswanathan:
  On the value of customer information for an independent supplier in a continuous review inventory system. 340-347
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  Chialin Chen, Joe Zhu, Jiun-Yu Yu, Hamid Noori:
  A new methodology for evaluating sustainable product design performance with two-stage network data envelopment analysis. 348-359

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Zhisheng Ye, Yan Shen, Min Xie:
  Degradation-based burn-in with preventive maintenance. 360-367
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  Kemal Dinçer Dingeç, Wolfgang Hörmann:
  A general control variate method for option pricing under Lévy processes. 368-377
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  Philippe du Jardin, Eric Séverin:
  Forecasting financial failure using a Kohonen map: A comparative study to improve model stability over time. 378-396

Decision Support

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  Joel Weiqiang Goh, Kian Guan Lim, Melvyn Sim, Weina Zhang:
  Portfolio value-at-risk optimization for asymmetrically distributed asset returns. 397-406
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  Tri-Dung Nguyen, Andrew W. Lo:
  Robust ranking and portfolio optimization. 407-416
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  Heinz Ahn, Ludmila Neumann, Nadia Vazquez Novoa:
  Measuring the relative balance of DMUs. 417-423
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  Jian Ni, Lap Keung Chu, Feng Wu, Domenic Sculli, Yuan Shi:
  A multi-stage financial hedging approach for the procurement of manufacturing materials. 424-431

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Emmanuel Thanassoulis, Maria Conceição A. Silva Portela, Mike Graveney:
  Estimating the scope for savings in referrals and drug prescription costs in the general Practice units of a UK primary care trust. 432-444
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  Bernardo K. Pagnoncelli, Steven Vanduffel:
  A provisioning problem with stochastic payments. 445-453
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  Christian Biener, Martin Eling:
  Organization and efficiency in the international insurance industry: A cross-frontier analysis. 454-468

Volume 221, Number 3, September 2012

Invited Review

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  David Corne, Clarisse Dhaenens, Laetitia Jourdan:
  Synergies between operations research and data mining: The emerging use of multi-objective approaches. 469-479

Continuous Optimization

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  Abu S. S. M. Barkat Ullah, Ruhul A. Sarker, Chris Lokan:
  Handling equality constraints in evolutionary optimization. 480-490
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  Zsolt Csizmadia, Tibor Illés, Adrienn Nagy:
  The s-monotone index selection rules for pivot algorithms of linear programming. 491-500
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  Na Geng, Xiaolan Xie:
  Optimizing contracted resource capacity with two advance cancelation modes. 501-512

Discrete Optimization

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  Marcos Melo Silva, Anand Subramanian, Thibaut Vidal, Luiz Satoru Ochi:
  A simple and effective metaheuristic for the Minimum Latency Problem. 513-520
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  Zhen Yang, Feng Chu, Haoxun Chen:
  A cut-and-solve based algorithm for the single-source capacitated facility location problem. 521-532
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  Arnaud Malapert, Christelle Guéret, Louis-Martin Rousseau:
  A constraint programming approach for a batch processing problem with non-identical job sizes. 533-545

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Yong Liu, Fei Qin, Michael J. Fry, Amitabh S. Raturi:
  Multi-period modeling of two-way price commitment under price-dependent demand. 546-556
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  Soondo Hong, Andrew L. Johnson, Brett A. Peters:
  Batch picking in narrow-aisle order picking systems with consideration for picker blocking. 557-570
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  Ata Allah Taleizadeh, David W. Pentico, Mir-Bahador Aryanezhad, Seyed Mohammad Ghoreyshi:
  An economic order quantity model with partial backordering and a special sale price. 571-583

Decision Support

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  Winston S. Buckley, Garfield O. Brown, Mario Marshall:
  A mispricing model of stocks under asymmetric information. 584-592
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  Stéphane Deparis, Vincent Mousseau, Meltem Öztürk, Christophe Pallier, Caroline Huron:
  When conflict induces the expression of incomplete preferences. 593-602
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  Amira Annabi, Michèle Breton, Pascal François:
  Game theoretic analysis of negotiations under bankruptcy. 603-613

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Héctor Cañada, Rosario Romera:
  Controlled diffusion processes with Markovian switchings for modeling dynamical engineering systems. 614-624
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  Peng Zhou, B. W. Ang, Hui Wang:
  Energy and CO₂ emission performance in electricity generation: A non-radial directional distance function approach. 625-635
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  Keisuke Sato, Naoto Fukumura:
  Real-time freight locomotive rescheduling and uncovered train detection during disruption. 636-648

Corrigendum

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  David R. Nowicki, Wesley S. Randall, Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez:
  Corrigendum to "Improving the computational efficiency of metric-based spares algorithms" [European Journal of Operational Research 219 (2012) 324-334]. 649