European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 247

Volume 247, Number 1, November 2015

Invited Review

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  Behnam Fahimnia, Christopher S. Tang, Hoda Davarzani, Joseph Sarkis:
  Quantitative models for managing supply chain risks: A review. 1-15

Discrete Optimization

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  Foad Mahdavi Pajouh, Jose L. Walteros, Vladimir Boginski, Eduardo L. Pasiliao:
  Minimum edge blocker dominating set problem. 16-26
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  Reginald Dewil, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Dirk Cattrysse, Dirk Van Oudheusden:
  A minimum cost network flow model for the maximum covering and patrol routing problem. 27-36
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  Samir Elhedhli, Joe Naoum-Sawaya:
  Improved branching disjunctions for branch-and-bound: An analytic center approach. 37-45
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  Michael J. Brusco:
  A bicriterion algorithm for the allocation of cross-trained workers based on operational and human resource objectives. 46-59
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  Timo Gschwind:
  A comparison of column-generation approaches to the Synchronized Pickup and Delivery Problem. 60-71

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Zhaodong Wang, Xin Wang, Yanfeng Ouyang:
  Bounded growth of the bullwhip effect under a class of nonlinear ordering policies. 72-82
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  Hamza Adeinat, José A. Ventura:
  Determining the retailer's replenishment policy considering multiple capacitated suppliers and price-sensitive demand. 83-92
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  Shahrzad Tamjidzad, S. Hamid Mirmohammadi:
  An optimal (r, Q) policy in a stochastic inventory system with all-units quantity discount and limited sharable resource. 93-100
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  Horst Tempelmeier, Oliver Bantel:
  Integrated optimization of safety stock and transportation capacity. 101-112
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  Farshid Azadian, Alper Ekrem Murat, Ratna Babu Chinnam:
  Integrated production and logistics planning: Contract manufacturing and choice of air/surface transportation. 113-123

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Stefan Lessmann, Bart Baesens, Hsin-Vonn Seow, Lyn C. Thomas:
  Benchmarking state-of-the-art classification algorithms for credit scoring: An update of research. 124-136
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  Gregory Levitin, Liudong Xing, Yuanshun Dai:
  Optimal loading of system with random repair time. 137-143
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  Suren Islyaev, Paresh Date:
  Electricity futures price models: Calibration and forecasting. 144-154
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  Roberto Campos Leoni, Antonio Fernando Branco Costa, Marcela Aparecida Guerreiro Machado:
  The effect of the autocorrelation on the performance of the T² chart. 155-165

Decision Support

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  Luis Montiel, Roussos G. Dimitrakopoulos:
  Optimizing mining complexes with multiple processing and transportation alternatives: An uncertainty-based approach. 166-178
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  Jeh-Nan Pan, Hung Thi Ngoc Nguyen:
  Achieving customer satisfaction through product-service systems. 179-190
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  Daniel Huppmann, Jonas Egerer:
  National-strategic investment in European power transmission capacity. 191-203
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  Marc Joëts:
  Heterogeneous beliefs, regret, and uncertainty: The role of speculation in energy price dynamics. 204-215
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  Ilya Ivlev, Jakub Vacek, Peter Kneppo:
  Multi-criteria decision analysis for supporting the selection of medical devices under uncertainty. 216-228
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  Inmaculada Espejo, Alfredo Marín, Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía:
  Capacitated p-center problem with failure foresight. 229-244

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Kan Wu, Ning Zhao:
  Dependence among single stations in series and its applications in productivity improvement. 245-258
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  Olivier Massol, Stéphane Tchung-Ming, Albert Banal-Estañol:
  Joining the CCS club! The economics of CO₂ pipeline projects. 259-275
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  Wael Rashwan, Waleed Abo-Hamad, Amr Arisha:
  A system dynamics view of the acute bed blockage problem in the Irish healthcare system. 276-293
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  Richard McCormack, Graham Coates:
  A simulation model to enable the optimization of ambulance fleet allocation and base station location for increased patient survival. 294-309
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  J. E. Parada Puig, Rob J. I. Basten:
  Defining line replaceable units. 310-320
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  Teresa Cardoso, Mónica Duarte Oliveira, Ana Paula F. D. Barbosa-Póvoa, Stefan Nickel:
  An integrated approach for planning a long-term care network with uncertainty, strategic policy and equity considerations. 321-334

Short Communication

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  Rolf Färe, Hirofumi Fukuyama, Shawna Grosskopf, Valentin Zelenyuk:
  Decomposing profit efficiency using a slack-based directional distance function. 335-337

Corrigendum

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  Joaquín Bautista, Alberto Cano:
  Corrigendum to ''Solving mixed model sequencing problem in assembly lines with serial workstations with work overload minimisation and interruption rules'' [Eur. J. Oper. Res. 210(2011) 495-513]. 338

Volume 247, Number 2, December 2015

Invited Review

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  Constantin Zopounidis, Emilios Galariotis, Michael Doumpos, Stavroula Sarri, Kostas Andriosopoulos:
  Multiple criteria decision aiding for finance: An updated bibliographic survey. 339-348

Continuous Optimization

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  Ngaam J. Cheung, Zhenkai Xu, Xueming Ding, Hong-Bin Shen:
  Modeling nonlinear dynamic biological systems with human-readable fuzzy rules optimized by convergent heterogeneous particle swarm. 349-358
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  Shaojian Qu, Mark Goh, Ying Ji, Robert de Souza:
  A new algorithm for linearly constrained c-convex vector optimization with a supply chain network risk application. 359-365
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  Stefan M. Stefanov:
  On the solution of multidimensional convex separable continuous knapsack problem with bounded variables. 366-369
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  Moslem Zamani, Majid Soleimani-Damaneh, Alireza Kabgani:
  Robustness in nonsmooth nonlinear multi-objective programming. 370-378
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  Xiao Alison Chen, Zizhuo Wang:
  A dynamic learning algorithm for online matching problems with concave returns. 379-388

Discrete Optimization

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  Eun-Seok Kim, Celia A. Glass:
  Perfect periodic scheduling for binary tree routing in wireless networks. 389-400
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  Tao Wang, Nadine Meskens, David Duvivier:
  Scheduling operating theatres: Mixed integer programming vs. constraint programming. 401-413
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  Krzysztof Pienkosz, Kamil Koltys:
  Integral flow decomposition with minimum longest path length. 414-420
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  Ernesto G. Birgin, João Eduardo Ferreira, Débora P. Ronconi:
  List scheduling and beam search methods for the flexible job shop scheduling problem with sequencing flexibility. 421-440
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  Attila A. Kovacs, Sophie N. Parragh, Richard F. Hartl:
  The multi-objective generalized consistent vehicle routing problem. 441-458

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Wenbin Wang, Huiying Wang:
  Preventive replacement for systems with condition monitoring and additional manual inspections. 459-471
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  Xinxin Hu, Ying Li, Eunshin Byon, F. Barry Lawrence:
  Prioritizing regular demand while reserving capacity for emergency demand. 472-487
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  Humyun Fuad Rahman, Ruhul A. Sarker, Daryl Essam:
  A real-time order acceptance and scheduling approach for permutation flow shop problems. 488-503
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  Yu Xia, Bintong Chen, Vaidyanathan Jayaraman, Charles L. Munson:
  Competition and market segmentation of the call center service supply chain. 504-514

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Ying-Chao Hung, George Michailidis:
  Optimal routing for electric vehicle service systems. 515-524
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  Fabrizio Durante, Juan Fernández-Sánchez, José Juan Quesada-Molina, Manuel Úbeda-Flores:
  Convergence results for patchwork copulas. 525-531
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  Johannes O. Royset, Roger J.-B. Wets:
  Fusion of hard and soft information in nonparametric density estimation. 532-547

Decision Support

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  Andreas Darmann, Joachim Schauer:
  Maximizing Nash product social welfare in allocating indivisible goods. 548-559
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  Hélène Le Cadre, Anthony Papavasiliou, Yves Smeers:
  Wind farm portfolio optimization under network capacity constraints. 560-574
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  Javier Rubio-Herrero, Melike Baykal-Gürsoy, Anna Jaskiewicz:
  A price-setting newsvendor problem under mean-variance criteria. 575-587
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  Thanh-Ha Nguyen, Mike Wright:
  Capacity and lead-time management when demand for service is seasonal and lead-time sensitive. 588-595
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  Preetam Basu, Suresh K. Nair:
  Analyzing operational risk-reward trade-offs for start-ups. 596-609
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  Inmaculada Rodríguez-Puerta:
  Comparative statics effects independent of the utility function. When do we act the same way under risk? 610-617

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Carmine Cerrone, Raffaele Cerulli, Monica Gentili:
  Vehicle-ID sensor location for route flow recognition: Models and algorithms. 618-629
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  Mahboubeh Madadi, Shengfan Zhang, Louise M. Henderson:
  Evaluation of breast cancer mammography screening policies considering adherence behavior. 630-640
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  Ramón Flores, David Forrest, Cesar de Pablo, Juan de Dios Tena:
  What is a good result in the first leg of a two-legged football match? 641-647
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  Reem Khir, Mohamed Haouari:
  Optimization models for a single-plant District Cooling System. 648-658
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  Marco Zugno, Antonio J. Conejo:
  A robust optimization approach to energy and reserve dispatch in electricity markets. 659-671

Short Communications

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  Tien Van Do:
  A closed-form solution for a tollbooth tandem queue with two heterogeneous servers and exponential service times. 672-675
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  Otto Loistl:
  Does mean-variance portfoliomanagement deserve expected utility's approximative affirmation? 676-680
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  Harry M. Markowitz:
  Reply to Professor Loistl. 680-681

Book Review

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  Anna Nagurney:
  Handbook of Global Logistics: Transportation in International Supply Chains, James H. Bookbinder, Springer, New York, ISBN: 978-1-4419-6131-0, 551 pages. 682-683

Volume 247, Number 3, December 2015

Invited Review

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  Yulan Wang, Stein W. Wallace, Bin Shen, Tsan-Ming Choi:
  Service supply chain management: A review of operational models. 685-698

Continuous Optimization

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  Zohreh Khooban, Reza Zanjirani Farahani, Elnaz Miandoabchi, Wai Yuen Szeto:
  Mixed network design using hybrid scatter search. 699-710
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  Benjamin Ivorra, Bijan Mohammadi, Angel Manuel Ramos:
  A multi-layer line search method to improve the initialization of optimization algorithms. 711-720
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  Ryuhei Miyashiro, Yuichi Takano:
  Mixed integer second-order cone programming formulations for variable selection in linear regression. 721-731
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  Qiuzhen Lin, Jianqiang Li, Zhihua Du, Jianyong Chen, Zhong Ming:
  A novel multi-objective particle swarm optimization with multiple search strategies. 732-744

Discrete Optimization

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  Dominik Kress, Sebastian Meiswinkel, Erwin Pesch:
  The Partitioning Min-Max Weighted Matching Problem. 745-754
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  Kai Li, Zhao-Hong Jia, Joseph Y.-T. Leung:
  Integrated production and delivery on parallel batching machines. 755-763
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  Matthew R. Niblett, Richard L. Church:
  The disruptive anti-covering location problem. 764-773
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  Kien Trung Nguyen, André B. Chassein:
  The inverse convex ordered 1-median problem on trees under Chebyshev norm and Hamming distance. 774-781

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Raphael Kramer, Nelson Maculan, Anand Subramanian, Thibaut Vidal:
  A speed and departure time optimization algorithm for the pollution-routing problem. 782-787
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  Martin Albrecht, Hartmut Stadtler:
  Coordinating decentralized linear programs by exchange of primal information. 788-796
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  Claudia Archetti, Dominique Feillet, M. Grazia Speranza:
  Complexity of routing problems with release dates. 797-803
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  Wenyi Chen, Beste Küçükyazici, Vedat Verter, María Jesús Sáenz:
  Supply chain design for unlocking the value of remanufacturing under uncertainty. 804-819

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Alexandru Badescu, Robert J. Elliott, Juan-Pablo Ortega:
  Non-Gaussian GARCH option pricing models and their diffusion limits. 820-830
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  Georgios Sermpinis, Charalampos Stasinakis, Konstantinos A. Theofilatos, Andreas S. Karathanasopoulos:
  Modeling, forecasting and trading the EUR exchange rates with hybrid rolling genetic algorithms - Support vector regression forecast combinations. 831-846
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  Maria B. Chiarolla, Giorgio Ferrari, Gabriele Stabile:
  Optimal dynamic procurement policies for a storable commodity with Lévy prices and convex holding costs. 847-858
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  Bogumil Kaminski:
  A method for the updating of stochastic kriging metamodels. 859-866

Decision Support

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  Zhou-Jing Wang:
  A note on "A goal programming model for incomplete interval multiplicative preference relations and its application in group decision-making". 867-871
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  Jing-Rung Yu, Wan-Jiun Paul Chiou, Da-Ren Mu:
  A linearized value-at-risk model with transaction costs and short selling. 872-878
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  Saeed Yaghoubi, Siamak Noori, Amir Azaron, Brian Fynes:
  Resource allocation in multi-class dynamic PERT networks with finite capacity. 879-894
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  Sofiane Ziani, Fazia Rahmoune, Mohammed Said Radjef:
  Customers' strategic behavior in batch arrivals M²/M/1 queue. 895-903
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  Takeshi Ebina, Noriaki Matsushima, Daisuke Shimizu:
  Product differentiation and entry timing in a continuous time spatial competition model. 904-913
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  Arnoud V. den Boer:
  Tracking the market: Dynamic pricing and learning in a changing environment. 914-927

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Lu Zhen:
  Tactical berth allocation under uncertainty. 928-944
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  Eduardo Camponogara, Mateus Dubiela Oliveira, Marco Aurélio Schmitz de Aguiar:
  Scheduling pumpoff operations in onshore oilfields under electric-power constraints. 945-956
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  Mohand Lounès Bentaha, Olga Battaïa, Alexandre Dolgui, S. Jack Hu:
  Second order conic approximation for disassembly line design with joint probabilistic constraints. 957-967
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  Tariq A. Aldowaisan, Mustapha Nourelfath, Jawad Hassan:
  Six Sigma performance for non-normal processes. 968-977

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Flavius Badau:
  Ranking trade resistance variables using data envelopment analysis. 978-986
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  Aadhaar Chaturvedi:
  Procurement auctions with capacity constrained suppliers. 987-995
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  Antonio Peyrache:
  Cost constrained industry inefficiency. 996-1002
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  Fuxia Yang, Mian Yang:
  Analysis on China's eco-innovations: Regulation context, intertemporal change and regional differences. 1003-1012

Short Communication

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  Camilo Ortiz-Astorquiza, Iván A. Contreras, Gilbert Laporte:
  Multi-level facility location as the maximization of a submodular set function. 1013-1016

Book Review

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  Jafar Rezaei:
  K.E. Avrachenkov, J.A. Filar, P.G. Howlett, "Analytic Perturbation Theory and its Applications", SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, USA, ISBN: 978-1-611973-13-6, xii +372, Price: $89. 1017