European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 203

Volume 203, Number 1, May 2010

Invited Review

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  Mohsen Jahangirian, Tillal Eldabi, Aisha Naseer, Lampros K. Stergioulas, Terry Young:
  Simulation in manufacturing and business: A review. 1-13

Discrete Optimization

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  Kostas Florios, George Mavrotas, Danae Diakoulaki:
  Solving multiobjective, multiconstraint knapsack problems using mathematical programming and evolutionary algorithms. 14-21
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  Frédéric Dugardin, Farouk Yalaoui, Lionel Amodeo:
  New multi-objective method to solve reentrant hybrid flow shop scheduling problem. 22-31
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  Mateusz Gorczyca, Adam Janiak:
  Resource level minimization in the discrete-continuous scheduling. 32-41
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  Alix Munier Kordon, Djamal Rebaine:
  The two-machine open-shop problem with unit-time operations and time delays to minimize the makespan. 42-49
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  M. Mekking, A. Volgenant:
  Solving the 2-rooted mini-max spanning forest problem by branch-and-bound. 50-58

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Günes Erdogan, Jean-François Cordeau, Gilbert Laporte:
  The Attractive Traveling Salesman Problem. 59-69
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  Haoya Chen, Youhua (Frank) Chen, Chun-Hung Chiu, Tsan-Ming Choi, Suresh P. Sethi:
  Coordination mechanism for the supply chain with leadtime consideration and price-dependent demand. 70-80
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  Yi-fen Su, Chyan Yang:
  Why are enterprise resource planning systems indispensable to supply chain management? 81-94
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  Manoj Kumar Tiwari, N. Raghavendra, Shubham Agrawal, Suresh K. Goyal:
  A Hybrid Taguchi-Immune approach to optimize an integrated supply chain design problem with multiple shipping. 95-106
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  Srimathy Mohan, Michel Gendreau, Jean-Marc Rousseau:
  Heuristics for the Stochastic Eulerian Tour Problem. 107-117
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  Herbert Jodlbauer, Klaus Altendorfer:
  Trade-off between capacity invested and inventory needed. 118-133

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Robert W. Grubbström:
  The Newsboy problem when customer demand is a compound renewal process. 134-142
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  Antonis Economou, Stella Kapodistria:
  Synchronized abandonments in a single server unreliable queue. 143-155
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  José Villén-Altamirano:
  Importance functions for restart simulation of general Jackson networks. 156-165

Decision Support

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  Kin Lam, Taisheng Liu, Wing-Keung Wong:
  A pseudo-Bayesian model in financial decision making with implications to market volatility, under- and overreaction. 166-175
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  Li-Ching Ma:
  Visualizing preferences on spheres for group decisions based on multiplicative preference relations. 176-184
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  Dashan Huang, Shushang Zhu, Frank J. Fabozzi, Masao Fukushima:
  Portfolio selection under distributional uncertainty: A relative robust CVaR approach. 185-194
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  Denis Bouyssou, Thierry Marchant:
  Additive conjoint measurement with ordered categories. 195-204
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  Matthew Colvin, Christos T. Maravelias:
  Modeling methods and a branch and cut algorithm for pharmaceutical clinical trial planning using stochastic programming. 205-215
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  Olivier Hudry:
  On the complexity of Slater's problems. 216-221

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Benito A. Stradi-Granados, Emmanuel Haven:
  The use of interval arithmetic in solving a non-linear rational expectation based multiperiod output-inflation process model: The case of the IN/GB method. 222-229
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  Aliaksandr Shyshou, Irina Gribkovskaia Sr., Jaume Barceló:
  A simulation study of the fleet sizing problem arising in offshore anchor handling operations. 230-240
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  Zhipeng Lü, Jin-Kao Hao:
  A memetic algorithm for graph coloring. 241-250

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Valtteri Ervasti, Riikka-Leena Leskelä:
  Allocative efficiency in simulated multiple-unit combinatorial auctions with quantity support. 251-260
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  Nuria Ramón, José L. Ruiz, Inmaculada Sirvent:
  A multiplier bound approach to assess relative efficiency in DEA without slacks. 261-269
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  Roberto Baldacci, Mauro Dell'Amico:
  Heuristic algorithms for the multi-depot ring-star problem. 270-281

Volume 203, Number 2, June 2010

Invited Review

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  Walid Klibi, Alain Martel, Adel Guitouni:
  The design of robust value-creating supply chain networks: A critical review. 283-293

Discrete Optimization

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  Lijian Chen, Tito Homem-de-Mello:
  Mathematical programming models for revenue management under customer choice. 294-305
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  Frank G. Ortmann, Nthabiseng Ntene, Jan H. van Vuuren:
  New and improved level heuristics for the rectangular strip packing and variable-sized bin packing problems. 306-315
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  Krzysztof M. Ocetkiewicz:
  A FPTAS for minimizing total completion time in a single machine time-dependent scheduling problem. 316-320

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Fayez F. Boctor:
  Offsetting inventory replenishment cycles to minimize storage space. 321-325
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  Ioannis Konstantaras, Konstantinos Skouri:
  Lot sizing for a single product recovery system with variable setup numbers. 326-335
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  Maria Isabel Gomes Salema, Ana Paula F. D. Barbosa-Póvoa, Augusto Q. Novais:
  Simultaneous design and planning of supply chains with reverse flows: A generic modelling framework. 336-349
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  Yuliang Yao, Yan Dong, Martin E. Dresner:
  Managing supply chain backorders under vendor managed inventory: An incentive approach and empirical analysis. 350-359
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  Wei Shi Lim, Soo Jiuan Tan:
  Outsourcing suppliers as downstream competitors: Biting the hand that feeds. 360-369
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  Geraldo Ferrer, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan:
  Managing new and differentiated remanufactured products. 370-379
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  Mark Springer, Ilhyung Kim:
  Managing the order pipeline to reduce supply chain volatility. 380-392

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Naima Saeed, Odd I. Larsen:
  An application of cooperative game among container terminals of one port. 393-403
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  Sylvain Béal, Eric Rémila, Philippe Solal:
  Rooted-tree solutions for tree games. 404-408
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  Jun Zhuang, Vicki M. Bier, Oguzhan Alagöz:
  Modeling secrecy and deception in a multiple-period attacker-defender signaling game. 409-418
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  Suyan Teng, Loo Hay Lee, Ek Peng Chew:
  Integration of indifference-zone with multi-objective computing budget allocation. 419-429

Decision Support

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  Óscar D. Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Mariano Luque, Francisco Ruiz:
  An application of multiobjective programming to the study of workers' satisfaction in the Spanish labour market. 430-443
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  Peijun Guo, Hideo Tanaka:
  Decision making with interval probabilities. 444-454
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  Yucheng Dong, Yinfeng Xu, Hongyi Li, Bo Feng:
  The OWA-based consensus operator under linguistic representation models using position indexes. 455-463

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Jochen Stößer, Dirk Neumann, Christof Weinhardt:
  Market-based pricing in grids: On strategic manipulation and computational cost. 464-475
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  Philippe Baptiste, Ruslan Sadykov:
  Time-indexed formulations for scheduling chains on a single machine: An application to airborne radars. 476-483
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  Edmund K. Burke, Jingpeng Li, Rong Qu:
  A hybrid model of integer programming and variable neighbourhood search for highly-constrained nurse rostering problems. 484-493

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Fiorenzo Franceschini, Domenico A. Maisano:
  Analysis of the Hirsch index's operational properties. 494-504
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  Hani I. Mesak, Hongkai Zhang, Joe M. Pullis:
  On optimal service capacity allocation policy in an advance selling environment in continuous time. 505-512
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  Amy Hing Ling Lau, Hon-Shiang Lau, Jian-Cai Wang:
  Usefulness of resale price maintenance under different levels of sales-effort cost and system-parameter uncertainties. 513-525

Short Communications

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  Chi Chiang:
  An order expediting policy for continuous review systems with manufacturing lead-time. 526-531
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  Kewen Pan, K. K. Lai, Stephen C. H. Leung, Di Xiao:
  Revenue-sharing versus wholesale price mechanisms under different channel power structures. 532-538

Volume 203, Number 3, June 2010

Invited Review

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  Jinxiang Gu, Marc Goetschalckx, Leon F. McGinnis:
  Research on warehouse design and performance evaluation: A comprehensive review. 539-549

Discrete Optimization

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  Defu Zhang, Yongkai Liu, Rym M'Hallah, Stephen C. H. Leung:
  A simulated annealing with a new neighborhood structure based algorithm for high school timetabling problems. 550-558
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  Horacio Hideki Yanasse, Edson Luiz França Senne:
  The minimization of open stacks problem: A review of some properties and their use in pre-processing operations. 559-567
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  Cord-Ulrich Fündeling, Norbert Trautmann:
  A priority-rule method for project scheduling with work-content constraints. 568-574

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Ana Groznik, H. Sebastian Heese:
  Supply chain interactions due to store-brand introductions: The impact of retail competition. 575-582
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  Arunachalam Narayanan, Powell Robinson:
  Efficient and effective heuristics for the coordinated capacitated lot-size problem. 583-592
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  Yong He, Shouyang Wang, Kin Keung Lai:
  An optimal production-inventory model for deteriorating items with multiple-market demand. 593-600
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  Thomas A. Roemer, Reza H. Ahmadi:
  Models for concurrent product and process design. 601-613
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  Rafael A. Melo, Laurence A. Wolsey:
  Optimizing production and transportation in a commit-to-delivery business mode. 614-618
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  Ruud H. Teunter, Aris A. Syntetos, M. Zied Babai:
  Determining order-up-to levels under periodic review for compound binomial (intermittent) demand. 619-624

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Gregory Levitin, Kjell Hausken:
  Separation in homogeneous systems with independent identical elements. 625-634
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  Shao Chin Sung, Dinko Dimitrov:
  Computational complexity in additive hedonic games. 635-639
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  Wheyming Tina Song, Mingchang Chih:
  Extended dynamic partial-overlapping batch means estimators for steady-state simulations. 640-651

Decision Support

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  Bo Feng, Zhong-Zhong Jiang, Zhi-Ping Fan, Na Fu:
  A method for member selection of cross-functional teams using the individual and collaborative performances. 652-661
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  Peter Grundke:
  Top-down approaches for integrated risk management: How accurate are they? 662-672
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  Mohamed Saleh, Rogelio Oliva, Christian Erik Kampmann, Pål I. Davidsen:
  A comprehensive analytical approach for policy analysis of system dynamics models. 673-683

Computational Intelligence and Information Management

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  Fernando S. Oliveira:
  Limitations of learning in automata-based systems. 684-691
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  Reshma Khemchandani, Jayadeva, Suresh Chandra:
  Learning the optimal kernel for Fisher discriminant analysis via second order cone programming. 692-697
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  Fidan Boylu, Haldun Aytug, Gary J. Koehler:
  Induction over constrained strategic agents. 698-705

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Shiu-Wan Hung, Wen-Min Lu, Tung-Pao Wang:
  Benchmarking the operating efficiency of Asia container ports. 706-713
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  Lei Chen, Di Yuan:
  Solving a minimum-power covering problem with overlap constraint for cellular network design. 714-723
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  Toshiyuki Sueyoshi, Mika Goto, Yusuke Omi:
  Corporate governance and firm performance: Evidence from Japanese manufacturing industries after the lost decade. 724-736
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  Andre Costa, M. Ramakrishnan, Peter G. Taylor:
  A distributed approach to capacity allocation in logical networks. 737-748

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Chien-Ming Chen, Jan van Dalen:
  Measuring dynamic efficiency: Theories and an integrated methodology. 749-760
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  Masoud Khalili, Ana S. Camanho, Maria Conceição A. Silva Portela, M. R. Alirezaee:
  The measurement of relative efficiency using data envelopment analysis with assurance regions that link inputs and outputs. 761-770
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  Chi-Ming Tsou, Deng-Yuan Huang:
  On some methods for performance ranking and correspondence analysis in the DEA context. 771-783

Short Communication

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  M. Arslan Ornek, Selin Özpeynirci, Cemalettin Öztürk:
  A note on "A mixed integer programming model for advanced planning and scheduling (APS)". 784-785