European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 232

Volume 232, Number 1, January 2014

Invited Review

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  Mike Wright:
  OR analysis of sporting rules - A survey. 1-8

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Sunantha Teyarachakul, Dogan Çömez, Hakan Tarakci:
  Steady-state skill levels of workers in learning and forgetting environments: A dynamical system analysis. 9-21
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  Pietro De Giovanni, Georges Zaccour:
  A two-period game of a closed-loop supply chain. 22-40
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  Shao Wei Lester Eng, Ek Peng Chew, Loo Hay Lee:
  Impacts of supplier knowledge sharing competences and production capacities on radical innovative product sourcing. 41-51
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  Robert N. Boute, Stephen M. Disney, Marc Lambrecht, Benny Van Houdt:
  Coordinating lead times and safety stocks under autocorrelated demand. 52-63
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  Bacel Maddah, Ali A. Yassine, Moueen K. Salameh, Lama Chatila:
  Reserve stock models: Deterioration and preventive replenishment. 64-71
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  Javier Tamayo-Torres, Leopoldo J. Gutierrez Gutierrez, Antonia Ruiz Moreno:
  The relationship between exploration and exploitation strategies, manufacturing flexibility and organizational learning: An empirical comparison between Non-ISO and ISO certified firms. 72-86
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  Corinne Mowrey, Pratik J. Parikh:
  Mixed-width aisle configurations for order picking in distribution centers. 87-97

Decision Support

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  Ian N. Durbach:
  Outranking under uncertainty using scenarios. 98-108
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  José-Manuel Giménez-Gómez, Josep E. Peris:
  A proportional approach to claims problems with a guaranteed minimum. 109-116
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  Chiang Kao:
  Efficiency decomposition for general multi-stage systems in data envelopment analysis. 117-124
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  Tiago Pascoal Filomena, Enrique Campos-Náñez, Michael Robert Duffey:
  Technology selection and capacity investment under uncertainty. 125-136

Computational Intelligence and Information Management

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  Witold Pedrycz:
  Allocation of information granularity in optimization and decision-making models: Towards building the foundations of Granular Computing. 137-145
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  Belen Martin-Barragan, Rosa E. Lillo, Juan Romo:
  Interpretable support vector machines for functional data. 146-155

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Gery Geenens:
  On the decisiveness of a game in a tournament. 156-168
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  Gia Sirbiladze, Irina Khutsishvili, Bezhan Ghvaberidze:
  Multistage decision-making fuzzy methodology for optimal investments based on experts' evaluations. 169-177
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  Md. Asaduzzaman, Thierry J. Chaussalet:
  Capacity planning of a perinatal network with generalised loss network model with overflow. 178-185
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  C. D. van Oosterom, A. H. Elwany, Dilay Çelebi, G. J. van Houtum:
  Optimal policies for a delay time model with postponed replacement. 186-197
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  Jiang Hang Chen, Der-Horng Lee, Mark Goh:
  An effective mathematical formulation for the unidirectional cluster-based quay crane scheduling problem. 198-208
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  Zhang-Hua Fu, Jin-Kao Hao:
  Breakout local search for the Steiner tree problem with revenue, budget and hop constraints. 209-220
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  Hannu Ahonen, Arlindo Gomes de Alvarenga, André Renato Sales Amaral:
  Simulated annealing and tabu search approaches for the Corridor Allocation Problem. 221-233

Short Communication

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  Kysang Kwon, Taesu Cheong:
  A minimax distribution-free procedure for a newsvendor problem with free shipping. 234-240

Volume 232, Number 2, January 2014

Invited Review

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  Bahram Alidaee:
  Zero duality gap in surrogate constraint optimization: A concise review of models. 241-248

Continuous Optimization

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  M. K. Luhandjula, M. J. Rangoaga:
  An approach for solving a fuzzy multiobjective programming problem. 249-255
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  Jack Brimberg, Zvi Drezner, Nenad Mladenovic, Saïd Salhi:
  A new local search for continuous location problems. 256-265
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  Anita Schöbel, Daniel Scholz:
  A solution algorithm for non-convex mixed integer optimization problems with only few continuous variables. 266-275

Discrete Optimization

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  Qian Hu, Andrew Lim:
  An iterative three-component heuristic for the team orienteering problem with time windows. 276-286
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  Syariza Abdul Rahman, Andrzej Bargiela, Edmund K. Burke, Ender Özcan, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan:
  Adaptive linear combination of heuristic orderings in constructing examination timetables. 287-297
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  Lucile Belgacem, Irène Charon, Olivier Hudry:
  A post-optimization method for the routing and wavelength assignment problem applied to scheduled lightpath demands. 298-306
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  Jianping Li, Yu Ge, Shuai He, Junran Lichen:
  Approximation algorithms for constructing some required structures in digraphs. 307-314

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Wan-Chih Wang, Jinn-Tsair Teng, Kuo-Ren Lou:
  Seller's optimal credit period and cycle time in a supply chain for deteriorating items with maximum lifetime. 315-321
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  Yan Feng, S. Viswanathan:
  Heuristics with guaranteed performance bounds for a manufacturing system with product recovery. 322-329
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  Gang Du, Roger J. Jiao, Mo Chen:
  Joint optimization of product family configuration and scaling design by Stackelberg game. 330-341
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  Martin Albrecht:
  Determining near optimal base-stock levels in two-stage general inventory systems. 342-349

Stochastics and Statistics

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  María Concepción Ausín, Pedro Galeano, Pulak Ghosh:
  A semiparametric Bayesian approach to the analysis of financial time series with applications to value at risk estimation. 350-358
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  Panos Parpas, Mort Webster:
  A stochastic multiscale model for electricity generation capacity expansion. 359-374
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  Yih-Wenn Laih:
  Measuring rank correlation coefficients between financial time series: A GARCH-copula based sequence alignment algorithm. 375-382
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  Kamini Venkatesh, Vadlamani Ravi, Anita Prinzie, Dirk Van den Poel:
  Cash demand forecasting in ATMs by clustering and neural networks. 383-392

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Mingming Leng, Mahmut Parlar, Dengfeng Zhang:
  Cooperative game analysis of retail space-exchange problems. 393-404
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  Chongquan Zhong, Haibo Jin:
  A novel optimal preventive maintenance policy for a cold standby system based on semi-Markov theory. 405-411
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  James P. Minas, John W. Hearne, David L. Martell:
  A spatial optimisation model for multi-period landscape level fuel management to mitigate wildfire impacts. 412-422

Short Communication

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  Christoph H. Glock, Jörg M. Ries, Kurt Schwindl:
  A note on: Optimal ordering policy for stock-dependent demand under progressive payment scheme. 423-426

Volume 232, Number 3, February 2014

Invited Review

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  Ya Li, Zhichang Zhu:
  Soft OR in China: A critical report. 427-434

Discrete Optimization

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  Xueling Zhong, Jinwen Ou, Guoqing Wang:
  Order acceptance and scheduling with machine availability constraints. 435-441
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  Carmine Cerrone, Raffaele Cerulli, Andrea Raiconi:
  Relations, models and a memetic approach for three degree-dependent spanning tree problems. 442-453
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  Carlos García-Martínez, Francisco J. Rodríguez, Manuel Lozano:
  Tabu-enhanced iterated greedy algorithm: A case study in the quadratic multiple knapsack problem. 454-463
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  Emrah Demir, Tolga Bektas, Gilbert Laporte:
  The bi-objective Pollution-Routing Problem. 464-478
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  Gokhan Kirlik, Serpil Sayin:
  A new algorithm for generating all nondominated solutions of multiobjective discrete optimization problems. 479-488
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  Maria Teresa Almeida, Filipa D. Carvalho:
  An analytical comparison of the LP relaxations of integer models for the k-club problem. 489-498
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  Alexander Veremyev, Alexey Sorokin, Vladimir Boginski, Eduardo L. Pasiliao:
  Minimum vertex cover problem for coupled interdependent networks with cascading failures. 499-511

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Chiang Kao, Shiuh-Nan Hwang:
  Multi-period efficiency and Malmquist productivity index in two-stage production systems. 512-521
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  Dong-Ping Song, Jing-Xin Dong, Jingjing Xu:
  Integrated inventory management and supplier base reduction in a supply chain with multiple uncertainties. 522-536
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  Chia-Yen Lee, Andrew L. Johnson:
  Proactive data envelopment analysis: Effective production and capacity expansion in stochastic environments. 537-548

Stochastics and Statistics

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  R. S. Elias, M. I. M. Wahab, L. Fang:
  A comparison of regime-switching temperature modeling approaches for applications in weather derivatives. 549-560
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  Somayeh Zarezadeh, Majid Asadi, Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan:
  Dynamic network reliability modeling under nonhomogeneous Poisson processes. 561-571
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  Jian Hu, Tito Homem-de-Mello, Sanjay Mehrotra:
  Stochastically weighted stochastic dominance concepts with an application in capital budgeting. 572-583

Decision Support

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  Michele Bernasconi, Christine Choirat, Raffaello Seri:
  Empirical properties of group preference aggregation methods employed in AHP: Theory and evidence. 584-592
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  Brent D. Williams, Matthew A. Waller, Sanjay Ahire, Gary D. Ferrier:
  Predicting retailer orders with POS and order data: The inventory balance effect. 593-600
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  Yann Rébillé, Lionel Richefort:
  Equilibrium existence and uniqueness in network games with additive preferences. 601-606
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  Remy Spliet, Tommi Tervonen:
  Preference inference with general additive value models and holistic pair-wise statements. 607-612
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  Mario Menegatti:
  New results on the relationship among risk aversion, prudence and temperance. 613-617
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  Reinaldo Morabito, Maurício C. de Souza, Mariana Vazquez:
  Approximate decomposition methods for the analysis of multicommodity flow routing in generalized queuing networks. 618-629

Innovative Applications of O.R

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  Thiago Lima Silva, Eduardo Camponogara:
  A computational analysis of multidimensional piecewise-linear models with applications to oil production optimization. 630-642
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  Solomie A. Gebrezgabher, Miranda P. M. Meuwissen, Alfons Oude Lansink:
  A multiple criteria decision making approach to manure management systems in the Netherlands. 643-653
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  Juha Eskelinen, Merja Halme, Markku Kallio:
  Bank branch sales evaluation using extended value efficiency analysis. 654-663

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Vladimir E. Krivonozhko, Finn R. Førsund, Andrey V. Lychev:
  Measurement of returns to scale using non-radial DEA models. 664-670
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  Yongqiao Wang, Shouyang Wang, Chuangyin Dang, Wenxiu Ge:
  Nonparametric quantile frontier estimation under shape restriction. 671-678
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  Mahmood Mehdiloozad, Biresh K. Sahoo, Israfil Roshdi:
  A generalized multiplicative directional distance function for efficiency measurement in DEA. 679-688

Short Communication

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  Knut Haase, Sven Müller:
  A comparison of linear reformulations for multinomial logit choice probabilities in facility location models. 689-691