European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 245

Volume 245, Number 1, August 2015

Invited Review

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  John C. Ranyard, Robert Fildes, Tun-I Hu:
  Reassessing the scope of OR practice: The Influences of Problem Structuring Methods and the Analytics Movement. 1-13

Discrete Optimization

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  Alberto Costa:
  MILP formulations for the modularity density maximization problem. 14-21
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  Feyza Güliz Sahinyazan, Bahar Yetis Kara, Mehmet Rüstü Taner:
  Selective vehicle routing for a mobile blood donation system. 22-34
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  Miguel A. González, Camino R. Vela, Ramiro Varela:
  Scatter search with path relinking for the flexible job shop scheduling problem. 35-45
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  Philipp Hungerländer, Miguel F. Anjos:
  A semidefinite optimization-based approach for global optimization of multi-row facility layout. 46-61
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  Adam N. Letchford, Saeideh D. Nasiri:
  The Steiner travelling salesman problem with correlated costs. 62-69
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  Eamonn T. Coughlan, Marco E. Lübbecke, Jens Schulz:
  A branch-price-and-cut algorithm for multi-mode resource leveling. 70-80
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  Dominik Goeke, Michael Schneider:
  Routing a mixed fleet of electric and conventional vehicles. 81-99

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Mozart B. C. Menezes, Seokjin Kim, Rongbing Huang:
  Return-on-investment (ROI) criteria for network design. 100-108
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  Karl Inderfurth, Gudrun P. Kiesmüller:
  Exact and heuristic linear-inflation policies for an inventory model with random yield and arbitrary lead times. 109-120
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  Xin Lu, Jennifer S. Shang, Shin-yi Wu, Gajanan G. Hegde, Luis G. Vargas, Daozhi Zhao:
  Impacts of supplier hubris on inventory decisions and green manufacturing endeavors. 121-132
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  Long Gao:
  Collaborative forecasting, inventory hedging and contract coordination in dynamic supply risk management. 133-145
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  Amin Hosseininasab, Abbas Ahmadi:
  Selecting a supplier portfolio with value, development, and risk consideration. 146-156

Decision Support

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  Christian Stummer, Elmar Kiesling, Markus Günther, Rudolf Vetschera:
  Innovation diffusion of repeat purchase products in a competitive market: An agent-based simulation approach. 157-167
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  Yi Xiang, Yuren Zhou, Hai-Lin Liu:
  An elitism based multi-objective artificial bee colony algorithm. 168-193
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  Kai Sun, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Ragnar Tveterås:
  Productivity and efficiency estimation: A semiparametric stochastic cost frontier approach. 194-202
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  Lei Fang:
  Congestion measurement in nonparametric analysis under the weakly disposable technology. 203-208
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  Bingsheng Liu, Yinghua Shen, Wei Zhang, Xiaohong Chen, Xueqing Wang:
  An interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy principal component analysis model-based method for complex multi-attribute large-group decision-making. 209-225
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  Mostafa Nasri, Fabian Bastin, Patrice Marcotte:
  Quantifying the social welfare loss in moral hazard models. 226-235
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  Francesc Carreras, María Albina Puente:
  Coalitional multinomial probabilistic values. 236-246

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Annelies de Meyer, Dirk Cattrysse, Jos Van Orshoven:
  A generic mathematical model to optimise strategic and tactical decisions in biomass-based supply chains (OPTIMASS). 247-264
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  Alphonse G. Singbo, Alfons Oude Lansink, Grigorios Emvalomatis:
  Estimating shadow prices and efficiency analysis of productive inputs and pesticide use of vegetable production. 265-272
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  Carlos J. Franco, Monica Castaneda, Isaac Dyner:
  Simulating the new British Electricity-Market Reform. 273-285
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  Laura Elisabeth Hombach, Grit Walther:
  Pareto-efficient legal regulation of the (bio)fuel market using a bi-objective optimization model. 286-295
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  Aiying Rong, José Rui Figueira, Risto Lahdelma:
  A two phase approach for the bi-objective non-convex combined heat and power production planning problem. 296-308
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  Davood Astaraky, Jonathan Patrick:
  A simulation based approximate dynamic programming approach to multi-class, multi-resource surgical scheduling. 309-319
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  Kamil J. Mizgier, Manpreet S. Hora, Stephan M. Wagner, Matthias P. Jüttner:
  Managing operational disruptions through capital adequacy and process improvement. 320-332

Short Communication

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  Konrad Kulakowski:
  Notes on order preservation and consistency in AHP. 333-337

Errata

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  Claudia D'Ambrosio, Andrea Lodi, Sven Wiese, Cristiana Bragalli:
  Erratum to "Mathematical programming techniques in water network optimization" [Eur. J. Oper. Res. 243(2015) 774-788]. 338
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  Thomas J. Duff, Derek M. Chong, Kevin G. Tolhurst:
  Erratum to "Using discrete event simulation cellular automata models to determine multi-mode travel times and routes of terrestrial suppression resources to wildland fires" [Eur. J. Oper. Res. 241 (2015) 763-770]. 339-340

Book Review

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  Mostapha Diss:
  Fuzzy Social Choice Theory, Michael B. Gibilisco, Annie M. Gowen, Karen E. Albert, John N. Mordeson, Mark J. Wierman and Terry D. Clark, Springer, 2014. 341-342

Volume 245, Number 2, September 2015

Invited Review

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  Özlem Karsu, Alec Morton:
  Inequity averse optimization in operational research. 343-359

Continuous Optimization

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  Chung-Li Tseng, Yiduo Zhan, Qipeng P. Zheng, Manish Kumar:
  A MILP formulation for generalized geometric programming using piecewise-linear approximations. 360-370
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  Jérémy Omer, François Soumis:
  A linear programming decomposition focusing on the span of the nondegenerate columns. 371-383
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  Hédi Nabli, Sonia Chahdoura:
  Algebraic simplex initialization combined with the nonfeasible basis method. 384-391

Discrete Optimization

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  Claudia Archetti, Angel Corberán, Isaac Plana, José María Sanchis, M. Grazia Speranza:
  A matheuristic for the Team Orienteering Arc Routing Problem. 392-401
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  Jordi Castro, Stefano Nasini:
  Mathematical programming approaches for classes of random network problems. 402-414
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  Elisabeth Zehendner, Marco Caserta, Dominique Feillet, Silvia Schwarze, Stefan Voß:
  An improved mathematical formulation for the blocks relocation problem. 415-422
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  Marta Mesquita, Margarida Vaz Moz, Ana Paias, Margarida Vaz Pato:
  A decompose-and-fix heuristic based on multi-commodity flow models for driver rostering with days-off pattern. 423-437

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Ruoran Chen, Tianhu Deng, Simin Huang, Ruwen Qin:
  Optimal crude oil procurement under fluctuating price in an oil refinery. 438-445
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  Ole Bent Olesen, Niels Christian Petersen, Victor V. Podinovski:
  Efficiency analysis with ratio measures. 446-462
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  Saleem Shaik:
  Impact of liquidity risk on variations in efficiency and productivity: A panel gamma simulated maximum likelihood estimation. 463-469
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  L. Jeff Hong, Xiaowei Xu, Sheng Hao Zhang:
  Capacity reservation for time-sensitive service providers: An application in seaport management. 470-479

Decision Support

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  Zhongfeng Qin:
  Mean-variance model for portfolio optimization problem in the simultaneous presence of random and uncertain returns. 480-488
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  Robert L. Burdett:
  Multi-objective models and techniques for analysing the absolute capacity of railway networks. 489-505
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  Fatih Camci:
  Maintenance scheduling of geographically distributed assets with prognostics information. 506-516
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  Andreia Zanella, Ana S. Camanho, Teresa Galvão Dias:
  Undesirable outputs and weighting schemes in composite indicators based on data envelopment analysis. 517-530

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Mimi Zhang, Olivier Gaudoin, Min Xie:
  Degradation-based maintenance decision using stochastic filtering for systems under imperfect maintenance. 531-541
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  Panwadee Tangpattanakul, Nicolas Jozefowiez, Pierre Lopez:
  A multi-objective local search heuristic for scheduling Earth observations taken by an agile satellite. 542-554
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  Archis Ghate:
  Optimal minimum bids and inventory scrapping in sequential, single-unit, Vickrey auctions with demand learning. 555-570
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  Chi Seng Pun, Shing Fung Chung, Hoi Ying Wong:
  Variance swap with mean reversion, multifactor stochastic volatility and jumps. 571-580
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  Lana Mara Rodrigues dos Santos, Pedro Augusto Munari, Alysson M. Costa, Ricardo Henrique Silva Santos:
  A branch-price-and-cut method for the vegetable crop rotation scheduling problem with minimal plot sizes. 581-590

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Yongjian Li, Zhangxi Lin, Lei Xu, Ajaya Kumar Swain:
  "Do the electronic books reinforce the dynamics of book supply chain market?"-A theoretical analysis. 591-601
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  Subhash C. Ray:
  Nonparametric measures of scale economies and capacity utilization: An application to U.S. manufacturing. 602-611
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  Tomas Balezentis, Kristof De Witte:
  One- and multi-directional conditional efficiency measurement - Efficiency in Lithuanian family farms. 612-622

Short Communication

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  Adam J. Fleischhacker, Pak-Wing Fok:
  On the relationship between entropy, demand uncertainty, and expected loss. 623-628

Volume 245, Number 3, September 2015

Invited Review

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  Birgit Keller, Udo Buscher:
  Single row layout models. 629-644

Discrete Optimization

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  Tue Rauff Lind Christensen, Martine Labbé:
  A branch-cut-and-price algorithm for the piecewise linear transportation problem. 645-655
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  Maria Albareda-Sambola, Yolanda Hinojosa, Justo Puerto:
  The reliable p-median problem with at-facility service. 656-666
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  Günes Erdogan, Maria Battarra, Roberto Wolfler Calvo:
  An exact algorithm for the static rebalancing problem arising in bicycle sharing systems. 667-679
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  Alfredo Marín:
  Exact and heuristic solutions for the Minimum Number of Branch Vertices Spanning Tree Problem. 680-689
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  Banu Soylu:
  Heuristic approaches for biobjective mixed 0-1 integer linear programming problems. 690-703
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  Michaël Schyns:
  An ant colony system for responsive dynamic vehicle routing. 704-718
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  Thiago Augusto de Oliveira Silva, Maurício C. de Souza, Rodney R. Saldanha, Edmund K. Burke:
  Surgical scheduling with simultaneous employment of specialised human resources. 719-730

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Jiguang Chen, Qiying Hu:
  Optimal payment scheme when the supplier's quality level and cost are unknown. 731-742
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  Lei Fan, William W. Wilson, Bruce Dahl:
  Risk analysis in port competition for containerized imports. 743-753
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  Wolfgang Garn, James Aitken:
  Agile factorial production for a single manufacturing line with multiple products. 754-766

Decision Support

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  Kathrin Klamroth, Renaud Lacour, Daniel Vanderpooten:
  On the representation of the search region in multi-objective optimization. 767-778
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  Mahmood Mehdiloozad, S. Morteza Mirdehghan, Biresh K. Sahoo, Israfil Roshdi:
  On the identification of the global reference set in data envelopment analysis. 779-788
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  Alec Morton:
  Measurement issues in the evaluation of projects in a project portfolio. 789-796
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  Dzung T. Phan, Yada Zhu:
  Multi-stage optimization for periodic inspection planning of geo-distributed infrastructure systems. 797-804
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  Shuangqing Liao, Ralf W. Seifert:
  On the optimal frequency of multiple generation product introductions. 805-814
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  Winston T. Lin, Yueh H. Chen, Benjamin B. M. Shao:
  Assessing the business values of information technology and e-commerce independently and jointly. 815-827
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  Damiano Rossello:
  Ranking of investment funds: Acceptability versus robustness. 828-836

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Marta Bottero, Valentina Ferretti, José Rui Figueira, Salvatore Greco, Bernard Roy:
  Dealing with a multiple criteria environmental problem with interaction effects between criteria through an extension of the Electre III method. 837-850
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  Leonardo Antonio Monteiro Pessôa, Marcos Pereira Estellita Lins, Angela Cristina Moreira da Silva, Roberto Fiszman:
  Integrating soft and hard operational research to improve surgical centre management at a university hospital. 851-861
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  Patrick Jochem, Martin Schönfelder, Wolf Fichtner:
  An efficient two-stage algorithm for decentralized scheduling of micro-CHP units. 862-874

Short Communication

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  Christos Koulamas:
  A note on scheduling problems with competing agents and earliness minimization objectives. 875-876

Book Review

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  Michael L. Pinedo:
  "Multiagent Scheduling - Models and Algorithms" By A. Agnetis, J.-C. Billaut, S. Gawiejnowicz, D. Pacciarelli, A. Soukhal. 877