European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 254

Volume 254, Number 1, October 2016

Invited Review

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  Tiago Januario, Sebastián Urrutia, Celso C. Ribeiro, Dominique de Werra:
  Edge coloring: A natural model for sports scheduling. 1-8

Continuous Optimization

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  Pablo Adasme, Abdel Lisser:
  A computational study for bilevel quadratic programs using semidefinite relaxations. 9-18
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  Simon Fong, Suash Deb, Thomas Hanne, Jinyan (Leo) Li:
  Eidetic Wolf Search Algorithm with a global memory structure. 19-28
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  Deepak Singh, Bilal Ahmad Dar, Do Sang Kim:
  KKT optimality conditions in interval valued multiobjective programming with generalized differentiable functions. 29-39
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  Verena Hagspiel, Kuno J. M. Huisman, Peter M. Kort, Cláudia Nunes:
  How to escape a declining market: Capacity investment or Exit? 40-50

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Bipan Zou, Xianhao Xu, Yeming (Yale) Gong, René de Koster:
  Modeling parallel movement of lifts and vehicles in tier-captive vehicle-based warehousing systems. 51-67
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  Dirk Inghels, Wout Dullaert, Daniele Vigo:
  A service network design model for multimodal municipal solid waste transport. 68-79
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  Philippe Grangier, Michel Gendreau, Fabien Lehuédé, Louis-Martin Rousseau:
  An adaptive large neighborhood search for the two-echelon multiple-trip vehicle routing problem with satellite synchronization. 80-91
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  Adel A. Alamri, Irina Harris, Aris A. Syntetos:
  Efficient inventory control for imperfect quality items. 92-104
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  Robert A. Russell, Timothy L. Urban:
  Offsetting inventory replenishment cycles. 105-112

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Jamol Pender:
  Risk measures and their application to staffing nonstationary service systems. 113-126
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  Elías Moreno, Francisco Javier Girón, F. J. Vázquez-Polo:
  Cost-effectiveness analysis for heterogeneous samples. 127-137
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  Ines Wilms, Sarah Gelper, Christophe Croux:
  The predictive power of the business and bank sentiment of firms: A high-dimensional Granger Causality approach. 138-147
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  Antonis Economou, Athanasia Manou:
  Strategic behavior in an observable fluid queue with an alternating service process. 148-160
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  Alexander N. Moiseev, Anatoly A. Nazarov:
  Queueing network MAP-K(GI/∞) with high-rate arrivals. 161-168

Decision Support

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  Simon Martin, Djamila Ouelhadj, Patrick Beullens, Ender Özcan, Angel A. Juan, Edmund K. Burke:
  A multi-agent based cooperative approach to scheduling and routing. 169-178
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  Junghum Park, Biung-Ghi Ju:
  Hierarchical outcomes and collusion neutrality on networks. 179-187
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  Olga Perdikaki, Dimitris Kostamis, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan:
  Timing of service investments for retailers under competition and demand uncertainty. 188-201
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  V. Arumugam, Jiju Antony, Kevin W. Linderman:
  The influence of challenging goals and structured method on Six Sigma project performance: A mediated moderation analysis. 202-213
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  William B. Haskell, Lunce Fu, Maged M. Dessouky:
  Ambiguity in risk preferences in robust stochastic optimization. 214-225
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  Kaihong Guo:
  Quantifiers induced by subjective expected value of sample information with Bernstein polynomials. 226-235

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Philippe du Jardin:
  A two-stage classification technique for bankruptcy prediction. 236-252
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  Goran Vojvodic, Ahmad I. Jarrah, David P. Morton:
  Forward thresholds for operation of pumped-storage stations in the real-time energy market. 253-268
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  Luca Grosset, Bruno Viscolani:
  Age-structured linear-state differential games. 269-278
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  Nasuh Razi, Mumtaz Karatas:
  A multi-objective model for locating search and rescue boats. 279-293
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  Steffen Jørgensen, Ekaterina V. Gromova:
  Sustaining cooperation in a differential game of advertising goodwill accumulation. 294-303

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Chengfeng Weng, Xiaoqun Wang, Zhijian He:
  An auto-realignment method in quasi-Monte Carlo for pricing financial derivatives with jump structures. 304-311
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  Rolf Färe, Dimitris Margaritis, Paul Rouse, Israfil Roshdi:
  Estimating the hyperbolic distance function: A directional distance function approach. 312-319
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  Abraham Lioui, Patrice Poncet:
  Understanding dynamic mean variance asset allocation. 320-337
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  Juan Aparicio, Jesús T. Pastor, Fernando Vidal:
  The weighted additive distance function. 338-346

Volume 254, Number 2, October 2016

Editorial

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  Roman Slowinski:
  Editors' Awards for Excellence in Reviewing 2015. 347

Invited Review

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  Valeria Borodin, Jean Bourtembourg, Faicel Hnaien, Nacima Labadie:
  Handling uncertainty in agricultural supply chain management: A state of the art. 348-359

Discrete Optimization

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  Baruch Mor, Gur Mosheiov:
  Minsum and minmax scheduling on a proportionate flowshop with common flow-allowance. 360-370
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  Leonardo M. Musmanno, Celso C. Ribeiro:
  Heuristics for the generalized median graph problem. 371-384
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  Richard Martin Lusby, Troels Martin Range, Jesper Larsen:
  A Benders decomposition-based matheuristic for the Cardinality Constrained Shift Design Problem. 385-397
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  Christopher Wishon, Jesus René Villalobos:
  Robust efficiency measures for linear knapsack problem variants. 398-409

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Masoud Chitsaz, Ali Divsalar, Pieter Vansteenwegen:
  A two-phase algorithm for the cyclic inventory routing problem. 410-426
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  Emanuele Borgonovo, Hananeh Aliee, Michael Glaß, Jürgen Teich:
  A new time-independent reliability importance measure. 427-442
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  Yi Mei, Flora D. Salim, Xiaodong Li:
  Efficient meta-heuristics for the Multi-Objective Time-Dependent Orienteering Problem. 443-457
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  Wanying Chen, Alain Guinet, Angel B. Ruiz:
  Modeling the logistics response to a bioterrorist anthrax attack. 458-471
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  Claudia Archetti, Martin W. P. Savelsbergh, M. Grazia Speranza:
  The Vehicle Routing Problem with Occasional Drivers. 472-480

Decision Support

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  Dimitris K. Despotis, Gregory Koronakos, Dimitris Sotiros:
  The "weak-link" approach to network DEA for two-stage processes. 481-492
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  Veronika Grimm, Alexander Martin, Martin Schmidt, Martin Weibelzahl, Gregor Zöttl:
  Transmission and generation investment in electricity markets: The effects of market splitting and network fee regimes. 493-509
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  Dong Joon Lim:
  Inverse DEA with frontier changes for new product target setting. 510-516
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  Bhakti Stephan Onggo, Mumtaz Karatas:
  Test-driven simulation modelling: A case study using agent-based maritime search-operation simulation. 517-531
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  Tsung-Sheng Chang, Kaoru Tone, Chen-Hui Wu:
  DEA models incorporating uncertain future performance. 532-549
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  John H. Powell, Navonil Mustafee, A. S. Chen, M. Hammond:
  System-focused risk identification and assessment for disaster preparedness: Dynamic threat analysis. 550-564

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Alain Billionnet, Marie-Christine Costa, Pierre-Louis Poirion:
  Robust optimal sizing of a hybrid energy stand-alone system. 565-575
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  David Páez-Pérez, Mauricio Sánchez-Silva:
  A dynamic principal-agent framework for modeling the performance of infrastructure. 576-594
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  Zhou He, T. C. E. Cheng, Jichang Dong, Shouyang Wang:
  Evolutionary location and pricing strategies for service merchants in competitive O2O markets. 595-609
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  Wei Zhou, Zeshui Xu:
  Generalized asymmetric linguistic term set and its application to qualitative decision making involving risk appetites. 610-621
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  Li-Chen Cheng, Yen-Liang Chen, Yu-Chia Chiang:
  Identifying conflict patterns to reach a consensus - A novel group decision approach. 622-631
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  Michael Nawar Ibrahim, Amir F. Atiya:
  Analytical solutions to the dynamic pricing problem for time-normalized revenue. 632-643
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  Alexei A. Gaivoronski, Per-Jonny Nesse, Olav N. Østerbø, Håkon Lønsethagen:
  Risk-balanced dimensioning and pricing of End-to-End differentiated services. 644-655

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Frank J. Fabozzi, Tommaso Paletta, Silvia Stanescu, Radu Tunaru:
  An improved method for pricing and hedging long dated American options. 656-666
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  Peter Bogetoft, Jens Leth Hougaard, Aleksandrs Smilgins:
  Applied cost allocation: The DEA-Aumann-Shapley approach. 667-678
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  Marcelo J. Villena, Lorenzo Reus:
  On the strategic behavior of large investors: A mean-variance portfolio approach. 679-688

Corrigendum

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  Tri-Dung Nguyen, Lyn Thomas:
  Corrigendum to "Finding the nucleoli of large cooperative games" [European Journal of Operational Research 248 (2016) 1078-1092]. 689

Volume 254, Number 3, November 2016

Invited Review

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  Nils Boysen, Konrad Stephan:
  A survey on single crane scheduling in automated storage/retrieval systems. 691-704

Continuous Optimization

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  Milan Hladík:
  Robust optimal solutions in interval linear programming with forall-exists quantifiers. 705-714
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  Nathan Adelgren, Margaret M. Wiecek:
  A two-phase algorithm for the multiparametric linear complementarity problem. 715-738
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  Anurag Jayswal, Shipra Singh, Alia Kurdi:
  Multitime multiobjective variational problems and vector variational-like inequalities. 739-745

Discrete Optimization

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  Uwe Schauz:
  The tournament scheduling problem with absences. 746-754
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  Rafael Castro de Andrade:
  New formulations for the elementary shortest-path problem visiting a given set of nodes. 755-768
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  Rian G. S. Pinheiro, Ivan C. Martins, Fábio Protti, Luiz S. Ochi, Luidi Gelabert Simonetti, Anand Subramanian:
  On solving manufacturing cell formation via Bicluster Editing. 769-779
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  Xiangjing Lai, Jin-Kao Hao:
  Iterated maxima search for the maximally diverse grouping problem. 780-800

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Pedro M. Reyes, Suhong Li, John K. Visich:
  Determinants of RFID adoption stage and perceived benefits. 801-812
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  Tiaojun Xiao, Jim (Junmin) Shi:
  Pricing and supply priority in a dual-channel supply chain. 813-823
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  Aaron J. Rettke, Matthew J. Robbins, Brian J. Lunday:
  Approximate dynamic programming for the dispatch of military medical evacuation assets. 824-839
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  Dirk Männel, Andreas Bortfeldt:
  A hybrid algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with pickup and delivery and three-dimensional loading constraints. 840-858
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  Mariya A. Sodenkamp, Madjid Tavana, Debora Di Caprio:
  Modeling synergies in multi-criteria supplier selection and order allocation: An application to commodity trading. 859-874

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Mark S. Joshi, Dan Zhu:
  An exact method for the sensitivity analysis of systems simulated by rejection techniques. 875-888
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  José Da Fonseca:
  On moment non-explosions for Wishart-based stochastic volatility models. 889-894
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  Dieter Claeys, Ivo J. B. F. Adan, Onno J. Boxma:
  Stochastic bounds for order flow times in parts-to-picker warehouses with remotely located order-picking workstations. 895-906
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  Zhaotong Lian, Xinhua Gu, Jinbiao Wu:
  A re-examination of experience service offering and regular service pricing under profit maximization. 907-915

Decision Support

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  Victor V. Podinovski:
  Optimal weights in DEA models with weight restrictions. 916-924
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  Tingting Li, Jinxing Xie, Sheng-Min Lu, Jiafu Tang:
  Duopoly game of callable products in airline revenue management. 925-934
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  Alireza Azimian, D. Marc Kilgour, Hamid Noori:
  Mitigating contagion risk by investing in the safety of rivals. 935-945
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  Wanghong Li, Liang Liang, Wade D. Cook, Joe Zhu:
  DEA models for non-homogeneous DMUs with different input configurations. 946-956
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  Tal Ben-Zvi, Tatyana Chernonog, Tal Avinadav:
  A two-state partially observable Markov decision process with three actions. 957-967
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  Youcheng Lou, Shouyang Wang:
  Approximate representation of the Pareto frontier in multiparty negotiations: Decentralized methods and privacy preservation. 968-976

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Jonathan J. Forster, Matteo Buzzacchi, Agus Sudjianto, Risa Nagao:
  Modelling credit grade migration in large portfolios using cumulative t-link transition models. 977-984
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  Yavuz Bogaç Türkogullari, Z. Caner Taskin, Necati Aras, I. Kuban Altinel:
  Optimal berth allocation, time-variant quay crane assignment and scheduling with crane setups in container terminals. 985-1001
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  José Núñez Ares, Harwin de Vries, Dennis Huisman:
  A column generation approach for locating roadside clinics in Africa based on effectiveness and equity. 1002-1016
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  Marcos Vergara, Claudio A. Bonilla, Jean P. Sepulveda:
  The complementarity effect: Effort and sharing in the entrepreneur and venture capital contract. 1017-1025
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  Sini Guo, Lean Yu, Xiang Li, Samarjit Kar:
  Fuzzy multi-period portfolio selection with different investment horizons. 1026-1035

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Milan Mrázek, Jan Pospisil, Tomás Sobotka:
  On calibration of stochastic and fractional stochastic volatility models. 1036-1046
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  Jie Wu, Pengzhen Yin, Jiasen Sun, Junfei Chu, Liang Liang:
  Evaluating the environmental efficiency of a two-stage system with undesired outputs by a DEA approach: An interest preference perspective. 1047-1062
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  Christopher S. Tang, ManMohan S. Sodhi, Marco Formentini:
  An analysis of partially-guaranteed-price contracts between farmers and agri-food companies. 1063-1073
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  Kolos Csaba Ágoston, Gábor Benedek, Zsolt Gilányi:
  Pareto improvement and joint cash management optimisation for banks and cash-in-transit firms. 1074-1082