European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 215

Volume 215, Number 1, November 2011

Invited Review

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  Marco Bijvank, Iris F. A. Vis:
  Lost-sales inventory theory: A review. 1-13

Continuous Optimization

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  Rafael Blanquero, Emilio Carrizosa, Anita Schöbel, Daniel Scholz:
  A global optimization procedure for the location of a median line in the three-dimensional space. 14-20
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  Rafael Blanquero, Emilio Carrizosa, Eligius M. T. Hendrix:
  Locating a competitive facility in the plane with a robustness criterion. 21-24
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  Yaguang Yang:
  A polynomial arc-search interior-point algorithm for convex quadratic programming. 25-38

Discrete Optimization

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  Q. Q. Nong, T. C. E. Cheng, C. T. Ng:
  Two-agent scheduling to minimize the total cost. 39-44
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  Pedro M. Castro, José Fernando Oliveira:
  Scheduling inspired models for two-dimensional packing problems. 45-56
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  Stephen C. H. Leung, Defu Zhang, Kwang Mong Sim:
  A two-stage intelligent search algorithm for the two-dimensional strip packing problem. 57-69

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Shuo Huang, Sven Axsäter, Yifan Dou, Jian Chen:
  A real-time decision rule for an inventory system with committed service time and emergency orders. 70-79
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  M. A. Hoque:
  An optimal solution technique to the single-vendor multi-buyer integrated inventory supply chain by incorporating some realistic factors. 80-88
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  Ramesh Bollapragada, Federico Della Croce, Marco Ghirardi:
  Discrete-time, economic lot scheduling problem on multiple, non-identical production lines. 89-96
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  Jinn-Tsair Teng, Iris-Pandora Krommyda, Konstantina Skouri, Kuo-Ren Lou:
  A comprehensive extension of optimal ordering policy for stock-dependent demand under progressive payment scheme. 97-104
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  Qiang Meng, Shuaian Wang:
  Optimal operating strategy for a long-haul liner service route. 105-114
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  Patrick Beullens, Gerrit K. Janssens:
  Holding costs under push or pull conditions - The impact of the Anchor Point. 115-125
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  Wai Yuen Szeto, Yongzhong Wu, Sin C. Ho:
  An artificial bee colony algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing problem. 126-135
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  Elodie Adida, Nantaporn Ratisoontorn:
  Consignment contracts with retail competition. 136-148
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  Jean-François Cordeau, Gilbert Laporte, Luigi Moccia, Gregorio Sorrentino:
  Optimizing yard assignment in an automotive transshipment terminal. 149-160

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Balbina Casas-Méndez, Vito Fragnelli, Ignacio García-Jurado:
  Weighted bankruptcy rules and the museum pass problem. 161-168
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  Dong Li, Kevin D. Glazebrook:
  A Bayesian approach to the triage problem with imperfect classification. 169-180
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  Vera Hofer, Johannes Leitner:
  Should European gamblers play lotto in the USA? 181-187

Decision Support

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  Martín Egozcue, Luis Fuentes García, Wing-Keung Wong, Ricardas Zitikis:
  Do investors like to diversify? A study of Markowitz preferences. 188-193
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  Ruijun Zhang, Jie Lu, Guangquan Zhang:
  A knowledge-based multi-role decision support system for ore blending cost optimization of blast furnaces. 194-203
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  Paul L. Goethals, Byung Rae Cho:
  Reverse programming the optimal process mean problem to identify a factor space profile. 204-217

End of Section

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  Kurt E. Wilson, Roberto Szechtman, Michael P. Atkinson:
  A sequential perspective on searching for static targets. 218-226
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  Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Philippe Michelon, Dominique Feillet, Serigne Gueye:
  SAPI: Statistical Analysis of Propagation of Incidents. A new approach for rescheduling trains after disruptions. 227-243
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  Yahya Saleh, Ülkü Gürler, Emre Berk:
  Centralized and decentralized management of groundwater with multiple users. 244-256
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  Xi Chen, Archis Ghate, Arvind K. Tripathi:
  Dynamic lot-sizing in sequential online retail auctions. 257-267

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Ozgun Caliskan-Demirag, Pinar Keskinocak, Julie L. Swann:
  Customer rebates and retailer incentives in the presence of competition and price discrimination. 268-280
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  Juan Luis Nicolau:
  The decision to raise firm value through a sports-business exchange: How much are Real Madrid's goals worth to its president's company's goals? 281-288
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  Amiya K. Chakravarty, Adrian S. Werner:
  Telecom service provider portal: Revenue sharing and outsourcing. 289-300
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  K. Sam Park, Jin-Wan Cho:
  Pro-efficiency: Data speak more than technical efficiency. 301-308

Volume 215, Number 2, December 2011

Invited Review

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  J. Xu, Xun Xu, Sheng Quan Xie:
  Recent developments in Dual Resource Constrained (DRC) system research. 309-318

Discrete Optimization

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  Ping Heidi Huang, Mark A. Lawley, Thomas L. Morin:
  Tight bounds for periodicity theorems on the unbounded Knapsack problem. 319-324
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  Michal Tzur, Ehud Drezner:
  A lookahead partitioning heuristic for a new assignment and scheduling problem in a distribution system. 325-336
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  Lijun Wei, Wee-Chong Oon, Wenbin Zhu, Andrew Lim:
  A skyline heuristic for the 2D rectangular packing and strip packing problems. 337-346

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Kebing Chen, Tiaojun Xiao:
  Ordering policy and coordination of a supply chain with two-period demand uncertainty. 347-357
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  Yeu-Shiang Huang, Wei-Jun Su, Zu-Liang Lin:
  A study on lead-time discount coordination for deteriorating products. 358-366
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  Chunming (Victor) Shi, Shilei Yang, Yu Xia, Xuan Zhao:
  Inventory competition for newsvendors under the objective of profit satisficing. 367-373
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  ManMohan S. Sodhi, Christopher S. Tang:
  The incremental bullwhip effect of operational deviations in an arborescent supply chain with requirements planning. 374-382
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  Hlynur Stefansson, Sigrun Sigmarsdottir, Pall Jensson, Nilay Shah:
  Discrete and continuous time representations and mathematical models for large production scheduling problems: A case study from the pharmaceutical industry. 383-392

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Vicent Aragó, Enrique Salvador:
  Sudden changes in variance and time varying hedge ratios. 393-403
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  Ji Hwan Cha:
  Comparison of combined stochastic risk processes and its applications. 404-410
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  Marc Levy:
  The Banzhaf index in complete and incomplete shareholding structures: A new algorithm. 411-421

Decision Support

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  Yael Deutsch, Boaz Golany, Uriel G. Rothblum:
  Determining all Nash equilibria in a (bi-linear) inspection game. 422-430
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  Pekka J. Korhonen, Majid Soleimani-Damaneh, Jyrki Wallenius:
  Ratio-based RTS determination in weight-restricted DEA models. 431-438
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  Ching-Ter Chang:
  Multi-choice goal programming with utility functions. 439-445

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Zhicong Zhang, Li Zheng, Forest Hou, Na Li:
  Semiconductor final test scheduling with Sarsa(λ, k) algorithm. 446-458
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  Michaela Graf, Alf Kimms:
  An option-based revenue management procedure for strategic airline alliances. 459-469
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  Warren L. Hare, Valentin R. Koch, Yves Lucet:
  Models and algorithms to improve earthwork operations in road design using mixed integer linear programming. 470-480
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  Richard Hoshino, Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi:
  A multi-round generalization of the traveling tournament problem and its application to Japanese baseball. 481-497

Short Communication

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  Gholam R. Amin, Ali Emrouznejad, S. Rezaei:
  Some clarifications on the DEA clustering approach. 498-501

Volume 215, Number 3, December 2011

Invited Review

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  Susan Howick, Fran Ackermann:
  Mixing OR methods in practice: Past, present and future directions. 503-511

Discrete Optimization

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  Veronique Sels, Kjeld Craeymeersch, Mario Vanhoucke:
  A hybrid single and dual population search procedure for the job shop scheduling problem. 512-523
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  Baruch Mor, Gur Mosheiov:
  Single machine batch scheduling with two competing agents to minimize total flowtime. 524-531
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  Stephan Dempe, Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, Gerardo A. Pérez-Valdés, Nataliya I. Kalashnykova:
  Natural gas bilevel cash-out problem: Convergence of a penalty function method. 532-538
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  Víctor Blanco:
  A mathematical programming approach to the computation of the omega invariant of a numerical semigroup. 539-550

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Ralf W. Seifert, Kerstin U. Langenberg:
  Managing business dynamics with adaptive supply chain portfolios. 551-562
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  S. Armagan Tarim, Mustafa K. Dogru, Ulas Özen, Roberto Rossi:
  An efficient computational method for a stochastic dynamic lot-sizing problem under service-level constraints. 563-571
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  Harilaos N. Psaraftis:
  A multi-commodity, capacitated pickup and delivery problem: The single and two-vehicle cases. 572-580
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  Wenming Chung, Srinivas Talluri, Ram Narasimhan:
  Price markdown scheme in a multi-echelon supply chain in a high-tech industry. 581-589
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  Guoquan Zhang, Jennifer Shang, Wenli Li:
  Collaborative production planning of supply chain under price and demand uncertainty. 590-603

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Michiel Keyzer, Cornelia van Wesenbeeck:
  Optimal coalition formation and surplus distribution: Two sides of one coin. 604-615
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  Matthew Colvin, Christos T. Maravelias:
  R&D pipeline management: Task interdependencies and risk management. 616-628
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  Hélcio Vieira Jr., Susan M. Sanchez, Karl Heinz Kienitz, Mischel Carmen Neyra Belderrain:
  Generating and improving orthogonal designs by using mixed integer programming. 629-638

Decision Support

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  Benoît Chevalier-Roignant, Christoph M. Flath, Arnd Huchzermeier, Lenos Trigeorgis:
  Strategic investment under uncertainty: A synthesis. 639-650
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  Ban Kawas, Aurélie Thiele:
  Short sales in Log-robust portfolio management. 651-661
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  Niranjan R. Nataraja, Andrew L. Johnson:
  Guidelines for using variable selection techniques in data envelopment analysis. 662-669
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  Saeed Yaghoubi, Siamak Noori, Amir Azaron, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam:
  Resource allocation in dynamic PERT networks with finite capacity. 670-678
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  Reza Yaesoubi, Ted Cohen:
  Generalized Markov models of infectious disease spread: A novel framework for developing dynamic health policies. 679-687

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Takashi Shibata, Michi Nishihara:
  Interactions between investment timing and management effort under asymmetric information: Costs and benefits of privatized firms. 688-696
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  Giovanni Andreatta, Paolo Dell'Olmo, Guglielmo Lulli:
  An aggregate stochastic programming model for air traffic flow management. 697-704
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  Ramy Elitzur, Arieh Gavious:
  Selection of entrepreneurs in the venture capital industry: An asymptotic analysis. 705-712
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  Simon Kristiansen, Matias Sørensen, Thomas R. Stidsen:
  Elective course planning. 713-720

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Zhen Li, Ching-Chung Kuo:
  Revenue-maximizing Dutch auctions with discrete bid levels. 721-729
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  Ping Xiao, Christopher S. Tang, Jochen Wirtz:
  Optimizing referral reward programs under impression management considerations. 730-739
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  Walter Briec, Qi Bin Liang:
  On some semilattice structures for production technologies. 740-749
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  Biresh K. Sahoo, Mikulás Luptácik, Bernhard Mahlberg:
  Alternative measures of environmental technology structure in DEA: An application. 750-762