European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 231

Volume 231, Number 1, November 2013

Invited Review

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  Thibaut Vidal, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Michel Gendreau, Christian Prins:
  Heuristics for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems: A survey and synthesis. 1-21

Discrete Optimization

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  Herminia I. Calvete, Carmen Galé, José A. Iranzo:
  An efficient evolutionary algorithm for the ring star problem. 22-33
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  María Soto, André Rossi, Marc Sevaux:
  Iterative approaches for a dynamic memory allocation problem in embedded systems. 34-42
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  Phuong Khanh Nguyen, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Michel Toulouse:
  A tabu search for Time-dependent Multi-zone Multi-trip Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. 43-56
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  Miguel Constantino, Xenia Klimentova, Ana Viana, Abdur Rais:
  New insights on integer-programming models for the kidney exchange problem. 57-68
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  Anis Gharbi, Talel Ladhari, Mohamed Kais Msakni, Mehdi Serairi:
  The two-machine flowshop scheduling problem with sequence-independent setup times: New lower bounding strategies. 69-78

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Jason Matthews, Stephan Esterhuyse Visagie:
  Order sequencing on a unidirectional cyclical picking line. 79-87
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  Chia-Wei Kuo, Shu-Jung Sunny Yang:
  The role of store brand positioning for appropriating supply chain profit under shelf space allocation. 88-97
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  William J. Guerrero, Thomas G. Yeung, Christelle Guéret:
  Joint-optimization of inventory policies on a multi-product multi-echelon pharmaceutical system with batching and ordering constraints. 98-108
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  Steffen Klosterhalfen, Daniel Dittmar, Stefan Minner:
  An integrated guaranteed- and stochastic-service approach to inventory optimization in supply chains. 109-119
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  Matthew E. H. Petering, Mazen Hussein:
  A new mixed integer program and extended look-ahead heuristic algorithm for the block relocation problem. 120-130

Decision Support

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  Saman Eskandarzadeh, Kourosh Eshghi:
  Decision tree analysis for a risk averse decision maker: CVaR Criterion. 131-140
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  Antti Punkka, Ahti Salo:
  Preference Programming with incomplete ordinal information. 141-150
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  Mike Yearworth, Leroy White:
  The uses of qualitative data in multimethodology: Developing causal loop diagrams during the coding process. 151-161
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  Bing Huang, Yu-liang Zhuang, Huaxiong Li:
  Information granulation and uncertainty measures in interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy information systems. 162-170
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  Wu-E Yang, Jian-qiang Wang:
  Multi-criteria semantic dominance: A linguistic decision aiding technique based on incomplete preference information. 171-181

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Rui Fernandes, Joaquim Borges Gouveia, Carlos Pinho:
  A real options approach to labour shifts planning under different service level targets. 182-189
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  Les R. Foulds, Hugo A. D. do Nascimento, Iacer C. A. C. Calixto, Bryon Richard Hall, Humberto J. Longo:
  A fuzzy set-based approach to origin-destination matrix estimation in urban traffic networks with imprecise data. 190-201
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  Nahid Jafari, John W. Hearne:
  A new method to solve the fully connected Reserve Network Design Problem. 202-209
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  Asvin Goel, Frank Meisel:
  Workforce routing and scheduling for electricity network maintenance with downtime minimization. 210-228
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  André Rossi, Alok Singh, Marc Sevaux:
  Lifetime maximization in wireless directional sensor network. 229-241

Short Communication

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  Pekka J. Korhonen, Majid Soleimani-Damaneh, Jyrki Wallenius:
  On ratio-based RTS determination: An extension. 242-243

Volume 231, Number 2, December 2013

Invited Review

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  Daniel Seifert, Ralf W. Seifert, Margarita Protopappa-Sieke:
  A review of trade credit literature: Opportunities for research in operations. 245-256

Continuous Optimization

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  Satoshi Suzuki, Daishi Kuroiwa, Gue Myung Lee:
  Surrogate duality for robust optimization. 257-262
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  Silvana Bocanegra, Jordi Castro, Aurelio R. L. Oliveira:
  Improving an interior-point approach for large block-angular problems by hybrid preconditioners. 263-273
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  Andrea Cassioli, David Di Lorenzo, Marco Sciandrone:
  On the convergence of inexact block coordinate descent methods for constrained optimization. 274-281

Discrete Optimization

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  Damien Prot, Odile Bellenguez-Morineau, Chams Lahlou:
  New complexity results for parallel identical machine scheduling problems with preemption, release dates and regular criteria. 282-287
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  Yaodong Cui, Zhigang Zhao:
  Heuristic for the rectangular two-dimensional single stock size cutting stock problem with two-staged patterns. 288-298
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  Aiying Rong, José Rui Figueira:
  A reduction dynamic programming algorithm for the bi-objective integer knapsack problem. 299-313

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Sung Hoon Chung, Robert D. Weaver, Terry L. Friesz:
  Strategic response to pollution taxes in supply chain networks: Dynamic, spatial, and organizational dimensions. 314-327
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  Meng Wu, Stuart X. Zhu, Ruud H. Teunter:
  The risk-averse newsvendor problem with random capacity. 328-336
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  Eungab Kim, Soroush Saghafian, Mark P. Van Oyen:
  Joint control of production, remanufacturing, and disposal activities in a hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing system. 337-348

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Yoshifumi Muroi, Shintaro Suda:
  Discrete Malliavin calculus and computations of greeks in the binomial tree. 349-361
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  Xing Jin, Xun Li, Hwee Huat Tan, Zhenyu Wu:
  A computationally efficient state-space partitioning approach to pricing high-dimensional American options via dimension reduction. 362-370
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  Na Geng, Xiaolan Xie, Zhibin Jiang:
  Implementation strategies of a contract-based MRI examination reservation process for stroke patients. 371-380

Decision Support

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  Olivier Rubel:
  Stochastic competitive entries and dynamic pricing. 381-392
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  Guoliang Yang, Jian-Bo Yang, WenBin Liu, Xiao-xuan Li:
  Cross-efficiency aggregation in DEA models using the evidential-reasoning approach. 393-404
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  Sebastián Lozano:
  DEA production games. 405-413

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Elodie Adida, Debabrata Dey, Hamed Mamani:
  Operational issues and network effects in vaccine markets. 414-427
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  David Canca, Alejandro Zarzo, Encarnación Algaba Durán, Eva Barrena:
  Macroscopic attraction-based simulation of pedestrian mobility: A dynamic individual route-choice approach. 428-442
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  Juan Aparicio, Fernando Borrás, Jesús T. Pastor, Fernando Vidal:
  Accounting for slacks to measure and decompose revenue efficiency in the Spanish Designation of Origin wines with DEA. 443-451
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  Qinghua Wu, Jin-Kao Hao:
  A hybrid metaheuristic method for the Maximum Diversity Problem. 452-464

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Subal C. Kumbhakar:
  Specification and estimation of multiple output technologies: A primal approach. 465-473
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  Hervé Leleu:
  Shadow pricing of undesirable outputs in nonparametric analysis. 474-480
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  Abolfazl Keshvari, Timo Kuosmanen:
  Stochastic non-convex envelopment of data: Applying isotonic regression to frontier estimation. 481-491
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  Jinfeng Yue, Jill Austin, Zhimin Huang, Bintong Chen:
  Pricing and advertisement in a manufacturer-retailer supply chain. 492-502

Short Communications

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  Daniel Huppmann:
  Endogenous production capacity investment in natural gas market equilibrium models. 503-506
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  Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Peter Bogetoft:
  Short communication: DEA based auctions simulations. 507-511

Volume 231, Number 3, December 2013

Invited Review

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  Alain Billionnet:
  Mathematical optimization ideas for biodiversity conservation. 514-534

Discrete Optimization

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  Bernardetta Addis, Giuliana Carello, Alberto Ceselli:
  Combining very large scale and ILP based neighborhoods for a two-level location problem. 535-546
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  B. Srirangacharyulu, G. Srinivasan:
  An exact algorithm to minimize mean squared deviation of job completion times about a common due date. 547-556
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  Arianna Alfieri, Andrea Matta:
  Mathematical programming time-based decomposition algorithm for discrete event simulation. 557-566

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Judith Timmer, Michela Chessa, Richard J. Boucherie:
  Cooperation and game-theoretic cost allocation in stochastic inventory models with continuous review. 567-576
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  Dimitrios G. Pandelis, Constantinos Karamatsoukis, E. G. Kyriakidis:
  Finite and infinite-horizon single vehicle routing problems with a predefined customer sequence and pickup and delivery. 577-586
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  Yousef Ghiami, Terry Williams, Yue Wu:
  A two-echelon inventory model for a deteriorating item with stock-dependent demand, partial backlogging and capacity constraints. 587-597
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  M. Karimi-Nasab, S. M. Seyedhoseini:
  Multi-level lot sizing and job shop scheduling with compressible process times: A cutting plane approach. 598-616
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  Amiya K. Chakravarty, Andreas Mild, Alfred Taudes:
  Bundling decisions in supply chains. 617-630

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Xiao-Sheng Si, Mao-Yin Chen, Wenbin Wang, Chang-Hua Hu, Dong-Hua Zhou:
  Specifying measurement errors for required lifetime estimation performance. 631-644
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  Shie Mannor, John N. Tsitsiklis:
  Algorithmic aspects of mean-variance optimization in Markov decision processes. 645-653
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  Tony Cheng-Kui Huang:
  A novel group ranking model for revealing sequence and quantity knowledge. 654-666

Decision Support

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  Thomas P. Oléron Evans, Steven R. Bishop:
  Static search games played over graphs and general metric spaces. 667-689
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  Pietro De Giovanni, Alfio Cariola, Mariacarmela Passarelli:
  Recent developments on Reactivity: Theoretical conceptualization and empirical verification. 690-701
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  Christophe Dutang, Hansjörg Albrecher, Stéphane Loisel:
  Competition among non-life insurers under solvency constraints: A game-theoretic approach. 702-711
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  Rudolf Avenhaus, Thomas Krieger:
  Distributing inspections in space and time - Proposed solution of a difficult problem. 712-719
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  L. Alberto Franco:
  Rethinking Soft OR interventions: Models as boundary objects. 720-733

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Armin Lüer-Villagra, Vladimir Marianov:
  A competitive hub location and pricing problem. 734-744
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  Timothy C. Y. Chan, Velibor V. Misic:
  Adaptive and robust radiation therapy optimization for lung cancer. 745-756
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  Ahmed Elkeran:
  A new approach for sheet nesting problem using guided cuckoo search and pairwise clustering. 757-769
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  Chung H. Ta, Armann Ingolfsson, John Doucette:
  A linear model for surface mining haul truck allocation incorporating shovel idle probabilities. 770-778

Short Communications

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  Bang-He Han, Sheng-Ling Geng:
  Pruning method for optimal solutions of int^m-intⁿ decision making scheme. 779-783
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  Yana Morenko, Alexander Vinel, Zhaohan Yu, Pavlo A. Krokhmal:
  On p-norm linear discrimination. 784-789

Corrigendum

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  Sungmook Lim, Joe Zhu:
  Corrigendum to: "Incorporating performance measures with target levels in data envelopment analysis" [European Journal of Operational Research 230 (2013) 634-642]. 790