European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 198

Volume 198, Number 1, October 2009

Invited Review

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  Carlo Alberto Magni:
  Splitting up value: A critical review of residual income theories. 1-22

Continuous Optimization

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  Dennis Cheung, Felipe Cucker, Javier Peña:
  On strata of degenerate polyhedral cones I: Condition and distance to strata. 23-28
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  Tadeusz Antczak:
  Exact penalty functions method for mathematical programming problems involving invex functions. 29-36
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  Shashi Kant Mishra, Shouyang Wang, Kin Keung Lai:
  Symmetric duality for minimax mixed integer programming problems with pseudo-invexity. 37-42

Discrete Optimization

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  Xujin Chen, Jie Hu, Xiaodong Hu:
  A polynomial solvable minimum risk spanning tree problem with interval data. 43-46
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  Cristina Bazgan, Hadrien Hugot, Daniel Vanderpooten:
  Implementing an efficient fptas for the 0-1 multi-objective knapsack problem. 47-56
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  Valery S. Gordon, Vitaly A. Strusevich:
  Single machine scheduling and due date assignment with positionally dependent processing times. 57-62
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  Athanasios K. Ziliaskopoulos, Fotios D. Mandanas, Hani S. Mahmassani:
  An extension of labeling techniques for finding shortest path trees. 63-72
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  Mitsutoshi Kenmochi, Takashi Imamichi, Koji Nonobe, Mutsunori Yagiura, Hiroshi Nagamochi:
  Exact algorithms for the two-dimensional strip packing problem with and without rotations. 73-83
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  Lin Yu Tseng, Ya-Tai Lin:
  A hybrid genetic local search algorithm for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem. 84-92
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  Pawel Jan Kalczynski, Jerzy Kamburowski:
  An empirical analysis of the optimality rate of flow shop heuristics. 93-101
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  Boris Goldengorin:
  Maximization of submodular functions: Theory and enumeration algorithms. 102-112

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Oshmita Dey, Debjani Chakraborty:
  Fuzzy periodic review system with fuzzy random variable demand. 113-120
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  Hadi Mohammadi Bidhandi, Rosnah Mohd. Yusuff, Megat Mohamad Hamdan Megat Ahmad, Mohd Rizam Abu Bakar:
  Development of a new approach for deterministic supply chain network design. 121-128
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  Zhong Zhou, Anthony Chen, Sze Chun Wong:
  Alternative formulations of a combined trip generation, trip distribution, modal split, and trip assignment model. 129-138
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  Hanne L. Petersen, Oli B. G. Madsen:
  The double travelling salesman problem with multiple stacks - Formulation and heuristic solution approaches. 139-147
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  Chia-Shin Chung, James Flynn, Jishan Zhu:
  The newsvendor problem with an in-season price adjustment. 148-156
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  Zvi Drezner, Tammy Drezner, George O. Wesolowsky:
  Location with acceleration-deceleration distance. 157-164
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  Wenkai Li, Yong Wu, Matthew E. H. Petering, Mark Goh, Robert de Souza:
  Discrete time model and algorithms for container yard crane scheduling. 165-172
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  F. I. Dehayem Nodem, Jean-Pierre Kenné, Anis Gharbi:
  Hierarchical decision making in production and repair/replacement planning with imperfect repairs under uncertainties. 173-189

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Philip A. Scarf, Muhammad Mat Yusof, Mark Bilbao:
  A numerical study of designs for sporting contests. 190-198
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  Pengfei Guo, Paul H. Zipkin:
  The effects of the availability of waiting-time information on a balking queue. 199-209
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  Yong Sun, Lin Ma, Jon Morris:
  A practical approach for reliability prediction of pipeline systems. 210-214
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  Mong-Shan Ee:
  Asset-selling problem with an uncertain deadline, quitting offer, and search skipping option. 215-222
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  Daria Terekhov, J. Christopher Beck:
  An extended queueing control model for facilities with front room and back room operations and mixed-skilled workers. 223-231

Decision Support

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  Sergio Alonso-Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel Domínguez-Ríos, Marcos Colebrook, Antonio Sedeño-Noda:
  Optimality conditions in preference-based spanning tree problems. 232-240
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  Yen-Liang Chen, Li-Chen Cheng:
  Mining maximum consensus sequences from group ranking data. 241-251
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  Wei Zhou:
  RFID and item-level information visibility. 252-258
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  Mahdi Zarghami, Ferenc Szidarovszky:
  Revising the OWA operator for multi criteria decision making problems under uncertainty. 259-265

Computational Intelligence and Information Management

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  Valmir Carneiro Barbosa, Fernando M. L. Ferreira, Daniel V. Kling, Eduardo Lopes, Fábio Protti, Eber A. Schmitz:
  Structured construction and simulation of nondeterministic stochastic activity networks. 266-274
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  Evgeny Agafonov, Andrzej Bargiela, Edmund K. Burke, Evtim Peytchev:
  Mathematical justification of a heuristic for statistical correlation of real-life time series. 275-286
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  Akiko Takeda, Takafumi Kanamori:
  A robust approach based on conditional value-at-risk measure to statistical learning problems. 287-296
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  Xuelian Xu, Xiaodong Liu, Yan Chen:
  Applications of axiomatic fuzzy set clustering method on management strategic analysis. 297-304

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Mohammad Saadatseresht, Ali Mansourian, Mohammad Taleai:
  Evacuation planning using multiobjective evolutionary optimization approach. 305-314
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  Yan Xu, Toshihiko Masui:
  Local air pollutant emission reduction and ancillary carbon benefits of SO₂ control policies: Application of AIM/CGE model to China. 315-325
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  Karligash Kenjegalieva, Richard Simper, Tom Weyman-Jones, Valentin Zelenyuk:
  Comparative analysis of banking production frameworks in eastern european financial markets. 326-340
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  Shih-Fang Lo, Wen-Min Lu:
  An integrated performance evaluation of financial holding companies in Taiwan. 341-350

Short Communications

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  Jinn-Tsair Teng:
  A simple method to compute economic order quantities. 351-353
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  Chuan-Li Zhao, Heng-Yong Tang, Cong-Dian Cheng:
  Two-parallel machines scheduling with rate-modifying activities to minimize total completion time. 354-357
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  Mehdi Toloo:
  On classifying inputs and outputs in DEA: A revised model. 358-360
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  William W. Cooper:
  Origins and uses of linear programming methods for treating L₁ and L_infinity regressions: Corrections and comments on. 361-362

Volume 198, Number 2, October 2009

Discrete Optimization

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  Wim Pijls, Henk Post:
  A new bidirectional search algorithm with shortened postprocessing. 363-369
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  Elisabeth Gassner:
  Up- and downgrading the 1-center in a network. 370-377
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  Jie Zhu, Xiaoping Li, Qian Wang:
  Complete local search with limited memory algorithm for no-wait job shops to minimize makespan. 378-386
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  Leizer de Lima Pinto, Claudio T. Bornstein, Nelson Maculan:
  The tricriterion shortest path problem with at least two bottleneck objective functions. 387-391
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  Rong Qu, Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum:
  Adaptive automated construction of hybrid heuristics for exam timetabling and graph colouring problems. 392-404

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Fatma Gzara, Erhan Erkut:
  A Lagrangian relaxation approach to large-scale flow interception problems. 405-411
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  Ayse Akbalik, Yves Pochet:
  Valid inequalities for the single-item capacitated lot sizing problem with step-wise costs. 412-434
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  Alexander Stepanov, James MacGregor Smith:
  Multi-objective evacuation routing in transportation networks. 435-446
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  Vicente Vargas:
  An optimal solution for the stochastic version of the Wagner-Whitin dynamic lot-size model. 447-451
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  Raktim Pal, Indranil Bose:
  An optimization based approach for deployment of roadway incident response vehicles with reliability constraints. 452-463
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  Jean-François Côté, Jean-Yves Potvin:
  A tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with private fleet and common carrier. 464-469
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  Yafeng Yin, Samer M. Madanat, Xiao-Yun Lu:
  Robust improvement schemes for road networks under demand uncertainty. 470-479
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  Mengfei Yu, René M. B. M. de Koster:
  The impact of order batching and picking area zoning on order picking system performance. 480-490
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  Michael E. Ketzenberg:
  The value of information in a capacitated closed loop supply chain. 491-503
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  Aysegül Toptal:
  Replenishment decisions under an all-units discount schedule and stepwise freight costs. 504-510

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Hua Shen, Hong Wan:
  Controlled sequential factorial design for simulation factor screening. 511-519
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  Huifen Chen, Yuyen Cheng:
  Designing X charts for known autocorrelations and unknown marginal distribution. 520-529
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  José M. Alonso-Meijide, Jesús Mario Bilbao, Balbina Casas-Méndez, Julio R. Fernández:
  Weighted multiple majority games with unions: Generating functions and applications to the European Union. 530-544
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  Vasilis P. Koutras, Agapios N. Platis, George A. Gravvanis:
  Optimal server resource reservation policies for priority classes of users under cyclic non-homogeneous markov modeling. 545-556
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  Luis Fernando Zuluaga, Javier Peña, Donglei Du:
  Third-order extensions of Lo's semiparametric bound for European call options. 557-570
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  Rodica Branzei, Stef Tijs, José Manuel Zarzuelo:
  Convex multi-choice games: Characterizations and monotonic allocation schemes. 571-575

Decision Support

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  Wenyin Gong, Zhihua Cai:
  An improved multiobjective differential evolution based on Pareto-adaptive epsilon-dominance and orthogonal design. 576-601
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  Eduardo Fernández, Jorge Navarro, Sergio Bernal:
  Multicriteria sorting using a valued indifference relation under a preference disaggregation paradigm. 602-609
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  Hsiao-Fan Wang, Fei-Chen Hsu:
  An integrated operation module for individual risk management. 610-617
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  Yongquan Li, Kaijie Zhu:
  Information acquisition in new product introduction. 618-625
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  Krzysztof Dembczynski, Salvatore Greco, Roman Slowinski:
  Rough set approach to multiple criteria classification with imprecise evaluations and assignments. 626-636
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  Maria João Alves, João Paulo Costa:
  An exact method for computing the nadir values in multiple objective linear programming. 637-646

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Antonio Peyrache, Tim Coelli:
  Testing procedures for detection of linear dependencies in efficiency models. 647-654
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  Simon Pierre Sigué, Pradeep Chintagunta:
  Advertising strategies in a franchise system. 655-665
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  Óscar González-Benito, María Pilar Martínez-Ruiz, Alejandro Mollá-Descals:
  Using store level scanner data to improve category management decisions: Developing positioning maps. 666-674

Volume 198, Number 3, November 2009

Invited Review

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  Ue-Pyng Wen, Kuen-Ming Lan, Hsu-Shih Shih:
  A review of Hopfield neural networks for solving mathematical programming problems. 675-687

Discrete Optimization

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  Zhengwen He, Nengmin Wang, Tao Jia, Yu Xu:
  Simulated annealing and tabu search for multi-mode project payment scheduling. 688-696
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  Matthew J. Sobel, Joseph G. Szmerekovsky, Vera Tilson:
  Scheduling projects with stochastic activity duration to maximize expected net present value. 697-705
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  Marcus Ritt, Alysson M. Costa, Sergio Mergen, Viviane Moreira Orengo:
  An integer linear programming approach for approximate string comparison. 706-714

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Lixin Tang, Xianpeng Wang:
  Simultaneously scheduling multiple turns for steel color-coating production. 715-725
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  Federico Perea, Justo Puerto, Francisco R. Fernández:
  Modeling cooperation on a class of distribution problems. 726-733
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  Maciek Nowak, Özlem Ergun, Chelsea C. White III:
  An empirical study on the benefit of split loads with the pickup and delivery problem. 734-740
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  Riccardo Cambini, Rossana Riccardi:
  Theoretical and algorithmic results for a class of hierarchical fleet mix problems. 741-747
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  Tsung-Sheng Chang, Yat-wah Wan, Wei Tsang Ooi:
  A stochastic dynamic traveling salesman problem with hard time windows. 748-759
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  Marc Reimann, Philippe Schiltknecht:
  Studying the interdependence of contractual and operational flexibilities in the market of specialty chemicals. 760-772
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  Sandra Transchel, Stefan Minner:
  The impact of dynamic pricing on the economic order decision. 773-789
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  I. Kuban Altinel, Engin Durmaz, Necati Aras, Kerem Can Özkisacik:
  A location-allocation heuristic for the capacitated multi-facility Weber problem with probabilistic customer locations. 790-799
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  Yao Zhao:
  Analysis and evaluation of an Assemble-to-Order system with batch ordering policy and compound Poisson demand. 800-809
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  Zhendong Pan, Jiafu Tang, Ou Liu:
  Capacitated dynamic lot sizing problems in closed-loop supply chain. 810-821
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  Cao To Linh, Yushin Hong:
  Channel coordination through a revenue sharing contract in a two-period newsboy problem. 822-829

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Shanling Li, Alper Murat, Wanzhen Huang:
  Selection of contract suppliers under price and demand uncertainty in a dynamic market. 830-847
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  Josselin Garnier, Abdennebi Omrane, Youssef Rouchdy:
  Asymptotic formulas for the derivatives of probability functions and their Monte Carlo estimations. 848-858
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  Shaul K. Bar-Lev, Onno J. Boxma, Wolfgang Stadje, Frank A. Van der Duyn Schouten, Christoph Wiesmeyr:
  Two-stage queueing network models for quality control and testing. 859-866
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  Ming-Guan Huang:
  Real options approach-based demand forecasting method for a range of products with highly volatile and correlated demand. 867-877
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  Todd A. Sriver, James W. Chrissis, Mark A. Abramson:
  Pattern search ranking and selection algorithms for mixed variable simulation-based optimization. 878-890
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  Joris Walraevens, Dieter Fiems, Sabine Wittevrongel, Herwig Bruneel:
  Calculation of output characteristics of a priority queue through a busy period analysis. 891-898

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Na Geng, Zhibin Jiang, Feng Chen:
  Stochastic programming based capacity planning for semiconductor wafer fab with uncertain demand and capacity. 899-908
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  Chao Yang, Anthony Chen:
  Sensitivity analysis of the combined travel demand model with applications. 909-921
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  Yue Zhang, Oded Berman, Vedat Verter:
  Incorporating congestion in preventive healthcare facility network design. 922-935
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  Mohamed A. Ahmed, Talal M. Alkhamis:
  Simulation optimization for an emergency department healthcare unit in Kuwait. 936-942
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  Seyda Topaloglu:
  A shift scheduling model for employees with different seniority levels and an application in healthcare. 943-957
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  Yong-Wu Zhou, Sheng-Dong Wang:
  Manufacturer-buyer coordination for newsvendor-type-products with two ordering opportunities and partial backorders. 958-974

Short Communications

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  Liqi Zhang, Lingfa Lu, Jinjiang Yuan:
  Single machine scheduling with release dates and rejection. 975-978
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  Kun-Jen Chung:
  "A note on the economic lot size of the integrated vendor-buyer inventory system derived without derivatives": A comment. 979-982
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  Roberto Rossi, S. Armagan Tarim, Brahim Hnich, Steven David Prestwich, Cahit Guran:
  A note on Liu-Iwamura's dependent-chance programming. 983-986