European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 218

Volume 218, Number 1, April 2012

Invited Review

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  Roberto Baldacci, Aristide Mingozzi, Roberto Roberti:
  Recent exact algorithms for solving the vehicle routing problem under capacity and time window constraints. 1-6

Continuous Optimization

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  Mathys C. du Plessis, Andries P. Engelbrecht:
  Using Competitive Population Evaluation in a differential evolution algorithm for dynamic environments. 7-20
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  Wenxun Xing, Shu-Cherng Fang, Ruey-Lin Sheu, Ziteng Wang:
  A canonical dual approach for solving linearly constrained quadratic programs. 21-27
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  Chun-Ming Tang, Jin-bao Jian:
  Strongly sub-feasible direction method for constrained optimization problems with nonsmooth objective functions. 28-37

Discrete Optimization

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  Juan P. Ruiz, Ignacio E. Grossmann:
  A hierarchy of relaxations for nonlinear convex generalized disjunctive programming. 38-47
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  André Rossi, Alexis Aubry, Mireille Jacomino:
  Connectivity-and-hop-constrained design of electricity distribution networks. 48-57
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  Wieslawa T. Obuchowska:
  Feasibility in reverse convex mixed-integer programming. 58-67
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  Rafal Rózycki, Jan Weglarz:
  Power-aware scheduling of preemptable jobs on identical parallel processors to meet deadlines. 68-75
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  Roland Braune, Günther Zäpfel, Michael Affenzeller:
  An exact approach for single machine subproblems in shifting bottleneck procedures for job shops with total weighted tardiness objective. 76-85

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Wei Weng, Shigeru Fujimura:
  Control methods for dynamic time-based manufacturing under customized product lead times. 86-96
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  Michel J. Anzanello, Susan L. Albin, Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse:
  Multicriteria variable selection for classification of production batches. 97-105
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  Chung-Yuan Dye, Tsu-Pang Hsieh:
  An optimal replenishment policy for deteriorating items with effective investment in preservation technology. 106-112
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  Konstantin Kogan:
  Ship-to-order supplies: Contract breachability and the impact of a manufacturer-owned direct channel. 113-123

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Ray Popovic, David Goldsman:
  On valuing and hedging European options when volatility is estimated directly. 124-131
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  Edward N. C. Tong, Christophe Mues, Lyn C. Thomas:
  Mixture cure models in credit scoring: If and when borrowers default. 132-139
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  Khac Tuan Huynh, Inmaculada Torres Castro, Anne Barros, Christophe Bérenguer:
  Modeling age-based maintenance strategies with minimal repairs for systems subject to competing failure modes due to degradation and shocks. 140-151
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  Tongdan Jin, Yu Tian:
  Optimizing reliability and service parts logistics for a time-varying installed base. 152-162
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  Stefan Lessmann, Ming-Chien Sung, Johnnie E. V. Johnson, Tiejun Ma:
  A new methodology for generating and combining statistical forecasting models to enhance competitive event prediction. 163-174

Decision Support

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  Emmanuel Thanassoulis, Mika Kortelainen, Rachel Allen:
  Improving envelopment in Data Envelopment Analysis under variable returns to scale. 175-185
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  Juan Du, Chien-Ming Chen, Yao Chen, Wade D. Cook, Joe Zhu:
  Additive super-efficiency in integer-valued data envelopment analysis. 186-192
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  Jyri Mustajoki:
  Effects of imprecise weighting in hierarchical preference programming. 193-201

Computational Intelligence and Information Management

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  Xin Wang, Xiaodong Liu, Witold Pedrycz, Xiaolei Zhu, Guangfei Hu:
  Mining axiomatic fuzzy set association rules for classification problems. 202-210
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  Wouter Verbeke, Karel Dejaeger, David Martens, Joon Hur, Bart Baesens:
  New insights into churn prediction in the telecommunication sector: A profit driven data mining approach. 211-229
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  Wei-Wen Wu, Lawrence W. Lan, Yu-Ting Lee:
  Exploring the critical pillars and causal relations within the NRI: An innovative approach. 230-238

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Hans-Jörg Schütz, Rainer Kolisch:
  Approximate dynamic programming for capacity allocation in the service industry. 239-250
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  Fabio Furini, Enrico Malaguti, Rosa Medina Durán, Alfredo Persiani, Paolo Toth:
  A column generation heuristic for the two-dimensional two-staged guillotine cutting stock problem with multiple stock size. 251-260
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  Soonhui Lee, Jonathan P. Turner, Mark S. Daskin, Tito Homem-de-Mello, Karen R. Smilowitz:
  Improving fleet utilization for carriers by interval scheduling. 261-269
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  Sandra Cohen, Michael Doumpos, Evi Neofytou, Constantin Zopounidis:
  Assessing financial distress where bankruptcy is not an option: An alternative approach for local municipalities. 270-279
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  Grit Walther, Anne Schatka, Thomas Spengler:
  Design of regional production networks for second generation synthetic bio-fuel - A case study in Northern Germany. 280-292

Volume 218, Number 2, April 2012

Invited Review

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  Li Xia, Xi-Ren Cao:
  Performance optimization of queueing systems with perturbation realization. 293-304

Discrete Optimization

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  Jana Ries, Patrick Beullens, David Salt:
  Instance-specific multi-objective parameter tuning based on fuzzy logic. 305-315
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  Alexander Veremyev, Vladimir Boginski:
  Identifying large robust network clusters via new compact formulations of maximum k-club problems. 316-326
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  Ayse Durukan Sonmez, Gino J. Lim:
  A decomposition approach for facility location and relocation problem with uncertain number of future facilities. 327-338
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  Emmanuel Medernach, Eric Sanlaville:
  Fair resource allocation for different scenarios of demands. 339-350
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  Yong Xia, Ruey-Lin Sheu, Xiaoling Sun, Duan Li:
  Improved estimation of duality gap in binary quadratic programming using a weighted distance measure. 351-357
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  Yaodong Cui, Baixiong Huang:
  Reducing the number of cuts in generating three-staged cutting patterns. 358-365
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  Yourim Yoon, Yong-Hyuk Kim, Byung Ro Moon:
  A theoretical and empirical investigation on the Lagrangian capacities of the 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problem. 366-376
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  Zhou Xu:
  A strongly polynomial FPTAS for the symmetric quadratic knapsack problem. 377-381
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  Yavuz A. Bozer, Chi-Tai Wang:
  A graph-pair representation and MIP-model-based heuristic for the unequal-area facility layout problem. 382-391

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Simme Douwe Flapper, Jean-Philippe Gayon, Samuel Vercraene:
  Control of a production-inventory system with returns under imperfect advance return information. 392-400
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  Rongbing Huang, Mozart B. C. Menezes, Seokjin Kim:
  The impact of cost uncertainty on the location of a distribution center. 401-407
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  Ozhan Yilmaz, Seçil Savasaneril:
  Collaboration among small shippers in a transportation market. 408-415
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  Ulas Özen, Nesim Erkip, Marco Slikker:
  Stability and monotonicity in newsvendor situations. 416-425
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  Bin Zhang:
  Multi-tier binary solution method for multi-product newsvendor problem with multiple constraints. 426-434
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  Guowei Hua, Shouyang Wang, T. C. E. Cheng:
  Optimal order lot sizing and pricing with free shipping. 435-441
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  Ester Guijarro, Manuel Cardós, Eugenia Babiloni:
  On the exact calculation of the fill rate in a periodic review inventory policy under discrete demand patterns. 442-447

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Andrey Lizyayev, Andrzej Ruszczynski:
  Tractable Almost Stochastic Dominance. 448-455
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  Juan Eloy Ruiz-Castro, Gemma Fernández-Villodre:
  A complex discrete warm standby system with loss of units. 456-469
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  Andrew B. Philpott, Vitor L. de Matos:
  Dynamic sampling algorithms for multi-stage stochastic programs with risk aversion. 470-483

Decision Support

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  Xiang Li, Biying Shou, Zhongfeng Qin:
  An expected regret minimization portfolio selection model. 484-492
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  Kenneth David Strang:
  Importance of verifying queue model assumptions before planning with simulation software. 493-504
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  Gafurjan I. Ibragimov, Mehdi Salimi, Massoud Amini:
  Evasion from many pursuers in simple motion differential game with integral constraints. 505-511

Innovative Applications of O.R

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  Elías Moreno, Francisco Javier Girón, F. J. Vázquez-Polo, Miguel A. Negrín:
  Optimal healthcare decisions: The importance of the covariates in cost-effectiveness analysis. 512-522
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  Marco Falagario, Fabio Sciancalepore, Nicola Costantino, Roberto Pietroforte:
  Using a DEA-cross efficiency approach in public procurement tenders. 523-529
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  Kenetsu Uchida:
  A model evaluating effect of disaster warning issuance conditions on "cry wolf syndrome" in the case of a landslide. 530-537
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  R. Muzaffer Musal, Refik Soyer, Christopher McCabe, Samer A. Kharroubi:
  Estimating the population utility function: A parametric Bayesian approach. 538-547
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  Karel Dejaeger, Frank Goethals, Antonio Giangreco, Lapo Mola, Bart Baesens:
  Gaining insight into student satisfaction using comprehensible data mining techniques. 548-562
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  Maria Besiou, Patroklos Georgiadis, Luk N. Van Wassenhove:
  Official recycling and scavengers: Symbiotic or conflicting? 563-576
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  Byung-In Kim, Seongbae Kim, Junhyuk Park:
  A school bus scheduling problem. 577-585

Volume 218, Number 3, May 2012

Invited Review

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  Jacek Gondzio:
  Interior point methods 25 years later. 587-601

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Zugang Liu, Trisha D. Anderson, Jose M. Cruz:
  Consumer environmental awareness and competition in two-stage supply chains. 602-613
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  Laurent Flindt Muller, Simon Spoorendonk, David Pisinger:
  A hybrid adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for lot-sizing with setup times. 614-623
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  A. C. C. van Wijk, Ivo J. B. F. Adan, Geert-Jan van Houtum:
  Approximate evaluation of multi-location inventory models with lateral transshipments and hold back levels. 624-635
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  Vitória Pureza, Reinaldo Morabito, Marc Reimann:
  Vehicle routing with multiple deliverymen: Modeling and heuristic approaches for the VRPTW. 636-647
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  Luis Franco, Francisco Velasco Morente, Luis González Abril:
  Gate points in continuous location between regions with different ℓ_p norms. 648-655
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  John A. Buzacott, H. Steve Peng:
  Contract design for risk sharing partnerships in manufacturing. 656-666

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Haldun Aytug, Serpil Sayin:
  Exploring the trade-off between generalization and empirical errors in a one-norm SVM. 667-675
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  Rita Marques Brandão, Acácio M. O. Porta Nova:
  Analysis of event-based, single-server nonstationary simulation responses using classical time-series models. 676-686
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  Santiago Cerisola, Jesús M. Latorre, Andrés Ramos:
  Stochastic dual dynamic programming applied to nonconvex hydrothermal models. 687-697
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  Andreas Grothey, Xinan Yang:
  Approximate dynamic programming with Bézier Curves/Surfaces for Top-percentile Traffic Routing. 698-707
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  Olga Boudali, Antonis Economou:
  Optimal and equilibrium balking strategies in the single server Markovian queue with catastrophes. 708-715
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  María Dolores Berrade, Cristiano A. V. Cavalcante, Philip A. Scarf:
  Maintenance scheduling of a protection system subject to imperfect inspection and replacement. 716-725
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  Wenbin Wang:
  A simulation-based multivariate Bayesian control chart for real time condition-based maintenance of complex systems. 726-734

Decision Support

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  Yi-Kuei Lin, Cheng-Ta Yeh:
  Multi-objective optimization for stochastic computer networks using NSGA-II and TOPSIS. 735-746
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  Fang Liu, Wei-Guo Zhang, Zhong-Xing Wang:
  A goal programming model for incomplete interval multiplicative preference relations and its application in group decision-making. 747-754
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  René H. P. Janssen, Herman Monsuur:
  Stable network topologies using the notion of covering. 755-763

Innovative Applications of O.R

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  Frank Hennig, Bjørn Nygreen, Marielle Christiansen, Kjetil Fagerholt, Kevin C. Furman, Jin-Hwa Song, Gary R. Kocis, Philip H. Warrick:
  Maritime crude oil transportation - A split pickup and split delivery problem. 764-774
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  Alexander Stepanov, James MacGregor Smith:
  Modeling wildfire propagation with Delaunay triangulation and shortest path algorithms. 775-788
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  Kerstin Baumgartner, André Fuetterer, Ulrich W. Thonemann:
  Supply chain design considering economies of scale and transport frequencies. 789-800
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  Felipe Henao, Judith A. Cherni, Patricia Jaramillo, Isaac Dyner:
  A multicriteria approach to sustainable energy supply for the rural poor. 801-809
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  Michael Bruhn Barfod:
  An MCDA approach for the selection of bike projects based on structuring and appraising activities. 810-818
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  Tyrel Russell, Peter van Beek:
  A hybrid constraint programming and enumeration approach for solving NHL playoff qualification and elimination problems. 819-828
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  Abdullah Konak:
  Network design problem with relays: A genetic algorithm with a path-based crossover and a set covering formulation. 829-837
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  Xiaokang Cao, Antoine Jouglet, Dritan Nace:
  A Multi-Period Renewal equipment problem. 838-846
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  Bo Fu, Wenbin Wang, Xin Shi:
  A risk analysis based on a two-stage delayed diagnosis regression model with application to chronic disease progression. 847-855
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  Sabrina Haase, Philipp Süss, Jan Schwientek, Katrin Teichert, Tobias Preusser:
  Radiofrequency ablation planning: An application of semi-infinite modelling techniques. 856-864
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  Zhipeng Lü, Jin-Kao Hao:
  Adaptive neighborhood search for nurse rostering. 865-876