European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 255

Volume 255, Number 1, November 2016

Invited Review

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  Maxence Delorme, Manuel Iori, Silvano Martello:
  Bin packing and cutting stock problems: Mathematical models and exact algorithms. 1-20

Discrete Optimization

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  Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, Stefan Voß:
  Modeling the Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem with Step Deteriorating Jobs. 21-33
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  Rafael Blanquero, Emilio Carrizosa, Boglárka G.-Tóth, Amaya Nogales-Gómez:
  p-facility Huff location problem on networks. 34-42
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  Li Wang, Lixing Yang, Ziyou Gao:
  The constrained shortest path problem with stochastic correlated link travel times. 43-57

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Zahra Naji Azimi, Majid Salari, Jacques Renaud, Angel B. Ruiz:
  A practical vehicle routing problem with desynchronized arrivals to depot. 58-67
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  Maria João Cortinhal, Maria Cândida Mourão, Ana Catarina Nunes:
  Local search heuristics for sectoring routing in a household waste collection context. 68-79
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  Hyunju Lee, Ji Hwan Cha:
  New stochastic models for preventive maintenance and maintenance optimization. 80-90
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  Eungab Kim, Taeho Park:
  Admission and inventory control of a single-component make-to-order production system with replenishment setup cost and lead time. 91-102

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Pavlo R. Blavatskyy:
  Probability weighting and L-moments. 103-109
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  Zhen-Yu Chen, Zhi-Ping Fan, Minghe Sun:
  A multi-kernel support tensor machine for classification with multitype multiway data and an application to cross-selling recommendations. 110-120
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  Nils Löhndorf:
  An empirical analysis of scenario generation methods for stochastic optimization. 121-132

Decision Support

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  Nizar Zaarour, Emanuel Melachrinoudis, Marius M. Solomon:
  Maximizing revenue of end of life items in retail stores. 133-141
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  M. Hosseinalifam, Patrice Marcotte, Gilles Savard:
  A new bid price approach to dynamic resource allocation in network revenue management. 142-150
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  Bernard Gendron, Maria Grazia Scutellà, Rosario Giuseppe Garroppo, Gianfranco Nencioni, Luca Tavanti:
  A branch-and-Benders-cut method for nonlinear power design in green wireless local area networks. 151-162
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  Maryam Hamidi, Haitao Liao, Ferenc Szidarovszky:
  Non-cooperative and cooperative game-theoretic models for usage-based lease contracts. 163-174
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  Carlos A. Bana e Costa, João Carlos Correia Baptista Soares de Mello, Lidia Angulo Meza:
  A new approach to the bi-dimensional representation of the DEA efficient frontier with multiple inputs and outputs. 175-186

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Douglas José Alem, Alistair R. Clark, Alfredo Moreno:
  Stochastic network models for logistics planning in disaster relief. 187-206
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  Carla A. F. Amado, José M. S. São José, Sérgio P. Santos:
  Measuring active ageing: A Data Envelopment Analysis approach. 207-223
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  Ingmar Ritzenhofen, John R. Birge, Stefan Spinler:
  The structural impact of renewable portfolio standards and feed-in tariffs on electricity markets. 224-242
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  Timo Lohmann, Amanda S. Hering, Steffen Rebennack:
  Spatio-temporal hydro forecasting of multireservoir inflows for hydro-thermal scheduling. 243-258
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  Kevin J. Wilson, John Quigley:
  Allocation of tasks for reliability growth using multi-attribute utility. 259-271

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Oleg Badunenko, Subal C. Kumbhakar:
  When, where and how to estimate persistent and transient efficiency in stochastic frontier panel data models. 272-287
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  Rosella Castellano, Roy Cerqueti, Luca Spinesi:
  Sustainable management of fossil fuels: A dynamic stochastic optimization approach with jump-diffusion. 288-297
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  Kausik Chaudhuri, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Lavanya Sundaram:
  Estimation of firm performance from a MIMIC model. 298-307

Short Communication

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  Jacek Gondzio:
  Crash start of interior point methods. 308-314

Volume 255, Number 2, December 2016

Invited Review

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  Aldy Gunawan, Hoong Chuin Lau, Pieter Vansteenwegen:
  Orienteering Problem: A survey of recent variants, solution approaches and applications. 315-332

Discrete Optimization

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  James D. Brooks, Koushik Kar, David Mendonça:
  Allocation of flows in closed bipartite queueing networks. 333-344
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  Yaping Zhao, Xiaoyun Xu, Haidong Li, Yanni Liu:
  Prioritized customer order scheduling to maximize throughput. 345-356
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  Joachim Schauer:
  Asymptotic behavior of the quadratic knapsack problem. 357-363

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Shi Tao Zhao, Kan Wu, Xue-Ming Yuan:
  Optimal production-inventory policy for an integrated multi-stage supply chain with time-varying demand. 364-379
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  Evrim Ursavas, Stuart X. Zhu:
  Optimal policies for the berth allocation problem under stochastic nature. 380-387
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  Cinzia Muriana:
  An EOQ model for perishable products with fixed shelf life under stochastic demand conditions. 388-396
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  Tiejun Ma, Leilei Tang, Frank McGroarty, Ming-Chien Sung, Johnnie E. V. Johnson:
  Time is money: Costing the impact of duration misperception in market prices. 397-410
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  Chiang Kao, Shiang-Tai Liu:
  A parallel production frontiers approach for intertemporal efficiency analysis: The case of Taiwanese commercial banks. 411-421
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  François V. Louveaux, Yasemin Arda, Yves Crama, Gilbert Laporte:
  Large neighborhood search for multi-trip vehicle routing. 422-441
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  Oscar L. Domínguez Rivero, Daniel Guimarans, Angel A. Juan, Ignacio A. de la Nuez Pestana:
  A Biased-Randomised Large Neighbourhood Search for the two-dimensional Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls. 442-462
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  Huiping Ding, Qian Liu, Lucy Zheng:
  Assessing the economic performance of an environmental sustainable supply chain in reducing environmental externalities. 463-480

Decision Support

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  Mihai Banciu, Fredrik Ødegaard:
  Optimal product bundling with dependent valuations: The price of independence. 481-495
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  Liron Ravner, Moshe Haviv, Hai L. Vu:
  A strategic timing of arrivals to a linear slowdown processor sharing system. 496-504
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  Robert L. Burdett, Erhan Kozan:
  A multi-criteria approach for hospital capacity analysis. 505-521
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  Juheng Zhang, Haldun Aytug:
  Comparison of imputation methods for discriminant analysis with strategically hidden data. 522-530
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  Panagiotis P. Repoussis, Dimitris C. Paraskevopoulos, Alkiviadis Vazacopoulos, Nathaniel Hupert:
  Optimizing emergency preparedness and resource utilization in mass-casualty incidents. 531-544
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  Biresh K. Sahoo, Mohammad Khoveyni, Robabeh Eslami, Pradipta Chaudhury:
  Returns to scale and most productive scale size in DEA with negative data. 545-558

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Gabriel Villa, Sebastián Lozano:
  Assessing the scoring efficiency of a football match. 559-569
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  Emmanuel Thanassoulis, Maria Conceição A. Silva Portela, Mike Graveney:
  Identifying the scope for savings at inpatient episode level: An illustration applying DEA to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 570-582
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  Gemma Pérez-López, Diego Prior, José Luis Zafra-Gómez, Ana María Plata-Díaz:
  Cost efficiency in municipal solid waste service delivery. Alternative management forms in relation to local population size. 583-592
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  Ruth Luscombe, Erhan Kozan:
  Dynamic resource allocation to improve emergency department efficiency in real time. 593-603
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  Mohammad Moshref-Javadi, Seokcheon Lee:
  The Latency Location-Routing Problem. 604-619

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Salma Karray, Simon Pierre Sigué:
  Should companies jointly promote their complementary products when they compete in other product categories? 620-630
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  Areski Cousin, Hassan Maatouk, Didier Rullière:
  Kriging of financial term-structures. 631-648
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  Joseph L. Breeden:
  Incorporating lifecycle and environment in loan-level forecasts and stress tests. 649-658

Short Communication

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  Chia-Yen Lee:
  Nash-profit efficiency: A measure of changes in market structures. 659-663

Volume 255, Number 3, December 2016

Invited Review

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  Ali Allahverdi:
  A survey of scheduling problems with no-wait in process. 665-686

Discrete Optimization

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  Lizhen Shao, Matthias Ehrgott:
  Discrete representation of non-dominated sets in multi-objective linear programming. 687-698
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  Cédric Verbeeck, Pieter Vansteenwegen, El-Houssaine Aghezzaf:
  Solving the stochastic time-dependent orienteering problem with time windows. 699-718
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  Atle Riise, Carlo Mannino, Leonardo Lamorgese:
  Recursive logic-based Benders' decomposition for multi-mode outpatient scheduling. 719-728
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  Isabel Correia, M. Teresa Melo:
  Multi-period capacitated facility location under delayed demand satisfaction. 729-746

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Remco Germs, Nicky D. van Foreest, Onur A. Kilic:
  Optimal policies for production-clearing systems under continuous-review. 747-757
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  Devarajulu Sabitha, Chandrasekharan Rajendran, S. Kalpakam, Hans Ziegler:
  The value of information sharing in a serial supply chain with AR(1) demand and non-zero replenishment lead times. 758-777
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  Chiang Kao:
  Efficiency decomposition and aggregation in network data envelopment analysis. 778-786
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  Candice H. Huynh, Kut C. So, Haresh Gurnani:
  Managing a closed-loop supply system with random returns and a cyclic delivery schedule. 787-796
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  Ju Zhao, Yong-Wu Zhou, M. I. M. Wahab:
  Joint optimization models for shelf display and inventory control considering the impact of spatial relationship on demand. 797-808

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Qingxia Kong, Chung-Yee Lee, Chung-Piaw Teo, Zhichao Zheng:
  Appointment sequencing: Why the Smallest-Variance-First rule may not be optimal. 809-821
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  Giuliano Casale, Andrea Sansottera, Paolo Cremonesi:
  Compact Markov-modulated models for multiclass trace fitting. 822-833
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  Shih-Pin Chen:
  Time value of delays in unreliable production systems with mixed uncertainties of fuzziness and randomness. 834-844

Decision Support

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  Dylan Jones, Helenice Florentino, Daniela Cantane, Rogerio Oliveira:
  An extended goal programming methodology for analysis of a network encompassing multiple objectives and stakeholders. 845-855
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  Tobias Widmer, Jörg Leukel:
  Efficiency of electronic service allocation with privately known quality. 856-868
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  Baozhuang Niu, Delong Jin, Xujin Pu:
  Coordination of channel members' efforts and utilities in contract farming operations. 869-883
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  Yongjun Li, Jianhui Xie, Meiqiang Wang, Liang Liang:
  Super efficiency evaluation using a common platform on a cooperative game. 884-892
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  Haim Levy, Yusif Simaan:
  More possessions, more worry. 893-902

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Rajiv Banker, Janice Y. S. Chen, Paul Klumpes:
  A trade-level DEA model to evaluate relative performance of investment fund managers. 903-910
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  Martha E. Villalba Matamoros, Roussos G. Dimitrakopoulos:
  Stochastic short-term mine production schedule accounting for fleet allocation, operational considerations and blending restrictions. 911-921
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  Han-Lin Li, Shu-Cherng Fang, Yao-Huei Huang, Tiantian Nie:
  An enhanced logarithmic method for signomial programming with discrete variables. 922-934
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  Ann-Kathrin Rothenbächer, Michael Drexl, Stefan Irnich:
  Branch-and-price-and-cut for a service network design and hub location problem. 935-947
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  Oguzhan Özlü, Joel Sokol:
  An optimization approach to designing a baseball scout network. 948-960

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Betina Fernandes, Alexandre Street, Davi Michel Valladão, Cristiano Fernandes:
  An adaptive robust portfolio optimization model with loss constraints based on data-driven polyhedral uncertainty sets. 961-970
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  Barbara Casu, Alessandra Ferrari, Claudia Girardone, John O. S. Wilson:
  Integration, productivity and technological spillovers: Evidence for eurozone banking industries. 971-983
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  Puduru V. Reddy, Stefan Wrzaczek, Georges Zaccour:
  Quality effects in different advertising models - An impulse control approach. 984-995
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  Jian-Xin Guo, Lei Zhu, Ying Fan:
  Emission path planning based on dynamic abatement cost curve. 996-1013