European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 268

Volume 268, Number 1, July 2018

Invited Review

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  Margaretha Gansterer, Richard F. Hartl:
  Collaborative vehicle routing: A survey. 1-12

Continuous Optimization

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  Nadir Amaioua, Charles Audet, Andrew R. Conn, Sébastien Le Digabel:
  Efficient solution of quadratically constrained quadratic subproblems within the mesh adaptive direct search algorithm. 13-24
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  Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Felipe Feijoo, Sauleh Siddiqui:
  Sensitivity and covariance in stochastic complementarity problems with an application to North American natural gas markets. 25-36
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  Tatiana E. Romanova, Julia A. Bennell, Yu. G. Stoyan, Aleksandr V. Pankratov:
  Packing of concave polyhedra with continuous rotations using nonlinear optimisation. 37-53

Discrete Optimization

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  Yongliang Lu, Una Benlic, Qinghua Wu:
  A memetic algorithm for the Orienteering Problem with Mandatory Visits and Exclusionary Constraints. 54-69
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  Bernard Gendron, Saïd Hanafi, Raca Todosijevic:
  Matheuristics based on iterative linear programming and slope scaling for multicommodity capacitated fixed charge network design. 70-81
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  Reinhard Bürgy, Kerem Bülbül:
  The job shop scheduling problem with convex costs. 82-100
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  Lin Chen, Deshi Ye, Guochuan Zhang:
  Parallel machine scheduling with speed-up resources. 101-112

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Yu Liu, Yiming Chen, Tao Jiang:
  On sequence planning for selective maintenance of multi-state systems under stochastic maintenance durations. 113-127
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  Pietro De Giovanni:
  A joint maximization incentive in closed-loop supply chains with competing retailers: The case of spent-battery recycling. 128-147
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  Fang Liu, Srinagesh Gavirneni:
  Optimal periodic flexible policies for two-stage serial supply chains. 148-160
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  Simeon Hagspiel:
  Reliability with interdependent suppliers. 161-173
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  Lotty Evertje Duijzer, Willem van Jaarsveld, Rommert Dekker:
  Literature review: The vaccine supply chain. 174-192
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  Subrata Mitra:
  Newsvendor problem with clearance pricing. 193-202
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  Maryam Darvish, Leandro C. Coelho:
  Sequential versus integrated optimization: Production, location, inventory control, and distribution. 203-214
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  Mohsen Elhafsi, Essia Hamouda:
  Managing an integrated production and inventory system selling to a dual market: Long-term and walk-in. 215-230

Decision Support

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  Matthias Ehrgott, Allen Holder, Omid Nohadani:
  Uncertain Data Envelopment Analysis. 231-242
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  Hendrik Guhlich, Moritz Fleischmann, Lars Mönch, Raik Stolletz:
  A clearing function based bid-price approach to integrated order acceptance and release decisions. 243-254
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  Mahdi Mahdiloo, Mehdi Toloo, Thach-Thao Duong, Reza Farzipoor Saen, Peter Tatham:
  Integrated data envelopment analysis: Linear vs. nonlinear model. 255-267
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  Mohsen Afsharian, Victor V. Podinovski:
  A linear programming approach to efficiency evaluation in nonconvex metatechnologies. 268-280
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  Banu Soylu:
  The search-and-remove algorithm for biobjective mixed-integer linear programming problems. 281-299
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  Kazuki Sakai, Ryusuke Hohzaki, Emiko Fukuda, Yutaka Sakuma:
  Risk evaluation and games in mine warfare considering shipcounter effects. 300-313

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Claudia Archetti, Marielle Christiansen, M. Grazia Speranza:
  Inventory routing with pickups and deliveries. 314-324
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  Olga Perederieieva, Andrea Raith, Marie Schmidt:
  Non-additive shortest path in the context of traffic assignment. 325-338
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  Ian G. McHale, Samuel D. Relton:
  Identifying key players in soccer teams using network analysis and pass difficulty. 339-347
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  Christophe Hurlin, Jérémy Leymarie, Antoine Patin:
  Loss functions for Loss Given Default model comparison. 348-360

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Andrea Marchioni, Carlo Alberto Magni:
  Investment decisions and sensitivity analysis: NPV-consistency of rates of return. 361-372
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  Jia Liu, Zhiping Chen:
  Time consistent multi-period robust risk measures and portfolio selection models with regime-switching. 373-385
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  Margaréta Halická, Mária Trnovská:
  The Russell measure model: Computational aspects, duality, and profit efficiency. 386-397

Volume 268, Number 2, July 2018

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  Ana Paula F. D. Barbosa-Póvoa, Cátia da Silva, Ana Carvalho:
  Opportunities and challenges in sustainable supply chain: An operations research perspective. 399-431

Discrete Optimization

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  Alfredo Marín, Luisa I. Martínez-Merino, Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama:
  Multi-period stochastic covering location problems: Modeling framework and solution approach. 432-449
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  Fanny Pascual, Krzysztof Rzadca:
  Colocating tasks in data centers using a side-effects performance model. 450-462
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  Pascale Bendotti, Pierre Fouilhoux, Safia Kedad-Sidhoum:
  The Unit-capacity Constrained Permutation Problem. 463-472
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  Borzou Rostami, André B. Chassein, Michael Hopf, Davide Frey, Christoph Buchheim, Federico Malucelli, Marc Goerigk:
  The quadratic shortest path problem: complexity, approximability, and solution methods. 473-485
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  Rosita Guido, Maria Carmela Groccia, Domenico Conforti:
  An efficient matheuristic for offline patient-to-bed assignment problems. 486-503

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Chang Hwan Lee, Byong-Duk Rhee:
  Retailer-run resale market and optimal returns and resale policy. 504-514
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  Joeri Poppe, Robert N. Boute, Marc R. Lambrecht:
  A hybrid condition-based maintenance policy for continuously monitored components with two degradation thresholds. 515-532
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  María Dolores Berrade, Philip A. Scarf, Cristiano A. V. Cavalcante:
  Conditional inspection and maintenance of a system with two interacting components. 533-544
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  Fotios Petropoulos, Rob J. Hyndman, Christoph Bergmeir:
  Exploring the sources of uncertainty: Why does bagging for time series forecasting work? 545-554
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  Arcan Nalca, Tamer Boyaci, Saibal Ray:
  Brand positioning and consumer taste information. 555-568
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  Steffen T. Klosterhalfen, Falk Holzhauer, Moritz Fleischmann:
  Control of a continuous production inventory system with production quantity restrictions. 569-581
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  Qiang Li, Baozhuang Niu, Lap Keung Chu, Jian Ni, Junwei Wang:
  Buy now and price later: Supply contracts with time-consistent mean-variance financial hedging. 582-595

Decision Support

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  Jiankun Ding, Deqiang Han, Yi Yang:
  Iterative ranking aggregation using quality improvement of subgroup ranking. 596-612
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  Ming Jin, Gang Li, T. C. E. Cheng:
  Buy online and pick up in-store: Design of the service area. 613-623
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  David Whittle, Marcus Brazil, Peter Alexander Grossman, J. Hyam Rubinstein, Doreen A. Thomas:
  Combined optimisation of an open-pit mine outline and the transition depth to underground mining. 624-634
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  Anshuman Chutani, Suresh P. Sethi:
  Dynamic cooperative advertising under manufacturer and retailer level competition. 635-652

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Mike G. Tsionas, Marwan Izzeldin:
  A novel model of costly technical efficiency. 653-664
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  William Hitoshi Tsunoda Meira, Leandro Magatão, Susana Relvas, Ana Paula F. D. Barbosa-Póvoa, Flávio Neves, Lúcia V. R. Arruda:
  A matheuristic decomposition approach for the scheduling of a single-source and multiple destinations pipeline system. 665-687
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  Trung Hieu Tran, Simon French, Rhys Ashman, Edward Kent:
  Linepack planning models for gas transmission network under uncertainty. 688-702
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  Marjolein Veenstra, Kees Jan Roodbergen, Leandro C. Coelho, Stuart X. Zhu:
  A simultaneous facility location and vehicle routing problem arising in health care logistics in the Netherlands. 703-715
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  George S. Atsalakis, Ioanna G. Atsalaki, Constantin Zopounidis:
  Forecasting the success of a new tourism service by a neuro-fuzzy technique. 716-727
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  Hamideh Anjomshoa, Irina Dumitrescu, Irvin Lustig, Olivia J. Smith:
  An exact approach for tactical planning and patient selection for elective surgeries. 728-739
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  Xinning Yu, Yanfei Lan, Ruiqing Zhao:
  Cooperation royalty contract design in research and development alliances: Help vs. knowledge-sharing. 740-754

Short Communication

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  Vladimir Kats, Eugene Levner:
  On the existence of dominating 6-cyclic schedules in four-machine robotic cells. 755-759

Volume 268, Number 3, August 2018

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  Michael P. Johnson, Gerald Midgley, Jason Wright, George Chichirau:
  Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. 761-770
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  Gerald Midgley, Michael P. Johnson, George Chichirau:
  What is Community Operational Research? 771-783
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  Leroy White:
  A Cook's tour: Towards a framework for measuring the social impact of social purpose organisations. 784-797
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  Tony Brauer:
  Capturing the imprecision during an OR intervention: What is, what isn't and what should be. 798-808
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  Mike Yearworth, Leroy White:
  Spontaneous emergence of Community OR: Self-initiating, self-organising problem structuring mediated by social media. 809-824

Theoretical and Methodological Innovations

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  Rebecca Herron, Zoraida Mendiwelso Bendek:
  Supporting self-organised community research through informal learning. 825-835
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  Giles A. Hindle, Richard Vidgen:
  Developing a business analytics methodology: A case study in the foodbank sector. 836-851
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  Ariella Helfgott:
  Operationalising systemic resilience. 852-864
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  Danny Burns:
  Deepening and scaling participatory research with the poorest and most marginalised. 865-874
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  Fredah Mwiti, Christina Goulding:
  Strategies for community improvement to tackle poverty and gender issues: An ethnography of community based organizations ('Chamas') and women's interventions in the Nairobi slums. 875-886
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  Christina Goulding, Mihaela Kelemen, Toru Kiyomiya:
  Community based response to the Japanese tsunami: A bottom-up approach. 887-903
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  Sharlene L. Gomes, Leon M. Hermans, Wil A. H. Thissen:
  Extending community operational research to address institutional aspects of societal problems: Experiences from peri-urban Bangladesh. 904-917
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  Yiannis Laouris, Marios Michaelides:
  Structured Democratic Dialogue: An application of a mathematical problem structuring method to facilitate reforms with local authorities in Cyprus. 918-931
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  Derek Cabrera, Laura Cabrera, Erin Powers, Jeremy Solin, Jennifer Kushner:
  Applying systems thinking models of organizational design and change in community operational research. 932-945

Prevention is Better than Cure: Working with Youth

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  Luis Arturo Pinzón-Salcedo, Maria Alejandra Torres-Cuello:
  Community Operational Research: Developing a systemic peace education programme involving urban and rural communities in Colombia. 946-959
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  Kendra C. Taylor:
  Teaching decision-making and building resilience in youth - A case study to reduce the supply of vulnerable youth to sex traffickers in Atlanta, Georgia. 960-970
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  Norma R. A. Romm:
  Reflections on a multi-layered intervention in the South African public education system: Some ethical implications for Community Operational Research. 971-983

Working with Indigenous People

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  Te Kipa Kepa Brian Morgan, Tumanako Ngawhika Fa'aui:
  Empowering indigenous voices in disaster response: Applying the Mauri Model to New Zealand's worst environmental maritime disaster. 984-995
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  John Brocklesby, Elizabeth Beall:
  Processes of engagement and methodology design in Community Operational Research - Insights from the indigenous peoples sector. 996-1005
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  Angela Espinosa, C. Duque:
  Complexity management and multi-scale governance: A case study in an Amazonian indigenous association. 1006-1020

Urban Community Development and Planning

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  Yingli Wang, Anne Touboulic, Martin O'Neill:
  An exploration of solutions for improving access to affordable fresh food with disadvantaged Welsh communities. 1021-1039
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  Suvi Konsti-Laakso, Tero Rantala:
  Managing community engagement: A process model for urban planning. 1040-1049
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  Tayo Fabusuyi:
  Is crime a real estate problem? A case study of the neighborhood of East Liberty, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1050-1061

Rural Development

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  Andreas Thorsen, Ronald G. McGarvey:
  Efficient frontiers in a frontier state: Viability of mobile dentistry services in rural areas. 1062-1076
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  Valentina Ferretti, Elisa Gandino:
  Co-designing the solution space for rural regeneration in a new World Heritage site: A Choice Experiments approach. 1077-1091
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  Russell McKenna, Valentin Bertsch, Kai Mainzer, Wolf Fichtner:
  Combining local preferences with multi-criteria decision analysis and linear optimization to develop feasible energy concepts in small communities. 1092-1110

New Frontiers, Emerging Trends and Interfaces with Other Practices and Disciplines

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  Amanda J. Gregory, Jonathan P. Atkins:
  Community Operational Research and Citizen Science: Two icons in need of each other? 1111-1124
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  Mike Walsh, Markus Kittler, Dawn Mahal:
  Towards a new paradigm of healthcare: Addressing challenges to professional identities through Community Operational Research. 1125-1133
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  Daniel E. Ufua, Thanos Papadopoulos, Gerald Midgley:
  Systemic Lean Intervention: Enhancing Lean with Community Operational Research. 1134-1148
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  Miles W. Weaver, Kenny Crossan, Hock B. Tan, Steven E. Paxton:
  A systems approach to understanding the perspectives in the changing landscape of responsible business in Scotland. 1149-1167
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  Gabriele Bammer:
  Strengthening community operational research through exchange of tools and strategic alliances. 1168-1177
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  Michael P. Johnson, Gerald Midgley, George Chichirau:
  Emerging trends and new frontiers in community operational research. 1178-1191