European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 177

Volume 177, Number 1, February 2007

Invited Review

• 
  Jinxiang Gu, Marc Goetschalckx, Leon F. McGinnis:
  Research on warehouse operation: A comprehensive review. 1-21

Continuous Optimization

• 
  Martin Bischoff, Kathrin Klamroth:
  An efficient solution method for Weber problems with barriers based on genetic algorithms. 22-41
• 
  Gholam Reza Jahanshahloo, F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, H. Zhiani Rezai, Farzad Rezai Balf:
  Finding strong defining hyperplanes of Production Possibility Set. 42-54
• 
  Arijit Bhattacharya, Pandian Vasant:
  Soft-sensing of level of satisfaction in TOC product-mix decision heuristic using robust fuzzy-LP. 55-70
• 
  Izhar Ahmad, Z. Husain:
  Minimax mixed integer symmetric duality for multiobjective variational problems. 71-82

Discrete Optimization

• 
  Hari K. Rajagopalan, F. Elizabeth Vergara, Cem Saydam, Jing Xiao:
  Developing effective meta-heuristics for a probabilistic location model via experimental design. 83-101
• 
  Christian Blum:
  Revisiting dynamic programming for finding optimal subtrees in trees. 102-115
• 
  Yumei Huo, Joseph Y.-T. Leung, Hairong Zhao:
  Bi-criteria scheduling problems: Number of tardy jobs and maximum weighted tardiness. 116-134
• 
  Sang-Oh Shim, Yeong-Dae Kim:
  Scheduling on parallel identical machines to minimize total tardiness. 135-146
• 
  David Alcaide, Chengbin Chu, Vladimir Kats, Eugene Levner, Gerard Sierksma:
  Cyclic multiple-robot scheduling with time-window constraints using a critical path approach. 147-162
• 
  Joseph G. Szmerekovsky:
  Single machine scheduling under market uncertainty. 163-175
• 
  Thomas Bourdeaud'huy, Saïd Hanafi, Pascal Yim:
  Mathematical programming approach to the Petri nets reachability problem. 176-197
• 
  Rasmus V. Rasmussen, Michael A. Trick:
  A Benders approach for the constrained minimum break problem. 198-213

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

• 
  Chang Hwan Lee, Byong-Duk Rhee:
  Channel coordination using product returns for a supply chain with stochastic salvage capacity. 214-238
• 
  Apurva Jain:
  Value of capacity pooling in supply chains with heterogeneous customers. 239-260
• 
  Vito Albino, Nunzia Carbonara, Ilaria Giannoccaro:
  Supply chain cooperation in industrial districts: A simulation analysis. 261-280
• 
  Jaydeep Balakrishnan, Chun Hung Cheng:
  Multi-period planning and uncertainty issues in cellular manufacturing: A review and future directions. 281-309
• 
  Ralph J. Olsson, Roger M. Hill:
  A two-echelon base-stock inventory model with Poisson demand and the sequential processing of orders at the upper echelon. 310-324
• 
  Sinan Gurel, M. Selim Akturk:
  Considering manufacturing cost and scheduling performance on a CNC turning machine. 325-343
• 
  Wan Lung Ng:
  A simple classifier for multiple criteria ABC analysis. 344-353

Stochastics and Statistics

• 
  Vanderlei da Costa Bueno, José Elmo de Menezes:
  Pattern's reliability importance under dependence condition and different information levels. 354-364
• 
  Cindy Courtois, Michel Denuit:
  Bounds on convex reliability functions with known first moments. 365-377
• 
  Sophie Mercier:
  Discrete random bounds for general random variables and applications to reliability. 378-405
• 
  Hideo Hirose:
  More accurate breakdown voltage estimation for the new step-up test method in the gumbel distribution model. 406-419
• 
  Gregory Levitin, Min Xie, Tieling Zhang:
  Reliability of fault-tolerant systems with parallel task processing. 420-430

Decision Support

• 
  Silvia Lorenzo-Freire, José M. Alonso-Meijide, Balbina Casas-Méndez, M. Gloria Fiestras-Janeiro:
  Characterizations of the Deegan-Packel and Johnston power indices. 431-444
• 
  Shih-Pin Chen:
  Solving fuzzy queueing decision problems via a parametric mixed integer nonlinear programming method. 445-457
• 
  Ying-Ming Wang, Taha M. S. Elhag:
  A goal programming method for obtaining interval weights from an interval comparison matrix. 458-471
• 
  Koen Maes, Susanne Saminger, Bernard De Baets:
  Representation and construction of self-dual aggregation operators. 472-487
• 
  William E. Stein, Philip J. Mizzi:
  The harmonic consistency index for the analytic hierarchy process. 488-497
• 
  Ivan Kojadinovic:
  Minimum variance capacity identification. 498-514
• 
  Dylan F. Jones, A. Collins, Chris Hand:
  A classification model based on goal programming with non-standard preference functions with application to the prediction of cinema-going behaviour. 515-524

Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Information Management

• 
  K. Spiliopoulos, S. Sofianopoulou:
  Calculating distances for dissimilar strings: The shortest path formulation revisited. 525-539
• 
  Frank Hoffmann, Bart Baesens, Christophe Mues, Tony Van Gestel, Jan Vanthienen:
  Inferring descriptive and approximate fuzzy rules for credit scoring using evolutionary algorithms. 540-555

O.R. Applications

• 
  M. Belém Martins, Carlos Marques:
  Methodological aspects of a mathematical programming model to evaluate soil tillage technologies in a risky environment. 556-571
• 
  Ertunga C. Özelkan, Metin Çakanyildirim:
  Resource downgrading. 572-590
• 
  Julio González-Díaz, Peter Borm, Henk Norde:
  A silent battle over a cake. 591-603
• 
  Wan-Kai Pang, Shui-Hung Hou, Wing-Tong Yu:
  On a proper way to select population failure distribution and a stochastic optimization method in parameter estimation. 604-611

Short Communications

• 
  Gur Mosheiov, Daniel Oron:
  Minmax scheduling with job-classes and earliness-tardiness costs. 612-622
• 
  Wlodzimierz Szwarc:
  Some remarks on the decomposition properties of the single machine total tardiness problem. 623-625
• 
  Yugang Yu, Feng Chu, Haoxun Chen:
  A note on coordination of production and distribution planning. 626-629
• 
  Dimitrios G. Pandelis:
  Optimal preemptive scheduling on uniform machines with discounted flowtime objectives. 630-637
• 
  Ji-Bo Wang, Zun-Quan Xia:
  Single machine scheduling problems with controllable processing times and total absolute differences penalties. 638-645

Section

• 
  János D. Pintér:
  Introduction to Applied Optimization. 646-648

Volume 177, Number 2, March 2007

Invited Review

• 
  Gábor Nagy, Saïd Salhi:
  Location-routing: Issues, models and methods. 649-672

Discrete Optimization

• 
  Amir Albadvi, Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi, Akbar Esfahanipour:
  Decision making in stock trading: An application of PROMETHEE. 673-683
• 
  Jayanta Majumdar, Asoke Kumar Bhunia:
  Elitist genetic algorithm for assignment problem with imprecise goal. 684-692
• 
  Stefan Bock, Kai Hoberg:
  Detailed layout planning for irregularly-shaped machines with transportation path design. 693-718
• 
  Ulrich Derigs, R. Kaiser:
  Applying the attribute based hill climber heuristic to the vehicle routing problem. 719-732
• 
  Haluk Yapicioglu, Alice E. Smith, Gerry V. Dozier:
  Solving the semi-desirable facility location problem using bi-objective particle swarm. 733-749
• 
  Nicola Bianchessi, Jean-François Cordeau, Jacques Desrosiers, Gilbert Laporte, Vincent Raymond:
  A heuristic for the multi-satellite, multi-orbit and multi-user management of Earth observation satellites. 750-762
• 
  Heinz Gröflin, Andreas Klinkert:
  Feasible insertions in job shop scheduling, short cycles and stable sets. 763-785
• 
  Qiu-Hong Zhao, Shouyang Wang, Kin Keung Lai:
  A partition approach to the inventory/routing problem. 786-802
• 
  R. R. K. Sharma, Vincent Berry:
  Developing new formulations and relaxations of single stage capacitated warehouse location problem (SSCWLP): Empirical investigation for assessing relative strengths and computational effort. 803-812
• 
  Kay Chen Tan, Chun Yew Cheong, Chi Keong Goh:
  Solving multiobjective vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand via evolutionary computation. 813-839
• 
  Les G. Proll:
  ILP approaches to the blockmodel problem. 840-850
• 
  Adam Kasperski, Pawel Zielinski:
  On combinatorial optimization problems on matroids with uncertain weights. 851-864

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

• 
  Gino K. Yang:
  Note on sensitivity analysis of inventory model with partial backorders. 865-871
• 
  Chi Chiang:
  Optimal ordering policies for periodic-review systems with a refined intra-cycle time scale. 872-881
• 
  Kalipada Maity, Manoranjan Maiti:
  Possibility and necessity constraints and their defuzzification - A multi-item production-inventory scenario via optimal control theory. 882-896
• 
  Tarkan Tan, Refik Güllü, Nesim K. Erkip:
  Modelling imperfect advance demand information and analysis of optimal inventory policies. 897-923
• 
  Rajan Batta, Oded Berman, Qian Wang:
  Balancing staffing and switching costs in a service center with flexible servers. 924-938
• 
  Daniel Granot, Shuya Yin:
  On sequential commitment in the price-dependent newsvendor model. 939-968
• 
  Julie Ann Stuart Williams, S. Wongweragiat, Xiuli Qu, J. B. McGlinch, W. Bonawi-tan, J. K. Choi, J. Schiff:
  An automotive bulk recycling planning model. 969-981
• 
  Jung-Fa Tsai:
  An optimization approach for supply chain management models with quantity discount policy. 982-994
• 
  Ethem Çanakoglu, Taner Bilgiç:
  Analysis of a two-stage telecommunication supply chain with technology dependent demand. 995-1012
• 
  Sheng-Lin Chang, Reay-Chen Wang, Shih-Yuan Wang:
  Applying a direct multi-granularity linguistic and strategy-oriented aggregation approach on the assessment of supply performance. 1013-1025
• 
  Hisashi Kurata, John J. Liu:
  Optimal promotion planning - depth and frequency - for a two-stage supply chain under Markov switching demand. 1026-1043
• 
  Juite Wang, Yun-Feng Shu:
  A possibilistic decision model for new product supply chain design. 1044-1061

Stochastics and Statistics

• 
  Jianwei Chen, Kim-Hung Li, Yeh Lam:
  Bayesian single and double variable sampling plans for the Weibull distribution with censoring. 1062-1073
• 
  Emilio Carrizosa, Dolores Romero Morales:
  A biobjective method for sample allocation in stratified sampling. 1074-1089
• 
  Nikolai Dokuchaev:
  Discrete time market with serial correlations and optimal myopic strategies. 1090-1104
• 
  Michael A. Talias:
  Optimal decision indices for R&D project evaluation in the pharmaceutical industry: Pearson index versus Gittins index. 1105-1112

O.R. Applications

• 
  Oded Berman, Arieh Gavious:
  Location of terror response facilities: A game between state and terrorist. 1113-1133
• 
  Dashan Huang, Yoshitaka Kai, Frank J. Fabozzi, Masao Fukushima:
  An optimal design of collateralized mortgage obligation with PAC-companion structure using dynamic cash reserve. 1134-1152
• 
  Salih Ramazan:
  The new Fundamental Tree Algorithm for production scheduling of open pit mines. 1153-1166
• 
  Nina Skorin-Kapov:
  Routing and wavelength assignment in optical networks using bin packing based algorithms. 1167-1179
• 
  Nicole Bäuerle, O. Engelhardt-Funke, Michael Kolonko:
  On the waiting time of arriving aircrafts and the capacity of airports with one or two runways. 1180-1196

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

• 
  Kevin F. McCardle, Kumar Rajaram, Christopher S. Tang:
  Bundling retail products: Models and analysis. 1197-1217
• 
  Silvia Muzzioli, Huguette Reynaerts:
  The solution of fuzzy linear systems by non-linear programming: a financial application. 1218-1231
• 
  Manuel Landajo, Javier de Andrés, Pedro Lorca:
  Robust neural modeling for the cross-sectional analysis of accounting information. 1232-1252
• 
  Christos J. Emmanouilides, Richard B. Davies:
  Modelling and estimation of social interaction effects in new product diffusion. 1253-1274
• 
  Maria Conceição A. Silva Portela, Emmanuel Thanassoulis:
  Comparative efficiency analysis of Portuguese bank branches. 1275-1288

Short Communications

• 
  Hui-Ming Wee, Chun-Jen Chung:
  A note on the economic lot size of the integrated vendor-buyer inventory system derived without derivatives. 1289-1293
• 
  Shih-Wei Lin, Shuo-Yan Chou, Kuo-Ching Ying:
  A sequential exchange approach for minimizing earliness-tardiness penalties of single-machine scheduling with a common due date. 1294-1301
• 
  Lingfa Lu, Jinjiang Yuan:
  The single machine batching problem with identical family setup times to minimize maximum lateness is strongly NP-hard. 1302-1309
• 
  Mikhail Y. Kovalyov, Frank Werner:
  Problem F2∥C_max with forbidden jobs in the first or last position is easy. 1310-1311

Erratum

• 
  Cédric Bentz, Marie-Christine Costa, Lucas Létocart, Frédéric Roupin:
  Erratum to "Minimal multicut and maximal integer multiflow: A survey" [European Journal of Operational Research 162 (1) (2005) 55-69]. 1312

Volume 177, Number 3, March 2007

Feature Cluster: Human Centered Processes: Towards a Naturalistic Decision Making Paradigm

• 
  Raymond Bisdorff, C. Gustav Lundberg:
  Human centered processes: Toward a naturalistic decision making paradigm. 1313-1316
• 
  Peter M. Todd:
  How much information do we need? 1317-1332
• 
  Paul Slovic, Melissa L. Finucane, Ellen Peters, Donald G. MacGregor:
  The affect heuristic. 1333-1352
• 
  Ola Svenson, Ilkka Salo:
  Mental representations of important real-life decisions. 1353-1362
• 
  C. Gustav Lundberg:
  Models of emerging contexts in risky and complex decision settings. 1363-1374
• 
  Guido Fioretti:
  The organizational learning curve. 1375-1384
• 
  Francisco Antunes, Paulo E. Melo, João Paulo Costa:
  Information management in distributed collaborative systems: The case of collaboration studio. 1385-1399
• 
  Georgios P. Papamichail, Dimitrios P. Papamichail:
  The k-means range algorithm for personalized data clustering in e-commerce. 1400-1408
• 
  Wojtek Michalowski, Marta Kersten, Szymon Wilk, Roman Slowinski:
  Designing man-machine interactions for mobile clinical systems: MET triage support using Palm handhelds. 1409-1417
• 
  Jean Renaud, Jules Thibault, Robert Lanouette, Laszlo Nandor Kiss, K. Zaras, Christian Fonteix:
  Comparison of two multicriteria decision aid methods: Net Flow and Rough Set Methods in a high yield pulping process. 1418-1432
• 
  Yves De Smet:
  Multi-criteria auctions without full comparability of bids. 1433-1452
• 
  Jean-Luc Marichal:
  k-intolerant capacities and Choquet integrals. 1453-1468
• 
  Rémy-Robert Joseph, Peter Chan, Michael Hiroux, Georges Weil:
  Decision-support with preference constraints. 1469-1494
• 
  Albert Corominas, Amaia Lusa, Rafael Pastor:
  Using a MILP model to establish a framework for an annualised hours agreement. 1495-1506
• 
  John R. Zamiska, Mohamad Y. Jaber, Hemant V. Kher:
  Worker deployment in dual resource constrained systems with a task-type factor. 1507-1519

Feature Cluster: Multiple Objective and Goal Programming

• 
  Fouad Ben Abdelaziz:
  Multiple objective programming and goal programming: New trends and applications. Eur. J. Oper. Res. 177(3): 1520-1522 (2007)
• 
  Amparo M. Mármol, Luisa Monroy, Victoriana Rubiales:
  An equitable solution for multicriteria bargaining games. 1523-1534
• 
  Tadeusz Trzaskalik, Sebastian Sitarz:
  Discrete dynamic programming with outcomes in random variable structures. Eur. J. Oper. Res. 177(3): 1535-1548 (2007)
• 
  Khaled Jabeur, Jean-Marc Martel:
  A collective choice method based on individual preferences relational systems (p.r.s.). 1549-1565
• 
  Alexander Engau, Margaret M. Wiecek:
  Generating epsilon-efficient solutions in multiobjective programming. 1566-1579
• 
  Mohammad Ali Yaghoobi, Mehrdad Tamiz:
  A method for solving fuzzy goal programming problems based on MINMAX approach. 1580-1590
• 
  Bogumil Kaminski:
  On quasi-orderings and multi-objective functions. 1591-1598
• 
  Mariano Jiménez, Mar Arenas Parra, Amelia Bilbao-Terol, Maria Victoria Rodríguez:
  Linear programming with fuzzy parameters: An interactive method resolution. 1599-1609
• 
  Markus Hirschberger, Yue Qi, Ralph E. Steuer:
  Randomly generating portfolio-selection covariance matrices with specified distributional characteristics. 1610-1625
• 
  Maciej Nowak:
  Aspiration level approach in stochastic MCDM problems. 1626-1640
• 
  Julien Lemesre, Clarisse Dhaenens, El-Ghazali Talbi:
  An exact parallel method for a bi-objective permutation flowshop problem. 1641-1655
• 
  Carlos Gomes da Silva, José Rui Figueira, João C. N. Clímaco:
  Integrating partial optimization with scatter search for solving bi-criteria {0, 1}-knapsack problems. 1656-1677
• 
  J. W. Large, Dylan F. Jones, Mehrdad Tamiz:
  Hyper-spherical inversion transformations in multi-objective evolutionary optimization. 1678-1702
• 
  Samya Elaoud, Taïcir Loukil, Jacques Teghem:
  The Pareto fitness genetic algorithm: Test function study. 1703-1719
• 
  Herminia I. Calvete, Carmen Galé, María-José Oliveros, Belén Sánchez-Valverde:
  A goal programming approach to vehicle routing problems with soft time windows. 1720-1733
• 
  Richard Bozec, Mohamed Dia:
  Board structure and firm technical efficiency: Evidence from Canadian state-owned enterprises. 1734-1750
• 
  Rafael Caballero, Mercedes González, Flor M. Guerrero, Julián Molina Luque, Concepción Paralera:
  Solving a multiobjective location routing problem with a metaheuristic based on tabu search. Application to a real case in Andalusia. 1751-1763
• 
  Sydney C. K. Chu:
  Generating, scheduling and rostering of shift crew-duties: Applications at the Hong Kong International Airport. 1764-1778
• 
  Lamia Belfares, Walid Klibi, Nassirou Lo, Adel Guitouni:
  Multi-objectives Tabu Search based algorithm for progressive resource allocation. 1779-1799
• 
  Issam Dhahri, Habib Chabchoub:
  Nonlinear goal programming models quantifying the bullwhip effect in supply chain based on ARIMA parameters. 1800-1810
• 
  Fouad Ben Abdelaziz, Belaïd Aouni, Rimeh El Fayedh:
  Multi-objective stochastic programming for portfolio selection. 1811-1823
• 
  Boutheina A. Fessi, Mohamed Hamdi, Salah Benabdallah, Noureddine Boudriga:
  A decisional framework system for computer network intrusion detection. 1824-1838
• 
  Aïda Kharrat, Habib Chabchoub, Belaïd Aouni, Soulef Smaoui:
  Serial correlation estimation through the imprecise Goal Programming model. 1839-1851

Feature Cluster: Evolutionary and Meta-Heuristic Scheduling

• 
  Kay Chen Tan, Edmund K. Burke, Tong Heng Lee:
  Evolutionary and meta-heuristic scheduling. 1852-1854
• 
  Raf Jans, Zeger Degraeve:
  Meta-heuristics for dynamic lot sizing: A review and comparison of solution approaches. 1855-1875
• 
  P. Y. Mok, C. K. Kwong, Wai Keung Wong:
  Optimisation of fault-tolerant fabric-cutting schedules using genetic algorithms and fuzzy set theory. 1876-1893
• 
  Ahmed W. El-Bouri, Nader Azizi, Saeed Zolfaghari:
  A comparative study of a new heuristic based on adaptive memory programming and simulated annealing: The case of job shop scheduling. 1894-1910
• 
  Athanassios Nikolakopoulos, Haralambos Sarimveis:
  A threshold accepting heuristic with intense local search for the solution of special instances of the traveling salesman problem. 1911-1929
• 
  Mehmet Fatih Tasgetiren, Yun-Chia Liang, Mehmet Sevkli, Günes Gençyilmaz:
  A particle swarm optimization algorithm for makespan and total flowtime minimization in the permutation flowshop sequencing problem. 1930-1947
• 
  Loo Hay Lee, Chulung Lee, Yen Ping Tan:
  A multi-objective genetic algorithm for robust flight scheduling using simulation. 1948-1968
• 
  Gang Quan, Garrison W. Greenwood, Donglin Liu, Xiaobo Sharon Hu:
  Searching for multiobjective preventive maintenance schedules: Combining preferences with evolutionary algorithms. 1969-1984
• 
  Prasanna Lokuge, Damminda Alahakoon:
  Improving the adaptability in automated vessel scheduling in container ports using intelligent software agents. 1985-2015
• 
  Joaquín Bautista, Jordi Pereira:
  Ant algorithms for a time and space constrained assembly line balancing problem. 2016-2032
• 
  Rubén Ruiz, Thomas Stützle:
  A simple and effective iterated greedy algorithm for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem. 2033-2049
• 
  Keshav P. Dahal, Chris J. Aldridge, Stuart J. Galloway:
  Evolutionary hybrid approaches for generation scheduling in power systems. 2050-2068
• 
  David Naso, Michele Surico, Biagio Turchiano, Uzay Kaymak:
  Genetic algorithms for supply-chain scheduling: A case study in the distribution of ready-mixed concrete. 2069-2099
• 
  Lars Mönch, Rene Schabacker, Detlef Pabst, John W. Fowler:
  Genetic algorithm-based subproblem solution procedures for a modified shifting bottleneck heuristic for complex job shops. 2100-2118