European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 242

Volume 242, Number 1, April 2015

Invited Review

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  Long Pham, Jeffrey E. Teich, Hannele Wallenius, Jyrki Wallenius:
  Multi-attribute online reverse auctions: Recent research trends. 1-9

Discrete Optimization

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  Yingguo Chen, Vladimir Mahalec, Yingwu Chen, Xiao-Lu Liu, Renjie He, Kai Sun:
  Reconfiguration of satellite orbit for cooperative observation using variable-size multi-objective differential evolution. 10-20
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  Roberto Aringhieri, Roberto Cordone, Andrea Grosso:
  Construction and improvement algorithms for dispersion problems. 21-33
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  Stefan Waldherr, Sigrid Knust:
  Complexity results for flow shop problems with synchronous movement. 34-44
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  Long Wan, Zhihao Ding, Yunpeng Li, Qianqian Chen, Zhiyi Tan:
  Scheduling to minimize the maximum total completion time per machine. 45-50
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  Thomas Kalinowski, Dmytro Matsypura, Martin W. P. Savelsbergh:
  Incremental network design with maximum flows. 51-62
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  Lijun Wei, Andrew Lim:
  A bidirectional building approach for the 2D constrained guillotine knapsack packing problem. 63-71

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Debjit Roy, Ananth Krishnamurthy, Sunderesh S. Heragu, Charles J. Malmborg:
  Queuing models to analyze dwell-point and cross-aisle location in autonomous vehicle-based warehouse systems. 72-87
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  Lei Xu, Yongjian Li, Kannan Govindan, Xiaolin Xu:
  Consumer returns policies with endogenous deadline and supply chain coordination. 88-99
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  Csaba Raduly-Baka, Olli Nevalainen:
  The modular tool switching problem. 100-106
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  Nils Boysen, Simon Emde, Michael Hoeck, Markus Kauderer:
  Part logistics in the automotive industry: Decision problems, literature review and research agenda. 107-120
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  Giovanni Cesaroni, Daniele Giovannola:
  Average-cost efficiency and optimal scale sizes in non-parametric analysis. 121-133

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Dimitrina S. Dimitrova, Vladimir K. Kaishev, Shouqi Zhao:
  On finite-time ruin probabilities in a generalized dual risk model with dependence. 134-148
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  Nichalin S. Summerfield, Moshe Dror, Morris A. Cohen:
  City streets parking enforcement inspection decisions: The Chinese postman's perspective. 149-160
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  Nicole Bäuerle, Anna Jaskiewicz:
  Risk-sensitive dividend problems. 161-171

Decision Support

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  Hailiang Wang, Mingtian Zhou, Kun She:
  Induction of ordinal classification rules from decision tables with unknown monotonicity. 172-181
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  Peijie Wang, Steven Brand:
  A new approach to estimating value-income ratios with income growth and time-varying yields. 182-187
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  Daniel F. Otero, Raha Akhavan-Tabatabaei:
  A stochastic dynamic pricing model for the multiclass problems in the airline industry. 188-200
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  Denis Bouyssou, Thierry Marchant:
  On the relations between ELECTRE TRI-B and ELECTRE TRI-C and on a new variant of ELECTRE TRI-B. 201-211
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  Chi Zhang, Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez, Jianhui Wang:
  Critical infrastructure protection using secrecy - A discrete simultaneous game. 212-221

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Jochen Janssens, Joos Van den Bergh, Kenneth Sörensen, Dirk Cattrysse:
  Multi-objective microzone-based vehicle routing for courier companies: From tactical to operational planning. 222-231
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  Laura Delaney, Jacco J. J. Thijssen:
  The impact of voluntary disclosure on a firm's investment policy. 232-242
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  Lisa Scholten, Nele Schuwirth, Peter Reichert, Judit Lienert:
  Tackling uncertainty in multi-criteria decision analysis - An application to water supply infrastructure planning. 243-260
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  Navid Sahebjamnia, S. Ali Torabi, S. Afshin Mansouri:
  Integrated business continuity and disaster recovery planning: Towards organizational resilience. 261-273
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  Regiane Máximo de Souza, Reinaldo Morabito, Fernando Y. Chiyoshi, Ana Paula Iannoni:
  Incorporating priorities for waiting customers in the hypercube queuing model with application to an emergency medical service system in Brazil. 274-285
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  Philippe du Jardin:
  Bankruptcy prediction using terminal failure processes. 286-303

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Arda Yenipazarli, Asoo J. Vakharia:
  Pricing, market coverage and capacity: Can green and brown products co-exist? 304-315
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  John Mingers:
  Helping business schools engage with real problems: The contribution of critical realism and systems thinking. 316-331
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  Olivier Brandouy, Kristiaan Kerstens, Ignace Van de Woestyne:
  Frontier-based vs. traditional mutual fund ratings: A first backtesting analysis. 332-342

Short Communication

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  Ali Fattahi, Metin Türkay:
  On the MILP model for the U-shaped assembly line balancing problems. 343-346

Volume 242, Number 2, April 2015

Invited Review

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  Adam Janiak, Wladyslaw A. Janiak, Tomasz Krysiak, Tomasz Kwiatkowski:
  A survey on scheduling problems with due windows. 347-357

Discrete Optimization

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  Karen I. Aardal, Pieter L. van den Berg, Dion Gijswijt, Shanfei Li:
  Approximation algorithms for hard capacitated k-facility location problems. 358-368
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  Olcay Polat, Can Berk Kalayci, Osman Kulak, Hans-Otto Günther:
  A perturbation based variable neighborhood search heuristic for solving the Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery with Time Limit. 369-382
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  Pieter L. van den Berg, Karen I. Aardal:
  Time-dependent MEXCLP with start-up and relocation cost. 383-389
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  Carlos Ruiz, Antonio J. Conejo:
  Robust transmission expansion planning. 390-401

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Kannan Govindan:
  The optimal replenishment policy for time-varying stochastic demand under vendor managed inventory. 402-423
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  Fredrik Olsson:
  Emergency lateral transshipments in a two-location inventory system with positive transshipment leadtimes. 424-433
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  Wei Yan, Yu Xiong, Zhongkai Xiong, Nian Guo:
  Bricks vs. clicks: Which is better for marketing remanufactured products? 434-444
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  Chaitra H. Nagaraja, A. Thavaneswaran, S. S. Appadoo:
  Measuring the bullwhip effect for supply chains with seasonal demand components. 445-454

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Sophie Hautphenne, Yoav Kerner, Yoni Nazarathy, Peter G. Taylor:
  The intercept term of the asymptotic variance curve for some queueing output processes. 455-464
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  Stefan Creemers, Bert De Reyck, Roel Leus:
  Project planning with alternative technologies in uncertain environments. 465-476
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  Xufeng Zhao, Satoshi Mizutani, Toshio Nakagawa:
  Which is better for replacement policies with continuous or discrete scheduled times? 477-486

Decision Support

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  Özalp Özer, Onur Uncu:
  Integrating dynamic time-to-market, pricing, production and sales channel decisions. 487-500
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  Cary A. Deck, Joshua Foster, Hongwei Song:
  Defense against an opportunistic challenger: Theory and experiments. 501-513
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  Moshe Levy, Guy Kaplanski:
  Portfolio selection in a two-regime world. 514-524
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  Mercedes Torres-Jiménez, Carlos R. García-Alonso, Luis Salvador-Carulla, Vicente Fernández-Rodríguez:
  Evaluation of system efficiency using the Monte Carlo DEA: The case of small health areas. 525-535
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  Athanasios Petsakos, Stelios Rozakis:
  Calibration of agricultural risk programming models. 536-545
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  Pauline Barrieu, Giacomo Scandolo:
  Assessing financial model risk. 546-556
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  Sajid Siraj, Ludmil Mikhailov, John A. Keane:
  Contribution of individual judgments toward inconsistency in pairwise comparisons. 557-567
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  Ville Mattila, Kai Virtanen:
  Ranking and selection for multiple performance measures using incomplete preference information. 568-579

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Mehdi Madani, Mathieu Van Vyve:
  Computationally efficient MIP formulation and algorithms for European day-ahead electricity market auctions. 580-593
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  José L. Ruiz, José V. Segura, Inmaculada Sirvent:
  Benchmarking and target setting with expert preferences: An application to the evaluation of educational performance of Spanish universities. 594-605
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  Susanne Wiedenmann, Jutta Geldermann:
  Supply planning for processors of agricultural raw materials. 606-619
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  Elisa Fusco:
  Enhancing non-compensatory composite indicators: A directional proposal. 620-630
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  Andreas Gavranis, George Kozanidis:
  An exact solution algorithm for maximizing the fleet availability of a unit of aircraft subject to flight and maintenance requirements. 631-643
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  Jirí Fink, Johann L. Hurink:
  Minimizing costs is easier than minimizing peaks when supplying the heat demand of a group of houses. 644-650
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  Bill Francis, Aparna Gupta, Iftekhar Hasan:
  Impact of compensation structure and managerial incentives on bank risk taking. 651-676
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  Sung Hoon Chung, Changhyun Kwon:
  Multi-period planning for electric car charging station locations: A case of Korean Expressways. 677-687

Short Communication

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  Maciej J. Capinski:
  Hedging Conditional Value at Risk with options. 688-691

Volume 242, Number 3, May 2015

Invited Review

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  Qinghua Wu, Jin-Kao Hao:
  A review on algorithms for maximum clique problems. 693-709

Continuous Optimization

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  Stephen M. Frank, Steffen Rebennack:
  Optimal design of mixed AC-DC distribution systems for commercial buildings: A Nonconvex Generalized Benders Decomposition approach. 710-729
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  Miguel A. Goberna, Vaithilingam Jeyakumar, Guoyin Li, José Vicente-Pérez:
  Robust solutions to multi-objective linear programs with uncertain data. 730-743
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  Sergio Morales-Enciso, Jürgen Branke:
  Tracking global optima in dynamic environments with efficient global optimization. 744-755

Discrete Optimization

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  Somayeh Allahyari, Majid Salari, Daniele Vigo:
  A hybrid metaheuristic algorithm for the multi-depot covering tour vehicle routing problem. 756-768
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  Christian Blum, José Antonio Lozano, Pedro Pinacho Davidson:
  Mathematical programming strategies for solving the minimum common string partition problem. 769-777
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  Li Xia, Basem Shihada:
  A Jackson network model and threshold policy for joint optimization of energy and delay in multi-hop wireless networks. 778-787
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  Daniel Duque, Leonardo Lozano, Andrés L. Medaglia:
  An exact method for the biobjective shortest path problem for large-scale road networks. 788-797
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  Jingpeng Li, Ruibin Bai, Yindong Shen, Rong Qu:
  Search with evolutionary ruin and stochastic rebuild: A theoretic framework and a case study on exam timetabling. 798-806
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  Jorgelina Walpen, Elina M. Mancinelli, Pablo A. Lotito:
  A heuristic for the OD matrix adjustment problem in a congested transport network. 807-819

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Dennis Prak, Ruud H. Teunter, Jan Riezebos:
  Periodic review and continuous ordering. 820-827
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  Mohsen Elhafsi, Essia Hamouda:
  Managing an assemble-to-order system with after sales market for components. 828-841
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  Kasper van der Vliet, Matthew J. Reindorp, Jan C. Fransoo:
  The price of reverse factoring: Financing rates vs. payment delays. 842-853
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  Leandro C. Coelho, Gilbert Laporte:
  Classification, models and exact algorithms for multi-compartment delivery problems. 854-864
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  Oliver Kolb, Simone Göttlich:
  A continuous buffer allocation model using stochastic processes. 865-874

Decision Support

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  Alexander Braun, Hato Schmeiser, Przemyslaw Rymaszewski:
  Stock vs. mutual insurers: Who should and who does charge more? 875-889
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  Zhou-Jing Wang, Kevin W. Li:
  A multi-step goal programming approach for group decision making with incomplete interval additive reciprocal comparison matrices. 890-900
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  Betzabé Rodríguez, Göker Aydin:
  Pricing and assortment decisions for a manufacturer selling through dual channels. 901-909
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  Yong Han Ju, Song Yi Jeon, So Young Sohn:
  Behavioral technology credit scoring model with time-dependent covariates for stress test. 910-919
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  Ewa Roszkowska, Tomasz Wachowicz:
  Application of fuzzy TOPSIS to scoring the negotiation offers in ill-structured negotiation problems. 920-932
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  Yong-Jun Liu, Wei-Guo Zhang:
  A multi-period fuzzy portfolio optimization model with minimum transaction lots. 933-941
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  Mike Hewitt, Austin Chacosky, Scott E. Grasman, Barrett W. Thomas:
  Integer programming techniques for solving non-linear workforce planning models with learning. 942-950
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  Stéphane Deparis, Vincent Mousseau, Meltem Öztürk, Caroline Huron:
  The effect of bi-criteria conflict on matching-elicited preferences. 951-959
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  Xavier Molinero, Fabián Riquelme, Maria J. Serna:
  Cooperation through social influence. 960-974

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Ling Wang, Hong Xu, Hua Yuan, Wenjie Zhao, Xiai Chen:
  Optimizing the re-profiling strategy of metro wheels based on a data-driven wear model. 975-986
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  Gabriel Sauvageau, Jean-Marc Frayret:
  Waste paper procurement optimization: An agent-based simulation approach. 987-998
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  Ronald Wesonga:
  Airport utility stochastic optimization models for air traffic flow management. 999-1007
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  Michel Gendreau, Jenny Nossack, Erwin Pesch:
  Mathematical formulations for a 1-full-truckload pickup-and-delivery problem. 1008-1016
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  Rossana Riccardi, Francesca Bonenti, Elisabetta Allevi, Claudia Avanzi, Adriana Gnudi:
  The steel industry: A mathematical model under environmental regulations. 1017-1027
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  Alain Faye:
  Solving the Aircraft Landing Problem with time discretization approach. 1028-1038