European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 274

Volume 274, Number 1, April 2019

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  Christian Thies, Karsten Kieckhäfer, Thomas Stefan Spengler, Manbir Singh Sodhi:
  Operations research for sustainability assessment of products: A review. 1-21

Discrete Optimization

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  Thiago Gouveia da Silva, Eduardo Queiroga, Luiz Satoru Ochi, Lucídio dos Anjos Formiga Cabral, Serigne Gueye, Philippe Michelon:
  A hybrid metaheuristic for the minimum labeling spanning tree problem. 22-34
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  Xiangjing Lai, Jin-Kao Hao, Dong Yue:
  Two-stage solution-based tabu search for the multidemand multidimensional knapsack problem. 35-48
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  Roland Braune:
  Lower bounds for a bin packing problem with linear usage cost. 49-64

Production, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics

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  Youssef Tliche, Atour Taghipour, Béatrice Canel-Depitre:
  Downstream Demand Inference in decentralized supply chains. 65-77
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  Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Stefan Voß:
  An efficient ant colony optimization algorithm for the blocks relocation problem. 78-90
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  Susana Baptista, Ana Paula F. D. Barbosa-Póvoa, Laureano F. Escudero, Maria Isabel Gomes Salema, Celeste Pizarro:
  On risk management of a two-stage stochastic mixed 0-1 model for the closed-loop supply chain design problem. 91-107
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  Jomon Aliyas Paul, Minjiao Zhang:
  Supply location and transportation planning for hurricanes: A two-stage stochastic programming framework. 108-125
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  Timo Gossler, Tina Wakolbinger, Anna Nagurney, Patrizia Daniele:
  How to increase the impact of disaster relief: A study of transportation rates, framework agreements and product distribution. 126-141
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  Consuelo Parreño-Torres, Ramón Alvarez-Valdés, Rubén Ruiz:
  Integer programming models for the pre-marshalling problem. 142-154
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  Prakash Awasthy, Jishnu Hazra:
  Responsible sourcing by improving workplace safety through buyer-supplier collaboration. 155-164

Decision Support

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  Nick F. D. Huberts, Herbert Dawid, Kuno J. M. Huisman, Peter M. Kort:
  Entry deterrence by timing rather than overinvestment in a strategic real options framework. 165-185
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  Manh D. Pham, Valentin Zelenyuk:
  Weak disposability in nonparametric production analysis: A new taxonomy of reference technology sets. 186-198
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  Wen He:
  Impact of capacity flexibility on the use of booking limits. 199-213
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  Kimitoshi Sato:
  Price Trends and Dynamic Pricing in Perishable Product Market Consisting of Superior and Inferior Firms. 214-226
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  Jian Zhang, Barrie R. Nault, Roussos G. Dimitrakopoulos:
  Optimizing a mineral value chain with market uncertainty using benders decomposition. 227-239
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  Mark A. Andor, Christopher Parmeter, Stephan Sommer:
  Combining uncertainty with uncertainty to get certainty? Efficiency analysis for regulation purposes. 240-252

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Claus-Henning Brech, Andreas T. Ernst, Rainer Kolisch:
  Scheduling medical residents' training at university hospitals. 253-266
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  Chong Wang, Jing Chen, Xu Chen:
  The impact of customer returns and bidirectional option contract on refund price and order decisions. 267-279
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  He Liu, Han Qiao, Shouyang Wang, Yuze Li:
  Platform Competition in Peer-to-Peer Lending Considering Risk Control Ability. 280-290
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  Robert F. Bordley, Jeffrey M. Keisler, Tom M. Logan:
  Managing projects with uncertain deadlines. 291-302
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  Benjamin Legros, Oualid Jouini:
  On the scheduling of operations in a chat contact center. 303-316
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  Hélène Le Cadre, Ilyès Mezghani, Anthony Papavasiliou:
  A game-theoretic analysis of transmission-distribution system operator coordination. 317-339
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  Foteini Stavropoulou, Panagiotis P. Repoussis, Christos D. Tarantilis:
  The Vehicle Routing Problem with Profits and consistency constraints. 340-356

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Abraham Lioui, Andrea Tarelli:
  Macroeconomic environment, money demand and portfolio choice. 357-374
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  Francisco Benita, Francisco López-Ramos, Stefano Nasini:
  A bi-level programming approach for global investment strategies with financial intermediation. 375-390
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  Mike G. Tsionas, Sushanta K. Mallick:
  A Bayesian semiparametric approach to stochastic frontiers and productivity. 391-402

Volume 274, Number 2, April 2019

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  Chris M. Smith, Duncan Shaw:
  The characteristics of problem structuring methods: A literature review. 403-416

Discrete Optimization

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  Amir Ahmadi-Javid, Pooya Hoseinpour:
  Service system design for managing interruption risks: A backup-service risk-mitigation strategy. 417-431
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  Krzysztof Postek, Ward Romeijnders, Dick den Hertog, Maarten H. van der Vlerk:
  An approximation framework for two-stage ambiguous stochastic integer programs under mean-MAD information. 432-444
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  Pawel Olender, Wlodzimierz Ogryczak:
  A revised Variable Neighborhood Search for the Discrete Ordered Median Problem. 445-465
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  Tsung-Chyan Lai, Yuri N. Sotskov, Alexandre Dolgui:
  The stability radius of an optimal line balance with maximum efficiency for a simple assembly line. 466-481
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  Mhand Hifi, Labib Yousef:
  A local search-based method for sphere packing problems. 482-500
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  Felix Weidinger, Nils Boysen, Michael Schneider:
  Picker routing in the mixed-shelves warehouses of e-commerce retailers. 501-515

Production, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics

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  André Snoeck, Maximiliano Udenio, Jan C. Fransoo:
  A stochastic program to evaluate disruption mitigation investments in the supply chain. 516-530
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  Narendra Agrawal, Stephen A. Smith:
  Optimal inventory management using retail prepacks. 531-544
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  Leena N. Ahmed, Christine L. Mumford, Ahmed Kheiri:
  Solving urban transit route design problem using selection hyper-heuristics. 545-559
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  Alexander Schiewe, Philine Schiewe, Marie Schmidt:
  The line planning routing game. 560-573
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  H. Niles Perera, Jason Hurley, Behnam Fahimnia, Mohsen Reisi:
  The human factor in supply chain forecasting: A systematic review. 574-600
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  Mostafa Pazoki, Georges Zaccour:
  A mechanism to promote product recovery and environmental performance. 601-614

Decision Support

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  Matthew J. Groves, Jürgen Branke:
  Top-κ selection with pairwise comparisons. 615-626
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  Yael Deutsch, Noam Goldberg, Yael Perlman:
  Incorporating monitoring technology and on-site inspections into an n-person inspection game. 627-637
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  Christos Ioannidis, David J. Pym, Julian Williams, Iffat Gheyas:
  Resilience in information stewardship. 638-653

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Silvana M. Pesenti, Pietro Millossovich, Andreas Tsanakas:
  Reverse sensitivity testing: What does it take to break the model? 654-670
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  André B. Chassein, Trivikram Dokka, Marc Goerigk:
  Algorithms and uncertainty sets for data-driven robust shortest path problems. 671-686
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  Xuan Vinh Doan, Duncan Shaw:
  Resource allocation when planning for simultaneous disasters. 687-709
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  Antonio Napoletano, Anna Martínez-Gavara, Paola Festa, Tommaso Pastore, Rafael Martí:
  Heuristics for the Constrained Incremental Graph Drawing Problem. 710-729
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  Hoon Jang, Kyosang Hwang, Taeho Lee, Taesik Lee:
  Designing robust rollout plan for better rural perinatal care system in Korea. 730-742
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  Feng Mai, Shaonan Tian, Chihoon Lee, Ling Ma:
  Deep learning models for bankruptcy prediction using textual disclosures. 743-758

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Fei Xie, Zhijian He, Xiaoqun Wang:
  An importance sampling-based smoothing approach for quasi-Monte Carlo simulation of discrete barrier options. 759-772
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  Hongyan Shi, Yunchuan Liu, Nicholas C. Petruzzi:
  Informative advertising in a distribution channel. 773-787
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  Damiano Brigo, Marco Francischello, Andrea Pallavicini:
  Nonlinear valuation under credit, funding, and margins: Existence, uniqueness, invariance, and disentanglement. 788-805

Volume 274, Number 3, May 2019

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  Tolga Bektas, Jan Fabian Ehmke, Harilaos N. Psaraftis, Jakob Puchinger:
  The role of operational research in green freight transportation. 807-823

Continuous Optimization

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  Baiyi Wu, Duan Li, Rujun Jiang:
  Quadratic convex reformulation for quadratic programming with linear on-off constraints. 824-836
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  Bissan Ghaddar, Rabih A. Jabr:
  Power transmission network expansion planning: A semidefinite programming branch-and-bound approach. 837-844
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  Sven O. Krumke, Eva Schmidt, Manuel Streicher:
  Robust multicovers with budgeted uncertainty. 845-857

Discrete Optimization

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  Natashia Boland, Hadi Charkhgard, Martin W. P. Savelsbergh:
  Preprocessing and cut generation techniques for multi-objective binary programming. 858-875
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  Salim Rostami, Stefan Creemers, Wenchao Wei, Roel Leus:
  Sequential testing of n-out-of-n systems: Precedence theorems and exact methods. 876-885
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  Mauro Dell'Amico, Maxence Delorme, Manuel Iori, Silvano Martello:
  Mathematical models and decomposition methods for the multiple knapsack problem. 886-899
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  Bo Chen, Xiandong Zhang:
  Scheduling with time-of-use costs. 900-908

Production, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics

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  Péter Györgyi, Tamás Kis:
  A probabilistic approach to pickup and delivery problems with time window uncertainty. 909-923
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  Xinjie Xing, Paul R. Drake, Dongping Song, Yang Zhou:
  Tank Container Operators' profit maximization through dynamic operations planning integrated with the quotation-booking process under multiple uncertainties. 924-946
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  Elena Tappia, Debjit Roy, Marco Melacini, René de Koster:
  Integrated storage-order picking systems: Technology, performance models, and design insights. 947-965
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  Li Yang, Zhi-Sheng Ye, Chi-Guhn Lee, Su-Fen Yang, Rui Peng:
  A two-phase preventive maintenance policy considering imperfect repair and postponed replacement. 966-977
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  An-Da Li, Zhen He, Qing Wang, Yang Zhang:
  Key quality characteristics selection for imbalanced production data using a two-phase bi-objective feature selection method. 978-989
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  Mauro Maria Baldi, Daniele Manerba, Guido Perboli, Roberto Tadei:
  A Generalized Bin Packing Problem for parcel delivery in last-mile logistics. 990-999

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Gabi Hanukov, Tal Avinadav, Tatyana Chernonog, Uri Yechiali:
  Performance improvement of a service system via stocking perishable preliminary services. 1000-1011
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  Jonathan K. Budd, Peter G. Taylor:
  Bounds for the solution to the single-period inventory model with compound renewal process input: An application to setting credit card limits. 1012-1018
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  Zhi Song, Amitava Mukherjee, Yanchun Liu, Jiujun Zhang:
  Optimizing joint location-scale monitoring - An adaptive distribution-free approach with minimal loss of information. 1019-1036

Decision Support

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  Kun Chen, Joe Zhu:
  Computational tractability of chance constrained data envelopment analysis. 1037-1046
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  Dariush Khezrimotlagh, Joe Zhu, Wade D. Cook, Mehdi Toloo:
  Data envelopment analysis and big data. 1047-1054
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  Hailong Cui, Greys Sosic:
  Recycling common materials: Effectiveness, optimal decisions, and coordination mechanisms. 1055-1068

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Lizhi Wang, Maryam Nikouei Mehr:
  An optimization approach to epistasis detection. 1069-1076
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  Oscar Dowson, Andy Philpott, Andrew J. Mason, Anthony Downward:
  A multi-stage stochastic optimization model of a pastoral dairy farm. 1077-1089
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  Maurício J. O. Zambon, Pedro J. de Rezende, Cid C. de Souza:
  Solving the geometric firefighter routing problem via integer programming. 1090-1101
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  Russell Gerrard, Munir Hiabu, Ioannis Kyriakou, Jens Perch Nielsen:
  Communication and personal selection of pension saver's financial risk. 1102-1111
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  Arnab Bhattacharya, Simon P. Wilson, Refik Soyer:
  A Bayesian approach to modeling mortgage default and prepayment. 1112-1124
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  Hao Hua, Ludger Hovestadt, Peng Tang, Biao Li:
  Integer programming for urban design. 1125-1137
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  Walton Pereira Coutinho, Jörg Fliege, Maria Battarra:
  Glider Routing and Trajectory Optimisation in disaster assessment. 1138-1154

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Xi Chen, Saif Benjaafar, Adel Elomri:
  On the effectiveness of emission penalties in decentralized supply chains. 1155-1167
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  Raffaele Lagravinese, Paolo Liberati, Giuliano Resce:
  Exploring health outcomes by stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis: An application to Italian regions. 1168-1179
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  Yann Braouezec, Lakshithe Wagalath:
  Strategic fire-sales and price-mediated contagion in the banking system. 1180-1197

Short Communication

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  Stephen A. Harwood:
  A question of interpretation: The Viable System Model (VSM). 1198-1201