European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 304

Volume 304, Number 1, January 2023

The role of Operational Research in future epidemics/ pandemics
Editorial

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  Reza Zanjirani Farahani, Rubén Ruiz, Luk N. Van Wassenhove:
  Introduction to the special issue on the role of operational research in future epidemics/ pandemics. 1-8

Transmission, Propagation and Forecasting

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  Xuefei Lu, Emanuele Borgonovo:
  Global sensitivity analysis in epidemiological modeling. 9-24
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  James W. Taylor, Kathryn S. Taylor:
  Combining probabilistic forecasts of COVID-19 mortality in the United States. 25-41
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  Christiana Tsiligianni, Aristeides Tsiligiannis, Christos Aristeides Tsiliyannis:
  A stochastic inventory model of COVID-19 and robust, real-time identification of carriers at large and infection rate via asymptotic laws. 42-56
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  Joseph T. Chang, Edward H. Kaplan:
  Modeling local coronavirus outbreaks. 57-68

Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention

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  Enes Eryarsoy, Masoud Shahmanzari, Fehmi Tanrisever:
  Models for government intervention during a pandemic. 69-83
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  Kexin Chen, Chi Seng Pun, Hoi Ying Wong:
  Efficient social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Integrating economic and public health considerations. 84-98
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  Milad Baghersad, Mohsen Emadikhiav, C. Derrick Huang, Ravi S. Behara:
  Modularity maximization to design contiguous policy zones for pandemic response. 99-112
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  Shabnam Rezapour, Atefe Baghaian, Nazanin Naderi, Juan P. Sarmiento:
  Infection transmission and prevention in metropolises with heterogeneous and dynamic populations. 113-138
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  Martina Fischetti, Matteo Fischetti, Jakob Stoustrup:
  Safe distancing in the time of COVID-19. 139-149

Healthcare Network Configuration

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  Kanglin Liu, Changchun Liu, Xi Xiang, Zhili Tian:
  Testing facility location and dynamic capacity planning for pandemics with demand uncertainty. 150-168
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  David Wolfinger, Margaretha Gansterer, Karl F. Doerner, Nikolas Popper:
  A Large Neighbourhood Search Metaheuristic for the Contagious Disease Testing Problem. 169-182

Healthcare Resource Allocation

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  Weijian Zhang, Xianliang Shi, Anqiang Huang, Guowei Hua, Ruud H. Teunter:
  Optimal stock and capital reserve policies for emergency medical supplies against epidemic outbreaks. 183-191
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  Mohammad Fattahi, Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh, Devika Kannan, Kannan Govindan:
  Resource planning strategies for healthcare systems during a pandemic. 192-206
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  René Bekker, Michiel A. J. uit het Broek, Ger Koole:
  Modeling COVID-19 hospital admissions and occupancy in the Netherlands. 207-218
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  Seyyed-Mahdi Hosseini-Motlagh, Mohammad Reza Ghatreh Samani, Shamim Homaei:
  Design of control strategies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. 219-238
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  Maximiliane Rautenstrauss, Layla Martin, Stefan Minner:
  Ambulance dispatching during a pandemic: Tradeoffs of categorizing patients and allocating ambulances. 239-254

Hospital Operations

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  Xuecheng Yin, I. Esra Büyüktahtakin, Bhumi P. Patel:
  COVID-19: Data-Driven optimal allocation of ventilator supply under uncertainty and risk. 255-275
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  Cem Deniz Caglar Bozkir, Cagri Ozmemis, Ali Kaan Kurbanzade, Burcu Balcik, Evrim Didem Günes, Serhan Tuglular:
  Capacity planning for effective cohorting of hemodialysis patients during the coronavirus pandemic: A case study. 276-291
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  Cuihua Zhou, Yifei Hao, Yanfei Lan, Weifeng Li:
  To introduce or not? Strategic analysis of hospital operations with telemedicine. 292-307

Vaccine and Testing Kits

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  Adam F. Abdin, Yi-Ping Fang, Aakil M. Caunhye, Douglas José Alem, Anne Barros, Enrico Zio:
  An optimization model for planning testing and control strategies to limit the spread of a pandemic - The case of COVID-19. 308-324
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  Lawrence Thul, Warren B. Powell:
  Stochastic optimization for vaccine and testing kit allocation for the COVID-19 pandemic. 325-338
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  Priyank Sinha, Sameer Kumar, Charu Chandra:
  Strategies for ensuring required service level for COVID-19 herd immunity in Indian vaccine supply chain. 339-352

Production and Manufacturing

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  Yuchen Li, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, Ming Liu, Zaoli Yang:
  A risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming model for a joint multi-item capacitated line balancing and lot-sizing problem. 353-365

Volume 304, Number 2, January 2023

Invited Review

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  Martin Cousineau, Vedat Verter, Susan A. Murphy, Joelle Pineau:
  Estimating causal effects with optimization-based methods: A review and empirical comparison. 367-380

Discrete Optimization

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  Jintong Ren, Jin-Kao Hao, Feng Wu, Zhang-Hua Fu:
  An effective hybrid search algorithm for the multiple traveling repairman problem with profits. 381-394
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  Alberto Franzin, Thomas Stützle:
  A landscape-based analysis of fixed temperature and simulated annealing. 395-410
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  Hossein Alipour, Mario Andrés Muñoz, Kate Smith-Miles:
  Enhanced instance space analysis for the maximum flow problem. 411-428
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  Felipe Carrasco Heine, Antonia Demleitner, Jannik Matuschke:
  Bifactor approximation for location routing with vehicle and facility capacities. 429-442
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  Eduardo M. Silva, Gislaine Mara Melega, Kerem Akartunali, Silvio A. de Araujo:
  Formulations and theoretical analysis of the one-dimensional multi-period cutting stock problem with setup cost. 443-460

Production, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics

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  Stefan Wagner, Lars Mönch:
  A variable neighborhood search approach to solve the order batching problem with heterogeneous pick devices. 461-475
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  Laurens Deprez, Katrien Antonio, Robert N. Boute:
  Empirical risk assessment of maintenance costs under full-service contracts. 476-493
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  Bo Jin, Shunji Tanaka:
  An exact algorithm for the unrestricted container relocation problem with new lower bounds and dominance rules. 494-514
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  Mengyuan Xiang, Roberto Rossi, Belen Martin-Barragan, S. Armagan Tarim:
  A mathematical programming-based solution method for the nonstationary inventory problem under correlated demand. 515-524
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  Joachim Scholl, Nils Boysen, Armin Scholl:
  E-platooning: Optimizing platoon formation for long-haul transportation with electric commercial vehicles. 525-542
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  Xun Wang, Stephen M. Disney, Borja Ponte:
  On the stationary stochastic response of an order-constrained inventory system. 543-557
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  Christoph Rippe, Gudrun P. Kiesmüller:
  The repair kit problem with imperfect advance demand information. 558-576
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  Yuhan Guo, Yu Zhang, Youssef Boulaksil, Yaguan Qian, Hamid Allaoui:
  Modelling and analysis of online ride-sharing platforms - A sustainability perspective. 577-595
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  Mosleh Amiri, Hamid Farvaresh:
  Carrier collaboration with the simultaneous presence of transferable and non-transferable utilities. 596-617

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Zhiheng Zhong, Ping Cao:
  Balanced routing with partial information in a distributed parallel many-server queueing system. 618-633
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  Dimitris Bertsimas, Christopher McCord, Bradley Sturt:
  Dynamic optimization with side information. 634-651
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  Shir Moshe, Binyamin Oz:
  Charging more for priority via two-part tariff for accumulating priorities. 652-660

Decision Support

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  Valentina Ferretti, Gilberto Montibeller, Detlof von Winterfeldt:
  Testing the effectiveness of debiasing techniques to reduce overprecision in the elicitation of subjective continuous probability distributions. 661-675
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  Luca Faramondi, Gabriele Oliva, Roberto Setola, Sándor Bozóki:
  Robustness to rank reversal in pairwise comparison matrices based on uncertainty bounds. 676-688
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  Tamara Bigler, Manuel Kammermann, Philipp Baumann:
  A matheuristic for a customer assignment problem in direct marketing. 689-708
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  Jason M. Shachat, Lijia Tan:
  How auctioneers set reserve prices in procurement auctions. 709-728
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  Miriam Esteve, Juan Aparicio, Jesús Javier Rodríguez-Sala, Joe Zhu:
  Random Forests and the measurement of super-efficiency in the context of Free Disposal Hull. 729-744

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Michael Wolff, Tristan Becker, Grit Walther:
  Long-term design and analysis of renewable fuel supply chains - An integrated approach considering seasonal resource availability. 745-762
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  Mike G. Tsionas:
  Clustering and meta-envelopment in data envelopment analysis. 763-778
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  Christoph Hansknecht, Imke Joormann, Bernd Korn, Fabian Morscheck, Sebastian Stiller:
  Feeder routing for air-to-air refueling operations. 779-796
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  Verónica Díaz, Ricardo Montoya, Sebastián Maldonado:
  Preference estimation under bounded rationality: Identification of attribute non-attendance in stated-choice data using a support vector machines approach. 797-812

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Stavroula Yfanti, Menelaos Karanasos, Constantin Zopounidis, Apostolos G. Christopoulos:
  Corporate credit risk counter-cyclical interdependence: A systematic analysis of cross-border and cross-sector correlation dynamics. 813-831
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  Pengyu Wei, Charles C. Yang, Yi Zhuang:
  Robust consumption and portfolio choice with derivatives trading. 832-850
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  Jens Gudmundsson, Jens Leth Hougaard, Trine Tornøe Platz:
  Decentralized task coordination. 851-864

Volume 304, Number 3, February 2023

Invited Review

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  Natasja Sluijk, Alexandre M. Florio, Joris Kinable, Nico P. Dellaert, Tom Van Woensel:
  Two-echelon vehicle routing problems: A literature review. 865-886

Discrete Optimization

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  André Bergsten Mendes, Filipe Pereira e Alvelos:
  Iterated local search for the placement of wildland fire suppression resources. 887-900
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  Christophe Wilbaut, Raca Todosijevic, Saïd Hanafi, Arnaud Fréville:
  Heuristic and exact reduction procedures to solve the discounted 0-1 knapsack problem. 901-911
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  Yanchao Liu:
  An elliptical cover problem in drone delivery network design and its solution algorithms. 912-925
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  Evripidis Bampis, Carmine-Emanuele Cella, Bruno Escoffier, Mila Rocco, Alexandre Teiller:
  Target-based computer-assisted orchestration: Complexity and approximation algorithms. 926-938
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  Ying Liu, Jing Zhou, Andrew Lim, Qian Hu:
  A tree search heuristic for the resource constrained project scheduling problem with transfer times. 939-951

Production, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics

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  Ronghua Sui, Xumei Zhang, Bin Dan, Haiyue Zhang, Yi Liu:
  Bilateral value-added service investment in platform competition with cross-side network effects under multihoming. 952-963
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  Ivan Svetunkov, Huijing Chen, John E. Boylan:
  A new taxonomy for vector exponential smoothing and its application to seasonal time series. 964-980
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  Hamed Vafa Arani, Morteza Pourakbar, Erwin van der Laan, René de Koster:
  How to charge in servicizing: Per period or per use? 981-996
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  Wei Li, Hui Sun, Hao Dong, Yuqin Gan, Lenny Koh:
  Outsourcing decision-making in global remanufacturing supply chains: The impact of tax and tariff regulations. 997-1010
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  Rui Zheng, Jingjing Wang, Yingzhi Zhang:
  A hybrid repair-replacement policy in the proportional hazards model. 1011-1021
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  Jiawei Tao, Hongyan Dai, Weiwei Chen, Hai Jiang:
  The value of personalized dispatch in O2O on-demand delivery services. 1022-1035
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  Niklas Berger, Stefan Schulze-Schwering, Elisa F. Long, Stefan Spinler:
  Risk management of supply chain disruptions: An epidemic modeling approach. 1036-1051

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Fredrik Armerin:
  Investments with declining cost following a Lévy process. 1052-1062
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  Jan Vogler, Vasyl Golosnoy:
  Unrestricted maximum likelihood estimation of multivariate realized volatility models. 1063-1074
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  Mikhail Konovalov, Rostislav Razumchik:
  Finite capacity single-server queue with Poisson input, general service and delayed renovation. 1075-1083

Decision Support

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  Juuso Liesiö, Markku Kallio, Nikolaos Argyris:
  Incomplete risk-preference information in portfolio decision analysis. 1084-1098
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  Aaditya Singh, Philip A. Scarf, Rose D. Baker:
  A unified theory for bivariate scores in possessive ball-sports: The case of handball. 1099-1112
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  Yanan Li, Jun Lin, Yanjun Qian, Dehong Li:
  Feed-in tariff policy for biomass power generation: Incorporating the feedstock acquisition process. 1113-1132
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  Yasuo Sasaki:
  Strategic manipulation in group decisions with pairwise comparisons: A game theoretical perspective. 1133-1139

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Pierre Bernhard, Marc Deschamps, Georges Zaccour:
  Large satellite constellations and space debris: Exploratory analysis of strategic management of the space commons. 1140-1157
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  Mike G. Tsionas:
  Combining data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontiers via a LASSO prior. 1158-1166
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  Maria N. Lavrutich, Verena Hagspiel, Afzal S. Siddiqui:
  Transmission investment under uncertainty: Reconciling private and public incentives. 1167-1188
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  Kien C. Tran, Mike G. Tsionas, Artem B. Prokhorov:
  Semiparametric estimation of spatial autoregressive smooth-coefficient panel stochastic frontier models. 1189-1199
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  Emanuele Borgonovo, Giovanni Rabitti:
  Screening: From tornado diagrams to effective dimensions. 1200-1211
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  Mike G. Tsionas:
  Performance estimation when the distribution of inefficiency is unknown. 1212-1222
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  Markus Seizinger, Jens O. Brunner:
  Optimized planning of nursing curricula in dual vocational schools focusing on the German health care system. 1223-1241
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  María Luz Gámiz, Nikolaos Limnios, Maria del Carmen Segovia:
  Hidden markov models in reliability and maintenance. 1242-1255
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  Manthos D. Delis, Pantelis Kazakis, Constantin Zopounidis:
  Management and takeover decisions. 1256-1268
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  Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore, Francesco Parino, Lorenzo Zino, Alessandro Rizzo:
  Dynamic planning of a two-dose vaccination campaign with uncertain supplies. 1269-1278
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  Chengfu Wang, Xiangfeng Chen, Xun Xu, Wei Jin:
  Financing and operating strategies for blockchain technology-driven accounts receivable chains. 1279-1295

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Maryam Karimi Mamaghan, Mehrdad Mohammadi, Bastien Pasdeloup, Patrick Meyer:
  Learning to select operators in meta-heuristics: An integration of Q-learning into the iterated greedy algorithm for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem. 1296-1330
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  Philip J. Atkins, Mark Cummins:
  Improved scalability and risk factor proxying with a two-step principal component analysis for multi-curve modelling. 1331-1348
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  Xiujie Zhao, Piao Chen, Shanshan Lv, Zhen He:
  Reliability testing for product return prediction. 1349-1363