European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 213

Volume 213, Number 1, August 2011

Invited Review

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  Xiao-Sheng Si, Wenbin Wang, Chang-Hua Hu, Dong-Hua Zhou:
  Remaining useful life estimation - A review on the statistical data driven approaches. 1-14

Discrete Optimization

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  Huidae Cho, Dongkyun Kim, Francisco Olivera, Seth D. Guikema:
  Enhanced speciation in particle swarm optimization for multi-modal problems. 15-23
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  Wei Yu, Zhaohui Liu, Leiyang Wang, Tijun Fan:
  Routing open shop and flow shop scheduling problems. 24-36
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  Ioannis Minis, Antonios Tatarakis:
  Stochastic single vehicle routing problem with delivery and pick up and a predefined customer sequence. 37-51
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  Rhyd Lewis, Xiang Song, Kathryn A. Dowsland, Jonathan M. Thompson:
  An investigation into two bin packing problems with ordering and orientation implications. 52-65
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  Byung-Cheon Choi, Jibok Chung:
  Two-machine flow shop scheduling problem with an outsourcing option. 66-72
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  José Coelho, Mario Vanhoucke:
  Multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling using RCPSP and SAT solvers. 73-82

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Çerag Pinçe, Rommert Dekker:
  An inventory model for slow moving items subject to obsolescence. 83-95
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  Manas Kumar Maiti:
  A fuzzy genetic algorithm with varying population size to solve an inventory model with credit-linked promotional demand in an imprecise planning horizon. 96-106
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  Antonio Arreola-Risa, Víctor M. Giménez-García, José Luis Martínez-Parra:
  Optimizing stochastic production-inventory systems: A heuristic based on simulation and regression analysis. 107-118
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  Victor V. Podinovski, Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva:
  The impossibility of convex constant returns-to-scale production technologies with exogenously fixed factors. 119-123
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  Katsuhisa Ohno:
  The optimal control of just-in-time-based production and distribution systems and performance comparisons with optimized pull systems. 124-133
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  Klaus Altendorfer, Stefan Minner:
  Simultaneous optimization of capacity and planned lead time in a two-stage production system with different customer due dates. 134-146
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  Ci Chen, Hong Yan:
  Network DEA model for supply chain performance evaluation. 147-155
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  Kun-Jen Chung, Jui-Jung Liao:
  The simplified solution algorithm for an integrated supplier-buyer inventory model with two-part trade credit in a supply chain system. 156-165

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Ersin Körpeoglu, Hande Yaman, M. Selim Aktürk:
  A multi-stage stochastic programming approach in master production scheduling. 166-179
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  Pierre-Olivier Pineau, Hasina Rasata, Georges Zaccour:
  Impact of some parameters on investments in oligopolistic electricity markets. 180-195
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  Shaomin Wu, Artur Akbarov:
  Support vector regression for warranty claim forecasting. 196-204
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  Yang Woo Shin, Dug Hee Moon:
  Approximation of M/M/c retrial queue with PH-retrial times. 205-209
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  Stef Tijs, Peter Borm, Edwin Lohmann, Marieke Quant:
  An average lexicographic value for cooperative games. 210-220

Decision Support

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  Michail Chronopoulos, Bert De Reyck, Afzal S. Siddiqui:
  Optimal investment under operational flexibility, risk aversion, and uncertainty. 221-237
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  Dylan Jones:
  A practical weight sensitivity algorithm for goal and multiple objective programming. 238-245
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  Daji Ergu, Gang Kou, Yi Peng, Yong Shi:
  A simple method to improve the consistency ratio of the pair-wise comparison matrix in ANP. 246-259

Computational Intelligence and Information Management

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  Emilio Carrizosa, Belen Martin-Barragan, Dolores Romero Morales:
  Detecting relevant variables and interactions in supervised classification. 260-269
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  Tuan-Fang Fan, Churn-Jung Liau, Duen-Ren Liu:
  A relational perspective of attribute reduction in rough set-based data analysis. 270-278
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  Shian-Jong Chuu:
  Interactive group decision-making using a fuzzy linguistic approach for evaluating the flexibility in a supply chain. 279-289

End of Section

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  Ivo J. B. F. Adan, Jos Bekkers, Nico P. Dellaert, Jully Jeunet, Jan M. H. Vissers:
  Improving operational effectiveness of tactical master plans for emergency and elective patients under stochastic demand and capacitated resources. 290-308
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  Ulrich Derigs, René Kurowsky, Ulrich Vogel:
  Solving a real-world vehicle routing problem with multiple use of tractors and trailers and EU-regulations for drivers arising in air cargo road feeder services. 309-319
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  Naraphorn Haphuriwat, Vicki M. Bier:
  Trade-offs between target hardening and overarching protection. 320-328

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Sanjay Basu:
  Comparing simulation models for market risk stress testing. 329-339
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  Marcel Turkensteen, Gerard Sierksma, Jaap E. Wieringa:
  Balancing the fit and logistics costs of market segmentations. 340-348
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  Robert G. Chambers, Rolf Färe:
  Efficiency analysis, shortage functions, arbitrage, and martingales. 349-358

Short Communication

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  Yao Chen, Liang Liang:
  Super-efficiency DEA in the presence of infeasibility: One model approach. 359-360

Volume 213, Number 2, September 2011

Invited Review

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  Yan Qin, Ruoxuan Wang, Asoo J. Vakharia, Yuwen Chen, Michelle M. H. Seref:
  The newsvendor problem: Review and directions for future research. 361-374

Discrete Optimization

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  Remco Germs, Nicky D. van Foreest:
  Admission policies for the customized stochastic lot scheduling problem with strict due-dates. 375-383
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  Vladimir G. Deineko, Gerhard J. Woeginger:
  Unbounded knapsack problems with arithmetic weight sequences. 384-387
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  Dilip Datta, André Renato Sales Amaral, José Rui Figueira:
  Single row facility layout problem using a permutation-based genetic algorithm. 388-394

Decision Support

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  Radu Ioan Bot, Nicole Lorenz:
  Optimization problems in statistical learning: Duality and optimality conditions. 395-404
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  Eduardo Fernández, Jorge Navarro:
  A new approach to multi-criteria sorting based on fuzzy outranking relations: The THESEUS method. 405-413
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  Marco Laumanns, Rico Zenklusen:
  Stochastic convergence of random search methods to fixed size Pareto front approximations. 414-421

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Gabriella Muratore:
  Incentive based energy market design. 422-429
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  Mohammad Mehdi Lotfi, S. Ali Torabi:
  A fuzzy goal programming approach for mid-term assortment planning in supermarkets. 430-441
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  Erin Baker, Senay Solak:
  Climate change and optimal energy technology R&D policy. 442-454

Short Communication

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  Wilco van den Heuvel, José Miguel Gutiérrez, Hark-Chin Hwang:
  Note on "An efficient approach for solving the lot-sizing problem with time-varying storage capacities". 455-457

Volume 213, Number 3, September 2011

Invited Review

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  Johannes Leitner, Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger:
  Experiments on forecasting behavior with several sources of information - A review of the literature. 459-469

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Matteo Salani, Ilaria Vacca:
  Branch and price for the vehicle routing problem with discrete split deliveries and time windows. 470-477
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  Jing Chen:
  The impact of sharing customer returns information in a supply chain with and without a buyback policy. 478-488
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  Kangbok Lee, Byung-Cheon Choi:
  Two-stage production scheduling with an outsourcing option. 489-497

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Navid Izady, David J. Worthington:
  Approximate analysis of non-stationary loss queues and networks of loss queues with general service time distributions. 498-508
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  Hiroyuki Masuyama:
  Subexponential asymptotics of the stationary distributions of M/G/1-type Markov chains. 509-516
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  Tsz Leung Yip, Xinyu Sun, John J. Liu:
  Group and individual heterogeneity in a stochastic frontier model: Container terminal operators. 517-525

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Guiomar Martín-Herrán, Simon Pierre Sigué, Georges Zaccour:
  Strategic interactions in traditional franchise systems: Are franchisors always better off? 526-537
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  Maria Woodside-Oriakhi, Cormac Lucas, John E. Beasley:
  Heuristic algorithms for the cardinality constrained efficient frontier. 538-550
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  Henry Schellhorn:
  A trading mechanism contingent on several indices. 551-558