European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 239

Volume 239, Number 1, November 2014

Invited Review

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  Chiang Kao:
  Network data envelopment analysis: A review. 1-16

Continuous Optimization

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  Matthias Ehrgott, Jonas Ide, Anita Schöbel:
  Minmax robustness for multi-objective optimization problems. 17-31
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  Riccardo Rovatti, Claudia D'Ambrosio, Andrea Lodi, Silvano Martello:
  Optimistic MILP modeling of non-linear optimization problems. 32-45
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  Bojian Zhou, Xuhong Li, Jie He:
  Exploring trust region method for the solution of logit-based stochastic user equilibrium problem. 46-57

Discrete Optimization

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  Lijun Wei, Tian Tian, Wenbin Zhu, Andrew Lim:
  A block-based layer building approach for the 2D guillotine strip packing problem. 58-69
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  Shu Zhang, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Barrett W. Thomas:
  A priori orienteering with time windows and stochastic wait times at customers. 70-79
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  Honglin Ding, Jianping Li, Ko-Wei Lih:
  Approximation algorithms for solving the constrained arc routing problem in mixed graphs. 80-88
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  Francisco Javier Pulido, Lawrence Mandow, José-Luis Pérez-de-la-Cruz:
  Multiobjective shortest path problems with lexicographic goal-based preferences. 89-101
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  Rafael Martinelli, Diego Pecin, Marcus Poggi:
  Efficient elementary and restricted non-elementary route pricing. 102-111

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Qian Yu, Debin Fang, Wei Du:
  Solving the logit-based stochastic user equilibrium problem with elastic demand based on the extended traffic network model. 112-118
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  Xinlin Tang, Arun Rai:
  How should process capabilities be combined to leverage supplier relationships competitively? 119-129
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  Weili Xue, Ozgun Caliskan-Demirag, Baozhuang Niu:
  Supply chain performance and consumer surplus under alternative structures of channel dominance. 130-145
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  Z. A. M. S. Juman, M. A. Hoque:
  A heuristic solution technique to attain the minimal total cost bounds of transporting a homogeneous product with varying demands and supplies. 146-156

Decision Support

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  Christine Vanovermeire, Kenneth Sörensen:
  Measuring and rewarding flexibility in collaborative distribution, including two-partner coalitions. 157-165
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  Bogdan Grechuk, Michael Zabarankin:
  Risk averse decision making under catastrophic risk. 166-176
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  Maryam Esmaeili, Nafiseh Shamsi Gamchi, Ezzatollah Asgharizadeh:
  Three-level warranty service contract among manufacturer, agent and customer: A game-theoretical approach. 177-186
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  Tobias Harks, Philipp von Falkenhausen:
  Optimal cost sharing for capacitated facility location games. 187-198
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  Nedialko B. Dimitrov, Stanko Dimitrov, Stefanka S. Chukova:
  Robust decomposable Markov decision processes motivated by allocating school budgets. 199-213

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Onur Ozturk, Mehmet A. Begen, Gregory S. Zaric:
  A branch and bound based heuristic for makespan minimization of washing operations in hospital sterilization services. 214-226
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  Andreas Fügener, Erwin W. Hans, Rainer Kolisch, Nikky Kortbeek, Peter T. Vanberkel:
  Master surgery scheduling with consideration of multiple downstream units. 227-236
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  Teresa Serra, Alfons Oude Lansink:
  Measuring the impacts of production risk on technical efficiency: A state-contingent conditional order-m approach. 237-242
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  Benjamin Kemper, Chris A. J. Klaassen, Michel Mandjes:
  Optimized appointment scheduling. 243-255
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  Maria Flavia Monaco, Marcello Sammarra, Gregorio Sorrentino:
  The Terminal-Oriented Ship Stowage Planning Problem. 256-265

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Huayi Chen, Tieju Ma:
  Technology adoption with limited foresight and uncertain technological learning. 266-275
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  Mónica Clemente-Císcar, Susana San Matías, Vicent Giner-Bosch:
  A methodology based on profitability criteria for defining the partial defection of customers in non-contractual settings. 276-285
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  Walter Briec, Stéphane Mussard:
  Efficient firm groups: Allocative efficiency in cooperative games. 286-296

Volume 239, Number 2, December 2014

Invited Review

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  Jana Lehnfeld, Sigrid Knust:
  Loading, unloading and premarshalling of stacks in storage areas: Survey and classification. 297-312

Discrete Optimization

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  Yuning Chen, Jin-Kao Hao:
  A "reduce and solve" approach for the multiple-choice multidimensional knapsack problem. 313-322
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  Bahman Naderi, Rubén Ruiz:
  A scatter search algorithm for the distributed permutation flowshop scheduling problem. 323-334
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  Anulark Naber, Rainer Kolisch:
  MIP models for resource-constrained project scheduling with flexible resource profiles. 335-348
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  Alexander Veremyev, Oleg A. Prokopyev, Vladimir Boginski, Eduardo L. Pasiliao:
  Finding maximum subgraphs with relatively large vertex connectivity. 349-362

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Jian Huang, Mingming Leng, Liping Liang, Chunlin Luo:
  Qualifying for a government's scrappage program to stimulate consumers' trade-in transactions? Analysis of an automobile supply chain involving a manufacturer and a retailer. 363-376
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  Gang Li, Feng Feng Huang, T. C. E. Cheng, Quan Zheng, Ping Ji:
  Make-or-buy service capacity decision in a supply chain providing after-sales service. 377-388
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  Shaofu Du, Tengfei Nie, Chengbin Chu, Yugang Yu:
  Reciprocal supply chain with intention. 389-402
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  Avijit Khanra, Chetan Soman, Tathagata Bandyopadhyay:
  Sensitivity analysis of the newsvendor model. 403-412
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  Deniz Aksen, Onur Kaya, F. Sibel Salman, Özge Tüncel:
  An adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm for a selective and periodic inventory routing problem. 413-426

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Pei-Fang Jennifer Tsai, Guei-Yu Teng:
  A stochastic appointment scheduling system on multiple resources with dynamic call-in sequence and patient no-shows for an outpatient clinic. 427-436
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  Christian Wolf, Csaba I. Fábián, Achim Koberstein, Leena Suhl:
  Applying oracles of on-demand accuracy in two-stage stochastic programming - A computational study. 437-448
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  Qingqing Zhai, Jun Yang, Min Xie, Yu Zhao:
  Generalized moment-independent importance measures based on Minkowski distance. 449-455
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  Liron Ravner:
  Equilibrium arrival times to a queue with order penalties. 456-468

Decision Support

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  Melike Baykal-Gürsoy, Zhe Duan, H. Vincent Poor, Andrey Garnaev:
  Infrastructure security games. 469-478
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  Min Yang, Yongjun Li, Ya Chen, Liang Liang:
  An equilibrium efficiency frontier data envelopment analysis approach for evaluating decision-making units with fixed-sum outputs. 479-489
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  Emanuele Borgonovo, Fabio Tonoli:
  Decision-network polynomials and the sensitivity of decision-support models. 490-503
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  Victor V. Podinovski, Ihsan Ismail, Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva, Wenjuan Zhang:
  Combining the assumptions of variable and constant returns to scale in the efficiency evaluation of secondary schools. 504-513
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  Salvatore Corrente, José Rui Figueira, Salvatore Greco:
  The SMAA-PROMETHEE method. 514-522
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  Peijun Guo, Xiuyan Ma:
  Newsvendor models for innovative products with one-shot decision theory. 523-536
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  Vladislav V. Podinovski:
  Decision making under uncertainty with unknown utility function and rank-ordered probabilities. 537-541

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Vardan Avagyan, Mercedes Esteban-Bravo, Jose M. Vidal-Sanz:
  Licensing radical product innovations to speed up the diffusion. 542-555
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  Merja Halme, Markku Kallio:
  Likelihood estimation of consumer preferences in choice-based conjoint analysis. 556-564
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  Shantanu Banerjee, Ufuk Güçbilmez, Grzegorz Pawlina:
  Optimal exercise of jointly held real options: A Nash bargaining approach with value diversion. 565-578
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  Fredrik Ødegaard, Chris K. Anderson:
  All-pay auctions with pre- and post-bidding options. 579-592

Volume 239, Number 3, December 2014

Invited Review

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  Paul Buijs, Iris F. A. Vis, Héctor J. Carlo:
  Synchronization in cross-docking networks: A research classification and framework. 593-608

Discrete Optimization

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  Nicolas Chapados, Marc Joliveau, Pierre L'Ecuyer, Louis-Martin Rousseau:
  Retail store scheduling for profit. 609-624
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  Kai Chen, Sheldon M. Ross:
  An adaptive stochastic knapsack problem. 625-635
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  Haitao Wang:
  Minmax regret 1-facility location on uncertain path networks. 636-643

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Luís Guimarães, Diego Klabjan, Bernardo Almada-Lobo:
  Modeling lotsizing and scheduling problems with sequence dependent setups. 644-662
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  Yingxue Zhao, Tsan-Ming Choi, T. C. E. Cheng, Suresh P. Sethi, Shouyang Wang:
  Buyback contracts with price-dependent demands: Effects of demand uncertainty. 663-673
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  Roberto Rossi, Steven D. Prestwich, S. Armagan Tarim, Brahim Hnich:
  Confidence-based optimisation for the newsvendor problem under binomial, Poisson and exponential demand. 674-684
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  Anupam Agrawal:
  Managing raw material in supply chains. 685-698
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  Wei Xing, Liming Liu, Shouyang Wang:
  More than a second channel? Supply chain strategies in B2B spot markets. 699-710

Decision Support

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  Salvatore Greco, Vincent Mousseau, Roman Slowinski:
  Robust ordinal regression for value functions handling interacting criteria. 711-730
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  Bilel Derbel, Jérémie Humeau, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sébastien Vérel:
  Distributed localized bi-objective search. 731-743
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  Janice E. Carrillo, Asoo J. Vakharia, Ruoxuan Wang:
  Environmental implications for online retailing. 744-755
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  Frank Schuhmacher, Benjamin R. Auer:
  Sufficient conditions under which SSD- and MR-efficient sets are identical. 756-763
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  Alessandra Cillo, Philippe Delquié:
  Mean-risk analysis with enhanced behavioral content. 764-775
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  Juan Aparicio, Bernhard Mahlberg, Jesús T. Pastor, Biresh K. Sahoo:
  Decomposing technical inefficiency using the principle of least action. 776-785
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  Zuo Quan Xu:
  Investment under duality risk measure. 786-793
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  Bin Zhu, Zeshui Xu:
  Analytic hierarchy process-hesitant group decision making. 794-801
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  Wanshan Zhu, Zhengping Wu:
  The stochastic ordering of mean-preserving transformations and its applications. 802-809
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  Donatien Hainaut:
  Impulse control of pension fund contributions, in a regime switching economy. 810-819

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Nils Boysen, Simon Emde:
  Scheduling the part supply of mixed-model assembly lines in line-integrated supermarkets. 820-829
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  Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia, Pedro Moura, Mario Ruthmair, Amaro de Sousa:
  Spanning trees with variable degree bounds. 830-841
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  Chaithanya Bandi, Dimitris Bertsimas:
  Robust option pricing. 842-853
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  Matthias Thürer, Mark Stevenson, Ting Qu, Moacir Godinho Filho:
  The design of simple subcontracting rules for make-to-order shops: An assessment by simulation. 854-864

Short Communications

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  Gert van Valkenhoef, Tommi Tervonen, Douwe Postmus:
  Notes on 'Hit-And-Run enables efficient weight generation for simulation-based multiple criteria decision analysis'. 865-867
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  Chung-Yuan Dye, Chih-Te Yang, Fang-Cheng Kung:
  A note on "Seller's optimal credit period and cycle time in a supply chain for deteriorating items with maximum lifetime". 868-871

Corrigendum

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  Ruud Egging:
  Corrigendum to "Benders Decomposition for multi-stage stochastic mixed complementarity problems - Applied to a global natural gas market model" [Eur. J. Oper. Res. 226(2013) 341-353]. 872