European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 240

Volume 240, Number 1, January 2015

Invited Review

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  Hannes W. Lampe, Dennis Hilgers:
  Trajectories of efficiency measurement: A bibliometric analysis of DEA and SFA. 1-21

Discrete Optimization

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  Umut Besikci, Ümit Bilge, Gündüz Ulusoy:
  Multi-mode resource constrained multi-project scheduling and resource portfolio problem. 22-31
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  Tom Pape:
  Heuristics and lower bounds for the simple assembly line balancing problem type 1: Overview, computational tests and improvements. 32-42
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  Yi-Ping Cui, Yaodong Cui, Tianbing Tang:
  Sequential heuristic for the two-dimensional bin-packing problem. 43-53
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  Rafael Martí, Vicente Campos, Mauricio G. C. Resende, Abraham Duarte:
  Multiobjective GRASP with Path Relinking. 54-71

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Marcus Dettenbach, Ulrich W. Thonemann:
  The value of real time yield information in multi-stage inventory systems - Exact and heuristic approaches. 72-83
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  Jie Zhang, Rachel Q. Zhang:
  Supply chain structure in a market with deceptive counterfeits. 84-97
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  Qianfei Li, Peng (Will) Chen, Yu Marco Nie:
  Finding optimal hyperpaths in large transit networks with realistic headway distributions. 98-108

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Lu Hu, Yangsheng Jiang, Juanxiu Zhu, Yanru Chen:
  A PH/PH(n)/C/C state-dependent queuing model for metro station corridor width design. 109-126
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  Jorge Navarro, Franco Pellerey, Antonio Di Crescenzo:
  Orderings of coherent systems with randomized dependent components. 127-139
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  Sivasamy Ramasamy, Onkabetse A. Daman, Sulaiman Sani:
  An M/G/2 queue where customers are served subject to a minimum violation of FCFS queue discipline. 140-146

Decision Support

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  Mario Guajardo, Mikael Rönnqvist:
  Operations research models for coalition structure in collaborative logistics. 147-159
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  Fernando Bernstein, A. Gürhan Kök, Ana Meca:
  Cooperation in assembly systems: The role of knowledge sharing networks. 160-171
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  Silvia Angilella, Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco:
  Stochastic multiobjective acceptability analysis for the Choquet integral preference model and the scale construction problem. 172-182
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  Zaiwu Gong, Huanhuan Zhang, Jeffrey Forrest, Lianshui Li, Xiaoxia Xu:
  Two consensus models based on the minimum cost and maximum return regarding either all individuals or one individual. 183-192
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  George Mavrotas, Olena Pechak, Eleftherios Siskos, Haris Ch. Doukas, John E. Psarras:
  Robustness analysis in Multi-Objective Mathematical Programming using Monte Carlo simulation. 193-201

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Angela Espinosa, Ezequiel Reficco, Andrea Martínez, David Guzmán:
  A methodology for supporting strategy implementation based on the VSM: A case study in a Latin-American multi-national. 202-212
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  Wouter Vink, Alex Kuiper, Benjamin Kemper, Sandjai Bhulai:
  Optimal appointment scheduling in continuous time: The lag order approximation method. 213-219
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  Golam Kabir, Solomon Tesfamariam, Alex Francisque, Rehan Sadiq:
  Evaluating risk of water mains failure using a Bayesian belief network model. 220-234
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  José Manuel Cordero-Ferrera, Edurne Alonso-Morán, Roberto Nuño-Solinis, Juan F. Orueta, Regina Sauto Arce:
  Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach. 235-244
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  Michele Samorani, Linda R. LaGanga:
  Outpatient appointment scheduling given individual day-dependent no-show predictions. 245-257
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  Peter Fernandes Wanke, Carlos P. Barros, João Ricardo Faria:
  Financial distress drivers in Brazilian banks: A dynamic slacks approach. 258-268

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Valentin Zelenyuk:
  Aggregation of scale efficiency. 269-277
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  Hani I. Mesak, Abdullahel Bari, Michael S. Luehlfing, Fei Han:
  On modeling the advertising-operations interface under asymmetric competition. 278-291
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  Özgen Karaer, Feryal Erhun:
  Quality and entry deterrence. 292-303

Corrigendum

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  Jerzy Kamburowski:
  Corrigendum to "The distribution-free newsboy problem under the worst-case and best-case scenarios" [Eur. J. Oper. Res. 237(2014) 106-112]. 304

Volume 240, Number 2, January 2015

In Memoriam

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  Graham Rand:
  Alan Mercer (1931-2014) - A founding editor of EJOR. 305-306

Invited Review

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  Marc Demange, Tínaz Ekim, Bernard Ries, Cerasela Tanasescu:
  On some applications of the selective graph coloring problem. 307-314

Continuous Optimization

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  Yaohua Hu, Xiaoqi Yang, Chee-Khian Sim:
  Inexact subgradient methods for quasi-convex optimization problems. 315-327
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  William W. Hager, James T. Hungerford:
  Continuous quadratic programming formulations of optimization problems on graphs. 328-337

Discrete Optimization

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  Fuli Xiong, Keyi Xing, Feng Wang:
  Scheduling a hybrid assembly-differentiation flowshop to minimize total flow time. 338-354
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  Mohamed Bendraouche, Mourad Boudhar, Ammar Oulamara:
  Scheduling: Agreement graph vs resource constraints. 355-360
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  Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia, Maria João Lopes, Amaro de Sousa:
  Single PON network design with unconstrained splitting stages. 361-371
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  Luca Bertazzi, Bruce L. Golden, Xingyin Wang:
  Min-Max vs. Min-Sum Vehicle Routing: A worst-case analysis. 372-381
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  Patrizia Beraldi, Maria Elena Bruni, Demetrio Laganà, Roberto Musmanno:
  The mixed capacitated general routing problem under uncertainty. 382-392

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Anil Arya, Clemens Löffler, Brian Mittendorf, Thomas Pfeiffer:
  The middleman as a panacea for supply chain coordination problems. 393-400
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  Guiomar Martín-Herrán, Sihem Taboubi:
  Price coordination in distribution channels: A dynamic perspective. 401-414
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  Yannan Jin, Sujuan Wang, Qiying Hu:
  Contract type and decision right of sales promotion in supply chain management with a capital constrained retailer. 415-424

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Nitin Gupta, Neeraj Misra, Somesh Kumar:
  Stochastic comparisons of residual lifetimes and inactivity times of coherent systems with dependent identically distributed components. 425-430
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  Arun Chockalingam, Kumar Muthuraman:
  An approximate moving boundary method for American option pricing. 431-438
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  Wiebke von Hoyningen-Huene, Gudrun P. Kiesmüller:
  Evaluation of the expected makespan of a set of non-resumable jobs on parallel machines with stochastic failures. 439-446

Decision Support

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  Gholam Reza Jahanshahloo, Majid Soleimani-Damaneh, Saeid Ghobadi:
  Inverse DEA under inter-temporal dependence using multiple-objective programming. 447-456
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  Ricardo M. Lima, Augusto Q. Novais, Antonio J. Conejo:
  Weekly self-scheduling, forward contracting, and pool involvement for an electricity producer. An adaptive robust optimization approach. 457-475
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  Philippe Chevalier, Alejandro Lamas, Liang Lu, Tanja Mlinar:
  Revenue management for operations with urgent orders. 476-487
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  Lei Fang, Hecheng Li:
  Cost efficiency in data envelopment analysis under the law of one price. 488-492
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  Yingjie Lan, Michael O. Ball, Itir Z. Karaesmen, Jean X. Zhang, Gloria X. Liu:
  Analysis of seat allocation and overbooking decisions with hybrid information. 493-504
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  Berno Buechel, Nils Roehl:
  Robust equilibria in location games. 505-517
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  Seog-Chan Oh, Jaemin Shin:
  The impact of mismeasurement in performance benchmarking: A Monte Carlo comparison of SFA and DEA with different multi-period budgeting strategies. 518-527

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Xiao Yao, Jonathan Crook, Galina Andreeva:
  Support vector regression for loss given default modelling. 528-538
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  Jan Fabian Ehmke, Ann Melissa Campbell, Timothy L. Urban:
  Ensuring service levels in routing problems with time windows and stochastic travel times. 539-550
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  Keshav P. Dahal, Khalid Al-Arfaj, Krishna Paudyal:
  Modelling generator maintenance scheduling costs in deregulated power markets. 551-561
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  Jorge E. Galán, Helena Veiga, Michael P. Wiper:
  Dynamic effects in inefficiency: Evidence from the Colombian banking sector. 562-571
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  Shuo Wang, Gordon H. Huang:
  A multi-level Taguchi-factorial two-stage stochastic programming approach for characterization of parameter uncertainties and their interactions: An application to water resources management. 572-581
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  Xiaopeng Yang, Danheng Zheng, Tammy Sieminowski, Joseph C. Paradi:
  A dynamic benchmarking system for assessing the recovery of inpatients: Evidence from the neurorehabilitation process. 582-591
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  Greta Falavigna, Roberto Ippoliti, Alessandro Manello, Giovanni B. Ramello:
  Judicial productivity, delay and efficiency: A Directional Distance Function (DDF) approach. 592-601

Corrigendum

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  Jirachai Buddhakulsomsiri, David S. Kim:
  Corrigendum to 'Properties of multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problems with resource vacations and activity splitting' and 'Priority rule-based heuristic for multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problems with resource vacations and activity splitting' [Eur. J. Oper. Res 175 (2006) 279-295, 178 (2007) 374-390]. 602

Volume 240, Number 3, February 2015

Invited Review

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  Kannan Govindan, Hamed Soleimani, Devika Kannan:
  Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chain: A comprehensive review to explore the future. 603-626

Discrete Optimization

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  Ada Che, Jianguang Feng, Haoxun Chen, Chengbin Chu:
  Robust optimization for the cyclic hoist scheduling problem. 627-636
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  Rhydian Lewis, Jonathan M. Thompson:
  Analysing the effects of solution space connectivity with an effective metaheuristic for the course timetabling problem. 637-648
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  Zhao-Hong Jia, Joseph Y.-T. Leung:
  A meta-heuristic to minimize makespan for parallel batch machines with arbitrary job sizes. 649-665
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  Eva Vallada, Rubén Ruiz, Jose M. Framiñan:
  New hard benchmark for flowshop scheduling problems minimising makespan. 666-677

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Ksenia Ponomareva, Diana Roman, Paresh Date:
  An algorithm for moment-matching scenario generation with application to financial portfolio optimisation. 678-687
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  Arturo J. Fernández:
  Optimum attributes component test plans for k-out-of-n: F Weibull systems using prior information. 688-696
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  Edilson Fernandes de Arruda, Marcelo D. Fragoso:
  Solving average cost Markov decision processes by means of a two-phase time aggregation algorithm. 697-705

Decision Support

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  Daniel R. Ball, Abhijit Deshmukh, Nikunj Kapadia:
  An options-based approach to coordinating distributed decision systems. 706-717
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  Burak Boyaci, Konstantinos G. Zografos, Nikolas Geroliminis:
  An optimization framework for the development of efficient one-way car-sharing systems. 718-733
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  Cathal MacSwiney Brugha:
  Foundation of Nomology. 734-747
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  Byeong Seok Ahn:
  Extreme point-based multi-attribute decision analysis with incomplete information. 748-755
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  Meimei Xia, Jian Chen:
  Multi-criteria group decision making based on bilateral agreements. 756-764
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  Matteo Brunelli, Michele Fedrizzi:
  Boundary properties of the inconsistency of pairwise comparisons in group decisions. 765-773
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  I. L. Tomashevskii:
  Eigenvector ranking method as a measuring tool: Formulas for errors. 774-780
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  Tangbin Xia, Xiaoning Jin, Lifeng Xi, Jun Ni:
  Production-driven opportunistic maintenance for batch production based on MAM-APB scheduling. 781-790

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Ana Maria Mestre, Mónica Duarte Oliveira, Ana Paula F. D. Barbosa-Póvoa:
  Location-allocation approaches for hospital network planning under uncertainty. 791-806
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  Nickolaos G. Tzeremes:
  Efficiency dynamics in Indian banking: A conditional directional distance approach. 807-818
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  Geraldo da Silva e Souza, Eliane Gonçalves Gomes:
  Management of agricultural research centers in Brazil: A DEA application using a dynamic GMM approach. 819-824
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  Masoud Soleymani Shishvan, Javad Sattarvand:
  Long term production planning of open pit mines by ant colony optimization. 825-836
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  Bo Jin, Wenbin Zhu, Andrew Lim:
  Solving the container relocation problem by an improved greedy look-ahead heuristic. 837-847
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  Mirjana Bugarinovic, Branislav Boskovic:
  A systems approach to access charges in unbundling railways. 848-860
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  Yan Chen, Xuancheng Wang:
  A hybrid stock trading system using genetic network programming and mean conditional value-at-risk. 861-871

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Barnabé Walheer:
  Multi-output efficiency with good and bad outputs. 872-881
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  Juan Aparicio, Jesús T. Pastor, José Luis Zofío:
  How to properly decompose economic efficiency using technical and allocative criteria with non-homothetic DEA technologies. 882-891
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  Teresa Serra, Elena Poli:
  Shadow prices of social capital in rural India, a nonparametric approach. 892-903
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  James Waters:
  Welfare implications of piracy with dynamic pricing and heterogeneous consumers. 904-911