European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 241

Volume 241, Number 1, February 2015

Invited Review

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  Rahma Lahyani, Mahdi Khemakhem, Frédéric Semet:
  Rich vehicle routing problems: From a taxonomy to a definition. 1-14

Discrete Optimization

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  Andrés Bronfman, Vladimir Marianov, Germán Paredes-Belmar, Armin Lüer-Villagra:
  The maximin HAZMAT routing problem. 15-27
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  Fabián Castaño, Eric Bourreau, Nubia Velasco, André Rossi, Marc Sevaux:
  Exact approaches for lifetime maximization in connectivity constrained wireless multi-role sensor networks. 28-38
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  Lijun Wei, Wenbin Zhu, Andrew Lim:
  A goal-driven prototype column generation strategy for the multiple container loading cost minimization problem. 39-49

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Mathijn J. Retel Helmrich, Raf Jans, Wilco van den Heuvel, Albert P. M. Wagelmans:
  The economic lot-sizing problem with an emission capacity constraint. 50-62
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  Linghong Zhang, Jingguo Wang, Jianxin You:
  Consumer environmental awareness and channel coordination with two substitutable products. 63-73
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  Lijian Lu, Yaozhong Wu:
  Preferences for contractual forms in supply chains. 74-84

Decision Support

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  Stefan Woerner, Marco Laumanns, Rico Zenklusen, Apostolos Fertis:
  Approximate dynamic programming for stochastic linear control problems on compact state spaces. 85-98
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  Luitpold Babel, Thomas Zimmermann:
  Planning safe navigation routes through mined waters. 99-108
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  Manuel Moreno, Federico Platania:
  A cyclical square-root model for the term structure of interest rates. 109-121
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  Sovan Mitra, Andreas S. Karathanasopoulos, Georgios Sermpinis, Christian L. Dunis, John Hood:
  Operational risk: Emerging markets, sectors and measurement. 122-132
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  Ahmed Frikha, Hela Moalla:
  Analytic hierarchy process for multi-sensor data fusion based on belief function theory. 133-147
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  Panayotis G. Michaelides, Efthymios G. Tsionas, Angelos T. Vouldis, Konstantinos N. Konstantakis:
  Global approximation to arbitrary cost functions: A Bayesian approach with application to US banking. 148-160

Computational Intelligence and Information Management

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  George J. Besseris:
  Concurrent multiresponse non-linear screening: Robust profiling of webpage performance. 161-176

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Christa D. Court, Max Munday, Annette Roberts, Karen Turner:
  Can hazardous waste supply chain 'hotspots' be identified using an input-output framework? 177-187
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  Hui-Ping Ho, Ching-Ter Chang, Cheng-Yuan Ku:
  House selection via the internet by considering homebuyers' risk attitudes with S-shaped utility functions. 188-201
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  Fan Liu, Zhongsheng Hua, Andrew Lim:
  Identifying future defaulters: A hierarchical Bayesian method. 202-211
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  Xiaojun Wang, Hing Kai Chan, Dong Li:
  A case study of an integrated fuzzy methodology for green product development. 212-223
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  Nicky Rogge, Richard Simper, Marijn Verschelde, Maximilian J. B. Hall:
  An analysis of managerialism and performance in English and Welsh male prisons. 224-235
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  Ruibin Geng, Indranil Bose, Xi Chen:
  Prediction of financial distress: An empirical study of listed Chinese companies using data mining. 236-247
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  Donal O'Sullivan, Alexandra M. Newman:
  Optimization-based heuristics for underground mine scheduling. 248-259
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  Christina Elberg, Simeon Hagspiel:
  Spatial dependencies of wind power and interrelations with spot price dynamics. 260-272
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  Jørgen Dejgård Jensen, Lartey Godwin Lawson, Mogens Lund:
  Systemic cost-effectiveness analysis of food hazard reduction - Campylobacter in Danish broiler supply. 273-282

Volume 241, Number 2, March 2015

Invited Review

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  Michael Drexl, Michael Schneider:
  A survey of variants and extensions of the location-routing problem. 283-308

Discrete Optimization

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  Lukas Bach, Michel Gendreau, Sanne Wøhlk:
  Freight railway operator timetabling and engine scheduling. 309-319
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  Bostjan Murovec:
  Job-shop local-search move evaluation without direct consideration of the criterion's value. 320-329
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  Giulio Erberto Cantarella, Armando Cartenì, Stefano de Luca:
  Stochastic equilibrium assignment with variable demand: Theoretical and implementation issues. 330-347

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Yu Xia, Xingxing Zu, Chunming Shi:
  A profit-driven approach to building a "people-responsible" supply chain. 348-360
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  Justin C. Goodson:
  A priori policy evaluation and cyclic-order-based simulated annealing for the multi-compartment vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands. 361-369
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  Kefeng Xu, Yan Dong, Yu Xia:
  'Too Little' or 'Too Late': The timing of supply chain demand collaboration. 370-380
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  Marco Bijvank, Sandjai Bhulai, Woonghee Tim Huh:
  Parametric replenishment policies for inventory systems with lost sales and fixed order cost. 381-390

Stochastics and Statistics

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  R. Faddoul, Wassim Raphael, A.-H. Soubra, Alaa Chateauneuf:
  Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes incorporating epistemic uncertainties. 391-401
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  Peng Zhao, Yiying Zhang, Long Li:
  Redundancy allocation at component level versus system level. 402-411
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  Cheng-Hung Hu, Ming-Yung Lee, Jen Tang:
  Optimum step-stress accelerated degradation test for Wiener degradation process under constraints. 412-421
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  Zhen-Yu Chen, Zhi-Ping Fan, Minghe Sun:
  Behavior-aware user response modeling in social media: Learning from diverse heterogeneous data. 422-434

Decision Support

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  Renato E. deMatta, Tan Miller:
  Formation of a strategic manufacturing and distribution network with transfer prices. 435-448
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  Lore Dirick, Gerda Claeskens, Bart Baesens:
  An Akaike information criterion for multiple event mixture cure models. 449-457
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  Georgia Dede, Thomas Kamalakis, Thomas Sphicopoulos:
  Convergence properties and practical estimation of the probability of rank reversal in pairwise comparisons for multi-criteria decision making problems. 458-468
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  Marek Gagolewski:
  Spread measures and their relation to aggregation functions. 469-477
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  Zutong Wang, Jiansheng Guo, Mingfa Zheng, Ying Wang:
  Uncertain multiobjective traveling salesman problem. 478-489

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Bissan Ghaddar, Joe Naoum-Sawaya, Akihiro Kishimoto, Nicole Taheri, Bradley Eck:
  A Lagrangian decomposition approach for the pump scheduling problem in water networks. 490-501
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  Clement Peyronne, Andrew R. Conn, Marcel Mongeau, Daniel Delahaye:
  Solving air traffic conflict problems via local continuous optimization. 502-512
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  Takashi Shibata, Michi Nishihara:
  Investment timing, debt structure, and financing constraints. 513-526
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  Mariano Luque, Óscar D. Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo:
  On the potential balance among compulsory education outcomes through econometric and multiobjective programming analysis. 527-540

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Guiomar Martín-Herrán, Simon Pierre Sigué:
  Trade deals and/or on-package coupons. 541-554
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  Alfons Oude Lansink, Spiro E. Stefanou, Teresa Serra:
  Primal and dual dynamic Luenberger productivity indicators. 555-563
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  Sebastián Maldonado, Ricardo Montoya, Richard Weber:
  Advanced conjoint analysis using feature selection via support vector machines. 564-574

Short Communications

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  Guido Voigt, Tobias Schulz:
  Note on "Heuristics with guaranteed performance bounds for a manufacturing system with product recovery". 575-578
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  Xinyang Deng, Yong Hu, Felix T. S. Chan, Sankaran Mahadevan, Yong Deng:
  Parameter estimation based on interval-valued belief structures. 579-582

Volume 241, Number 3, March 2015

Invited Review

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  Michael J. Mortenson, Neil F. Doherty, Stewart Robinson:
  Operational research from Taylorism to Terabytes: A research agenda for the analytics age. 583-595

Continuous Optimization

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  Umberto Dellepiane, Laura Palagi:
  Using SVM to combine global heuristics for the Standard Quadratic Problem. 596-605
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  Abdalla Elshaikh, Saïd Salhi, Gábor Nagy:
  The continuous p-centre problem: An investigation into variable neighbourhood search with memory. 606-621
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  Ting L. Lei, Richard L. Church:
  On the unified dispersion problem: Efficient formulations and exact algorithms. 622-630

Discrete Optimization

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  Warren L. Hare, Yves Lucet, Faisal Rahman:
  A mixed-integer linear programming model to optimize the vertical alignment considering blocks and side-slopes in road construction. 631-641
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  Charles H. Reilly, Nabin Sapkota:
  A family of composite discrete bivariate distributions with uniform marginals for simulating realistic and challenging optimization-problem instances. 642-652
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  Jinwen Ou, Xueling Zhong, Guoqing Wang:
  An improved heuristic for parallel machine scheduling with rejection. 653-661
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  Vikas Goel, M. Slusky, Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Kevin C. Furman, Yufen Shao:
  Constraint programming for LNG ship scheduling and inventory management. 662-673
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  Kun He, Pengli Ji, Chumin Li:
  Dynamic reduction heuristics for the rectangle packing area minimization problem. 674-685
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  Josu Ceberio, Alexander Mendiburu, José Antonio Lozano:
  The linear ordering problem revisited. 686-696
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  Fred W. Glover, Tao Ye, Abraham P. Punnen, Gary A. Kochenberger:
  Integrating tabu search and VLSN search to develop enhanced algorithms: A case study using bipartite boolean quadratic programs. 697-707

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Ahmad Sobhani, M. I. M. Wahab, W. Patrick Neumann:
  Investigating work-related ill health effects in optimizing the performance of manufacturing systems. 708-718
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  M. Gloria Fiestras-Janeiro, Ignacio García-Jurado, Ana Meca, Manuel A. Mosquera:
  Cooperation on capacitated inventory situations with fixed holding costs. 719-726
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  Christian Almeder, Diego Klabjan, Renate Traxler, Bernardo Almada-Lobo:
  Lead time considerations for the multi-level capacitated lot-sizing problem. 727-738
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  Hui-Chieh Li:
  Optimal delivery strategies considering carbon emissions, time-dependent demands and demand-supply interactions. 739-748

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Peijie Wang, Bing Zhang, Yun Zhou:
  Asymmetries in stock markets. 749-762
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  Thomas J. Duff, Derek M. Chong, Kevin G. Tolhurst:
  Using discrete event simulation cellular automata models to determine multi-mode travel times and routes of terrestrial suppression resources to wildland fires. 763-770
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  Guido Lagos, Daniel G. Espinoza, Eduardo Moreno, Juan Pablo Vielma:
  Restricted risk measures and robust optimization. 771-782

Decision Support

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  Chris Florackis, Angelos Kanas, Alexandros Kostakis:
  Dividend policy, managerial ownership and debt financing: A non-parametric perspective. 783-795
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  Emmanuel Thanassoulis, Rashed Khanjani Shiraz, Nikolaos Maniadakis:
  A cost Malmquist productivity index capturing group performance. 796-805
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  Roberto Ghiselli Ricci:
  Penalty functions based upon a general class of restricted dissimilarity functions. 806-814
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  Hongbin Yan, Tieju Ma:
  A group decision-making approach to uncertain quality function deployment based on fuzzy preference relation and fuzzy majority. 815-829
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  Milosz Kadzinski, Krzysztof Ciomek, Roman Slowinski:
  Modeling assignment-based pairwise comparisons within integrated framework for value-driven multiple criteria sorting. 830-841
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  José-Manuel Giménez-Gómez, António Osório:
  Why and how to differentiate in claims problems? An axiomatic approach. 842-850

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  S. Schulte Beerbühl, Magnus Fröhling, Frank Schultmann:
  Combined scheduling and capacity planning of electricity-based ammonia production to integrate renewable energies. 851-862
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  Huamao Wang, Zhaojun Yang, Hai Zhang:
  Entrepreneurial finance with equity-for-guarantee swap and idiosyncratic risk. 863-871
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  Laurent Alfandari, Agnès Plateau, Xavier Schepler:
  A branch-and-price-and-cut approach for sustainable crop rotation planning. 872-879
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  Andre J. Hoogstrate, Chris A. J. Klaassen:
  Information weighted sampling for detecting rare items in finite populations with a focus on security. 880-887
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  Iman Dayarian, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Michel Gendreau, Walter Rei:
  A column generation approach for a multi-attribute vehicle routing problem. 888-906
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  Qing Zhang, Zhizhou Xu, Tianjun Feng, Jian Jiao:
  A dynamic stochastic frontier model to evaluate regional financial efficiency: Evidence from Chinese county-level panel data. 907-916
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  Harol Mauricio Gámez Albán, Osman Camilo Soto Cardona, Christopher Mejía Argueta, Alfonso Tullio Sarmiento:
  A cost-efficient method to optimize package size in emerging markets. 917-926

Short Communications

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  Alessandro Agnetis, Mohamed Ali Aloulou, Liang-Liang Fu, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov:
  Two faster algorithms for coordination of production and batch delivery: A note. 927-930
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  Mario Guajardo, Kurt Jörnsten:
  Common mistakes in computing the nucleolus. 931-935