European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 222

Volume 222, Number 1, October 2012

Invited Review

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  Marco Locatelli, Fabio Schoen:
  Local search based heuristics for global optimization: Atomic clusters and beyond. 1-9

Discrete Optimization

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  Bertrand Hellion, Fabien Mangione, Bernard Penz:
  A polynomial time algorithm to solve the single-item capacitated lot sizing problem with minimum order quantities and concave costs. 10-16
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  Md. Noor-E-Alam, Andrew Mah, John Doucette:
  Integer linear programming models for grid-based light post location problem. 17-30
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  Quan-Ke Pan, Rubén Ruiz:
  Local search methods for the flowshop scheduling problem with flowtime minimization. 31-43

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Morteza Pourakbar, Rommert Dekker:
  Customer differentiated end-of-life inventory problem. 44-53
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  Javier Alcaraz, Mercedes Landete, Juan F. Monge:
  Design and analysis of hybrid metaheuristics for the Reliability p-Median Problem. 54-64
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  Yin Long, Loo Hay Lee, Ek Peng Chew:
  The sample average approximation method for empty container repositioning with uncertainties. 65-75

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Michael N. Katehakis, Kartikeya S. Puranam:
  On bidding for a fixed number of items in a sequence of auctions. 76-84
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  Pui Lam Leung, Hon-Yip Ng, Wing-Keung Wong:
  An improved estimation to make Markowitz's portfolio optimization theory users friendly and estimation accurate with application on the US stock market investment. 85-95
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  Wuyi Ye, Xiaoquan Liu, Baiqi Miao:
  Measuring the subprime crisis contagion: Evidence of change point analysis of copula functions. 96-103
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  Emmanuel Haven, Xiaoquan Liu, Liya Shen:
  De-noising option prices with the wavelet method. 104-112

Decision Support

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  Sebastian Huber, Stefan Spinler:
  Pricing of full-service repair contracts. 113-121
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  Jens Irion, Jye-Chyi Lu, Faiz A. Al-Khayyal, Yu-Chung Tsao:
  A piecewise linearization framework for retail shelf space management models. 122-136
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  Jens J. Krüger:
  A Monte Carlo study of old and new frontier methods for efficiency measurement. 137-148

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  José Federico Vizcaino González, Christiano Lyra, Fábio Luiz Usberti:
  A pseudo-polynomial algorithm for optimal capacitor placement on electric power distribution networks. 149-156
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  Christian Bodenstein, Guido Schryen, Dirk Neumann:
  Energy-aware workload management models for operation cost reduction in data centers. 157-167
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  Soner Akkoç:
  An empirical comparison of conventional techniques, neural networks and the three stage hybrid Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) model for credit scoring analysis: The case of Turkish credit card data. 168-178

Volume 222, Number 2, October 2012

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Tetsuo Iida:
  Coordination of cooperative cost-reduction efforts in a supply chain partnership. 180-190
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  Karen Ka-Leung Moon, Candace Ying Yi, E. W. T. Ngai:
  An instrument for measuring supply chain flexibility for the textile and clothing companies. 191-203
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  Cheng-Han Wu:
  Product-design and pricing strategies with remanufacturing. 204-215
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  Yu-Chung Tsao, Divya Mangotra, Jye-Chyi Lu, Ming Dong:
  A continuous approximation approach for the integrated facility-inventory allocation problem. 216-228
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  Yann Bouchery, Asma Ghaffari, Zied Jemaï, Yves Dallery:
  Including sustainability criteria into inventory models. 229-240
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  Qiang Meng, Shuaian Wang:
  Liner ship fleet deployment with week-dependent container shipment demand. 241-252

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Linda Lee Ho, Roberto da Costa Quinino:
  Integrating on-line process control and imperfect corrective maintenance: An economical design. 253-262
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  Sophie Mercier, Hai Ha Pham:
  A preventive maintenance policy for a continuously monitored system with correlated wear indicators. 263-272
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  Serkan Eryilmaz:
  On the mean residual life of a k-out-of-n: G system with a single cold standby component. 273-277
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  Pengfei Guo, Refael Hassin:
  Strategic behavior and social optimization in Markovian vacation queues: The case of heterogeneous customers. 278-286

Decision Support

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  Daniele Manerba, Renata Mansini:
  An exact algorithm for the Capacitated Total Quantity Discount Problem. 287-300
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  Emanuele Borgonovo, Curtis L. Smith:
  Composite multilinearity, epistemic uncertainty and risk achievement worth. 301-311
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  Xiaowei Chen:
  Variation analysis of uncertain stationary independent increment processes. 312-316
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  Manuel Cruz-Ramírez, César Hervás-Martínez, Juan Carlos Fernández, Javier Briceño, Manuel de la Mata:
  Multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for donor-recipient decision system in liver transplants. 317-327

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Miao He, Lei Zhao, Warren B. Powell:
  Approximate dynamic programming algorithms for optimal dosage decisions in controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. 328-340
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  Wei-Guo Zhang, Yong-Jun Liu, Weijun Xu:
  A possibilistic mean-semivariance-entropy model for multi-period portfolio selection with transaction costs. 341-349
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  Simon Bell:
  DPSIR = A Problem Structuring Method? An exploration from the "Imagine" approach. 350-360
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  Claudio Albanese, Harry Lo, Stathis Tompaidis:
  A numerical algorithm for pricing electricity derivatives for jump-diffusion processes based on continuous time lattices. 361-368
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  Javier Peña, Juan Carlos Vera, Luis F. Zuluaga:
  Computing arbitrage upper bounds on basket options in the presence of bid-ask spreads. 369-376
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  Jonas C. Villumsen, Andrew B. Philpott:
  Investment in electricity networks with transmission switching. 377-385
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  M. Fakhri Noushabadi, N. Assadian:
  Optimal apogee burn time for low thrust spinning satellite in low altitude. 386-391

Volume 222, Number 3, November 2012

Invited Review

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  Kabir Rustogi, Vitaly A. Strusevich:
  Simple matching vs linear assignment in scheduling models with positional effects: A critical review. 393-407

Discrete Optimization

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  Wenbin Zhu, Andrew Lim:
  A new iterative-doubling Greedy-Lookahead algorithm for the single container loading problem. 408-417
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  Nina Skorin-Kapov, Marija Furdek, Ramon Aparicio-Pardo, Pablo Pavón-Mariño:
  Wavelength assignment for reducing in-band crosstalk attack propagation in optical networks: ILP formulations and heuristic algorithms. 418-429
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  Matthieu Chardy, Marie-Christine Costa, Alain Faye, M. Trampont:
  Optimizing splitter and fiber location in a multilevel optical FTTH network. 430-440
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  Jianyong Jin, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Arne Løkketangen:
  A parallel multi-neighborhood cooperative tabu search for capacitated vehicle routing problems. 441-451
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  Wenbin Zhu, Zhaoyi Zhang, Wee-Chong Oon, Andrew Lim:
  Space defragmentation for packing problems. 452-463

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Hawa Hishamuddin, Ruhul A. Sarker, Daryl Essam:
  A disruption recovery model for a single stage production-inventory system. 464-473
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  Rob J. I. Basten, M. C. van der Heijden, J. M. J. Schutten:
  Joint optimization of level of repair analysis and spare parts stocks. 474-483
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  Sebastian Henn, Gerhard Wäscher:
  Tabu search heuristics for the order batching problem in manual order picking systems. 484-494

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Amir-Behzad Samii, Richard Pibernik, Prashant Yadav, Ann Vereecke:
  Reservation and allocation policies for influenza vaccines. 495-507
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  Srinivas R. Chakravarthy:
  Maintenance of a deteriorating single server system with Markovian arrivals and random shocks. 508-522
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  Akaninyene Udo Udom:
  Exponential stabilization of stochastic interval system with time dependent parameters. 523-528

Decision Support

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  Rudolf Berghammer, Stefan Bolus:
  On the use of binary decision diagrams for solving problems on simple games. 529-541
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  Suvankar Ghosh, Marvin D. Troutt:
  Complex compound option models - Can practitioners truly operationalize them? 542-552
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  Régis Y. Chenavaz:
  Dynamic pricing, product and process innovation. 553-557
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  Sebastián Lozano:
  Information sharing in DEA: A cooperative game theory approach. 558-565
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  Jens Leth Hougaard, Mich Tvede:
  Truth-telling and Nash equilibria in minimum cost spanning tree models. 566-570
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  Noemí Zoroa, M. José Fernández-Sáez, Procopio Zoroa:
  Patrolling a perimeter. 571-582
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  Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryuta Takashima:
  Capacity switching options under rivalry and uncertainty. 583-595

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Zahra Naji-Azimi, Jacques Renaud, Angel B. Ruiz, Majid Salari:
  A covering tour approach to the location of satellite distribution centers to supply humanitarian aid. 596-605
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  Reinaldo Castro Souza, André Luís Marques Marcato, Bruno Henriques Dias, Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira:
  Optimal operation of hydrothermal systems with Hydrological Scenario Generation through Bootstrap and Periodic Autoregressive Models. 606-615
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  Edilaine Martins Soler, Vanusa Alves de Sousa, Geraldo R. M. da Costa:
  A modified Primal-Dual Logarithmic-Barrier Method for solving the Optimal Power Flow problem with discrete and continuous control variables. 616-622
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  Alain Hertz, Marc Uldry, Marino Widmer:
  Integer linear programming models for a cement delivery problem. 623-631
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  Bhakti Stephan Onggo, Michael Pidd, Didier Soopramanien, David J. Worthington:
  Behavioural modelling of career progression in the European Commission. 632-641
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  Amina Lamghari, Roussos G. Dimitrakopoulos:
  A diversified Tabu search approach for the open-pit mine production scheduling problem with metal uncertainty. 642-652

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Ramón Flores, David Forrest, Juan de Dios Tena:
  Decision taking under pressure: Evidence on football manager dismissals in Argentina and their consequences. 653-662
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  Apostolos Fertis, Michel Baes, Hans-Jakob Lüthi:
  Robust risk management. 663-672
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  Dimitris Giraleas, Ali Emrouznejad, Emmanuel Thanassoulis:
  Productivity change using growth accounting and frontier-based approaches - Evidence from a Monte Carlo analysis. 673-683

Book Review

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  Chee Kian Leong:
  A Survey of Dynamic Games in Economics, Van Long Ngo. World Scientific, Singapore (2010). 292 pp., ISBN: 978-0195335521. 684-685

Corrigendum

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  Heinz Ahn, Ludmila Neumann, Nadia Vazquez Novoa:
  Corrigendum to "Measuring the relative balance of DMUs" [Eur. J. Oper. Res. 221(2012) 417-423]. 686