European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 257

Volume 257, Number 1, February 2017

Discrete Optimization

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  Marco Colombi, Ángel Corberán, Renata Mansini, Isaac Plana, José M. Sanchis:
  The Hierarchical Mixed Rural Postman Problem: Polyhedral analysis and a branch-and-cut algorithm. 1-12
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  Hegen Xiong, Huali Fan, Guozhang Jiang, Gongfa Li:
  A simulation-based study of dispatching rules in a dynamic job shop scheduling problem with batch release and extended technical precedence constraints. 13-24
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  Xiangyong Li, Yash P. Aneja:
  Regenerator location problem: Polyhedral study and effective branch-and-cut algorithms. 25-40
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  Yi Zhou, Jin-Kao Hao, Adrien Goëffon:
  PUSH: A generalized operator for the Maximum Vertex Weight Clique Problem. 41-54

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Emilio Zamorano, Raik Stolletz:
  Branch-and-price approaches for the Multiperiod Technician Routing and Scheduling Problem. 55-68
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  Ahmad Sobhani, M. I. M. Wahab, W. Patrick Neumann:
  Incorporating human factors-related performance variation in optimizing a serial system. 69-83
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  Gregory Dobson, Edieal J. Pinker, Ozlem Yildiz:
  An EOQ model for perishable goods with age-dependent demand rate. 84-88
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  Jean-François Côté, Gianfranco Guastaroba, Maria Grazia Speranza:
  The value of integrating loading and routing. 89-105
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  Yuyue Song, Yunzeng Wang:
  Periodic review inventory systems with fixed order cost and uniform random yield. 106-117
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  Marjolein Veenstra, Kees Jan Roodbergen, Iris F. A. Vis, Leandro C. Coelho:
  The pickup and delivery traveling salesman problem with handling costs. 118-132

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Michael Hahsler:
  An experimental comparison of seriation methods for one-mode two-way data. 133-143
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  Wei Lin Teoh, Michael B. C. Khoo, Philippe Castagliola, Wai Chung Yeong, Sin Yin Teh:
  Run-sum control charts for monitoring the coefficient of variation. 144-158
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  Eric C. K. Cheung, Jeff T. Y. Wong:
  On the dual risk model with Parisian implementation delays in dividend payments. 159-173

Decision Support

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  Roger Adkins, Dean Paxson:
  Replacement decisions with multiple stochastic values and depreciation. 174-184
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  Soondo Hong, Youngjoo Kim:
  A route-selecting order batching model with the S-shape routes in a parallel-aisle order picking system. 185-196
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  Michele Lundy, Sajid Siraj, Salvatore Greco:
  The mathematical equivalence of the "spanning tree" and row geometric mean preference vectors and its implications for preference analysis. 197-208
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  Minou C. A. Olde Keizer, Ruud H. Teunter, Jasper Veldman:
  Joint condition-based maintenance and inventory optimization for systems with multiple components. 209-222
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  Yangyang Xie, Xiaoying Liang, Lijun Ma, Houmin Yan:
  Empty container management and coordination in intermodal transport. 223-232
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  R. Samuel Sale, Hani I. Mesak, R. Anthony Inman:
  A dynamic marketing-operations interface model of new product updates. 233-242

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Ming-Feng Tsai, Chuan-Ju Wang:
  On the risk prediction and analysis of soft information in finance reports. 243-250
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  John Moriarty, Jan Palczewski:
  Real option valuation for reserve capacity. 251-260
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  Mehran Samavati, Daryl Essam, Micah Nehring, Ruhul A. Sarker:
  A local branching heuristic for the open pit mine production scheduling problem. 261-271
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  Richard A. Garrett, Thomas C. Sharkey, Martha Grabowski, William A. Wallace:
  Dynamic resource allocation to support oil spill response planning for energy exploration in the Arctic. 272-286
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  Huayi Chen, Tieju Ma:
  Optimizing systematic technology adoption with heterogeneous agents. 287-296
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  Barry King, Marcos Goycoolea, Alexandra M. Newman:
  Optimizing the open pit-to-underground mining transition. 297-309

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Georg Müller-Fürstenberger, Ingmar Schumacher:
  The consequences of a one-sided externality in a dynamic, two-agent framework. 310-322
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  John Mingers, Liying Yang:
  Evaluating journal quality: A review of journal citation indicators and ranking in business and management. 323-337
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  Magdalena Kapelko, Alfons Oude Lansink:
  Dynamic multi-directional inefficiency analysis of European dairy manufacturing firms. 338-344
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  Juan Aparicio, Jesús T. Pastor, José Luis Zofío:
  Can Farrell's allocative efficiency be generalized by the directional distance function approach? 345-351

Volume 257, Number 2, March 2017

In Memoriam

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  Sally C. Brailsford, Thomas W. Archibald, Christophe Mues, Mee Chi So, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida Filho:
  Lyn Thomas 1946-2016. 353-354

Invited Review

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  Gerben M. Scheepmaker, Rob M. P. Goverde, Leo G. Kroon:
  Review of energy-efficient train control and timetabling. 355-376

Continuous Optimization

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  Graham Kendall, Liam J. A. Lenten:
  When sports rules go awry. 377-394
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  Ankur Sinha, Pekka Malo, Kalyanmoy Deb:
  Evolutionary algorithm for bilevel optimization using approximations of the lower level optimal solution mapping. 395-411
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  Victor V. Podinovski, Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva:
  Solving DEA models in a single optimization stage: Can the non-Archimedean infinitesimal be replaced by a small finite epsilon? 412-419

Discrete Optimization

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  Merve Bodur, Sanjeeb Dash, Oktay Günlük:
  A new lift-and-project operator. 420-428
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  Alfredo García Olaverri, Javier Tejel:
  Polynomially solvable cases of the bipartite traveling salesman problem. 429-438
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  Vahid Roshanaei, Curtiss Luong, Dionne M. Aleman, David R. Urbach:
  Propagating logic-based Benders' decomposition approaches for distributed operating room scheduling. 439-455

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  B. Mahadevan, Jishnu Hazra, Tarun Jain:
  Services outsourcing under asymmetric cost information. 456-467
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  Fiona X. Yang, Rachel Q. Zhang, Kaijie Zhu:
  Should purchasing activities be outsourced along with production? 468-482
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  Ayse Akbalik, Atidel B. Hadj-Alouane, Nathalie Sauer, Houcem Ghribi:
  NP-hard and polynomial cases for the single-item lot sizing problem with batch ordering under capacity reservation contract. 483-493
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  Yujie Chen, Peter I. Cowling, Fiona Polack, Stephen Remde, Philip Mourdjis:
  Dynamic optimisation of preventative and corrective maintenance schedules for a large scale urban drainage system. 494-510
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  Hassan Sarhadi, David M. Tulett, Manish Verma:
  An analytical approach to the protection planning of a rail intermodal terminal network. 511-525
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  Túlio A. M. Toffolo, Eline Esprit, Tony Wauters, Greet Vanden Berghe:
  A two-dimensional heuristic decomposition approach to a three-dimensional multiple container loading problem. 526-538
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  Sihem Ben Jouida, Saoussen Krichen, Walid Klibi:
  Coalition-formation problem for sourcing contract design in supply networks. 539-558

Decision Support

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  Tufan Koc, Erhan Bozdag:
  Measuring the degree of novelty of innovation based on Porter's value chain approach. 559-567
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  Wenhui Zhou, Qiang Wan, Ren-Qian Zhang:
  Choosing among hospitals in the subsidized health insurance system of China: A sequential game approach. 568-585
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  Enrique González-Arangüena, Conrado Miguel Manuel, Guillermo Owen, Mónica del Pozo:
  The within groups and the between groups Myerson values. 586-600

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Victor Pimenta, Alain Quilliot, Hélène Toussaint, Daniele Vigo:
  Models and algorithms for reliability-oriented Dial-a-Ride with autonomous electric vehicles. 601-613
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  Bintong Chen, Jing Chen:
  When to introduce an online channel, and offer money back guarantees and personalized pricing? 614-624
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  Vahid Akbari, F. Sibel Salman:
  Multi-vehicle synchronized arc routing problem to restore post-disaster network connectivity. 625-640
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  Wenhui Zhou, Yanfang Zheng, Weixiang Huang:
  Competitive advantage of qualified WEEE recyclers through EPR legislation. 641-655
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  Peng Zhao, Yiying Zhang, Jianbin Chen:
  Optimal allocation policy of one redundancy in a n-component series system. 656-668
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  Gregory Steeger, Steffen Rebennack:
  Dynamic convexification within nested Benders decomposition using Lagrangian relaxation: An application to the strategic bidding problem. 669-686
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  Nikola Markovic, Ilya O. Ryzhov, Paul M. Schonfeld:
  Evasive flow capture: A multi-period stochastic facility location problem with independent demand. 687-703

Corrigendum

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  Euthimios G. Tsionas, Emmanuel C. Mamatzakis:
  Corrigendum to 'Adjustment costs in the technical efficiency: An application to global banking' [European Journal of Operational Research 256 (2017) 640-649]. 704

Volume 257, Number 3, March 2017

In Memoriam

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  Wenjuan Zhang, Rui Peng:
  Professor Wenbin Wang: (5 December 1956 - 4 September 2016). 705-706

Invited Review

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  Victor Fernandez-Viagas, Rubén Ruiz, Jose M. Framiñan:
  A new vision of approximate methods for the permutation flowshop to minimise makespan: State-of-the-art and computational evaluation. 707-721

Discrete Optimization

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  Becky Callaghan, Saïd Salhi, Gábor Nagy:
  Speeding up the optimal method of Drezner for the p-centre problem in the plane. 722-734
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  Zhou Xu, Brian Rodrigues:
  An extension of the Christofides heuristic for the generalized multiple depot multiple traveling salesmen problem. 735-745
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  Xia Zhu, Rubén Ruiz, Shiyu Li, Xiaoping Li:
  An effective heuristic for project scheduling with resource availability cost. 746-762

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Shaomin Wu, Philip Scarf:
  Two new stochastic models of the failure process of a series system. 763-772
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  ManWo Ng:
  Revisiting a class of liner fleet deployment models. 773-776
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  Ata Allah Taleizadeh, Hamid Reza Zarei, Bhaba R. Sarker:
  An optimal control of inventory under probablistic replenishment intervals and known price increase. 777-791
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  Mehrdad Mohammadi, Payman Jula, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam:
  Design of a reliable multi-modal multi-commodity model for hazardous materials transportation under uncertainty. 792-809
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  Quan Spring Zhou, Tava Lennon Olsen:
  Inventory rotation of medical supplies for emergency response. 810-821
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  Claudia Archetti, Luca Bertazzi, Demetrio Laganà, Francesca Vocaturo:
  The Undirected Capacitated General Routing Problem with Profits. 822-833
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  Andreza Cristina Beezão, Jean-François Cordeau, Gilbert Laporte, Horacio Hideki Yanasse:
  Scheduling identical parallel machines with tooling constraints. 834-844
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  Eduardo Uchoa, Diego Pecin, Artur Alves Pessoa, Marcus Poggi, Thibaut Vidal, Anand Subramanian:
  New benchmark instances for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem. 845-858
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  Hongqi Li, Xinyu Chang, Wencong Zhao, Yingrong Lu:
  The vehicle flow formulation and savings-based algorithm for the rollon-rolloff vehicle routing problem. 859-869
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  Seungkyu Ryu, Anthony Chen, Keechoo Choi:
  Solving the combined modal split and traffic assignment problem with two types of transit impedance function. 870-880
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  Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Ruhul A. Sarker, Daryl Essam:
  A quantitative model for disruption mitigation in a supply chain. 881-895

Decision Support

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  Chuanyin Guo, Roohollah Abbasi Shureshjani, Ali Asghar Foroughi, Joe Zhu:
  Decomposition weights and overall efficiency in two-stage additive network DEA. 896-906
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  Jennifer Sian Morgan, Susan Howick, Valerie Belton:
  A toolkit of designs for mixing Discrete Event Simulation and System Dynamics. 907-918
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  Shawei He, D. Marc Kilgour, Keith W. Hipel:
  A general hierarchical graph model for conflict resolution with application to greenhouse gas emission disputes between USA and China. 919-932
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  Gaia Nicosia, Andrea Pacifici, Ulrich Pferschy:
  Price of Fairness for allocating a bounded resource. 933-943
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  Deishin Lee, Mustafa Hayri Tongarlak:
  Converting retail food waste into by-product. 944-956
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  Xuan Zhao, Derek R. Atkins, Ming Hu, Wensi Zhang:
  Revenue management under joint pricing and capacity allocation competition. 957-970

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Yeu-Shiang Huang, Chao-Da Huang, Jyh-Wen Ho:
  A customized two-dimensional extended warranty with preventive maintenance. 971-978
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  Michael J. Kuby, Ismail Capar, Jong-Geun Kim:
  Efficient and equitable transnational infrastructure planning for natural gas trucking in the European Union. 979-991
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  J. Schuijbroek, Robert C. Hampshire, Willem-Jan van Hoeve:
  Inventory rebalancing and vehicle routing in bike sharing systems. 992-1004
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  Meijing Zhang, Ying-Ming Wang, Ling-Hui Li, Sheng-Qun Chen:
  A general evidential reasoning algorithm for multi-attribute decision analysis under interval uncertainty. 1005-1015

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Abolfazl Keshvari:
  A penalized method for multivariate concave least squares with application to productivity analysis. 1016-1029
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  Mikica Drenovak, Vladimir Rankovic, Milos R. Ivanovic, Branko Urosevic, Ranko Jelic:
  Market risk management in a post-Basel II regulatory environment. 1030-1044
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  Igor Perko:
  Behaviour-based short-term invoice probability of default evaluation. 1045-1054