European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 248

Volume 248, Number 1, January 2016

Invited Review

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  Cinzia Daraio, Marco Diana, Flavia Di Costa, Claudio Leporelli, Giorgio Matteucci, Alberto Nastasi:
  Efficiency and effectiveness in the urban public transport sector: A critical review with directions for future research. 1-20

Discrete Optimization

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  Roberto Mínguez, Raquel García-Bertrand:
  Robust transmission network expansion planning in energy systems: Improving computational performance. 21-32
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  Çagri Koç, Tolga Bektas, Ola Jabali, Gilbert Laporte:
  The fleet size and mix location-routing problem with time windows: Formulations and a heuristic algorithm. 33-51
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  T. C. E. Cheng, Yakov M. Shafransky, C. T. Ng:
  An alternative approach for proving the NP-hardness of optimization problems. 52-58
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  Michel Gendreau, Daniele Manerba, Renata Mansini:
  The multi-vehicle traveling purchaser problem with pairwise incompatibility constraints and unitary demands: A branch-and-price approach. 59-71
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  Maria João Alves, João Paulo Costa:
  Graphical exploration of the weight space in three-objective mixed integer linear programs. 72-83
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  Tian Tian, Wenbin Zhu, Andrew Lim, Lijun Wei:
  The multiple container loading problem with preference. 84-94

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Jun-Yeon Lee, Richard K. Cho, Seung-Kuk Paik:
  Supply chain coordination in vendor-managed inventory systems with stockout-cost sharing under limited storage capacity. 95-106
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  Wenrong Lu, Duncan C. McFarlane, Vaggelis Giannikas, Quan Zhang:
  An algorithm for dynamic order-picking in warehouse operations. 107-122
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  Oliver Herr, Asvin Goel:
  Minimising total tardiness for a single machine scheduling problem with family setups and resource constraints. 123-135
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  Xiaojun Pan, Shoude Li:
  Dynamic optimal control of process-product innovation with learning by doing. 136-145
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  Chuan Shi, Stanley B. Gershwin:
  Part sojourn time distribution in a two-machine line. 146-158
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  Moutaz Khouja, Jingming Pan, Jing Zhou:
  Effects of gift cards on optimal order and discount of seasonal products. 159-173
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  Junguang Zhang, Xiwei Song, Estrella Díaz:
  Project buffer sizing of a critical chain based on comprehensive resource tightness. 174-182

Decision Support

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  Deepa Joshi, Sanjay Kumar:
  Interval-valued intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy Choquet integral based TOPSIS method for multi-criteria group decision making. 183-191
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  Fabian Lang, Andreas Fink, Tobias Brandt:
  Design of automated negotiation mechanisms for decentralized heterogeneous machine scheduling. 192-203
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  T. E. M. Atteya:
  Rough multiple objective programming. 204-210
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  Sándor Bozóki, László Csató, József Temesi:
  An application of incomplete pairwise comparison matrices for ranking top tennis players. 211-218
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  Stefan Mayer, Claudius Steinhardt:
  Optimal product line pricing in the presence of budget-constrained consumers. 219-233
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  James Cao, Kut C. So, Shuya Yin:
  Impact of an "online-to-store" channel on demand allocation, pricing and profitability. 234-245
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  Andrea Seidl, Edward H. Kaplan, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Stefan Wrzaczek, Gustav Feichtinger:
  Optimal control of a terror queue. 246-256

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Noël Bonneuil, Raouf Boucekkine:
  Optimal transition to renewable energy with threshold of irreversible pollution. 257-262
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  Biswajit Sarkar, Sharmila Saren:
  Product inspection policy for an imperfect production system with inspection errors and warranty cost. 263-271
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  Pablo A. Maya Duque, Irina S. Dolinskaya, Kenneth Sörensen:
  Network repair crew scheduling and routing for emergency relief distribution problem. 272-285
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  Kim A. Sommer, Victoria J. Mabin:
  Insights into the eldercare conundrum through complementary lenses of Boardman's SSM and TOC's Evaporating Cloud. 286-300
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  Emilios Galariotis, Alexis Guyot, Michael Doumpos, Constantin Zopounidis:
  A novel multi-attribute benchmarking approach for assessing the financial performance of local governments: Empirical evidence from France. 301-317
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  Andreas Schilling, Brigitte Werners:
  Optimal selection of IT security safeguards from an existing knowledge base. 318-327
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  Sanjay Jain, W. J. Foley:
  Dispatching strategies for managing uncertainties in automated manufacturing systems. 328-341

Short Communication

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  Sungmook Lim, Joe Zhu:
  A note on two-stage network DEA model: Frontier projection and duality. 342-346

Volume 248, Number 2, January 2016

Invited Review

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  Panos L. Lorentziadis:
  Optimal bidding in auctions from a game theory perspective. 347-371

Discrete Optimization

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  Duygu Tas, Michel Gendreau, Ola Jabali, Gilbert Laporte:
  The traveling salesman problem with time-dependent service times. 372-383
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  Anirudh Subramanyam, Chrysanthos E. Gounaris:
  A branch-and-cut framework for the consistent traveling salesman problem. 384-395
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  Kensuke Otsuki, Yusuke Kobayashi, Kazuo Murota:
  Improved max-flow min-cut algorithms in a Circular Disk Failure Model with application to a road network. 396-403
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  Viet Anh Nguyen, Jun Jiang, Kien Ming Ng, Kwong Meng Teo:
  Satisficing measure approach for vehicle routing problem with time windows under uncertainty. 404-414
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  Yasha Pushak, Warren L. Hare, Yves Lucet:
  Multiple-path selection for new highway alignments using discrete algorithms. 415-427

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Kris Braekers, Richard F. Hartl, Sophie N. Parragh, Fabien Tricoire:
  A bi-objective home care scheduling problem: Analyzing the trade-off between costs and client inconvenience. 428-443
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  Sasadhar Bera, Indrajit Mukherjee:
  A multistage and multiple response optimization approach for serial manufacturing system. 444-452
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  Bart Beemsterboer, Martin Land, Ruud H. Teunter:
  Hybrid MTO-MTS production planning: An explorative study. 453-461
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  Jordi Olivella, David Nembhard:
  Calibrating cross-training to meet demand mix variation and employee absence. 462-472
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  Stephen M. Disney, Arnold Maltz, Xun Wang, Roger D. H. Warburton:
  Inventory management for stochastic lead times with order crossovers. 473-486
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  Fábio Neves-Moreira, Pedro Amorim, Luís Guimarães, Bernardo Almada-Lobo:
  A long-haul freight transportation problem: Synchronizing resources to deliver requests passing through multiple transshipment locations. 487-506
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  Chunguang Bai, Dileep Dhavale, Joseph Sarkis:
  Complex investment decisions using rough set and fuzzy c-means: An example of investment in green supply chains. 507-521

Decision Support

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  José M. Merigó, Daniel Palacios Marqués, Shouzhen Zeng:
  Subjective and objective information in linguistic multi-criteria group decision making. 522-531
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  Eva Suárez, Arturo Calvo-Mora, José Luis Roldán:
  The role of strategic planning in excellence management systems. 532-542
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  Stefano Starita, Maria Paola Scaparra:
  Optimizing dynamic investment decisions for railway systems protection. 543-557
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  Sirish Kumar Gouda, Sreelata Jonnalagedda, Haritha Saranga:
  Design for the environment: Impact of regulatory policies on product development. 558-570
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  Jie Wu, Junfei Chu, Jiasen Sun, Qingyuan Zhu:
  DEA cross-efficiency evaluation based on Pareto improvement. 571-579
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  H. Sebastian Heese, Eda Kemahlioglu-Ziya:
  Don't ask, don't tell: Sharing revenues with a dishonest retailer. 580-592

Computational Intelligence and Information Management

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  Marco Caserta, Torsten Reiners:
  A pool-based pattern generation algorithm for logical analysis of data with automatic fine-tuning. 593-606

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Wen-Min Lu, John S. Liu, Qian Long Kweh, Chung-Wei Wang:
  Exploring the benchmarks of the Taiwanese investment trust corporations: Management and investment efficiency perspectives. 607-618
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  Vishal Ahuja, John R. Birge:
  Response-adaptive designs for clinical trials: Simultaneous learning from multiple patients. 619-633
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  Matthew J. Robbins, Brian J. Lunday:
  A bilevel formulation of the pediatric vaccine pricing problem. 634-645
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  Kenji Matsui:
  Asymmetric product distribution between symmetric manufacturers using dual-channel supply chains. 646-657
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  Snehamoy Chatterjee, Manas Ranjan Sethi, Mohammad Waqar Ali Asad:
  Production phase and ultimate pit limit design under commodity price uncertainty. 658-667
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  Stephen J. Maher, John M. Murray:
  The unrooted set covering connected subgraph problem differentiating between HIV envelope sequences. 668-680
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  Jungsik Hong, Hoonyoung Koo, Taegu Kim:
  Easy, reliable method for mid-term demand forecasting based on the Bass model: A hybrid approach of NLS and OLS. 681-690
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  Antonio Alonso-Ayuso, Laureano F. Escudero, Francisco Javier Martín-Campo:
  Multiobjective optimization for aircraft conflict resolution. A metaheuristic approach. 691-702
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  Christian Biener, Martin Eling, Jan Hendrik Wirfs:
  The determinants of efficiency and productivity in the Swiss insurance industry. 703-714

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl Pasurka:
  Technical change and pollution abatement costs. 715-724
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  Mette Asmild, Dorte Kronborg, Kent Matthews:
  Introducing and modeling inefficiency contributions. 725-730
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  Xiaofeng Dai:
  Non-parametric efficiency estimation using Richardson-Lucy blind deconvolution. 731-739

Volume 248, Number 3, February 2016

Feature Cluster: Sustainable Scheduling of Manufacturing and Transportation Systems

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  Rui Zhang, Raymond Chiong, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Pei-Chann Chang:
  Sustainable scheduling of manufacturing and transportation systems. 741-743
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  Christian Gahm, Florian Denz, Martin Dirr, Axel Tuma:
  Energy-efficient scheduling in manufacturing companies: A review and research framework. 744-757
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  Jianya Ding, Shiji Song, Cheng Wu:
  Carbon-efficient scheduling of flow shops by multi-objective optimization. 758-771
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  S. Afshin Mansouri, Emel Aktas, Umut Besikci:
  Green scheduling of a two-machine flowshop: Trade-off between makespan and energy consumption. 772-788
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  Timothy L. Urban, Wen-Chyuan Chiang:
  Designing energy-efficient serial production lines: The unpaced synchronous line-balancing problem. 789-801
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  Ward Passchyn, Dirk Briskorn, Frits C. R. Spieksma:
  Mathematical programming models for lock scheduling with an emission objective. 802-814
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  Baris Yildiz, Okan Arslan, Oya Ekin Karasan:
  A branch and price approach for routing and refueling station location model. 815-826
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  Julien Guépet, Olivier Briant, Jean-Philippe Gayon, Rodrigo Acuna-Agost:
  The aircraft ground routing problem: Analysis of industry punctuality indicators in a sustainable perspective. 827-839
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  Jiani Qian, Richard W. Eglese:
  Fuel emissions optimization in vehicle routing problems with time-varying speeds. 840-848
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  Nabil Absi, Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès, Safia Kedad-Sidhoum, Bernard Penz, Christophe Rapine:
  The single-item green lot-sizing problem with fixed carbon emissions. 849-855
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  Xiaoxi Zhu, Miaomiao Wang, Guofu Chen, Xiaoshan Chen:
  The effect of implementing trade-in strategy on duopoly competition. 856-868

General Section

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  Emanuele Borgonovo, Elmar Plischke:
  Sensitivity analysis: A review of recent advances. 869-887
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  Francisco D. Muñoz, Benjamin F. Hobbs, Jean-Paul Watson:
  New bounding and decomposition approaches for MILP investment problems: Multi-area transmission and generation planning under policy constraints. 888-898
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  Jian Guan, Geng Lin:
  Hybridizing variable neighborhood search with ant colony optimization for solving the single row facility layout problem. 899-909
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  Alf Kimms, Igor Kozeletskyi:
  Core-based cost allocation in the cooperative traveling salesman problem. 910-916
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  Masood Jabarnejad, Jorge Valenzuela:
  Optimal investment plan for dynamic thermal rating using benders decomposition. 917-929
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  Gang Li, Anantaram Balakrishnan:
  Models and algorithms for network reduction. 930-942
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  Giovanni M. Di Liberto, Serdar Kadioglu, Kevin Leo, Yuri Malitsky:
  DASH: Dynamic Approach for Switching Heuristics. 943-953
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  Chia-Yen Lee:
  Most productive scale size versus demand fulfillment: A solution to the capacity dilemma. 954-962
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  Aris A. Syntetos, Ruud H. Teunter, M. Zied Babai, Sandra Transchel:
  On the benefits of delayed ordering. 963-970
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  Sunil Chopra, Pei-Ju Wu:
  Eco-activities and operating performance in the computer and electronics industry. 971-981
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  Fouad El Ouardighi, Jeong Eun Sim, Bowon Kim:
  Pollution accumulation and abatement policy in a supply chain. 982-996
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  Srinivas R. Chakravarthy:
  Queueing models with optional cooperative services. 997-1008
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  Thierry Post:
  Standard Stochastic Dominance. 1009-1020
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  Ming-Chien Sung, David C. J. McDonald, Johnnie E. V. Johnson:
  Probabilistic forecasting with discrete choice models: Evaluating predictions with pseudo-coefficients of determination. 1021-1030
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  Lucio Barabesi, Andrea Cerasa, Domenico Perrotta, Andrea Cerioli:
  Modeling international trade data with the Tweedie distribution for anti-fraud and policy support. 1031-1043
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  Victor V. Podinovski, Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva:
  On single-stage DEA models with weight restrictions. 1044-1050
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  Lina Al-Ebbini, Asil Oztekin, Yao Chen:
  FLAS: Fuzzy lung allocation system for US-based transplantations. 1051-1065
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  Ruben Heradio, Hector Perez-Morago, Mauricio Alférez, David Fernández-Amorós, Germán H. Alférez:
  Augmenting measure sensitivity to detect essential, dispensable and highly incompatible features in mass customization. 1066-1077
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  Tri-Dung Nguyen, Lyn Thomas:
  Finding the nucleoli of large cooperative games. 1078-1092
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  Guoyin Jiang, Pandu R. Tadikamalla, Jennifer Shang, Ling Zhao:
  Impacts of knowledge on online brand success: an agent-based model for online market share enhancement. 1093-1103
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  Gustavo L. Gilardoni, Maria Luíza Guerra de Toledo, Marta A. Freitas, Enrico A. Colosimo:
  Dynamics of an optimal maintenance policy for imperfect repair models. 1104-1112
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  Salvador Pineda, Juan M. Morales, Trine Krogh Boomsma:
  Impact of forecast errors on expansion planning of power systems with a renewables target. 1113-1122
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  Luis Barba, Luis Evaristo Caraballo, José Miguel Díaz-Báñez, Ruy Fabila Monroy, Edel Pérez-Castillo:
  Asymmetric polygons with maximum area. 1123-1131
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  K. Sam Park, Pyoungsoo Lee:
  Compounding problem in an interactive multiple objective optimization method. 1132-1135