European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 206

Volume 206, Number 1, October 2010

Invited Review

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  Stephan Meisel, Dirk C. Mattfeld:
  Synergies of Operations Research and Data Mining. 1-10

Continuous Optimization

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  Rainer E. Burkard, Mohammadreza Galavii, Elisabeth Gassner:
  The inverse Fermat-Weber problem. 11-17
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  Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, Gerardo A. Pérez-Valdés, Asgeir Tomasgard, Nataliya I. Kalashnykova:
  Natural gas cash-out problem: Bilevel stochastic optimization approach. 18-33
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  Chungen Shen, Wenjuan Xue, Xiongda Chen:
  Global convergence of a robust filter SQP algorithm. 34-45

Discrete Optimization

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  Edmund K. Burke, A. J. Eckersley, Barry McCollum, Sanja Petrovic, Rong Qu:
  Hybrid variable neighbourhood approaches to university exam timetabling. 46-53
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  Artur Alves Pessoa, Peter M. Hahn, Monique Guignard, Yi-Rong Zhu:
  Algorithms for the generalized quadratic assignment problem combining Lagrangean decomposition and the Reformulation-Linearization Technique. 54-63
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  Chuyang Wang, Xiaoping Li, Qian Wang:
  Accelerated tabu search for no-wait flowshop scheduling problem with maximum lateness criterion. 64-72

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Jonathan F. Bard, Ahmad I. Jarrah, Jing Zan:
  Validating vehicle routing zone construction using Monte Carlo simulation. 73-85
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  Chunming Victor Shi, Xuan Zhao, Yu Xia:
  The setting of profit targets for target oriented divisions. 86-92
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  Luc Muyldermans, Gu Pang:
  On the benefits of co-collection: Experiments with a multi-compartment vehicle routing algorithm. 93-103

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Ulrich Faigle, Michel Grabisch, M. Heyne:
  Monge extensions of cooperation and communication structures. 104-110
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  Ji Hwan Cha, Maxim Finkelstein:
  Burn-in by environmental shocks for two ordered subpopulations. 111-117
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  Hyunmin Park, Tae-Sung Kim, Kyung C. Chae:
  Analysis of a two-phase queueing system with a fixed-size batch policy. 118-122

Decision Support

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  Kyoko Yagi, Katsushige Sawaki:
  The pricing and optimal strategies of callable warrants. 123-130
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  Yanjun Qian, Min Xie, Thong Ngee Goh, Jun Lin:
  Optimal testing strategies in overlapped design process. 131-143
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  Dmitry Krass, Anton Ovchinnikov:
  Constrained group balancing: Why does it work. 144-154

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Broos Maenhout, Mario Vanhoucke:
  A hybrid scatter search heuristic for personalized crew rostering in the airline industry. 155-167
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  Dong-Guen Kim, Yeong-Dae Kim:
  A branch and bound algorithm for determining locations of long-term care facilities. 168-177
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  Xiaojun Shi, Shunming Zhang:
  An incentive-compatible solution for trade credit term incorporating default risk. 178-196
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  Juan-Carlos Ferrer, Hugo Mora, Francisco Olivares:
  On pricing of multiple bundles of products and services. 197-208
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  P. N. Kodikara, B. J. C. Perera, M. D. U. P. Kularathna:
  Stakeholder preference elicitation and modelling in multi-criteria decision analysis - A case study on urban water supply. 209-220
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  Yuanjie He, Jiang Zhang:
  Random yield supply chain with a yield dependent secondary market. 221-230

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Rajiv D. Banker, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, Ram Natarajan:
  DEA-based hypothesis tests for comparing two groups of decision making units. 231-238
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  Harald Hruschka:
  Considering endogeneity for optimal catalog allocation in direct marketing. 239-247
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  Stefan Schneider, Pasha Shabalin, Martin Bichler:
  On the robustness of non-linear personalized price combinatorial auctions. 248-259

Short Communications

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  Cornelia Schön:
  On the product line selection problem under attraction choice models of consumer behavior. 260-264
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  Ali Emrouznejad, Gholam R. Amin, Emmanuel Thanassoulis, Abdel Latef Anouze:
  On the boundedness of the SORM DEA models with negative data. 265-268
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  Jens J. Krüger:
  Comment on "A new clustering approach using data envelopment analysis". 269-270

Volume 206, Number 2, October 2010

Invited Review

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  Cristina Bazgan, Zsolt Tuza, Daniel Vanderpooten:
  Satisfactory graph partition, variants, and generalizations. 271-280

Discrete Optimization

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  Ali Khanafer, François Clautiaux, El-Ghazali Talbi:
  New lower bounds for bin packing problems with conflicts. 281-288
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  Aleksandar Ilic, Dragan Urosevic, Jack Brimberg, Nenad Mladenovic:
  A general variable neighborhood search for solving the uncapacitated single allocation p-hub median problem. 289-300
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  Yaron Leyvand, Dvir Shabtay, George Steiner:
  A unified approach for scheduling with convex resource consumption functions using positional penalties. 301-312

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Amanda J. Schmitt, Lawrence V. Snyder, Zuo-Jun Max Shen:
  Inventory systems with stochastic demand and supply: Properties and approximations. 313-328
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  Fouad El Ouardighi, Bowon Kim:
  Supply quality management with wholesale price and revenue-sharing contracts under horizontal competition. 329-340
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  Gabriel Gutiérrez-Jarpa, Guy Desaulniers, Gilbert Laporte, Vladimir Marianov:
  A branch-and-price algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Deliveries, Selective Pickups and Time Windows. 341-349
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  Guoqing Zhang:
  The multi-product newsboy problem with supplier quantity discounts and a budget constraint. 350-360
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  Yugang Yu, George Q. Huang:
  Nash game model for optimizing market strategies, configuration of platform products in a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) supply chain for a product family. 361-373
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  He Xu, Ning Shi, Shi-hua Ma, Kin Keung Lai:
  Contracting with an urgent supplier under cost information asymmetry. 374-383

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Philip A. Scarf, Cristiano A. V. Cavalcante:
  Hybrid block replacement and inspection policies for a multi-component system with heterogeneous component lives. 384-394
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  Svyatoslav Trukhanov, Lewis Ntaimo, Andrew Schaefer:
  Adaptive multicut aggregation for two-stage stochastic linear programs with recourse. 395-406
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  Zydrunas Vagnorius, Marvin Rausand, Knut Sørby:
  Determining optimal replacement time for metal cutting tools. 407-416

Decision Support

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  John W. Fowler, Esma Senturk Gel, Murat Köksalan, Pekka J. Korhonen, Jon L. Marquis, Jyrki Wallenius:
  Interactive evolutionary multi-objective optimization for quasi-concave preference functions. 417-425
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  Kaisa Miettinen, Petri Eskelinen, Francisco Ruiz, Mariano Luque:
  NAUTILUS method: An interactive technique in multiobjective optimization based on the nadir point. 426-434
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  Géraldine Bous, Philippe Fortemps, François Glineur, Marc Pirlot:
  ACUTA: A novel method for eliciting additive value functions on the basis of holistic preference statements. 435-444

Computational Intelligence and Information Management

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  Pawan Lingras, Cory J. Butz:
  Rough support vector regression. 445-455
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  Panayotis G. Michaelides, Angelos T. Vouldis, Efthymios G. Tsionas:
  Globally flexible functional forms: The neural distance function. 456-469
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  Michelle Dunbar, John M. Murray, Lucette A. Cysique, Bruce J. Brew, Vaithilingam Jeyakumar:
  Simultaneous classification and feature selection via convex quadratic programming with application to HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder assessment. 470-478

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Sergey Samoilenko, Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson:
  Determining sources of relative inefficiency in heterogeneous samples: Methodology using Cluster Analysis, DEA and Neural Networks. 479-487
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  Frederic H. Murphy, Fernando S. Oliveira:
  Developing a market-based approach to managing the US strategic petroleum reserve. 488-495
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  Gadi Fibich, Arieh Gavious:
  Asymptotic revenue equivalence of asymmetric auctions with interdependent values. 496-507

Volume 206, Number 3, November 2010

Invited Review

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  Grammatoula Papaioannou, John M. Wilson:
  The evolution of cell formation problem methodologies based on recent studies (1997-2008): Review and directions for future research. 509-521

Discrete Optimization

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  Aleksandar Savic, Jozef Kratica, Marija Milanovic, Djordje Dugosija:
  A mixed integer linear programming formulation of the maximum betweenness problem. 522-527
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  Alper Ünler, Alper Ekrem Murat:
  A discrete particle swarm optimization method for feature selection in binary classification problems. 528-539
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  Baruch Mor, Gur Mosheiov:
  Scheduling problems with two competing agents to minimize minmax and minsum earliness measures. 540-546
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  Refael Hassin, Einat Or:
  Min sum clustering with penalties. 547-554
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  Shouwei Guo, Liying Kang:
  Online scheduling of malleable parallel jobs with setup times on two identical machines. 555-561
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  Sávio B. Rodrigues, Denise Sato Yamashita:
  An exact algorithm for minimizing resource availability costs in project scheduling. 562-568
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  Jiancheng Long, Ziyou Gao, Haozhi Zhang, Wai Yuen Szeto:
  A turning restriction design problem in urban road networks. 569-578
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  Uli Golle, Nils Boysen, Franz Rothlauf:
  Analysis and design of sequencing rules for car sequencing. 579-585

Decision Support

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  Catherine Bobtcheff, Stéphane Villeneuve:
  Technology choice under several uncertainty sources. 586-600
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  Chao Fu, Shanlin Yang:
  The group consensus based evidential reasoning approach for multiple attributive group decision analysis. 601-608
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  Alois Geyer, Michael Hanke, Alex Weissensteiner:
  No-arbitrage conditions, scenario trees, and multi-asset financial optimization. 609-613

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  David Hartvigsen:
  Optimal electronic musical instruments. 614-622
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  Inna G. Drobouchevitch, H. Neil Geismar, Chelliah Sriskandarajah:
  Throughput optimization in robotic cells with input and output machine buffers: A comparative study of two key models. 623-633
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  Claude Lemaréchal, Adam Ouorou, Georgios Petrou:
  Robust network design in telecommunications under polytope demand uncertainty. 634-641
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  Daiki Min, Yuehwern Yih:
  Scheduling elective surgery under uncertainty and downstream capacity constraints. 642-652
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  Juan Camilo Zapata, Gintaras V. Reklaitis:
  Valuation of project portfolios: An endogenously discounted method. 653-666
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  Dmitry Ryvkin:
  The selection efficiency of tournaments. 667-675

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Tapio Pahikkala, Willem Waegeman, Evgeni Tsivtsivadze, Tapio Salakoski, Bernard De Baets:
  Learning intransitive reciprocal relations with kernel methods. 676-685
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  Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Dimitris Margaritis:
  Time substitution with application to data envelopment analysis. 686-690
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  Christian Schlereth, Tanja Stepanchuk, Bernd Skiera:
  Optimization and analysis of the profitability of tariff structures with two-part tariffs. 691-701

Short Communications

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  Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf:
  Directional distance functions and slacks-based measures of efficiency: Some clarifications. 702
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  Xiaofeng Hu, Erfei Wu, Jinsong Bao, Jin Ye:
  A branch-and-bound algorithm to minimize the line length of a two-sided assembly line. 703-707