Annals of Operations Research

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Volume 363, month 8, 2026

Advances in statistical modelling for social science: part 1—measuring and structuring social complexity pp. 1-7

Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Susanna Levantesi and Andrea Nigri

Social sustainability in Italy: a model-based hierarchical composite indicator pp. 9-34

Giorgia Zaccaria and Cinzia Di Nuzzo

Sensitivity-based weighting method for composite indicators pp. 35-67

Viet Duong Nguyen and Chiara Gigliarano

Unveiling multidimensional poverty across Italian Provinces using small area estimation and penalized power means pp. 69-86

Gloria Polinesi, Mariateresa Ciommi, Francesca Mariani and Chiara Gigliarano

Estimating and predicting the human development index with uncertain data: a common weight fuzzy benefit-of-the-doubt machine learning approach pp. 87-125

Hashem Omrani, Zijiang Yang and Raha Imanirad

Forecasting human development with an improved Theta method based on forecast combination pp. 127-146

Raffaele Mattera, Germana Scepi and Parmjit Kaur

A fuzzy posetic toolbox for multi-criteria evaluation on ordinal data systems pp. 147-173

Marco Fattore, Lucio De Capitani, Alessandro Avellone and Andrea Suardi

A new q-AHPSort II to classify STEM master’s degree programme pp. 175-196

Gerarda Fattoruso, Paola Mancini, Gabriella Marcarelli and Massimo Squillante

OWA-based multi-criteria decision making based on fuzzy methods pp. 197-231

Pierpaolo D’Urso, Jalal Chachi, Ahmad Kazemifard and Livia De Giovanni

Parsimonious parametrizations of transition matrices of Markov chain and hidden Markov models pp. 233-266

Francesco Bartolucci, Silvia Pandolfi and Fulvia Pennoni

Hierarchical mixtures of Unigram models for short text clustering: the role of Beta-Liouville priors pp. 267-301

Massimo Bilancia and Samuele Magro

Fuzzy Reduced $$\mathbf {\textit{K}}$$ -Means for analyzing high-dimensional social phenomena pp. 303-327

Mariaelena Bottazzi Schenone and Maurizio Vichi

Fuzzy clustering with $$\hbox {L}_0$$ L 0 regularization pp. 329-352

Maria Brigida Ferraro, Marco Forti and Paolo Giordani

Cub model-based clustering of Likert-type data with a tourist satisfaction application pp. 353-368

Nicolò Biasetton, Pierpaolo D’Urso, Marta Disegna and Luigi Salmaso

An innovative approach to co-clustering of directional data: a methodological framework with an application on interregional mobility in the Italian national health care system pp. 369-383

Alessia D’Ambrosio, Giuseppe Gismondi, Marco Cardillo, Giuseppe Pandolfo and Antonio D’Ambrosio

Optimal multivariate mixture: a genetic algorithm approach pp. 385-406

Giacinto Angelo Sgarro, Luca Grilli and Domenico Santoro

Predicting depression in Italy using random forest through the E2Tree methodology pp. 407-424

Massimo Aria, Agostino Gnasso, Rebecca Rivieccio and Roberta Siciliano

Employees’ well-being, work-related factors, and digitalization: a decision-tree approach for imbalanced data pp. 425-453

Fabio Demaria and Maddalena Cavicchioli

A novel explainable artificial intelligence framework using knockoffs techniques with applications to sports analytics pp. 455-476

Tingting Zhao, Jeffrey Cabral and Guangyu Zhu

Which interactions make you unique? pp. 477-493

Giovanni Rabitti

Nonlinear forecasting with many predictors using mixed data sampling kernel ridge regression models pp. 495-514

Deliang Dai, Farrukh Javed, Peter Karlsson and Kristofer Månsson

A feature selection algorithm optimizing fitting and predictive performance of logistic regression: a case study on financial literacy and pension planning pp. 515-545

Rosaria Simone and Mariarosaria Coppola

Bayesian multilevel bivariate spatial modelling of Italian school data pp. 547-571

Leonardo Cefalo, Alessio Pollice and Virgilio Gómez - Rubio

Hierarchical spatial network models for road accident risk assessment pp. 573-608

Gian Paolo Clemente, Francesco Della Corte and Diego Zappa

Innovation and digitalisation in European regions: addressing spatial issues through GWR-SAR approach pp. 609-636

Emma Bruno, Rosalia Castellano, Gennaro Punzo and Luca Salvati

A local regression approach to studying single-person households and social isolation in the main Spanish cities: a new pathway of socio-spatial polarization? pp. 637-658

Federico Benassi and Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual

Betting against mono-centrism? The impact of economic crisis on city vertical profiles in metropolitan Athens, Greece pp. 659-684

Emma Bruno, Rosalia Castellano, Gennaro Punzo and Luca Salvati

An operational classification of rural and urban areas based on Zipf’s Law pp. 685-703

Luca Salvati, Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo and Alessandro Muolo

Italian investments for soil defence: retrieving and visualizing data by the PublicWorksFinanceIT R Package pp. 705-732

Lorena Ricciotti and Alessio Pollice

A divide-and-conquer approach for spatio-temporal analysis of large house price data from Greater London pp. 733-774

Kapil Gupta and Soudeep Deb

Understanding the dynamics of the global FDI architecture: a network analysis pp. 775-800

Alessandro Spelta, Nicolò Pecora, Hung-Ju Chen and Bihong Huang

Exploring Collaborative Dynamics among Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology: An ERGM Approach pp. 801-829

Sara Preti, Enrico di Bella and Luca Gandullia

An empirical analysis of multi-actor knowledge sharing on knowledge creation: the moderating mediation of platform empowerment pp. 831-852

Jia-Lu Shi, Guo-Hong Chen, Andrea Appolloni and Kai-Rong Liang

Dynamics of online debates: insights from textual network analysis pp. 853-873

Nicola Pronello, Alex Cucco, Emiliano del Gobbo, Sara Fontanella and Lara Fontanella

A network-based matching design for text mining of controversial online reviews pp. 875-894

Giulio Giacomo Cantone and Venera Tomaselli

Detecting fake news on social networks via linguistic features and information-seeking patterns during the Covid-19 period pp. 895-918

Petr Hajek, Jean-Michel Sahut, Michal Munk and Dasa Munkova

Determining well-being during a crisis based on Twitter data pp. 919-956

Xiao Wang, Bram Janssens, Matthias Bogaert, Liesel Vanderbauwhede and Lisa Schetgen

Promoting sustainability goals: innovation trajectories of Fintech through patent analysis pp. 957-993

Giovanna Ferraro, Antonio Iovanella, Alessandro Ramponi and Giulia Rotundo

The statistical mechanics of innovation diffusion pp. 995-1016

Giacomo Masali, Maria Elena Bruni and Guido Perboli

Volume 362, month 7, 2026

A coupled task scheduling approximation algorithm for minimizing the sum of completion times pp. 1-26

József Békési, György Dósa and Gábor Galambos

Hysteresis strategy for a M/M/1 retrial queue with a changeable service rate pp. 27-43

M. Bratiichuk

Reputation in Contests pp. 45-68

Chen Cohen, Ishay Rabi and Aner Sela

Masked macroeconomic nowcasting pp. 69-82

Ard H. J. den Reijer

Generalized binomial models for analytics and decision-making: capturing feedback dependencies pp. 83-104

Zvi Drezner and Dawit Zerom

Sustainable circular supplier selection: an integrated ESG-CE approach pp. 105-148

Rabiya Faheem, Devika Kannan, Rubina Mittal, Akansha Jain, Shiwani Sharma, P. C. Jha and Chunguang Bai

The optimal asset allocation of national insurance funds pp. 149-177

Natalia Gitelson and Eran Manes

Connectedness spillover matrices: a tool for diversification pp. 179-195

Daniel González Cortés, Monomita Nandy and Suman Lodh

A p-median based approach to constrained clustering pp. 197-218

Zhifeng Guo, Jesse R. O’Hanley, Stuart Gibson and Maria Paola Scaparra

Interval extensions of the Owen value in a cooperative game with a coalition structure and augmenting system pp. 219-246

Jing Liu, Xiaohui Yu and Shiyan Lu

Beyond the Felsenthal index: a new power measure incorporating a priori unions pp. 247-270

A. Mascareñas-Pazos, S. Lorenzo-Freire and J. M. Alonso-Meijide

Scenario tree reduction via Wasserstein barycenters pp. 271-291

Daniel Mimouni, Paul Malisani, Jiamin Zhu and Welington de Oliveira

Co-investment under revenue uncertainty based on stochastic coalitional game theory pp. 293-355

Amal Sakr, Andrea Araldo, Tijani Chahed and Daniel Kofman

A covering tour-based inventory routing framework for humanitarian logistics pp. 357-397

H. Cansın Uzgören Kazanç, Mehmet Soysal, Zehra B. Kanık and Leandro C. Coelho

A coalitional extension of the ordinal Shapley-Shubik value pp. 399-416

Alfredo Valencia-Toledo and Juan Vidal-Puga

Pricing strategy in livestream selling with the presence of myopic and strategic consumers pp. 417-455

Wenting Yang, Jiantong Zhang, Devika Kannan, Dan Li and Song Xu

Enhancing efficiency and workflow in oncology outpatient services through simulation-based optimization pp. 457-482

Chenhao Zhou, Xin Ding, Weiwei Chen, Lei Lei, Jacqueline Norrell, Alison Tray and Andrew M. Evens

Characterizing implementability via weak monotonicity on unit demand valuation domains pp. 483-492

Satish Agarwal and Souvik Roy

Optimizing accuracy and diversity: a multi-task approach to forecast combinations pp. 493-520

Giovanni Felici and Antonio M. Sudoso

A heterogeneous ensemble learning framework for detecting acute viral respiratory infections via multisource data fusion pp. 521-551

Zhenkun Liu, Koen W. De Bock, Lifang Zhang, Jianzhou Wang and Liang Liang

Correction: A Shapley value for games with expanded coalitions pp. 553-553

M. J. Albizuri, M. Cerny and J. M. Zarzuelo

Correction: A purely buffer-based approach to the proactive and reactive resource-constrained project scheduling problem pp. 555-555

Yanfei Chen, Erik Demeulemeester and Jannik Matuschke

Correction: SGCN: a robust subsampling-based GCN for large-scale network with out-of-distribution nodes pp. 557-558

Yingqiu Zhu, Jialin Li, Lei Qin, Jing Yang and Mingchih Chen

Correction: Adaptive lexicographical optimization with vague goals in green fuzzy flexible job shop scheduling pp. 559-559

Pablo García Gómez, Juan José Palacios, Camino R. Vela and Inés González-Rodríguez