European Journal of Operational Research

1977 - 2026

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Volume 328, issue 2, 2026

Fifty years of research on resource-constrained project scheduling explored from different perspectives pp. 367-389

Christian Artigues, Sönke Hartmann and Mario Vanhoucke

A matheuristic approach for the robust coloured travelling salesman problem with multiple depots pp. 390-406

Abtin Nourmohammadzadeh and Stefan Voß

Scheduling mixed batch machines with inclusive processing set restrictions and non-identical capacities pp. 407-414

Jinwen Ou and Weidong Li

Stochastic quay partitioning problem pp. 415-429

Jakub Wawrzyniak, Maciej Drozdowski and Éric Sanlaville

Minimizing the maximum flow loss in the network maintenance scheduling problem with flexible arc outages pp. 430-445

Shuang Jin, Ying Liu, Jing Zhou and Qian Hu

A data-driven approach for strategic inventory placement in multi-echelon supply networks pp. 446-459

Josef Svoboda and Stefan Minner

Probabilistic forecast aggregation with statistical depth pp. 460-476

James W. Taylor

Optimal price, quantity, and return policy decisions of a two-period newsvendor with product reviews pp. 477-495

Huirong Fan, Moutaz Khouja and Jing Zhou

The development strategy of supply chain intelligent technology considering technology development uncertainty pp. 496-510

Peng Han, Yanfang Huo, Weihua Liu, Ershi Qi and Helen Cai

Price optimization for round trip car sharing pp. 511-529

Christine S.M. Currie, M’Hallah, Rym and Beatriz Brito Oliveira

Production trade-offs in free disposal hull technologies pp. 530-544

Mahmood Mehdiloo, Grammatoula Papaioannou and Victor V. Podinovski

Online quality endorsement to improve consumer trust: Blockchain or self-hosted livestream? pp. 545-559

Baozhuang Niu, Jian Dong, Xinhu Yu and Yulan Wang

Impact of technology spillovers and subsidies on innovation consortia dynamics pp. 560-573

Zheng Yang, Lin Li, Nicholas G. Hall, Yongzeng Lai and Yijiang Zhou

Decision space dynamic niching-based method for constrained multiobjective evolutionary optimization pp. 574-590

Fan Yu, Qun Chen and Jinlong Zhou

An explainable machine learning framework for recurrent event data analysis pp. 591-606

Qi Lyu and Shaomin Wu

Soft regression trees: A model variant and a decomposition training algorithm pp. 607-619

Antonio Consolo, Edoardo Amaldi and Andrea Manno

Optimizing treatment allocation in the presence of interference pp. 620-632

Daan Caljon, Jente Van Belle, Jeroen Berrevoets and Wouter Verbeke

The continuous roll-on roll-off dual cycling problem with tugs and driver-handled cargo units pp. 633-645

Teresa Marquardt, Arne Heinold, Catherine Cleophas and Frank Meisel

Project monitoring and control with an empirically grounded budget-release model pp. 646-667

Jie Song, Jinbo Song, Tyson Browning and Mario Vanhoucke

Using diet optimization and machine learning for the design of healthy and acceptable menu plans pp. 668-679

Dominique van Wonderen, Johanna C. Gerdessen, Alida Melse-Boonstra and Marleen C. Onwezen

Anticipating delays in recruitment: Explainable machine learning for the prediction of hard-to-fill online job vacancies pp. 680-693

Wouter Dossche, Sarah Vansteenkiste, Bart Baesens and Wilfried Lemahieu

Optimal dividend and scale of business strategies with reinsurance and premium pricing for insurance company pp. 694-703

Dingjun Yao, Bo Yang, Xin Xu, Youwei Li and Yizhi Wang

Sustainable product development under profit-sharing crowdfunding: an analytical approach to market structure and government policy pp. 704-724

Raziyeh Reza-Gharehbagh and Madeleine Pullman

Optimistic and pessimistic approaches for cooperative games pp. 725-733

Ata Atay and Christian Trudeau

Volume 328, issue 1, 2026

Cutting stock problem with usable leftovers: A review pp. 1-14

Victor Senergues, Nadjib Brahimi, Adriana Cristina Cherri, François Klein and Olivier Péton

A reduction approach for the parallel machine scheduling problem with a separate server for loading and unloading operations pp. 15-31

Abdelhak Elidrissi, Jatinder N.D. Gupta, Rachid Benmansour and Bertrand M.T. Lin

Nested logic-based Benders decomposition for an integrated home healthcare problem pp. 32-48

Abdalrahman Algendi, Sebastián Urrutia, Lars Magnus Hvattum and Rafael A. Melo

Flight test scheduling: A generic model, lower bounds, and iterated local search pp. 49-63

Hanqiao Tao, Guopeng Song, Roel Leus, Zhe Liang and Jiang Jiang

Green scheduling with time-of-use tariffs and machine states: Optimizing energy cost via branch-and-bound and bin packing strategies pp. 64-77

Ondřej Benedikt, István Módos, Antonin Novak and Zdeněk Hanzálek

The role of scarcity behavior in inventory management pp. 78-90

Sebastian Schiffels and Christian Jost

A split-embedded metaheuristic for the heterogeneous inventory routing problem with batch size pp. 91-104

Diego Perdigão Martino, Philippe Lacomme and Katyanne Farias

Towards blockchain-enabled circular closed-loop supply chain and impact of consumers’ distrust in price, product greenness sensitivity and carbon tax and subsidy pp. 105-121

Mohammad Akbarzadeh Sarabi, Ata Allah Taleizadeh and Arijit Bhattacharya

Data-driven joint optimization of maintenance and spare parts provisioning: A distributionally robust approach pp. 122-136

Heraldo Rozas, Weijun Xie, Nagi Gebraeel and Stephen Robinson

Robust multi-period blood inventory routing under multiple uncertainties pp. 137-161

Ling Qing, Yunqiang Yin, Joshua Ignatius and Dujuan Wang

Controlling antithetic variates pp. 162-173

Reiichiro Kawai

A primal–dual policy iteration algorithm for constrained Markov decision processes pp. 174-188

Zeyu Liu, Xueping Li and Anahita Khojandi

Planning Bayesian reliability demonstration tests via a generalized test statistic pp. 189-200

Zan Li, Jianyu Xu, Chengjie Wang and Xiao-Lin Wang

Design and pricing of extended warranty menus with reference effects pp. 201-215

Xiao-Lin Wang, Chenglong Li and Junjie Wang

Bayesian variable selection in Kriging metamodeling for quality design pp. 216-231

Baoping Tao, Zifei Han, Wen Shi, Min Wang and Linhan Ouyang

Designing and computing explanations for comparisons inferred from an additive value model pp. 232-245

Manuel Amoussou, Khaled Belahcene, Nicolas Maudet, Vincent Mousseau and Wassila Ouerdane

Nonconvex truncated conditional value at risk-based sparse linear regression pp. 246-257

Boyi Xie, Zhongming Wu and Min Li

On the price of diversity for multiwinner elections under (weakly) separable scoring rules pp. 258-268

Mostapha Diss, Clinton Gubong Gassi and Eric Kamwa

Multi-view Ensemble Feature Selection via SemiDefinite Programming pp. 269-281

Xiaojian Ding, Xin Wang and Pengcheng Shi

Diverse ensemble cost-sensitive logistic regression pp. 282-294

Bing Yang, Stefan Van Aelst and Tim Verdonck

Cost-sensitive single-index classification model pp. 295-308

Jorge C-Rella, Ricardo Cao and Juan M. Vilar

Mitigating adversarial attacks on transformer models in credit scoring pp. 309-323

Brandon Schwab and Johannes Kriebel

When cost metafrontiers are nonconvex in the outputs, then the production metafrontier is nonconvex: the price of a convexification strategy pp. 324-335

Kristiaan Kerstens, O’Donnell, Christopher, Ignace Van de Woestyne and Shirong Zhao

Choice-based crowdshipping for next-day delivery services: A dynamic task display problem pp. 336-348

Alp Arslan, Fırat Kılcı, Shih-Fen Cheng and Archan Misra

Dynamic mode decomposition for online portfolio selection task pp. 349-365

Jiahao Li, Yong Zhang and Xiaoteng Zheng

Volume 327, issue 3, 2025

Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures with Path Relinking. An analytical review of designs and implementations pp. 717-734

Manuel Laguna, Rafael Martí, Anna Martínez-Gavara, Sergio Pérez-Peló and Mauricio G.C. Resende

EATKG: An Open-Source Efficient Exact Algorithm for the Two-Dimensional Knapsack Problem with Guillotine Constraints pp. 735-753

Sunkanghong Wang, Roberto Baldacci, Qiang Liu and Lijun Wei

A new class of lower bounds for scheduling a batch processing machine to minimize makespan pp. 754-775

Ali Husseinzadeh Kashan and Onur Ozturk

The Dial-a-Ride Problem with Limited Pickups per Trip pp. 776-790

Boshuai Zhao, Kai Wang, Wenchao Wei and Roel Leus

A flexible mathematical model for Home Health Care Problems pp. 791-807

Miguel Reula, Consuelo Parreño-Torres, Carlos Lamas-Fernandez and Antonio Martinez-Sykora

Machine learning assisted Differential Evolution for the Dynamic Resource Constrained Multi-project Scheduling Problem with Static project Schedules pp. 808-819

T. van der Beek, J.T. van Essen, J. Pruyn and K. Aardal

A fast optimization approach for a complex real-life 3D Multiple Bin Size Bin Packing Problem pp. 820-837

Katrin Heßler, Timo Hintsch and Lukas Wienkamp

Robust parallel machine selection and scheduling with uncertain release times pp. 838-856

Linyuan Hu, Yuli Zhang, Muyang Wen, Roel Leus and Ningwei Zhang

The storage location assignment and picker routing problem: A generic branch-cut-and-price algorithm pp. 857-874

Thibault Prunet, Nabil Absi and Diego Cattaruzza

Staggered routing in autonomous mobility-on-demand systems pp. 875-891

Antonio Coppola, Gerhard Hiermann, Dario Paccagnan and Maximilian Schiffer

Joint model for longitudinal and spatio-temporal survival data pp. 892-904

Victor Medina-Olivares, Finn Lindgren, Raffaella Calabrese and Jonathan Crook

Worst-case values of target semi-variances with applications to robust portfolio selection pp. 905-921

Jun Cai, Zhanyi Jiao and Tiantian Mao

Maximum likelihood probability measures over sets: Existence, computation, and convergence pp. 922-936

Juan S. Borrero and Denis Sauré

Deck of Cards Method for Hierarchical, Robust and Stochastic Ordinal Regression pp. 937-956

Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco and Silvano Zappalà

Detecting two-dimensional projection-efficient units in data envelopment analysis under big data scenarios pp. 957-970

Shuqi Xu, Qingyuan Zhu, Zhiyang Shen, Michael Vardanyan and Yinghao Pan

When and should streamers choose high-quality products? Effects of streamer types pp. 971-985

Shengyan Cheng, Qiang Guo and Chris K Anderson

Alternative ranking in trust network group decision-making: A distributionally robust optimization method pp. 986-1002

Longlong Shao, Jinpei Liu, Chenyi Fu, Ning Zhu and Huayou Chen

Ordinal regression meets online learning: Interactive preference learning for multiple criteria choice and ranking with provable guarantees pp. 1003-1022

Marco Grillo, Wojciech Kotłowski and Miłosz Kadziński

An integrated model for predictive maintenance and inventory management under a reliability chance constraint pp. 1023-1038

Kuo-Hao Chang, Xin-Pei Wu and Robert Cuckler

Government’s optimal inter-temporal subsidy and manufacturer’s dynamic pricing in the presence of strategic consumers pp. 1039-1051

Weichun Chen, Benny Mantin and Bo Li

Optimal lot-sizing and service level weighting in sequential multi-attribute global transportation service procurement pp. 1052-1072

Xiang T.R. Kong, Zhan He, Kaize Yu and Pengyu Yan

Volume 327, issue 2, 2025

Fifty years of research in scheduling — Theory and applications pp. 367-393

Alessandro Agnetis, Jean-Charles Billaut, Michael Pinedo and Dvir Shabtay

Presolving and cutting planes for the generalized maximal covering location problem pp. 394-406

Wei Lv, Cheng-Yang Yu, Jie Liang, Wei-Kun Chen and Yu-Hong Dai

Using helical polyhedron for online irregular strip packing problem with free rotations pp. 407-419

Yulin Liu and Li Zheng

The generalized assignment problem with fixed processing times and uniform processing costs to minimize total cost pp. 420-431

Weidong Li and Jinwen Ou

Lagrangian relaxation and branch-and-price algorithm for resource assignment problem in divisional seru systems pp. 432-449

Shiming Chen, Chengkuan Zeng, Yu Zhang, Jiafu Tang and Chongjun Yan

An exact algorithm for fleet co-deployment and slot co-chartering in a sustainable shipping alliance under emissions trading system pp. 450-468

Yadong Wang, Shenghui Zhu and Çağatay Iris

Nested branch-and-price for multi-mode nanosatellite task scheduling with interior-point regularization and GPU acceleration pp. 469-490

Laio Oriel Seman, Cezar Antônio Rigo, Eduardo Camponogara and Pedro Munari

Fair and profitable even when serving different customer classes: How pricing and lead-time quotation can help pp. 491-499

Sinan Dede and Barış Balcıog̃lu

Singular control in a cash management model with ambiguity pp. 500-514

Arnon Archankul, Giorgio Ferrari, Tobias Hellmann and Jacco J.J. Thijssen

Index policies for campaign promotion strategies in reward-based crowdfunding pp. 515-539

Chenguang Wang, Dong Li and Baibing Li

A structured framework for supporting the participatory development of consensual scenario narratives pp. 540-558

Teemu Seeve, Eeva Vilkkumaa and Alec Morton

Scalarisation-based risk concepts for robust multi-objective optimisation pp. 559-576

Ben Tu, Nikolas Kantas, Robert M. Lee and Behrang Shafei

Robust binary and multinomial logit models for classification with data uncertainties pp. 577-591

Baichuan Mo, Yunhan Zheng, Xiaotong Guo, Ruoyun Ma and Jinhua Zhao

Identifying hidden critical elements in interconnected systems: An influence dynamics analysis approach considering structural constraints pp. 592-605

Caibo Zhou, Wenyan Song, Huiwen Wang and Lihong Wang

Deep reinforcement learning for the real-time inventory rack storage assignment and replenishment problem pp. 606-622

Sander Teck, Tú San Phạm, Louis-Martin Rousseau and Pieter Vansteenwegen

Modeling consumer stickiness in online platform pricing pp. 623-640

Nina Yan, Tingting Tong and Cai, Gangshu (George)

Effects of geopolitical strain on global pharmaceutical supply chain design and drug shortages pp. 641-654

Martha L. Sabogal De La Pava and Emily L. Tucker

A decision-making framework for supporting an equitable global vaccine distribution under humanitarian perspectives pp. 655-672

Jian Zhou, Junyang Cai, Athanasios A. Pantelous, Zhen Li and Musen Kingsley Li

Entrepreneurs’ optimal decisions in equity crowdfunding campaigns pp. 673-689

Hana Tzur and Ella Segev

Bankruptcy prediction with fractional polynomial transformation of financial ratios pp. 690-702

Zenon Taoushianis

The devil in the details: Dynamic Prediction of loan portfolio profitability with macroeconomic drivers through multi-state modelling pp. 703-715

Viani B. Djeundje, Jonathan Crook and Galina Andreeva

Volume 327, issue 1, 2025

Fifty years at the interface between financial modeling and operations research pp. 1-21

Frank J. Fabozzi, Maria Cristina Recchioni and Roberto Renò

An effective evolutionary algorithm for packing rectangles into a fixed size circular container pp. 22-41

Xiangjing Lai, Lei Wang, Jin-Kao Hao and Qinghua Wu

Formulations and branch-and-cut algorithms for cycle covers with up to p cycles pp. 42-57

Francisco Canas and Luís Gouveia

Solution-hashing search based on layout-graph transformation for unequal circle packing pp. 58-83

Jianrong Zhou, Jiyao He and Kun He

Iterated greedy for the yard crane scheduling problem with input/output assignment pp. 84-94

Hongtao Wang, Rubén Ruiz, Fulgencia Villa and Eva Vallada

A multi-stage approach for Root Sequence Index allocation pp. 95-114

Mariana A. Londe, Carlos E. Andrade and Luciana S. Pessoa

Robust optimization of a procurement and routing strategy for multiperiod multimodal transport in an uncertain environment pp. 115-135

Fang Guo, Jingfu Liang, Runliu Niu, Zhihong Huang and Qixuan Liu

Sourcing and supplying strategies under supply risk of critical components pp. 136-147

Jie Cui, Jingming Pan and Zhiyi Song

How live-streaming commerce interacts with two-period pricing when selling to strategic customers pp. 148-161

Pingping Chen, Lei Xie, Lu Dai and Zhuzhu Song

Guaranteed bounds for optimal stopping problems using kernel-based non-asymptotic uniform confidence bands pp. 162-173

Martin Glanzer, Sebastian Maier and Georg Ch. Pflug

Risk-averse contextual predictive maintenance and operations scheduling with flexible generation under wind energy uncertainty pp. 174-190

Natalie Randall and Beste Basciftci

Indiscriminate disruption of conditional inference on multivariate Gaussians pp. 191-202

William N. Caballero, Matthew LaRosa, Alexander A. Fisher and Vahid Tarokh

Moral hazard in data envelopment analysis benchmarking pp. 203-217

Xiangyang Tao and Qiaoyu Peng

Condition-based production: Maximizing manufacturing revenue considering failure risk and reject rates pp. 218-231

Xiaolei Lv, Liangxing Shi, Yingdong He and Zhen He

Optimal insurance design with Lambda-Value-at-Risk pp. 232-246

Tim J. Boonen, Yuyu Chen, Xia Han and Qiuqi Wang

A novel centralized cross-efficiency evaluation via explainable artificial intelligence in the context of big data pp. 247-262

Min Yang, Zixuan Wang and Liang Liang

Electric vehicle fleet charging management: An approximate dynamic programming policy pp. 263-279

Ehsan Mahyari and Nickolas Freeman

Rescue network design considering uncertainty and deprivation cost in urban waterlogging disaster relief pp. 280-294

Shaolong Hu, Qing-Mi Hu, Zhaoyang Lu and Lingxiao Wu

Optimizing the Finnish colorectal cancer population screening program with decision programming pp. 295-308

Lauri Neuvonen, Mary Dillon, Eeva Vilkkumaa, Ahti Salo, Maija Jäntti and Sirpa Heinävaara

Deep reinforcement learning for solving the stochastic e-waste collection problem pp. 309-325

Dang Viet Anh Nguyen, Aldy Gunawan, Mustafa Misir, Lim Kwan Hui and Pieter Vansteenwegen

Physician scheduling in case managers style emergency departments: machine learning-aided solution approaches pp. 326-339

Ran Liu, Bo Zhou, Shiming Wang and Huiyin Ouyang

Strategic capacity investment with common ownership pp. 340-351

Domenico De Giovanni, Richard Ruble and Dimitrios Zormpas

A reverse Stackelberg model for demand response in local energy markets pp. 352-366

Juan Sepúlveda, Luce Brotcorne and Hélène Le Cadre