European Journal of Operational Research

1977 - 2026

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Volume 334, issue 3, 2026

Recent developments in location-routing problems pp. 705-719

Rossana Cavagnini, Alberto Santini, Michael Schneider and Murwan Siddig

The Nesterov–Spokoiny acceleration achieves strict o(1/k2) convergence pp. 720-734

Weibin Peng, Yu Liu and Tianyu Wang

Primal-dual algorithm for weakly convex functions under sharpness conditions pp. 735-750

Ewa M. Bednarczuk, Monika Syga and The Hung Tran

A novel support vector machine with hillside loss and margin distribution pp. 751-763

Yiju Wang, Jiakang Du and Yuanhai Shao

The minimization of the weighted completion time variance in a single machine: A specialized cutting-plane approach pp. 764-780

Stefano Nasini and Rabia Nessah

Finding conflict-free minimum weight spanning trees using maximal stable sets of the conflict graph pp. 781-797

Murat Umut İzer, Temel Öncan and İ. Kuban Altınel

Graph convolutional branch and bound pp. 798-809

Lorenzo Sciandra, Roberto Esposito, Andrea Grosso, Laura Sacerdote and Cristina Zucca

Purchase or accept sharing? Incentivising-sharing-enabled placement strategy on a reusable transport item rental platform pp. 810-826

Min Guo, Hing Kai Chan, Ou Tang, Xiang T.R. Kong and Dimple R. Thadani

Devaluation and awareness enhancement: The dual roles of live streaming and their impacts on return shipping insurance choice pp. 827-857

Xingfen Liu, Huaqing Hu, T.C.E. Cheng, Zhongbao Zhou and Samuel Shuai Liu

Modeling and planning a novel logistic transport system: Several drone pickups for each delivery pp. 858-881

Javier Gómez-Lagos, Benjamín Rojas-Espinoza and Alfredo Candia-Véjar

Multi-period, multi-blockchain optimization for risk-aware and sustainable supply chain networks pp. 882-894

Jose M. Cruz

The trade-off between optimism and pessimism in multi-resource planning and allocation under demand uncertainty pp. 895-909

Karmel S. Shehadeh

Data-driven distributionally robust newsvendor models with censored demand pp. 910-923

Junfei Lei and Michael R. Wagner

Robust portfolio game under relative performance and state-dependent confidence sets pp. 924-941

Guohui Guan, Yuting Jia and Zongxia Liang

Reinforcement learning for multi-objective multi-echelon supply chain optimisation pp. 942-962

Rifny Rachman, Josh Tingey, Richard Allmendinger, Pradyumn Shukla and Wei Pan

Which method prevails? Benchmarking missing data techniques in data envelopment analysis pp. 963-979

Peng Hu and Derek D. Wang

Expansion strategies of retail service sharing platform operations with service quality considerations pp. 980-994

Tania Saha, Sumanta Basu, Balram Avittathur and Tsan-Ming Choi

An exact method for storage space assignment at airport cargo terminal: A temporal-spatial packing problem pp. 995-1009

Mengxue Yuan, Chenhao Zhou, Nuno Antunes Ribeiro, Xiaorong Ren, Li Xue and Yue Teng

Sorting goods with an industrial robot arm: Robot scheduling, destination assignment, and layout design pp. 1010-1024

Rubo Li, Nils Boysen and Konrad Stephan

Optimizing hospital sterilization operations: A column generation approach for parallel batch scheduling with job families pp. 1025-1040

Robin Schlembach, Sebastian Schiffels and Jens O. Brunner

A branch-and-price algorithm for scheduling parallel continuous steel annealing lines pp. 1041-1052

Lars Jäger and Sebastian Wegel

Volume 334, issue 2, 2026

Optimization in offshore wind farms – a survey of problems, models, and solution approaches pp. 351-376

Vibeke Hvidegaard Petersen, David Pisinger and Magnus Stålhane

Don’t let your breaks go to waste: The waste-performance-tradeoff-problem pp. 377-391

Lennart Zey and Dirk Briskorn

Yet another distributional Bellman equation pp. 392-403

Nicole Bäuerle, Tamara Göll and Anna Jaśkiewicz

Rejectable advance scheduling: A dimensionality reduction approach pp. 404-419

Yunting Shi, Shenghai Zhou and Xiaojuan Jiang

A unified robust stochastic programming approach for integrated production and distribution scheduling problem for seru production system under uncertainty pp. 420-437

Beren Gürsoy Yılmaz, Ömer Faruk Yılmaz, Elif Akçalı and Emre Çevikcan

A non-parametric dynamic degradation-based inspection and replacement model for single-unit continuously deteriorating systems pp. 438-452

Quang Khai Tran, Khac Tuan Huynh, Antoine Grall and Yves Langeron

An efficient algorithm for vertical free-flight optimization in air transportation pp. 453-465

Ralf Borndörfer, Van Hoan Do and Nam Dũng Hoang

Collaboration strategies for technology investment in agricultural supply chains: The value of platform financing pp. 466-480

Changhua Liao, Qihui Lu, Victor Shi and Yuxuan Liu

Optimal financing and commission policies for e-commerce platforms with vendor external alternatives pp. 481-495

Jiansheng Dai, Saisai Guo and Silu Cheng

Strengthening dual bounds for multicommodity capacitated network design with unsplittable flow constraints pp. 496-508

Lacy M. Greening, Santanu S. Dey and Alan L. Erera

Strategic inventory and supplier development investment under downstream competition pp. 509-527

Shuangyu Xu, Junfeng Tian and Wei Li

Simulation-optimization approaches for the network immunization problem with quarantining pp. 528-546

Rowan Hoogervorst, Evelien van der Hurk and David Pisinger

Modeling consumer ratings: The trade-off between quality and consumer preference pp. 547-561

Stephen L. France, Sanjoy Ghose and Soyab Karki

Addressing rank reversal in subgroup dominance benefit of the doubt model: A case study of the human development index pp. 562-574

Chonghui Zhang, Sibo Chen, Weihua Su, Tomas Balezentis and Lev Benjamin

All-integer global optimization for high-dimensional sparse regression, with applications in financial and genomic data pp. 575-589

Yuji Nakagawa, Yoshiko Hanada, Yoichi Takenaka, Kazunori Iwata and Chanaka Edirisinghe

Integrating dynamic revenue management with project management pp. 590-603

Hossein Jahandideh, Behnam Fahimnia and Dilina Kosgoda

Procurement scheduling for Assemble-to-Order systems pp. 604-620

Huiyuan Pang, Lu Zhen, Shuaian Wang and Gilbert Laporte

Zeroth-order feedback-based optimization for distributed energy management1 pp. 621-636

Ruiyang Jin, Yujie Tang and Jie Song

An alternative perspective on the classical solution to an optimal stopping problem with a spectrally negative Lévy process pp. 637-642

Laura Delaney and Jacco J.J. Thijssen

Feature-driven robust stochastic scheduling for printed circuit board assembly pp. 643-660

Debiao Li, Ran Ding, Feng Liu, Ruiqi Wang and Yuanguang Zhong

The conditional higher moment risk measure for extreme risks pp. 661-675

Qihe Tang, Li Xun and Rui Zhou

O(1/T) time-average convergence in a generalization of network zero-sum games via alternating gradient descent pp. 676-687

James P. Bailey

Conformity: Resolving the trade-off between performance and standardization in multi-unit organizations pp. 688-703

Ravshanbek Khodzhimatov, Stephan Leitner and Friederike Wall

Volume 334, issue 1, 2026

Inventory-routing problems: Review, challenges, and innovations pp. 1-22

Aybüke Ekşi, Milad Elyasi, Stefan Minner, Tom Van Woensel, Okan Örsan Özener and Ali Ekici

Heuristic algorithms based on multi-stage or adaptive strategies for a distributed heterogeneous permutation flowshop scheduling problem with release time pp. 23-39

Qi Cheng, Xue-Lei Jing, Quan-Ke Pan and Bao-Xian Jia

A generalized set partitioning model for MinMax vehicle routing pp. 40-50

Jens Lysgaard and Sune Lauth Gadegaard

Extending the reflect flow formulation to variable-sized one-dimensional cutting and skiving stock problems pp. 51-69

Maxence Delorme and John Martinovic

The impact and design of slider-based offer mechanisms in mobile commerce pp. 70-84

John G Wilson and Chris K Anderson

Data-driven electric vehicle fleet sizing for airport baggage transport via a two-stage shareability network pp. 85-95

Xuanyu Zhang, Yuying Long and Gangyan Xu

Learning-based fast alternating direction method of multipliers for multi-agent path finding using temporary variable-fixing pp. 96-110

Xiangchao Cheng, Jianbin Xin, Chengbin Chu, Yihui Wang and D’Ariano, Andrea

An exact approach for the transit route network design problem pp. 111-127

Wentao Gao, Jihui Ma, Yanbo He and Chunjiao Dong

Industrializing deep reinforcement learning for operational spare parts inventory management pp. 128-140

Joost F. van der Haar, Willem van Jaarsveld, Rob J.I. Basten and Robert N. Boute

Preference-agile multi-objective optimization for real-time vehicle dispatching pp. 141-153

Jiahuan Jin, Wenhao Zhao, Rong Qu, Jianfeng Ren, Xinan Chen, Qingfu Zhang and Ruibin Bai

A kernel-based stochastic approximation framework for contextual optimization pp. 154-169

Hao Cao, Jian-Qiang Hu and Jiaqiao Hu

Statistical inference for online decision making with Lasso loss function: In a contextual multi-armed bandit setting pp. 170-180

Wuwenqing Yan and Yongchao Liu

Optimal joint individual and common abort policy for H-out-of-N mission systems pp. 181-199

Gregory Levitin and Liudong Xing

How do I explain that decision? A new approach combining counterfactuals and sensitivity analyses pp. 200-215

Xuefei Lu and Emanuele Borgonovo

Targeting the right person: An optimization-driven framework for optimal persuader selection in social networks with opinion evolution pp. 216-235

Qian Liang, Wenyu Yu, Zhen Zhang and Francisco Chiclana

Dynamic pricing with asymmetric reference price effects in a piecewise-smooth system pp. 236-248

Anton Bondarev and Régis Y. Chenavaz

Fresh produce spatial price equilibrium on general networks: Capturing commodity quality deterioration through endogenous transportation time delay functions with capacities pp. 249-270

Anna Nagurney, Samirasadat Samadi and Deniz Besik

Optimal maintenance and pricing strategy for online service providers: A Stackelberg queueing game approach pp. 271-284

Fan Xu, Jinting Wang and Lingjiao Zhang

Drone station location and routing optimization for infrastructure inspection pp. 285-300

Peisong Liu, Xiangpei Hu and Chun Cheng

Latencies in multicommunication. A view from game theory pp. 301-314

Elena C. Gavilán, Susana López, Conrado Manuel, Daniel Martín and Martha Saboyá

Optimizing warehouse product allocation at JD.com: A community detection-driven approach pp. 315-335

Hao Hu, Yongzhi Qi, Ningxuan Kang, Zhe Chen, Ling Wang, Jian Chen and Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Video streaming wars: Content production strategies for streaming platforms pp. 336-349

Derek Dubois and Yuwen Chen