European Journal of Operational Research

1977 - 2026

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Volume 329, issue 1, 2026

Fifty years of power systems optimization pp. 1-23

Anil Kaya, Antonio J. Conejo and Steffen Rebennack

Counterfactual explanations for linear optimization pp. 24-41

Jannis Kurtz, Ş. İlker Birbil and Dick den Hertog

Self-matching guarantees in a brand omni-channel retailer pp. 42-62

Esmat Sangari, Izak Duenyas and Seyed Iravani

A hybrid stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers for nonconvex and nonsmooth composite optimization pp. 63-78

Yuxuan Zeng, Jianchao Bai, Shengjia Wang, Zhiguo Wang and Xiaojing Shen

The Days On Days Off Scheduling Problem pp. 79-86

Fabien Nießen and Paul Paschmanns

A multi-start local search matheuristic for the capacitated arc routing problem with irregular services pp. 87-95

Demetrio Laganà and Paolo Paronuzzi

Models and algorithms for the Time Window Assignment Traveling Salesperson Problem with stochastic travel times pp. 96-111

Francesco Cavaliere, Matteo Fischetti, Roberto Roberti and Domenico Salvagnin

Supply chain coordination with a wholesale price contract for behavioral decision-makers pp. 112-123

Werner Jammernegg, Peter Kischka and Lena Silbermayr

Optimal ordering policy for perishable products by incorporating demand forecasts pp. 124-137

Maryam Motamedi, Na Li and Douglas G. Down

Designing and organizing a high-performance divisional seru considering learning and forgetting effect under stochastic processing requirements pp. 138-154

Yaoxin Zhang, Dongni Li, Yuqing Jin and Zihan Lan

Enhancing operational decision-making in fault diagnosis for high-dimensional data streams with auxiliary information pp. 155-165

Zhihan Zhang, Wendong Li, Min Xie and Dongdong Xiang

Efficient and accurate simulation of the stochastic-alpha-beta-rho model pp. 166-179

Jaehyuk Choi, Lilian Hu and Yue Kuen Kwok

Joint pricing of default-free and defaultable claims in a reduced-form model featuring a martingale part pp. 180-197

Frédéric Vrins

Approaches for biobjective integer linear robust optimization pp. 198-218

Fabian Chlumsky-Harttmann, Marie Schmidt and Anita Schöbel

E-retailer’s secondhand product market entry and manufacturer’s rebate decisions considering fairness concerns pp. 219-238

Yuanyuan Ji, Ruozhen Qiu, Shoufeng Ji, Minghe Sun and Zhi-ping Fan

Strategies for units incentivization: Assessing influence by maximizing loss/gain in centrally managed systems pp. 239-259

Mostafa Davtalab-Olyaie, Mehmet A. Begen and Masoud Asgharian

The influence of School principals’ management on school efficiency: Evidence from Italian schools pp. 260-272

Anna Mergoni, Ana Camanho, Mara Soncin, Tommaso Agasisti and Kristof De Witte

The impact of collaboration on sustainability and profit in the fashion rental supply chain pp. 273-287

Jack A.A. van der Veen, Taher Ahmadi, Bo van der Rhee and V. Venugopal

Operating room-to-downstream elective surgery planning under uncertainty pp. 288-307

Karmel S. Shehadeh, Man Yiu Tsang, Rema Padman and Arman Kilic

An adaptive hybrid algorithm with system participants classification for efficient convex hull pricing in electricity markets pp. 308-320

Shifei Chen, Linfeng Yang, Xinhan Lin and Cuo Zhang

Cheating or delighting customers on quality: Strategic implications for delayed information disclosure pp. 321-339

Fouad El Ouardighi, Dieter Grass and Konstantin Kogan

Bertrand supertraps under consumer fairness concerns pp. 340-353

Guowei Liu, Yunchuan Liu, Jiong Sun, Lijia Tan and Jianxiong Zhang

Volume 328, issue 3, 2026

Fifty years of Soft Operational Research: The contribution of EURO and EJOR to its foundation and development pp. 735-748

Leroy White

Dynamic batching of online arrivals to leverage economies of scale pp. 749-761

Akhil Bhimaraju, S. Rasoul Etesami and Lav R. Varshney

An energy-efficient scheduling approach for a two-stage hybrid flow shop with parallel batch machines pp. 762-784

Zhao-hong Jia, Tianfu Wu, Han Zhang, Chuang Liu and Kai Li

A single nurse routing and scheduling problem for home-based chemotherapy and infusion services pp. 785-796

Vishmi Fernando, Melih Ozlen and Sona Taheri

Carbon emissions hedging and green marketing pp. 797-814

Yue Zhai, Huxi Deng, Suxiu Xu, George Q. Huang and T.C.E. Cheng

Enhancing transportation service management with bi-level optimization: Competitive pricing and hub location pp. 815-831

Seyed Parsa Parvasi, MirMohammad Musavi, Seyed Ali Torabi, Wei Yim Yap and Jasmine Siu Lee Lam

Quality strategy to confront store brand encroachment pp. 832-844

Jingxin Zhang, Jianxiong Zhang, Rui Yang and Xiaohang Yue

Exact solution approaches for the traveling salesman problem with a drone station pp. 845-861

Zhiyuan Shi, Shaozhi Hong, Zeling Wang and Ang Li

Efficient simulation budget allocation for contextual ranking and selection with quadratic models pp. 862-876

Dongyang Li, Ek Peng Chew, Haobin Li, Enver Yücesan and Chun-Hung Chen

Markov decision processes: Monotonicity of optimal policy in exponential and quasi-hyperbolic discounting parameters pp. 877-893

Hakan Kılıç, Pelin Gülşah Canbolat and Evrim Didem Güneş

Distributionally robust optimization with generalized total variation ambiguity sets pp. 894-911

Belleh Fontem and Ran Ji

Generator sets for the Minkowski sum problem pp. 912-924

Mark Lyngesen, Sune Lauth Gadegaard and Lars Relund Nielsen

A survey-based priority elicitation protocol for community-based resource allocation decisions pp. 925-937

José Geraldo Vidal Vieira and Gilberto Montibeller

Efficiency analysis of natural cardinal ranking vectors for pairwise comparisons and the universal efficiency of the Perron geometric mean pp. 938-945

Susana Furtado and Charles R. Johnson

Business model selection in competition with an E-platform’s store brand under various channel price leadership pp. 946-965

Hai Li, Jing Shao and Stuart X. Zhu

A bilevel multistage stochastic self-scheduling model with indivisibilities for trading in the continuous intraday electricity market pp. 966-988

Priyanka Shinde and Ignacio Aravena

Eco-efficiency or eco-differentiation: Strategic prioritization of environmental investments pp. 989-1006

Arda Yenipazarli

Conjugate Paretian inefficiency measures pp. 1007-1017

Robert G. Chambers

Robot-aided electric vehicle routing problem with lockers and prime customers prioritization pp. 1018-1035

Nima Moradi, Fereshteh Mafakheri, Chun Wang and Roberto Baldacci

Exact simulation of stochastic volatility models based on conditional Fourier-cosine method pp. 1036-1053

Riccardo Brignone and Gero Junike

Toward organ shortage resilient allocation policies using real-time queueing models for liver transplantation pp. 1054-1067

Thomas Masanet, Benoît Audry, Christian Jacquelinet and Pascal Moyal

Continuous-time optimal investment with portfolio constraints: A reinforcement learning approach pp. 1068-1092

Huy Chau, Duy Nguyen and Thai Nguyen

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