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Volume 207, issue 3, 2010

A review of the recent contribution of systems thinking to operational research and management science pp. 1147-1161

John Mingers and Leroy White

Sensitivity analysis on the priority of the objective functions in lexicographic multiple objective linear programs pp. 1162-1168

E. Khorram, M. Zarepisheh and B.A. Ghaznavi-ghosoni

On solving the planar k-centrum problem with Euclidean distances pp. 1169-1186

Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía, Inmaculada Espejo and Zvi Drezner

Convergence guarantees for generalized adaptive stochastic search methods for continuous global optimization pp. 1187-1202

Rommel G. Regis

New strong duality results for convex programs with separable constraints pp. 1203-1209

V. Jeyakumar and G. Li

A modified alternating direction method for convex quadratically constrained quadratic semidefinite programs pp. 1210-1220

Jie Sun and Su Zhang

A lower bound for weighted completion time variance pp. 1221-1226

Rabia Nessah and Chengbin Chu

A heuristic procedure for the Capacitated m-Ring-Star problem pp. 1227-1234

Zahra Naji-Azimi, Majid Salari and Paolo Toth

On heuristic search for the single machine total weighted tardiness problem - Some theoretical insights and their empirical verification pp. 1235-1243

Martin Josef Geiger

The off-line group seat reservation problem pp. 1244-1253

Tommy Clausen, Allan Nordlunde Hjorth, Morten Nielsen and David Pisinger

A hybrid metaheuristic approach to solving the UBQP problem pp. 1254-1262

Zhipeng Lü, Fred Glover and Jin-Kao Hao

Inventory and sales effort management under unobservable lost sales pp. 1263-1268

H. Sebastian Heese and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan

Social responsibility allocation in two-echelon supply chains: Insights from wholesale price contracts pp. 1269-1279

Debing Ni, Kevin W. Li and Xiaowo Tang

Environmental safety stock: The impacts of regulatory and voluntary control policies on production planning, inventory control, and environmental performance pp. 1280-1292

Chialin Chen and George E. Monahan

Ambulance location and relocation problems with time-dependent travel times pp. 1293-1303

Verena Schmid and Karl F. Doerner

A serial inventory system with supplier selection and order quantity allocation pp. 1304-1315

Abraham Mendoza and José A. Ventura

A note on competitive supply chains with generalised supply costs pp. 1316-1320

Derek Atkins and Liping Liang

Channel coordination under fairness concerns and nonlinear demand pp. 1321-1326

Ozgun Caliskan-Demirag, Chen, Youhua (Frank) and Jianbin Li

A proactive approach for simultaneous berth and quay crane scheduling problem with stochastic arrival and handling time pp. 1327-1340

Xiao-le Han, Zhi-qiang Lu and Li-feng Xi

Channel incentives in sharing new product demand information and robust contracts pp. 1341-1349

Heng Liu and Özalp Özer

A simple model of deferred callability in defaultable debt pp. 1350-1357

Aksel Mjøs and Svein-Arne Persson

Pricing caps with HJM models: The benefits of humped volatility pp. 1358-1367

Jury Falini

Valuing executive stock options: A quadratic approximation pp. 1368-1379

Toshikazu Kimura

The cross-entropy method with patching for rare-event simulation of large Markov chains pp. 1380-1397

Bahar Kaynar and Ad Ridder

Stochastic lot-sizing problem with inventory-bounds and constant order-capacities pp. 1398-1409

Yongpei Guan and Tieming Liu

A single-shot game of multi-period inspection pp. 1410-1418

Ryusuke Hohzaki and Hiroki Maehara

A two-player competitive discrete location model with simultaneous decisions pp. 1419-1432

Pedro Godinho and Joana Dias

On some optimisation models in a fuzzy-stochastic environment pp. 1433-1441

M.K. Luhandjula and J.W. Joubert

Mean time to failure and availability of semi-Markov missions with maximal repair pp. 1442-1454

B. Çekyay and S. Özekici

Multiple criteria sorting with a set of additive value functions pp. 1455-1470

Salvatore Greco, Vincent Mousseau and Roman Slowinski

The effects of demand uncertainty on channel structure pp. 1471-1488

Wen Cao, Bo Jiang and Deming Zhou

An aggregate label setting policy for the multi-objective shortest path problem pp. 1489-1496

Manuel Iori, Silvano Martello and Daniele Pretolani

Stability and accuracy functions for a multicriteria Boolean linear programming problem with parameterized principle of optimality "from Condorcet to Pareto" pp. 1497-1505

Yury Nikulin and Marko M. Mäkelä

Integrated bank performance assessment and management planning using hybrid minimax reference point - DEA approach pp. 1506-1518

J.B. Yang, B.Y.H. Wong, D.L. Xu, X.B. Liu and R.E. Steuer

Approximating the Pareto optimal set using a reduced set of objective functions pp. 1519-1534

Peter Lindroth, Michael Patriksson and Ann-Brith Strömberg

Swedish employment offices: A new model for evaluating effectiveness pp. 1535-1544

Rikard Althin, Lars Behrenz, Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf and Erik Mellander

Analytic hierarchy based policy design method (AHPo) for solving societal problems that require a multifaceted approach pp. 1545-1553

Yoshinori Nakagawa, Seigo Nasu, Taiki Saito and Nobuyoshi Yamaguchi

An epsilon-based measure of efficiency in DEA - A third pole of technical efficiency pp. 1554-1563

Kaoru Tone and Miki Tsutsui

On the choice of weights profiles in cross-efficiency evaluations pp. 1564-1572

Nuria Ramón, José Ruiz and Inmaculada Sirvent

COOPER-framework: A unified process for non-parametric projects pp. 1573-1586

Ali Emrouznejad and Kristof De Witte

Determinants of bank efficiency: The case of Brazil pp. 1587-1598

Patricia Langsch Tecles and Benjamin Tabak

Performance appraisal based on distance function methods pp. 1599-1607

Rocío de Andrés, José Luis García-Lapresta and Jacinto González-Pachón

A stochastic programming model for scheduling call centers with global Service Level Agreements pp. 1608-1619

Thomas R. Robbins and Terry P. Harrison

Integrated risk management for an electricity producer pp. 1620-1627

P. Falbo, D. Felletti and S. Stefani

Hospital capacity, capability, and emergency preparedness pp. 1628-1634

Vivian Valdmanis, Patrick Bernet and James Moises

A knowledge based approach to loss severity assessment in financial institutions using Bayesian networks and loss determinants pp. 1635-1644

David Häger and Lasse B. Andersen

A statistical Markov chain approximation of transient hospital inpatient inventory pp. 1645-1657

James R. Broyles, Jeffery K. Cochran and Douglas C. Montgomery

Pricing peer-produced services: Quality, capacity, and competition issues pp. 1658-1668

Yung-Ming Li and Yi-Lin Lee

Input/output selection in DEA under expert information, with application to financial markets pp. 1669-1678

N.C.P. Edirisinghe and X. Zhang

Stochastic DEA with ordinal data applied to a multi-attribute pricing problem pp. 1679-1688

Wu, Desheng (Dash) and Chi-Guhn Lee

Strategic investment timing under asymmetric access charge regulation in telecommunications pp. 1689-1701

Takashi Shibata and Hiroshi Yamazaki

Pairs trading and outranking: The multi-step-ahead forecasting case pp. 1702-1716

Nicolas Huck

Investment using evolutionary learning methods and technical rules pp. 1717-1727

Massimiliano Kaucic

Development of the parametric tolerance modeling and optimization schemes and cost-effective solutions pp. 1728-1741

Sangmun Shin, Pauline Kongsuwon and Byung Rae Cho

Measurement of a linkage among environmental, operational, and financial performance in Japanese manufacturing firms: A use of Data Envelopment Analysis with strong complementary slackness condition pp. 1742-1753

Toshiyuki Sueyoshi and Mika Goto

Volume 207, issue 2, 2010

A survey of stochastic modelling approaches for liberalised electricity markets pp. 543-556

Dominik Möst and Dogan Keles

The examination timetabling problem at Universiti Malaysia Pahang: Comparison of a constructive heuristic with an existing software solution pp. 557-565

M.N.M. Kahar and G. Kendall

A hybrid tabu search/branch & bound approach to solving the generalized assignment problem pp. 566-578

Andrew J. Woodcock and John M. Wilson

A model for dynamic chance constraints in hydro power reservoir management pp. 579-589

L. Andrieu, R. Henrion and W. Römisch

Mathematical programming approaches for generating p-efficient points pp. 590-600

Miguel Lejeune and Nilay Noyan

"Product Partition" and related problems of scheduling and systems reliability: Computational complexity and approximation pp. 601-604

C.T. Ng, M.S. Barketau, T.C.E. Cheng and Mikhail Y. Kovalyov

Complexity of single machine scheduling subject to nonnegative inventory constraints pp. 605-619

Dirk Briskorn, Byung-Cheon Choi, Kangbok Lee, Joseph Leung and Michael Pinedo

Using modifications to Grover's Search algorithm for quantum global optimization pp. 620-632

Yipeng Liu and Gary J. Koehler

Robust scheduling and robustness measures for the discrete time/cost trade-off problem pp. 633-643

Öncü HazIr, Mohamed Haouari and Erdal Erel

MIP-based decomposition strategies for large-scale scheduling problems in multiproduct multistage batch plants: A benchmark scheduling problem of the pharmaceutical industry pp. 644-655

Georgios M. Kopanos, Carlos A. Méndez and Luis Puigjaner

On contracts for VMI program with continuous review (r, Q) policy pp. 656-667

Ruoxi Guan and Xiaobo Zhao

Coordination of supply chains by option contracts: A cooperative game theory approach pp. 668-675

Yingxue Zhao, Shouyang Wang, T.C.E. Cheng, Xiaoqi Yang and Zhimin Huang

A hybrid macroscopic-based model for traffic flow in road networks pp. 676-684

Jennifer McCrea and Salissou Moutari

Competitive analysis of the online inventory problem pp. 685-696

Kim S. Larsen and Sanne Wøhlk

A dynamic model of supplier switching pp. 697-710

Thomas Pfeiffer

On range and response: Dimensions of process flexibility pp. 711-724

Mabel C. Chou, Geoffrey A. Chua and Chung-Piaw Teo

Ensuring responsive capacity: How to contract with backup suppliers pp. 725-735

Fabian J. Sting and Arnd Huchzermeier

Joint ground and air emergency medical services coverage models: A greedy heuristic solution approach pp. 736-749

Elif Tokar Erdemir, Rajan Batta, Peter A. Rogerson, Alan Blatt and Marie Flanigan

Multi-source facility location-allocation and inventory problem pp. 750-762

Zhishuang Yao, Loo Hay Lee, Wikrom Jaruphongsa, Vicky Tan and Chen Fei Hui

Supplier-initiated outsourcing: A methodology to exploit synergy in transportation pp. 763-774

Frans Cruijssen, Peter Borm, Hein Fleuren and Herbert Hamers

Optimal capacity for substitutable products under operational postponement pp. 775-783

Ebru K. Bish and Rawee Suwandechochai

Model development in discrete-event simulation and system dynamics: An empirical study of expert modellers pp. 784-794

Antuela A. Tako and Stewart Robinson

The axiomatic approach to three values in games with coalition structure pp. 795-806

María Gómez-Rúa and Juan Vidal-Puga

Adaptive neural network model for time-series forecasting pp. 807-816

Wing-Keung Wong, Min Xia and W.C. Chu

An algorithm for computing the nucleolus of disjunctive non-negative additive games with an acyclic permission structure pp. 817-826

Rene van den Brink, Ilya Katsev and Gerard van der Laan

A queueing model for general group screening policies and dynamic item arrivals pp. 827-835

Dieter Claeys, Joris Walraevens, Koenraad Laevens and Herwig Bruneel

Games on fuzzy communication structures with Choquet players pp. 836-847

Andrés Jiménez-Losada, Julio R. Fernández, Manuel Ordóñez and Michel Grabisch

Soft set theory and uni-int decision making pp. 848-855

Naim Çagman and Serdar Enginoglu

BiLevel programming Data Envelopment Analysis with constrained resource pp. 856-864

Desheng Dash Wu

Making choices with a binary relation: Relative choice axioms and transitive closures pp. 865-877

Rémy-Robert Joseph

Incentives and individual motivation in supervised work groups pp. 878-885

Arianna Dal Forno and Ugo Merlone

Evidence-based modelling of strategic fit: An introduction to RCaRBS pp. 886-896

Malcolm J. Beynon, Rhys Andrews and George A. Boyne

Channel coordination in a consignment contract pp. 897-905

Dengfeng Zhang, Renato de Matta and Timothy J. Lowe

A method for stochastic multiple criteria decision making based on pairwise comparisons of alternatives with random evaluations pp. 906-915

Zhi-Ping Fan, Yang Liu and Bo Feng

E-DEA: Enhanced data envelopment analysis pp. 916-926

Muhittin Oral

Stochastic dominance and risk measure: A decision-theoretic foundation for VaR and C-VaR pp. 927-935

Chenghu Ma and Wing-Keung Wong

Relative importance of criteria in multiobjective programming: A cone-based approach pp. 936-945

Brian J. Hunt, Margaret M. Wiecek and Colleen S. Hughes

The effect of demand uncertainty in a price-setting newsvendor model pp. 946-957

Minghui Xu, Chen, Youhua (Frank) and Xiaolin Xu

Integrated planning of transportation and recycling for multiple plants based on process simulation pp. 958-970

Magnus Fröhling, Frank Schwaderer, Hauke Bartusch and Otto Rentz

Evaluating business performance of wealth management banks pp. 971-979

Cheng-Ru Wu, Chin-Tsai Lin and Pei-Hsuan Tsai

Computing stable loads for pallets pp. 980-985

W. Kocjan and K. Holmström

Managing an integrated production inventory system with information on the production and demand status and multiple non-unitary demand classes pp. 986-1001

Mohsen Elhafsi, Herve Camus and Etienne Craye

An innovative approach for strategic capacity portfolio planning under uncertainties pp. 1002-1013

Cheng-Hung Wu and Ya-Tang Chuang

A column generation based heuristic for sensor placement, activity scheduling and data routing in wireless sensor networks pp. 1014-1026

Yavuz B. TürkogullarI, Necati Aras, I. Kuban AltInel and Cem Ersoy

Comparing frontier methods for economic-environmental trade-off analysis pp. 1027-1040

Jef Van Meensel, Ludwig Lauwers, Guido Van Huylenbroeck and Steven Van Passel

A hybrid heuristic algorithm for the open-pit-mining operational planning problem pp. 1041-1051

M.J.F. Souza, I.M. Coelho, S. Ribas, H.G. Santos and L.H.C. Merschmann

Knowledge sharing in communities of practice: A game theoretic analysis pp. 1052-1064

Yung-Ming Li and Jhih-Hua Jhang-Li

A new MIP model for mine equipment scheduling by minimizing maintenance cost pp. 1065-1071

Erkan Topal and Salih Ramazan

Robust and data-driven approaches to call centers pp. 1072-1085

Dimitris Bertsimas and Xuan Vinh Doan

Shifting representation search for hybrid flexible flowline problems pp. 1086-1095

Thijs Urlings, Rubén Ruiz and Thomas Stützle

Generalised soft binomial American real option pricing model (fuzzy-stochastic approach) pp. 1096-1103

Zdeněk Zmeškal

A distance friction minimization approach in data envelopment analysis: A comparative study on airport efficiency pp. 1104-1115

Soushi Suzuki, Peter Nijkamp, Piet Rietveld and Eric Pels

Efficiency analysis to incorporate interval-scale data pp. 1116-1121

Akram Dehnokhalaji, Pekka Korhonen, Murat Köksalan, Nasim Nasrabadi and Jyrki Wallenius

Network DEA: Additive efficiency decomposition pp. 1122-1129

Wade D. Cook, Joe Zhu, Gongbing Bi and Feng Yang

An integer programming dynamic farm-household model to evaluate the impact of agricultural policy reforms on farm investment behaviour pp. 1130-1139

Davide Viaggi, Meri Raggi and Sergio Gomez Y Paloma

Note on "A new bidirectional algorithm for shortest paths" pp. 1140-1141

Wim Pijls and Henk Post

A note on single-machine scheduling with job-dependent learning effects pp. 1142-1143

Christos Koulamas

Preferences estimation without approximation pp. 1144-1146

Moawia Alghalith

Volume 207, issue 1, 2010

A survey of variants and extensions of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem pp. 1-14

Sönke Hartmann and Dirk Briskorn

Spectral bounds for unconstrained (-1,1)-quadratic optimization problems pp. 15-24

Walid Ben-Ameur and José Neto

A unifying approach to solve some classes of rank-three multiplicative and fractional programs involving linear functions pp. 25-29

Riccardo Cambini and Claudio Sodini

On the duality between the profit and the indirect distance functions in production theory pp. 30-36

C. Zalinescu

Column generation decomposition with the degenerate constraints in the subproblem pp. 37-44

Abdelmoutalib Metrane, François Soumis and Issmail Elhallaoui

An efficient algorithm for the Steiner Tree Problem with revenue, bottleneck and hop objective functions pp. 45-49

Leizer Lima Pinto and Gilbert Laporte

Inverse minimum cost flow problems under the weighted Hamming distance pp. 50-54

Yiwei Jiang, Longcheng Liu, Biao Wu and Enyu Yao

Iterated greedy local search methods for unrelated parallel machine scheduling pp. 55-69

Luis Fanjul-Peyro and Rubén Ruiz

Scheduling multiple orders per job in a single machine to minimize total completion time pp. 70-77

Scott J. Mason and Jen-Shiang Chen

Two point one sided rendezvous pp. 78-82

Kensaku Kikuta and William H. Ruckle

Multicriteria models for planning power-networking events pp. 83-91

Robert A. Russell and Timothy L. Urban

The capacitated single-allocation hub location problem revisited: A note on a classical formulation pp. 92-96

Isabel Correia, Stefan Nickel and Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama

Flow shops with machine maintenance: Ordered and proportionate cases pp. 97-104

Byung-Cheon Choi, Kangbok Lee, Joseph Y.-T. Leung and Michael L. Pinedo

Generating facets for finite master cyclic group polyhedra using n-step mixed integer rounding functions pp. 105-109

Kiavash Kianfar and Yahya Fathi

An ant colony system for enhanced loop-based aisle-network design pp. 110-120

Ardavan Asef-Vaziri, Morteza Kazemi, Kourosh Eshghi and Maher Lahmar

The Generalized-Trend-Diffusion modeling algorithm for small data sets in the early stages of manufacturing systems pp. 121-130

Yao-San Lin and Der-Chiang Li

Outsourcing and capacity planning in an uncertain global environment pp. 131-141

Shanling Li and Letian Wang

Coordinating ordering and pricing decisions in a two-stage distribution system with price-sensitive demand through short-term discounting pp. 142-151

Chung-Chi Hsieh, Yu-Te Liu and Wei-Ming Wang

A dual-response forwarding approach for containerizing air cargoes under uncertainty, based on stochastic mixed 0-1 programming pp. 152-164

Yue Wu

Manufacturer cooperation in supplier development under risk pp. 165-173

Srinivas Talluri, Ram Narasimhan and Wenming Chung

Exploring the impacts of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology on supply chain performance pp. 174-183

Kazim Sari

Using graph concepts to assess the feasibility of a sequenced air traffic flow with low conflict rate pp. 184-196

D. Prot, C. Rapine, S. Constans and R. Fondacci

Performance evaluation of purchasing and supply management using value chain DEA approach pp. 197-205

Haritha Saranga and Roger Moser

Modified base-stock policies for semiconductor production system with dependent yield rates pp. 206-217

Huei-Chuen Huang and Haiqing Song

Capacitated location model with online demand pooling in a multi-channel supply chain pp. 218-231

Kaijun Liu, Yonghong Zhou and Zigang Zhang

A coordinating contract for transshipment in a two-company supply chain pp. 232-237

Behzad Hezarkhani and Wieslaw Kubiak

Analysis of industry equilibria in models with sustaining and disruptive technology pp. 238-248

Xiao Huang and Greys Sosic

Methodological analysis of supply chains management applications pp. 249-257

Laura Di Giacomo and Giacomo Patrizi

Online scheduling policies for multiclass call centers with impatient customers pp. 258-268

Oualid Jouini, Auke Pot, Ger Koole and Yves Dallery

A model for real-time failure prognosis based on hidden Markov model and belief rule base pp. 269-283

Zhi-Jie Zhou, Chang-Hua Hu, Dong-Ling Xu, Mao-Yin Chen and Dong-Hua Zhou

Merging experts' opinions: A Bayesian hierarchical model with mixture of prior distributions pp. 284-289

M.J. Rufo, C.J. Pérez and J. Martín

IIS branch-and-cut for joint chance-constrained stochastic programs and application to optimal vaccine allocation pp. 290-296

Matthew W. Tanner and Lewis Ntaimo

Optimal maintenance of two stochastically deteriorating machines with an intermediate buffer pp. 297-308

C.C. Karamatsoukis and E.G. Kyriakidis

Comparisons and bounds for expected lifetimes of reliability systems pp. 309-317

Jorge Navarro and Tomasz Rychlik

Using matrices to link conflict evolution and resolution in a graph model pp. 318-329

Haiyan Xu, D. Marc Kilgour, Keith W. Hipel and Graeme Kemkes

A competitive dynamic pricing model when demand is interdependent over time pp. 330-338

Soheil Sibdari and David F. Pyke

DEA model with shared resources and efficiency decomposition pp. 339-349

Yao Chen, Juan Du, H. David Sherman and Joe Zhu

WASAN: The development of a facilitated methodology for structuring a waste minimisation problem pp. 350-362

Duncan Shaw and Neil Blundell

Sharing risk through concession contracts pp. 363-370

Pasquale Scandizzo and Marco Ventura

Set choice problems with incomplete information about the preferences of the decision maker pp. 371-379

Vladislav V. Podinovski

To reveal or not to reveal? Strategic disclosure of private information in negotiation pp. 380-390

Ching Chyi Lee and Michael J. Ferguson

Callable risky perpetual debt with protection period pp. 391-400

Aksel Mjøs and Svein-Arne Persson

Revenue management model for on-demand IT services pp. 401-408

Tieming Liu, Chinnatat Methapatara and Laura Wynter

Risk management strategies via minimax portfolio optimization pp. 409-419

George G. Polak, David F. Rogers and Dennis J. Sweeney

Optimization of R&D project portfolios under endogenous uncertainty pp. 420-433

Senay Solak, John-Paul B. Clarke, Ellis L. Johnson and Earl R. Barnes

Offshore outsourcing decision making: A policy-maker's perspective pp. 434-444

Youxu Cai Tjader, Jennifer S. Shang and Luis G. Vargas

Dynamic cruise ship revenue management pp. 445-455

Bacel Maddah, Lama Moussawi-Haidar, Muhammad El-Taha and Hussein Rida

Integrated optimization of customer and supplier logistics at Robert Bosch LLC pp. 456-464

Hakan Yildiz, R. Ravi and Wayne Fairey

Joint demand and capacity management in a restaurant system pp. 465-472

Johye Hwang, Long Gao and Wooseung Jang

Pricing problem in wireless telecommunication product and service bundling pp. 473-480

Bibo Yang and C.T. Ng

The impact of digital channel distribution on the experience goods industry pp. 481-491

Moutaz Khouja and Yulan Wang

Samsung card lending model pp. 492-498

Jaeyung Huh, Woojin Chang, Junghoon Lee and Jaeyong Lee

Applying simulation optimization to the asset allocation of a property-casualty insurer pp. 499-507

Tzu-Yi Yu, Chenghsien Tsai and Hsiao-Tzu Huang

Should you stop investing in a sinking fund when it is sinking? pp. 508-513

John Mingers and Kim T. Parker

Manufacturer's return policy in a two-stage supply chain with two risk-averse retailers and random demand pp. 514-523

Chung-Chi Hsieh and Yu-Ting Lu

A margin scheme that advises on when to change required margin pp. 524-530

Kin Lam, Philip Yu and P.H. Lee

Evolutionary stability of auction and supply chain contracting: An analysis based on disintermediation in the Indian tea supply chains pp. 531-538

S. Dutta, S.P. Sarmah and S.K. Goyal

Comment on "Complete solution to a conjecture on Randic index" pp. 539-542

Ljiljana Pavlovic