European Journal of Operational Research

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Volume 234, issue 3, 2014

Evolution of social networks pp. 583-596

Tim Hellmann and Mathias Staudigl

A unified ant colony optimization algorithm for continuous optimization pp. 597-609

Tianjun Liao, Thomas Stützle, Marco A. Montes de Oca and Marco Dorigo

Income drawdown option with minimum guarantee pp. 610-624

Marina Di Giacinto, Salvatore Federico, Fausto Gozzi and Elena Vigna

The Dai–Liao nonlinear conjugate gradient method with optimal parameter choices pp. 625-630

Saman Babaie-Kafaki and Reza Ghanbari

Threshold-based preprocessing for approximating the weighted dense k-subgraph problem pp. 631-640

S. Borgwardt and F. Schmiedl

Approximation algorithms for deterministic continuous-review inventory lot-sizing problems with time-varying demand pp. 641-649

G. Massonnet, J.-P. Gayon and C. Rapine

Bicriteria hierarchical optimization of two-machine flow shop scheduling problem with time-dependent deteriorating jobs pp. 650-657

Mingbao Cheng, Pandu R. Tadikamalla, Jennifer Shang and Shaqing Zhang

A unified solution framework for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems pp. 658-673

Thibaut Vidal, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Michel Gendreau and Christian Prins

An aggressive reduction scheme for the simple plant location problem pp. 674-682

Adam N. Letchford and Sebastian J. Miller

Inflation and the optimal inventory replenishment schedule within a finite planning horizon pp. 683-693

Brian H. Gilding

Inventory games with permissible delay in payments pp. 694-700

Jun Li, Hairong Feng and Yinlian Zeng

On stabilizing volatile product returns pp. 701-708

Thomas Nowak and Vera Hofer

Call center service process analysis: Bayesian parametric and semi-parametric mixture modeling pp. 709-719

Tevfik Aktekin

Mining categorical sequences from data using a hybrid clustering method pp. 720-730

Luca De Angelis and José G. Dias

Decision dependent stochastic processes pp. 731-742

Thomas Kirschenmann, Elmira Popova, Paul Damien and Tim Hanson

Time consistency and risk averse dynamic decision models: Definition, interpretation and practical consequences pp. 743-750

Birgit Rudloff, Alexandre Street and Davi M. Valladão

Two-stage network constrained robust unit commitment problem pp. 751-762

Ruiwei Jiang, Muhong Zhang, Guang Li and Yongpei Guan

Surplus division and investment incentives in supply chains: A biform-game analysis pp. 763-773

Eberhard Feess and Jörn-Henrik Thun

Bayesian optimal knapsack procurement pp. 774-779

Ludwig Ensthaler and Thomas Giebe

A new rule for source connection problems pp. 780-788

Gustavo Bergantiños, María Gómez-Rúa, N. Llorca, M. Pulido and J. Sánchez-Soriano

A decision support methodology to enhance the competitiveness of the Turkish automotive industry pp. 789-801

Füsun Ülengin, Şule Önsel, Emel Aktas, Özgür Kabak and Özay Özaydın

A Clustering Search metaheuristic for the Point-Feature Cartographic Label Placement Problem pp. 802-808

Rômulo Louzada Rabello, Geraldo Regis Mauri, Glaydston Mattos Ribeiro and Luiz Antonio Nogueira Lorena

Nonparametric estimation of education productivity incorporating nondiscretionary inputs with an application to Dutch schools pp. 809-818

Shae Brennan, Carla Haelermans and John Ruggiero

Public facility location using dispersion, population, and equity criteria pp. 819-829

Rajan Batta, Miguel Lejeune and Srinivas Prasad

When should service firms provide free experience service? pp. 830-838

Wenhui Zhou, Zhaotong Lian and Jinbiao Wu

Effective location models for sorting recyclables in public management pp. 839-860

Eli Angela V. Toso and Douglas Alem

Expert-mediated sequential search pp. 861-873

Meenal Chhabra, Sanmay Das and David Sarne

Impact analysis of maritime cabotage legislations on liner hub-and-spoke shipping network design pp. 874-884

Jianfeng Zheng, Qiang Meng and Zhuo Sun

Eco-efficiency and eco-productivity change over time in a multisectoral economic system pp. 885-897

Bernhard Mahlberg and Mikulas Luptacik

Introducing competition in healthcare services: The role of private care and increased patient mobility pp. 898-909

Dimitrios A. Andritsos and Christopher S. Tang

A note on “Quality investment and inspection policy in a supplier-manufacturer supply chain” pp. 910-915

Gerhard Aust, Ina Bräuer and Udo Buscher

Note on “Inverse minimum cost flow problems under the weighted Hamming distance” pp. 916-920

Javad Tayyebi and Massoud Aman

Volume 234, issue 2, 2014

Mean–variance approximations to expected utility pp. 346-355

Harry Markowitz

60 Years of portfolio optimization: Practical challenges and current trends pp. 356-371

Petter N. Kolm, Reha Tütüncü and Frank Fabozzi

The benefits of differential variance-based constraints in portfolio optimization pp. 372-381

Haim Levy and Moshe Levy

The opportunity cost of mean–variance choice under estimation risk pp. 382-391

Yusif Simaan

Mean–variance–skewness efficient surfaces, Stein’s lemma and the multivariate extended skew-Student distribution pp. 392-401

C.J. Adcock

Theoretical and empirical estimates of mean–variance portfolio sensitivity pp. 402-410

Andrzej Palczewski and Jan Palczewski

Robust portfolios that do not tilt factor exposure pp. 411-421

Woo Chang Kim, Min Jeong Kim, Jang Ho Kim and Frank Fabozzi

Robust multiobjective optimization & applications in portfolio optimization pp. 422-433

Jörg Fliege and Ralf Werner

Robustness of optimal portfolios under risk and stochastic dominance constraints pp. 434-441

Jitka Dupačová and Miloš Kopa

Mean–Variance portfolio selection in presence of infrequently traded stocks pp. 442-449

Rosella Castellano and Roy Cerqueti

Dynamic asset allocation for varied financial markets under regime switching framework pp. 450-458

Geum Il Bae, Woo Chang Kim and John M. Mulvey

Optimal multi-period mean–variance policy under no-shorting constraint pp. 459-468

Xiangyu Cui, Jianjun Gao, Xun Li and Duan Li

Mean–variance optimal portfolios in the presence of a benchmark with applications to fraud detection pp. 469-480

C. Bernard and Steven Vanduffel

Inverse portfolio problem with mean-deviation model pp. 481-490

Bogdan Grechuk and Michael Zabarankin

Tri-criterion inverse portfolio optimization with application to socially responsible mutual funds pp. 491-498

Sebastian Utz, Maximilian Wimmer, Markus Hirschberger and Ralph E. Steuer

Worst-case robust Omega ratio pp. 499-507

Michalis Kapsos, Nicos Christofides and Berç Rustem

Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) with drawdown measure pp. 508-517

Michael Zabarankin, Konstantin Pavlikov and Stan Uryasev

Twenty years of linear programming based portfolio optimization pp. 518-535

Renata Mansini, Wlodzimierz Ogryczak and M. Grazia Speranza

Financial portfolio management through the goal programming model: Current state-of-the-art pp. 536-545

Belaid Aouni, Cinzia Colapinto and Davide La Torre

International portfolio choice and political instability risk: A multi-objective approach pp. 546-560

K. Smimou

Investment strategies and compensation of a mean–variance optimizing fund manager pp. 561-570

Georgios Aivaliotis and Jan Palczewski

Performance replication of the Spot Energy Index with optimal equity portfolio selection: Evidence from the UK, US and Brazilian markets pp. 571-582

Kostas Andriosopoulos and Nikos Nomikos

Volume 234, issue 1, 2014

Cooperative advertising models in supply chain management: A review pp. 1-14

Gerhard Aust and Udo Buscher

A simple augmented ∊-constraint method for multi-objective mathematical integer programming problems pp. 15-24

Weihua Zhang and Marc Reimann

Solving a bi-objective Transportation Location Routing Problem by metaheuristic algorithms pp. 25-36

Iris Abril Martínez-Salazar, Julian Molina, Francisco Ángel-Bello, Trinidad Gómez and Rafael Caballero

The freight consolidation and containerization problem pp. 37-48

Hu Qin, Zizhen Zhang, Zhuxuan Qi and Andrew Lim

Branch-and-price-and-cut for the multiple traveling repairman problem with distance constraints pp. 49-60

Zhixing Luo, Hu Qin and Andrew Lim

A modified variable neighborhood search for the discrete ordered median problem pp. 61-76

Justo Puerto, Dionisio Pérez-Brito and Carlos G. García-González

Wholesale price rebate vs. capacity expansion: The optimal strategy for seasonal products in a supply chain pp. 77-85

Kwei-Long Huang, Chia-Wei Kuo and Ming-Lun Lu

On the optimal control of manufacturing and remanufacturing activities with a single shared server pp. 86-98

Simme Douwe Flapper, Jean-Philippe Gayon and Lâm Laurent Lim

On the impact of advertising initiatives in supply chains pp. 99-107

Wenqing Zhang, Shanling Li, Dan Zhang and Wenhua Hou

Outsourcing to suppliers with unknown capabilities pp. 108-118

Hubert Pun and H. Sebastian Heese

Updating a credit-scoring model based on new attributes without realization of actual data pp. 119-126

Yong Han Ju and So Young Sohn

A combination selection algorithm on forecasting pp. 127-139

Shuang Cang and Hongnian Yu

Superquantile regression with applications to buffered reliability, uncertainty quantification, and conditional value-at-risk pp. 140-154

R.T. Rockafellar, J.O. Royset and S.I. Miranda

Cold vs. hot standby mission operation cost minimization for 1-out-of-N systems pp. 155-162

Gregory Levitin, Liudong Xing and Yuanshun Dai

A semi-parametric approach for estimating critical fractiles under autocorrelated demand pp. 163-173

Yun Shin Lee

Flexible waste management under uncertainty pp. 174-185

Luca Di Corato and Natalia Montinari

Allocation of risk capital on an internal market pp. 186-196

Rainer Baule

Resource allocation model and double-sphere crowding distance for evolutionary multi-objective optimization pp. 197-208

Yu Lei, Maoguo Gong, Jun Zhang, Wei Li and Licheng Jiao

Decision making with imprecise probabilities and utilities by means of statistical preference and stochastic dominance pp. 209-220

Ignacio Montes, Enrique Miranda and Susana Montes

Implausible alternatives in eliciting multi-attribute value functions pp. 221-230

Rudolf Vetschera, Wolfgang Weitzl and Elisabeth Wolfsteiner

Facilitated modelling with discrete-event simulation: Reality or myth? pp. 231-240

Stewart Robinson, Claire Worthington, Nicola Burgess and Zoe J. Radnor

A new multicriteria approach for the analysis of efficiency in the Spanish olive oil sector by modelling decision maker preferences pp. 241-252

David Alcaide-López-de-Pablo, Rafaela Dios-Palomares and Ángel M. Prieto

Multiple-source learning precedence graph concept for the automotive industry pp. 253-265

Christian Otto and Alena Otto

HOPS – Hamming-Oriented Partition Search for production planning in the spinning industry pp. 266-277

Victor C.B. Camargo, Franklina M.B. Toledo and Bernardo Almada-Lobo

Joint employee weekly timetabling and daily rostering: A decision-support tool for a logistics platform pp. 278-291

Anne-Laure Ladier, Gülgün Alpan and Bernard Penz

Computing economies of vertical integration, economies of scope and economies of scale using partial frontier nonparametric methods pp. 292-307

Pedro Carvalho and Rc Marques

Skill-based framework for optimal software project selection and resource allocation pp. 308-318

Fadi A. Zaraket, Majd Olleik and Ali A. Yassine

Financial sustainability and poverty outreach within a network of village banks in Cameroon: A multi-DEA approach pp. 319-330

Isabelle Piot-Lepetit and Joseph Nzongang

The informational aspect of the group-buying mechanism pp. 331-340

Xiaoying Liang, Lijun Ma, Lei Xie and Houmin Yan

A note on a variant of radial measure capable of dealing with negative inputs and outputs in DEA pp. 341-342

Kristiaan Kerstens and Ignace Van de Woestyne