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Volume 44, issue C, 2014

Data envelopment analysis: Prior to choosing a model pp. 1-4

Wade D. Cook, Kaoru Tone and Joe Zhu

Efficiency measures of the Chinese commercial banking system using an additive two-stage DEA pp. 5-20

Ke Wang, Wei Huang, Jie Wu and Ying-Nan Liu

A flexibly structured lot sizing heuristic for a static remanufacturing system pp. 21-31

Tobias Schulz and Guido Voigt

An integrated approach for water resources decision making under interactive and compound uncertainties pp. 32-40

S. Wang and G.H. Huang

An effective iterated greedy algorithm for the mixed no-idle permutation flowshop scheduling problem pp. 41-50

Quan-Ke Pan and Rubén Ruiz

Closest targets and strong monotonicity on the strongly efficient frontier in DEA pp. 51-57

Juan Aparicio and Jesus Pastor

Production efficiency in Indian agriculture: An assessment of the post green revolution years pp. 58-69

Subhash Ray and Arpita Ghose

Incorporating balance concerns in resource allocation decisions: A bi-criteria modelling approach pp. 70-82

Özlem Karsu and Alec Morton

Tailoring value elicitation to decision makers' numeracy and fluency: Expressing value judgments in numbers or words pp. 83-90

Barbara Fasolo and Carlos A. Bana e Costa

Revisiting the determinants of local government performance pp. 91-103

Nuno da Cruz and Rc Marques

A game mechanism for single machine sequencing with zero risk pp. 104-110

Mikhail Y. Kovalyov and Erwin Pesch

Why trustworthiness in an IT vendor is important even after the vendor left: IT is accepting the message and not just the messenger that is important pp. 111-125

David Gefen and Iris Reychav

Strategic pricing with reference effects in a competitive supply chain pp. 126-135

Jie Zhang, Kevin Chiang, Wei–yu and Liang Liang

Multi-attribute group decision making with aspirations: A case study pp. 136-147

Bo Feng and Fujun Lai

Volume 43, issue C, 2014

On the assessment of costs in a newsvendor environment: Insights from an experimental study pp. 1-8

Sebastian Schiffels, Andreas Fügener, Rainer Kolisch and O. Jens Brunner

Discriminating thresholds as a tool to cope with imperfect knowledge in multiple criteria decision aiding: Theoretical results and practical issues pp. 9-20

B. Roy, J.R. Figueira and J. Almeida-Dias

Mixed integer (0–1) fractional programming for decision support in paper production industry pp. 21-29

G.D.H. Claassen

A closed-loop supply chain for deteriorating products under stochastic container return times pp. 30-40

Taebok Kim, Christoph H. Glock and Yongjang Kwon

Staff rostering in call centers providing employee transportation pp. 41-53

E. Lerzan Örmeci, F. Sibel Salman and Eda Yücel

Managing consumer returns in high clockspeed industries pp. 54-63

Rocío Ruiz-Benítez, Michael Ketzenberg and Erwin van der Laan

On approximation of the fixed charge transportation problem pp. 64-70

Veena Adlakha, Krzysztof Kowalski, Simi Wang, Benjamin Lev and Wenjing Shen

Approaches to solve the fleet-assignment, aircraft-routing, crew-pairing and crew-rostering problems of a regional carrier pp. 71-82

Juan-José Salazar-González

Joint supplier selection and scheduling of customer orders under disruption risks: Single vs. dual sourcing pp. 83-95

Tadeusz Sawik

A combined robot selection and scheduling problem for flow-shops with no-wait restrictions pp. 96-107

Dvir Shabtay, Kfir Arviv, Helman Stern and Yael Edan

Volume 41, issue 6, 2013

Fuzzy LINMAP approach to heterogeneous MADM considering comparisons of alternatives with hesitation degrees pp. 925-940

Shu-Ping Wan and Deng-Feng Li

A production model for deteriorating items with stochastic preventive maintenance time and rework process with FIFO rule pp. 941-954

Hui Ming Wee and Gede Agus Widyadana

Integrated scheduling and inventory management of an oil products distribution system pp. 955-968

Susana Relvas, Suelen N. Boschetto Magatão, Ana Paula F.D. Barbosa-Póvoa and Flávio Neves

Multi-echelon supply chain network design in agile manufacturing pp. 969-983

Feng Pan and Rakesh Nagi

A unifying framework for duality and modeling in robust linear programs pp. 984-997

A.L. Soyster and F.H. Murphy

A joint optimal pricing and order quantity model under parameter uncertainty and its practical implementation pp. 998-1007

Sungmook Lim

Deterministic models for premature and postponed replacement pp. 1008-1019

Roger Adkins and Dean Paxson

A newsboy problem with an emergency order under a general backorder rate function pp. 1020-1028

Valentín Pando, Luis A. San-José, Juan García-Laguna and Joaquín Sicilia

Supplier integration and company performance: A configurational view pp. 1029-1041

Pamela Danese

Centralized nurse scheduling to simultaneously improve schedule cost and nurse satisfaction pp. 1042-1052

P. Daniel Wright and Stephen Mahar

Performance of weather-conditional rebates under different risk preferences pp. 1053-1067

Ozgun Caliskan Demirag

Volume 41, issue 5, 2013

Mixed contracts for the newsvendor problem with real options and discrete demand pp. 809-819

Kurt Jörnsten, Sigrid Lise Nonås, Leif Sandal and Jan Ubøe

Multiple Criteria Hierarchy Process with ELECTRE and PROMETHEE pp. 820-846

Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco and Roman Słowiński

Management of school locations allowing for free school choice pp. 847-855

Knut Haase and Sven Müller

Optimal location and capability of oil-spill response facilities for the south coast of Newfoundland pp. 856-867

Manish Verma, Michel Gendreau and Gilbert Laporte

Inner and outer approximations of technology: A shadow profit approach pp. 868-871

Hervé Leleu

The effect of preservation technology investment on a non-instantaneous deteriorating inventory model pp. 872-880

Chung-Yuan Dye

Multi-objective simulation optimization using data envelopment analysis and genetic algorithm: Specific application to determining optimal resource levels in surgical services pp. 881-892

Rung-Chuan Lin, Mustafa Y. Sir and Kalyan S. Pasupathy

A survey of DEA applications pp. 893-902

John S. Liu, Louis Y.Y. Lu, Wen-Min Lu and Bruce J.Y. Lin

Reconstructing nurse schedules: Computational insights in the problem size parameters pp. 903-918

Broos Maenhout and Mario Vanhoucke

On the optimality of the optimal policies for the deterministic EPQ with partial backordering pp. 919-923

Irena Stojkovska

Volume 41, issue 4, 2013

Assessing fairness of selfish revenue sharing mechanisms for airline alliances pp. 641-652

D. Çetiner and A. Kimms

Measuring and explaining the cost efficiency of municipal solid waste collection and processing services pp. 653-664

Nicky Rogge and Simon De Jaeger

A free gift card alternative to price discounts in the newsvendor problem pp. 665-678

Moutaz Khouja, Sungjune Park and Jing Zhou

Integrating multicriteria decision analysis and scenario planning—Review and extension pp. 679-688

Theodor J. Stewart, Simon French and Jesus Rios

Dynamic capacity adjustments with reactive customers pp. 689-705

Ann van Ackere, Christian Haxholdt and Erik R. Larsen

Integrating commercial and residential pickup and delivery networks: A case study pp. 706-720

Jonathan F. Bard and Ahmad I. Jarrah

The maximum dispersion problem pp. 721-730

Elena Fernández, Jörg Kalcsics and Stefan Nickel

A slacks-based measure of super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis: An alternative approach pp. 731-734

Hsin-Hsiung Fang, Hsuan-Shih Lee, Shiuh-Nan Hwang and Cheng-Chi Chung

RUTA: A framework for assessing and selecting additive value functions on the basis of rank related requirements pp. 735-751

Miłosz Kadziński, Salvatore Greco and Roman Słowiński

Fresh-product supply chain management with logistics outsourcing pp. 752-765

Xiaoqiang Cai, Jian Chen, Yongbo Xiao, Xiaolin Xu and Gang Yu

Location and reliability problems on a line: Impact of objectives and correlated failures on optimal location patterns pp. 766-779

Oded Berman, Dmitry Krass and Mozart B.C. Menezes

Supply chain coordination using revenue-dependent revenue sharing contracts pp. 780-796

Omkar D. Palsule-Desai

Profitability of loyalty reward programs: An analytical investigation pp. 797-807

A. Gandomi and S. Zolfaghari

Volume 41, issue 3, 2013

Efficiency improvement from multiple perspectives: An application to Japanese banking industry pp. 501-509

Xiaopeng Yang and Hiroshi Morita

Multi-product lot scheduling with backordering and shelf-life constraints pp. 510-516

Changyuan Yan, Yi Liao and Avijit Banerjee

Carbon price forecasting with a novel hybrid ARIMA and least squares support vector machines methodology pp. 517-524

Bangzhu Zhu and Yi-Ming Wei

Commercial territory design planning with realignment and disjoint assignment requirements pp. 525-535

Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado and J. Fabián López-Pérez

Integrated production strategy and reuse scenario: A CoFAQ model and case study of mail server system development pp. 536-552

Jiafu Tang, Wu Zhiqiao, C.K. Kwong and Xinggang Luo

Sustainable design performance evaluation with applications in the automobile industry: Focusing on inefficiency by undesirable factors pp. 553-558

Shiuh-Nan Hwang, Chialin Chen, Yao Chen, Hsuan-Shih Lee and Pei-Di Shen

Water resources management under multi-parameter interactions: A factorial multi-stage stochastic programming approach pp. 559-573

Yang Zhou, Guo H. Huang and Boting Yang

The compatibility of durable goods with contingent generic consumables pp. 574-585

S. Sinan Erzurumlu

An integrated production and inventory model for a whole manufacturing supply chain involving reverse logistics with finite horizon period pp. 598-620

Jonrinaldi, and D.Z. Zhang

Super-efficiency based on a modified directional distance function pp. 621-625

Yao Chen, Juan Du and Jiazhen Huo

Impact of product proliferation on the reverse supply chain pp. 626-639

Shui-Mu Huang and Jack C.P. Su

Volume 41, issue 2, 2013

Returns to scale vs. damages to scale in data envelopment analysis: An impact of U.S. clean air act on coal-fired power plants pp. 164-175

Toshiyuki Sueyoshi and Mika Goto

Bayesian approach for optimal PV system sizing under climate change pp. 176-185

Shin-Guang Chen

The closed-loop supply chain network with competition, distribution channel investment, and uncertainties pp. 186-194

Qiang Qiang, Ke Ke, Trisha Anderson and June Dong

Does the market value corporate response to climate change? pp. 195-206

Audrey Wen-hsin Hsu and Tawei Wang

Risk management and managerial efficiency in Chinese banks: A network DEA framework pp. 207-215

Kent Matthews

Single-machine batch delivery scheduling with an assignable common due window pp. 216-225

Yunqiang Yin, T.C.E. Cheng, Chou-Jung Hsu and Chin-Chia Wu

Reducing the number of setups for CNC punch presses pp. 226-235

S. Zamiri Marvizadeh and F.F. Choobineh

Real option games with R&D and learning spillovers pp. 236-249

Spiros H. Martzoukos and Eleftherios Zacharias

Exact and heuristic methods for a class of selective newsvendor problems with normally distributed demands pp. 250-258

Zohar M.A. Strinka, H. Edwin Romeijn and Jingchen Wu

Selection of resilient supply portfolio under disruption risks pp. 259-269

Tadeusz Sawik

An assessment of sustainable housing affordability using a multiple criteria decision making method pp. 270-279

Emma Mulliner, Kieran Smallbone and Vida Maliene

The impact of a waiting-time threshold in overflow systems with impatient customers pp. 280-286

Raik Stolletz and Michael Manitz

OEM product design in a price competition with remanufactured product pp. 287-298

Cheng-Han Wu

Scheduling tool changes and special jobs on a single machine to minimize makespan pp. 299-304

Dehua Xu, Min Liu, Yunqiang Yin and Jinghua Hao

Economies of scope in research and teaching: A non-parametric investigation pp. 305-314

Kristof De Witte, Nicky Rogge, Laurens Cherchye and Tom Van Puyenbroeck

Evolving the latent variable model as an environmental DEA technology pp. 315-325

Abraham Bretholt and Jeh-Nan Pan

The price-setting newsvendor with service and loss constraints pp. 326-335

Werner Jammernegg and Peter Kischka

Learning to learn and productivity growth: Evidence from a new car-assembly plant pp. 336-344

Carlos Sáenz-Royo and Vicente Salas-Fumás

Supply chain coordination through cooperative advertising with reference price effect pp. 345-353

Juan Zhang, Qinglong Gou, Liang Liang and Zhimin Huang

An EOQ model with partial delayed payment and partial backordering pp. 354-368

Ata Allah Taleizadeh, David W. Pentico, Mohammad Saeed Jabalameli and Mirbahador Aryanezhad

Multiobjective optimisation of production, distribution and capacity planning of global supply chains in the process industry pp. 369-382

Songsong Liu and Lazaros G. Papageorgiou

Minimizing makespan in a blocking flowshop using a revised artificial immune system algorithm pp. 383-389

Shih-Wei Lin and Kuo-Ching Ying

Decision support for lead time and demand variability reduction pp. 390-396

Xin Fang, Cheng Zhang, David J. Robb and Joseph D. Blackburn

Dominance intensity measure within fuzzy weight oriented MAUT: An application pp. 397-405

Antonio Jiménez, Alfonso Mateos and Pilar Sabio

Portfolio rebalancing with an investment horizon and transaction costs pp. 406-420

M. Woodside-Oriakhi, C. Lucas and John Beasley

Optimizing inventory and marketing policy for non-instantaneous deteriorating items with generalized type deterioration and holding cost rates pp. 421-430

Nita H Shah, Hardik N Soni and Kamlesh A Patel

Aligning supply chain collaboration using Analytic Hierarchy Process pp. 431-440

Usha Ramanathan

A note on the article “Economic order quantity with trade credit financing for non-decreasing demand” pp. 441-441

Kun-Jen Chung

Benchmarking airports from a managerial perspective pp. 442-458

Nicole Adler, Vanessa Liebert and Ekaterina Yazhemsky

Technology adoption and training practices as a constrained shortest path problem pp. 459-472

Steven D. Formaneck and Brian P. Cozzarin

In-house capability and supply chain decisions pp. 473-484

Kashi R. Balachandran, Hsiao-Wen Wang, Shu-Hsing Li and Taychang Wang

An integrated nurse staffing and scheduling analysis for longer-term nursing staff allocation problems pp. 485-499

Broos Maenhout and Mario Vanhoucke

Volume 41, issue 1, 2013

Data envelopment analysis 1978–2010: A citation-based literature survey pp. 3-15

John S. Liu, Louis Y.Y. Lu, Wen-Min Lu and Bruce J.Y. Lin

Imposing the Regular Ultra Passum law in DEA models pp. 16-27

Ole Bent Olesen and Niels Christian Petersen

DEA, directional distance functions and positive, affine data transformation pp. 28-30

Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf

Ensuring units invariant slack selection in radial data envelopment analysis models, and incorporating slacks into an overall efficiency score pp. 31-40

Barak Edelstein and Joseph C. Paradi

DEA with streaming data pp. 41-47

J.H. Dulá and F.J. López

Generalized symmetric weight assignment technique: Incorporating managerial preferences in data envelopment analysis using a penalty function pp. 48-54

Stanko Dimitrov and Warren Sutton

Allocating a fixed cost based on data envelopment analysis and satisfaction degree pp. 55-60

Yongjun Li, Min Yang, Ya Chen, Qianzhi Dai and Liang Liang

A survey on bank branch efficiency and performance research with data envelopment analysis pp. 61-79

Joseph C. Paradi and Haiyan Zhu

Rationalising inefficiency: Staff utilisation in branches of a large Canadian bank pp. 80-87

Mette Asmild, Peter Bogetoft and Jens Leth Hougaard

Estimating two-stage network Slacks-based inefficiency: An application to Bangladesh banking pp. 88-96

Syed Akther, Hirofumi Fukuyama and William L. Weber

Non-parametric measurement of economies of scale and scope in non-competitive environment with price uncertainty pp. 97-111

Biresh K. Sahoo and Kaoru Tone

Centralized resource planning and Yardstick competition pp. 112-118

Armin Varmaz, Andreas Varwig and Thorsten Poddig

Human resource rightsizing using centralized data envelopment analysis: Evidence from Taiwan's Airports pp. 119-130

Ming-Miin Yu, Ching-Chin Chern and Bo Hsiao

Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for monitoring efficiency-based performance of productivity-driven organizations: Design and implementation of a decision support system pp. 131-142

Sergey Samoilenko and Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson

R&D, productivity, and market value: An empirical study from high-technology firms pp. 143-155

Chun-Hsien Wang, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Chin-Wei Huang and Jun-Yen Lee