International Journal of Operational Research

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Volume 18, issue 4, 2013

Multi-objective imperfect production inventory model in fuzzy rough environment via genetic algorithm pp. 365-385

D.K. Jana, K. Maity and T.K. Roy

Efficiency measurement of Indian steel industry using data envelopment analysis pp. 386-400

Amit Kumar Dwivedi, Priyanko Ghosh and G.S. Dangayach

Vendor-managed inventory models for items with imperfect quality pp. 401-433

Mohammed A. Darwish, Osama M. Odah and Suresh Kumar Goyal

An integrated inventory model with fuzzy variables, three-parameter Weibull deterioration and variable holding cost under inflation pp. 434-451

Vandana Gupta and S.R. Singh

Single server unreliable queueing model with removable service station pp. 452-466

Charan Jeet Singh and Madhu Jain

Determine targets with revenue maximisation and downside risk hedging considerations under the stochastic setting pp. 467-483

Xiangling Hu and Jaideep G. Motwani

A discrete time deteriorating inventory system with geometric lead time pp. 484-498

A. Shophia Lawrence, B. Sivakumar and G. Arivarignan

Volume 18, issue 3, 2013

Replenishment decisions under two-level credit policy for flexible credit linked demand pp. 239-254

Chandra K. Jaggi, Suresh Kumar Goyal, P.K. Kapur and Satish K. Goel

A study on the interactions between supply chain risk management criteria using fuzzy DEMATEL method pp. 255-271

Avinash Samvedi and Vipul Jain

A Lagrangean relaxation approach for capacitated lot sizing problem with setup times pp. 272-303

Chun-Hung Cheng, Manohar S. Madan, Jaideep Motwani and Ka-Yun Yip

Optimal wholesale price for producer in supply chain under newsboy environment pp. 304-317

M.A. Darwish and Majid Aldaihani

MASS: an analytical model for assessment of supply chain entity pp. 318-345

P. Parthiban, H. Abdul Zubar, K. Ganesh and S. Nagarajan

Optimal process mean for a stochastic inventory model under service level constraint pp. 346-363

M.J. Alkhedher and M.A. Darwish

Volume 18, issue 2, 2013

Tableau form of the fuzzy primal-dual simplex algorithm for solving linear programmes with trapezoidal fuzzy numbers pp. 123-139

Ali Ebrahimnejad

Integrated model of production planning and imperfect preventive maintenance policy for single machine system pp. 140-156

Shijin Wang

Variable neighbourhood search algorithms for asymmetric travelling salesman problems pp. 157-170

Ittiporn Piriyaniti and Pisut Pongchairerks

An application of multi-component ranking in banks by context-dependent DEA for non-extreme efficient DMUs pp. 171-187

Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, G.R. Jahanshahloo, M. Vaez-ghasemi and Z. Moghaddas

An absorbing Markov chain in labour system planning pp. 188-200

Akaninyene Udo Udom

A class of random algorithms for inventory cycle offsetting pp. 201-217

Ernest Croot and Kai Huang

Analysis of a service facility with cross trained servers and optional feedback pp. 218-237

D. Arivudainambi and V. Poongothai

Volume 18, issue 1, 2013

Periodic efficiency measurement for achieving correct efficiency among several terms of evaluation pp. 1-15

Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, G.R. Jahanshahloo, M. Vaez-ghasemi and Z. Moghaddas

Developing a new neutral DEA model for media selection in the existence of imprecise data pp. 16-34

Majid Azadi, Reza Farzipoor Saen and Ehsan Momeni

An M x /G/1 retrial queue with two phase service under active server breakdowns, two types of repair and multiple vacations with N-policy pp. 35-61

V. Jailaxmi, R. Arumuganathan and A. Rathinasamy

Recyclable outputs in production process: a data envelopment analysis approach pp. 62-70

Alireza Amirteimoori, Leila Khoshandam and Sohrab Kordrostami

Stationary solution to a tandem fluid queue with input controlled by exponential timer pp. 71-90

A. Vijayakumar and S. Sophia

Performance evaluation of public and private sector banks in India using DEA approach pp. 91-121

Jolly Puri and Shiv Prasad Yadav

Volume 17, issue 4, 2013

Bayesian pricing strategy for information goods pp. 399-416

Ziping Wang, Samar K. Mukhopadhyay and Dong-Qing Yao

Fuzzy stochastic linear programming-based approach for multiple departures single destination multiple travelling salesman problem pp. 417-435

Seyed Gholamreza Jalali Naini, Mohammad Mahdi Paydar, Javid Jouzdani and Mohammad Fathian

EPQ model with fuzzy coefficient of objective and constraint via parametric geometric programming pp. 436-448

G.S. Mahapatra, T.K. Mandal and G.P. Samanta

Modelling and analysis of a multi-stage system involving batch processors with incompatible job families pp. 449-482

John Benedict C. Tajan, Appa Iyer Sivakumar and Stanley B. Gershwin

An artificial bee colony approach for the undirected capacitated arc routing problem with profits pp. 483-508

Tunchan Cura

A new greedy randomised adaptive search procedure for solving the maximum satisfiability problem pp. 509-525

Abdesslem Layeb

Volume 17, issue 3, 2013

Simulated annealing and imperialist competitive algorithm for minimising makespan in an open shop pp. 275-294

Fariborz Jolai, Seyed Morteza Goldansaz and Amir Hossein Zahedi-Anaraki

Facility location in responsive and flexible supply chain network design (SCND) considering outsourcing pp. 295-310

Reza Babazadeh, Jafar Razmi and Reza Ghodsi

A working vacation queue with priority customers and vacation interruptions pp. 311-332

Cosmika Goswami and N. Selvaraju

An M/M/c/N queuing system with reneging and retention of reneged customers pp. 333-344

Rakesh Kumar and Sumeet Kumar Sharma

An improved ant-colony algorithm for the grouping of machine-cells and part-families in cellular manufacturing systems pp. 345-373

N. Megala and Chandrasekharan Rajendran

Availability prediction of imperfect fault coverage system with reboot and common cause failure pp. 374-397

Madhu Jain

Volume 17, issue 2, 2013

REFING: heuristic to solve bi-objective resource allocation problem with bound and varying capacity pp. 145-169

R.A. Malairajan, K. Ganesh, Tzong-Ru Lee and S.P. Anbuudayasankar

The use of Markov models in modelling students' flows in a multi-echelon educational system pp. 170-182

Augustine A. Osagiede and Virtue U. Ekhosuehi

A production model for ameliorating items with quality consideration pp. 183-198

Himani Dem and S.R. Singh

A model for classification of intermediate measures and evaluating the performance of chain and its members pp. 199-214

Seyed Morteza Hatefi and Fariborz Jolai

Global supplier selection considering sustainability and carbon footprint issue: AHP multi-objective fuzzy linear programming approach pp. 215-247

Krishnendu Shaw, Ravi Shankar, Surendra S. Yadav and Lakshman S. Thakur

Unreliable M x /G/1 retrial queue with multi-optional services and impatient customers pp. 248-273

Amita Bhagat and Madhu Jain

Volume 17, issue 1, 2013

Sensitivity and stability analysis in two-stage DEA models with fuzzy data pp. 1-37

Kaveh Khalili-Damghani and Behnam Taghavifard

An integrated fuzzy DEA-fuzzy AHP approach: a new model for ranking decision-making units pp. 38-58

Seyed Mostafa Alem, Fariborz Jolai and Salman Nazari-Shirkouhi

Stochastic bicriteria single machine scheduling with quadratic cost functions pp. 59-103

H.M. Soroush

An EPQ model for an imperfect production system with rework and shortages pp. 104-124

C. Krishnamoorthi and S. Panayappan

An analytical framework for the design of service delivery systems: a co-production approach pp. 125-144

Truong Trinh and Voratas Kachitvichyanukul

Volume 16, issue 4, 2013

Multi-floor dynamic facility layout: a simulated annealing-based solution pp. 375-389

Yaser Khosravian Ghadikolaei and Kamran Shahanaghi

Adaptive biogeography-based optimisation for two-sided mixed-model assembly line sequencing problems pp. 390-420

Parames Chutima and Karn Jitmetta

Three-stage supply chain coordination under fuzzy random demand and production rate with imperfect production process pp. 421-447

Dharmendra Yadav, S.R. Singh and Rachna Kumari

A dynamic sustainable cell formation problem in agile production systems pp. 448-464

Reza Babazadeh, Hamed Rafiei and Masoud Rabbani

Modelling diffusion of successive generations of technology: a general framework pp. 465-484

P.K. Kapur, Anu G. Aggarwal, Amir Hossein Soleiman Garmabaki and Gurinder Singh

Volume 16, issue 3, 2013

Ordering decisions of single period split order supply chain with various demand distributions pp. 263-286

P. Kalpana and Arshinder Kaur

Some majorisation results in optimal manpower control pp. 287-303

Akaninyene Udo Udom

Scheduling and routing of city buses for a public transport company pp. 304-328

Mehmet Savsar, Jafar Alnaqi and Mawada Atash

Nested particle swarm optimisation for multi-depot vehicle routing problem pp. 329-348

S. Geetha, G. Poonthalir and P.T. Vanathi

University website quality comparison by using non-parametric statistical test: a case study from Malaysia pp. 349-374

P.D.D. Dominic, Handaru Jati and Suhaiza Hanim

Volume 16, issue 2, 2013

Supplier selection: an analytic network process and imprecise goal programming model integrating the decision-maker's preferences pp. 137-154

Sourour Aouadni, Mohamed Anis Allouche and Abdelwaheb Rebaï

Genetic algorithm approach for integrating cell formation with machine layout and cell layout pp. 155-171

K. Chandrasekar and P. Venkumar

Analytic network process - an overview of applications in research and practice pp. 172-213

Judith Hülle, Ralf Kaspar and Klaus Möller

Lean distribution principles to food logistics: a product category approach pp. 214-240

Maurizio Faccio, Emilio Ferrari, Alessandro Persona and Pietro Vecchiato

Optimal stochastic inventory control with deterioration and partial backlogging/service-level constraints pp. 241-261

Yang Tan and Michael X. Weng

Volume 16, issue 1, 2013

A vendor-buyer integrated production-inventory model with quantity discount and unequal sized shipments pp. 1-13

B.C. Giri and B. Roy

Parallel branch-and-bound and parallel PSO algorithms for job shop scheduling problem with blocking pp. 14-37

Abdelhakim AitZai and Mourad Boudhar

Optimisation of complex and large-sized single-row facility layout problems with a unique hybrid meta-heuristic framework pp. 38-67

Ali Azadeh, Maryam Nouri Roozbahani and Mohsen Moghaddam

E-products pricing problem under uncertainty: a geometric programming approach pp. 68-80

Mohsen Fathollah Bayati, Davood Shishebori and Kamran Shahanaghi

Vector optimisation using fuzzy preference in evolutionary strategy based firefly algorithm pp. 81-95

Surafel Luleseged Tilahun and Hong Choon Ong

Optimal partial backordering two-storage inventory model for deteriorating items with variable demand pp. 96-112

U.K. Bera, A.K. Bhunia and Manoranjan Maiti

Multiobjective planning for naval mine counter measures missions pp. 113-135

Casey D. Trail, Mendel D. Schmiedekamp, Shashi Phoha and John P. Sustersic