International Journal of Operational Research

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Volume 42, issue 3, 2021

On the scheduling of handling equipment in automated container terminals pp. 277-291

Iñigo L. Ansorena

A DEA model towards efficiency estimation of biomass energy production of agro-energy districts pp. 292-309

Anna Kalioropoulou, Basil Manos and Thomas Bournaris

Analysis of MAP/PH/1 retrial queue with constant retrial rate, working vacations, abandonment, flush out, search of customers, breakdown and repair pp. 310-331

G. Ayyappan and R. Gowthami

Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II for locating emergency bases to minimise mean and standard deviation of service time pp. 332-357

Hamid Reza Golmakani and Mahtab Eskandar

Duality of control problems in general Banach spaces pp. 358-370

Pramoda Kumar Behera, Saroj Kumar Padhan and Chandal Nahak

Analysis of unreliable bulk queueing system with overloading service, variant arrival rate, closedown under multiple vacation policy pp. 371-399

G. Ayyappan and M. Nirmala

Enhancing reliability/availability in asset management with retrofitting: a wind turbine case study pp. 400-421

Suna Cinar, Ferenc Szidarovszky and Mehmet Bayram Yildirim

Volume 42, issue 2, 2021

Analysis of batch arrival single server queue with random vacation policy and two types of general heterogeneous repeated service pp. 131-162

Priyanka Kalita and Gautam Choudhury

Research and development project funding and the efficiency of participating companies - the case of the Austrian general program pp. 163-189

Drinko Kurevija

A new heuristic for flow shop scheduling problems minimising system utilisation time subject to minimum makespan pp. 190-228

Meenakshi Sharma, Manisha Sharma and Sameer Sharma

A bi-objective robust possibilistic programming model for blood supply chain design in the mass casualty event response phase: a M/M/1/K queuing model with real world application pp. 229-275

Mahsa Pouraliakbari-Mamaghani, Mohammad Mohammadi, Alireza Arshadi-Khamseh and Bahman Naderi

Volume 42, issue 1, 2021

Optimal multiplicative generalised coordinated search technique to find a d-dimensional random walker pp. 1-33

Mohamed Abd Allah El-Hadidy, Ajab Abdullah Alfreedi and Alaa Awad Alzulaibani

An analysis of selected barriers towards the implementation of an energy efficient sustainable manufacturing system: a graph theoretic approach pp. 34-55

Subrata Kumar Patra, Tilak Raj and B.B. Arora

The effect of supply chain structure on inventory management: serial or parallel? pp. 56-72

Xiaoming Li, Qidong Cao and Thomas E. Griffin

The effect of order incentives in a multi-product dynamic inventory model pp. 73-90

Bin Zhou, Hua Zhong and John Wang

Analysis of self service ( s, S ) inventory with general lead time and positive service time pp. 91-106

Anoop N. Nair and M.J. Jacob

A data analysis framework to predict the behaviour of macroeconomic indicators of countries pp. 107-129

M.I. Nafeesathul Basariya and Murugesan Punniyamoorthy

Volume 41, issue 4, 2021

Fuzzy expectation-spread-skewness model for Shariah-compliant portfolio optimisation pp. 447-476

Imen Ben Abdelwahed and Faouzi Trabelsi

Extreme learning machine-based investigation on automated detection of architectural distortion in mammograms pp. 477-491

Elangeeran Malar and P. Deepan Chakravarthi

A green closed-loop supply chain network: a bi-objective mixed integer linear programming model pp. 492-513

Sobhgol Gholipour, Farhad Salehian, Hassan Lamouchi and Hassan Mina

A novel method of variable selection in data envelopment analysis with entropy measures pp. 514-534

Qiang Deng, Zhaotong Lian and Qi Fu

Fuzzy bi-objective model for hazardous materials routing and scheduling under demand and service time uncertainty pp. 535-568

Kamran S. Moghaddam and Jalil Kianfar

A hybrid state feedback controller design for two different dynamic systems pp. 569-576

P. Aravind, V. Veeramani and S.M. Girirajkumar

Volume 41, issue 3, 2021

An M [ X ] / G ( a, b )/1 queueing system with unreliable server, stand-by server, restricted arrivals and variant threshold policy for vacations pp. 299-323

G. Ayyappan and S. Karpagam

Modelling the sustainable supply chain management practices in Indian industries: a business model using the fuzzy TOPSIS approach pp. 324-351

K. Mathiyazhagan and Sarthak Ahuja

Usage of pedestrian bridges among the urban commuters in Kuala Lumpur: a conceptual analysis and future direction pp. 352-372

Siti Norida Wahab, Yan Feng Lay, Wui Lim Koay and Amir Aatieff Amir Hussin

An analysis and modelling of selected barriers for a sustainable manufacturing system using ISM technique pp. 373-398

Subrata Kumar Patra, Tilak Raj and B.B. Arora

A new particle swarm optimisation variant-based experimental verification of an industrial robot trajectory planning pp. 399-422

S. Mahalakshmi and A. Arokiasamy

Optimising a production plan for underground coal mining: a genetic algorithm application pp. 423-445

Supriyo Roy and R.P. Mohanty

Volume 41, issue 2, 2021

New modified ratio type estimator of the population mean using the known median of the study variable pp. 151-167

S.K. Yadav, Dinesh K. Sharma and S.S. Mishra

Bargaining in a closed-loop supply chain with consumer returns pp. 168-195

Yertai Tanai, Emmanuel Dechenaux, Eddy B. Patuwo and Alfred L. Guiffrida

Energy-awareness scheduling of unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems with multiple resource constraints pp. 196-217

Bing-Hai Zhou and Jiaying Gu

A linear algorithm for a minimax location of a path-shaped facility with a specific length in a weighted tree network pp. 218-225

Abdallah W. Aboutahoun and Fatma El-Safty

Developing a new chance constrained modified ERM model to measure performance of repair and maintenance groups of IRALCO pp. 226-243

Mohammad Izadikhah

Bounding strategies for obtaining a lower bound for N-job and M-machine flowshop scheduling problem with objective of minimising the total flowtime of jobs pp. 244-269

S. Saravana Kumar, C. Rajendran and Rainer Leisten

Worm optimisation algorithm to minimise the makespan for the two-machine scheduling problem with a single server pp. 270-281

Jean-Paul Arnaout

A review and classification of heuristic algorithms for the inventory routing problem pp. 282-298

Stella Sofianopoulou and Ioannis Mitsopoulos

Volume 41, issue 1, 2021

A developed multi-criteria group decision-making method based on interval valued hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and mentality parameter pp. 4-26

Nesrin Halouani

A FEPQ model of sustainable items with time and stock dependent demand under trade credit policy pp. 27-52

Bijoy Krishna Debnath, Pinki Majumder and Uttam Kumar Bera

Self-adaptive bee colony optimisation algorithm for the flexible job-shop scheduling problem pp. 53-70

Malek Alzaqebah, Salwani Abdullah, Rami Malkawi and Sana Jawarneh

A postponed inventory system with modified M vacation policy pp. 71-113

I. Padmavathi and B. Sivakumar

Dynamic analysis to set idle time between jobs on a single machine pp. 114-134

A.N. Senthilvel, S. Umamaheswari and C. Arumugam

Solving industrial multiprocessor task scheduling problems using an improved monkey search algorithm pp. 135-149

M.K. Marichelvam and M. Geetha

Volume 40, issue 4, 2021

Location of depots and allocation of buses to depots in urban road transport organisations: a mathematical model and greedy heuristic algorithm pp. 411-436

M. Mathirajan, P. Suba and Ramakrishnan Ramanathan

Analysis of a variant working vacation queue with customer impatience and server breakdowns pp. 437-459

P. Vijaya Laxmi, P. Rajesh and T.W. Kassahun

Efficiency measurement of Canadian oil and gas companies pp. 460-488

Mohamed Dia, Pawoumodom M. Takouda and Amirmohsen Golmohammadi

The second purchase decision under selling price-sensitive stochastic demand and purchasing price uncertainty pp. 489-501

Xiangling Hu and Jaideep Motwani

Flexible shift scheduling for a call centre using column generation pp. 502-523

Carlos Campos Amezcua, Omar G. Rojas, Emilio Zamudio Gutierrez and Elias Olivares-Benitez

Reliability models of a series-parallel system with replacement at failure pp. 524-543

Nura Khalil and Ibrahim Yusuf

Volume 40, issue 3, 2021

An economic production quantity model with imperfection in process, unit transportation cost and backordering pp. 279-296

Mubashir Hayat

Evaluation and ranking of the banks and financial institutes using fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS techniques pp. 297-317

Mohammad Reza Hassanzadeh and Changiz Valmohammadi

Asset management strategies for wind turbines: keeping or retrofitting existing wind turbines? pp. 318-341

Suna Cinar, Saeed Rubaiee and Mehmet Bayram Yildirim

A game theoretic approach for integrated pricing, lot-sizing and advertising decisions in a dual-channel supply chain pp. 342-365

Javad Zarei, Morteza Rasti-Barzoki and Seyed Reza Hejazi

A dynamic programming approach for solving the economic lot scheduling problem with batch shipments pp. 366-379

Fabian G. Beck and Christoph H. Glock

Inventory model based upon order criticality pp. 380-409

Kamal Sanguri and Sri Vanamalla Venkataraman

Volume 40, issue 2, 2021

Analysis of infinite buffer general bulk service queue with state dependent balking pp. 137-161

Gopal K. Gupta and A. Banerjee

Short-term operating room scheduling: a parallel machine under resource constraints problem pp. 162-184

Mohamed Amine Abdeljaoued, Zied Bahroun and Nour El Houda Saadani

Spiral with line segment directory for a helix search path to find a randomly located target in the space pp. 185-199

Mohamed Abd Allah El-Hadidy

A comprehensive review of approaches used for solving tele-centre location allocation problem in geographical plane pp. 200-238

Rajan Gupta, Sunil K. Muttoo and Saibal K. Pal

Performance analysis of asynchronous priority-based internet router under self-similar traffic input - queueing system with Markovian input and hyper-exponential services pp. 239-260

Malla Reddy Perati and Ravi Kumar Gudimalla

On modelling hard combinatorial optimisation problems as linear programs: refutations of the 'unconditional impossibility' claims pp. 261-278

Moustapha Diaby, Mark H. Karwan and Lei Sun

Volume 40, issue 1, 2021

Stationary distribution of an infinite-buffer batch-arrival and batch-service queue with random serving capacity and batch-size-dependent service pp. 1-31

S. Pradhan and U.C. Gupta

A model for optimal allocation of human resources based on the operational performance of organisational units by multi-agent systems pp. 32-51

Rahim Khanizad and Gholam Ali Montazer

A methodology to surface aspects of organisational culture to facilitate lean implementation within SMEs pp. 52-91

Abdullah Abdulaziz Alkhoraif and Patrick McLaughlin

Optimisation approach to solve the truck loading and delivery problem at long haul distances with heterogeneous products and fleet pp. 92-116

Luis-Angel Cantillo, Victor Cantillo and Pablo A. Miranda

The EOQ model with items of imperfect quality and replenishment from different suppliers pp. 117-136

Noura Yassine