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Volume 67, issue 12, 2016

A mega-trend-diffusion grey forecasting model for short-term manufacturing demand pp. 1439-1445

Che-Jung Chang, Liping Yu and Peng Jin

Determining common weights in data envelopment analysis based on the satisfaction degree pp. 1446-1458

Jie Wu, Junfei Chu, Qingyuan Zhu, Yongjun Li and Liang Liang

Analysing the use of cognitive maps in an experiment on a group decision process pp. 1459-1468

Annielli A R Cunha and Danielle C Morais

The Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method: extending the Duckworth-Lewis methodology to deal with modern scoring rates pp. 1469-1480

Steven E Stern

Guiding interventions in a multi-organisational context: combining the Viable System Model and Hierarchical Process Modelling for use as a Problem Structuring Method pp. 1481-1495

David Lowe, Louise Martingale and Mike Yearworth

Hierarchical game joint optimization for product family-driven modular design pp. 1496-1509

Shuang Ma, Gang Du, Jianxin (Roger) Jiao and Ruchuan Zhang

DEA with non-monotonic variables. Application to EU governments’ macroeconomic efficiency pp. 1510-1523

Gabriel Villa and Sebastián Lozano

Minimizing maximum cost on a single machine with two competing agents and job rejection pp. 1524-1531

Baruch Mor and Gur Mosheiov

Volume 67, issue 11, 2016

A comparison of strategies to develop a customer default scoring model pp. 1341-1352

Gustavo Henrique Araujo Pereira and Rinaldo Artes

Creating seating plans: a practical application pp. 1353-1362

Rhyd Lewis and Fiona Carroll

Resource decision making for vertical and horizontal integration problems in an enterprise pp. 1363-1372

Jih-Jeng Huang

An equitable DEA-based approach for assigning fixed resources along with targets pp. 1373-1381

Ruiyue Lin, Zhiping Chen and Zongxin Li

Minimizing energy consumption and makespan in a two-machine flowshop scheduling problem pp. 1382-1394

S Afshin Mansouri and Emel Aktas

MIP models for production lot sizing problems with distribution costs and cargo arrangement pp. 1395-1407

Flavio Molina, Reinaldo Morabito and Silvio Alexandre de Araujo

E-retailing of restaurant services: pricing strategies in a competing online environment pp. 1408-1418

Xiabing Zheng and Xiaolong Guo

A consistency and consensus-based method to group decision making with interval linguistic preference relations pp. 1419-1437

Fanyong Meng, Qingxian An and Xiaohong Chen

Volume 67, issue 10, 2016

A multi-phase DES modelling framework for patient-centred care pp. 1239-1249

Jennifer Gillespie, Sally McClean, Lalit Garg, Maria Barton, Bryan Scotney and Ken Fullerton

The determinants of equity transmission between the new and used car markets: a hedonic analysis pp. 1250-1258

Alexander Kihm and Colin Vance

A sequential goal programming model with fuzzy hierarchies to sustainable and responsible portfolio selection problem pp. 1259-1273

Amelia Bilbao-Terol, Mar Arenas-Parra, Verónica Cañal-Fernández and Mariano Jiménez

A better project performance prediction model using fuzzy time series and data envelopment analysis pp. 1274-1287

Mostafa Salari and Homayoun Khamooshi

Virtual enterprise partner selection integrating LINMAP and TOPSIS pp. 1288-1308

Jiu-Ying Dong and Shu-Ping Wan

Benefits of partial myopia in a durable product supply chain considering pricing and advertising pp. 1309-1324

Fuxiao Lu, Guowei Liu, Jianxiong Zhang and Wansheng Tang

Minimizing the passengers’ traveling time in the stop location problem pp. 1325-1337

Emilio Carrizosa, Jonas Harbering and Anita Schöbel

Volume 67, issue 9, 2016

Predicting time-to-churn of prepaid mobile telephone customers using social network analysis pp. 1135-1145

Aimée Backiel, Bart Baesens and Gerda Claeskens

Determination of critical chain project buffer based on information flow interactions pp. 1146-1157

Junguang Zhang, Xiwei Song, Hongyu Chen and Ruixia (Sandy) Shi

Supply chain coordination in quality improvement with reference effects pp. 1158-1168

Yi He, Qingyun Xu, Bing Xu and Pengkun Wu

Bi-criterion single-machine scheduling and due-window assignment with common flow allowances and resource-dependent processing times pp. 1169-1183

Yunqiang Yin, Du-Juan Wang, T C E Cheng and Chin-Chia Wu

A hybrid multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on NSGA-II for practical scheduling with release times in steel plants pp. 1184-1199

Jianyu Long, Zhong Zheng, Xiaoqiang Gao and Panos M Pardalos

On learning process of a newsvendor with censored demand information pp. 1200-1211

Yingshuai Zhao, Xiaobo Zhao and Zuo-Jun Max Shen

The extension and integration of the inverse DEA method pp. 1212-1220

Meng Zhang and Jin-chuan Cui

Best cooperative partner selection and input resource reallocation using DEA pp. 1221-1237

Jie Wu, Qingyuan Zhu, Wade D Cook and Joe Zhu

Volume 67, issue 8, 2016

Scheduling products with subassemblies and changeover time pp. 1025-1033

Xinxin Hu, James D Blocher, Hans Sebastian Heese and Feng Zhou

Coordination in a distribution channel with decisions on the nature of incentives and share-dependency on pricing pp. 1034-1049

Pietro De Giovanni

A mixed integer linear programming model for reliability optimisation in the component deployment problem pp. 1050-1060

Asef Nazari, Dhananjay Thiruvady, Aldeida Aleti and Irene Moser

Tabu search for solving the black-and-white travelling salesman problem pp. 1061-1079

Haitao Li and Bahram Alidaee

A modelling framework for solving restricted planar location problems using phi-objects pp. 1080-1096

Murat Oğuz, Tolga Bektaş, Julia A Bennell and Jörg Fliege

Expanded models of the project portfolio selection problem with loss in divisibility pp. 1097-1107

Ye Tian, Miao Sun, Zuoliang Ye and Wei Yang

Joint-replenishment problem under stochastic demands with backorders-lost sales mixtures, controllable lead times, and investment to reduce the major ordering cost pp. 1108-1120

Marcello Braglia, Davide Castellano and Marco Frosolini

A mixed integer formulation and an efficient metaheuristic procedure for the k-Travelling Repairmen Problem pp. 1121-1134

Samuel Nucamendi-Guillén, Iris Martínez-Salazar, Francisco Angel-Bello and J Marcos Moreno-Vega

Volume 67, issue 7, 2016

Annual block scheduling for internal medicine residents with 4+1 templates pp. 911-927

Jonathan F Bard, Zhichao Shu, Douglas J Morrice and Luci K Leykum

Efficiency and benchmarking with directional distances: a data-driven approach pp. 928-944

Cinzia Daraio and Leopold Simar

Centralized resource allocation DEA models based on revenue efficiency under limited information pp. 945-952

Lei Fang

Promoting impulse buying by allocating retail shelf space to grouped product categories pp. 953-969

Tulay Flamand, Ahmed Ghoniem and Bacel Maddah

Single-site strategic capacity planning considering renewal, maintenance, inventory, taxes and cash flow management pp. 970-981

Ernest Benedito, Albert Corominas, Carme Martínez and Marta Mas-Machuca

Generalized lot sentencing rule for estimating the value of production lot for sale pp. 982-988

Mohammed A Darwish and Fawaz Abdulmalek

A note on the square root law for urban police travel times pp. 989-1000

Simon Demers and Cynthia Langan

A kernel-free quadratic surface support vector machine for semi-supervised learning pp. 1001-1011

Xin Yan, Yanqin Bai, Shu-Cherng Fang and Jian Luo

A multiperiod location-routing problem arising in the collection of Olive Oil Mill Wastewater pp. 1012-1024

Renan Tunalioglu, Cagri Koc and Tolga Bektas

Volume 67, issue 6, 2016

Finding the needles in the haystack: efficient intelligence processing pp. 801-812

Nedialko B Dimitrov, Moshe Kress and Yuval Nevo

The impacts of risk-management committee characteristics and prestige on efficiency pp. 813-829

Yueh-Cheng Wu, Qian Long Kweh, Wen-Min Lu and Noor Azlinna Azizan

Solutions to specification errors in stress testing models pp. 830-840

Joseph L Breeden and Lyn Thomas

A dynamic logistics model for medical resources allocation in an epidemic control with demand forecast updating pp. 841-852

Ming Liu and Ding Zhang

Analysis of collaborative savings and cost allocation techniques for the cooperative carrier facility location problem pp. 853-871

Lotte Verdonck, Patrick Beullens, An Caris, Katrien Ramaekers and Gerrit K Janssens

Single machine SLK/DIF due window assignment problem with job-dependent linear deterioration effects pp. 872-883

Qing Yue and Guohua Wan

Inventory and shelf-space optimization for fresh produce with expiration date under freshness-and-stock-dependent demand rate pp. 884-896

Sheng-Chih Chen, Jie Min, Jinn-Tsair Teng and Fuan Li

Analysis of price competition in two-tier service systems pp. 897-910

Wuhua Chen, Zhe George Zhang and Zhongsheng Hua

Volume 67, issue 5, 2016

An attrition game on a network ruled by Lanchester’s square law pp. 691-707

Ryusuke Hohzaki and Takehiro Higashio

Systems simulation model for assessing the sustainability and synergistic impacts of sugar-sweetened beverages tax and revenue recycling on childhood obesity prevention pp. 708-721

Shiyong Liu, Nathaniel Osgood, Qi Gao, Hong Xue and Youfa Wang

An interval type-2 fuzzy sets-based TODIM method and its application to green supplier selection pp. 722-734

Xiuzhi Sang and Xinwang Liu

A robust support vector regression with a linear-log concave loss function pp. 735-742

Dohyun Kim, Chungmok Lee, Sangheum Hwang and Myong K Jeong

Solving the vehicle routing problem with lunch break arising in the furniture delivery industry pp. 743-751

Leandro C Coelho, Jean-Philippe Gagliardi, Jacques Renaud and Angel Ruiz

Proportionate flow-shop scheduling with rejection pp. 752-769

Dvir Shabtay and Daniel Oron

Equilibrium contract selection strategy in chain-to-chain competition with demand uncertainty pp. 770-785

Yaner Fang, Yao-Yu Wang and Zhongsheng Hua

Cutting and packing problems for irregular objects with continuous rotations: mathematical modelling and non-linear optimization pp. 786-800

Yuriy Stoyan, Alexander Pankratov and Tatiana Romanova

Volume 67, issue 4, 2016

A hybrid collaborative algorithm to solve an integrated wood transportation and paper pulp production problem pp. 537-550

Jose Eduardo Pecora, Angel Ruiz and Patrick Soriano

Berth allocation in container terminals that service feeder ships and deep-sea vessels pp. 551-563

Simon Emde and Nils Boysen

Monetary aspects of acquiring technology for price discrimination of a perishable storable product pp. 564-575

Avi Herbon

Comparison of a branch-and-bound heuristic, a newsvendor-based heuristic and periodic Bailey rules for outpatients appointment scheduling systems pp. 576-592

Sangdo (Sam) Choi and Amarnath (Andy) Banerjee

Stocking and quality decisions for deteriorating perishable products under competition pp. 593-603

Prashant Chintapalli and Jishnu Hazra

Bankruptcy prediction of small and medium enterprises using a flexible binary generalized extreme value model pp. 604-615

Raffaella Calabrese, Giampiero Marra and Silvia Angela Osmetti

Integrating expert weighting and multi-criteria decision making into eco-efficiency analysis: the case of US manufacturing pp. 616-628

Serkan Gumus, Gokhan Egilmez, Murat Kucukvar and Yong Shin Park

Containment of socially optimal policies in multiple-facility Markovian queueing systems pp. 629-643

Rob Shone, Vincent A Knight, Paul R Harper, Janet E Williams and John Minty

Robust Kriging models in computer experiments pp. 644-653

Taejin Park, Bongjin Yum, Ying Hung, Young-Seon Jeong and Myong K Jeong

Multi-objective parallel machine scheduling problems by considering controllable processing times pp. 654-663

Cheng-Hsiang Liu and Wan-Ni Tsai

Strategic workforce planning for the Australian Defence Force pp. 664-675

Mark E T Horn, Tarek Elgindy and Antonio Gomez-Iglesias

Good Laboratory Practice for optimization research pp. 676-689

Graham Kendall, Ruibin Bai, Jacek Błazewicz, Patrick De Causmaecker, Michel Gendreau, Robert John, Jiawei Li, Barry McCollum, Erwin Pesch, Rong Qu, Nasser Sabar, Greet Vanden Berghe and Angelina Yee

Volume 67, issue 3, 2016

Rolfe Cartwright Tomlinson (1 September 1925–10 October 2015) pp. 377-377

Robert Dyson and George Mitchell

Donor patterns: a modular structure for sharing knowledge pp. 378-392

Alan Jessop, David Parker and John Temple

Downward migration credit risk problem: a non-homogeneous backward semi-Markov reliability approach pp. 393-401

Guglielmo D’Amico, Jacques Janssen and Raimondo Manca

Risk minimising strategies for revenue management problems with target values pp. 402-411

Matthias Koenig and Joern Meissner

A new approach for achievement of the equilibrium efficient frontier with fixed-sum outputs pp. 412-420

Lei Fang

Economic and environmental comparison of grouping strategies in coordinated multi-item inventory systems pp. 421-436

Dinçer Konur and Brian Schaefer

Sourcing under incomplete information and negative capacity-cost correlation pp. 437-449

Tarun Jain and Jishnu Hazra

The dependency diagram of a linear programme pp. 450-456

H Paul Williams

Distributed preference relations for multiple attribute decision analysis pp. 457-473

Chao Fu, Dong-Ling Xu and Shan-Lin Yang

Studies of some duality properties in the Li and Reeves model pp. 474-482

Maria Cecilia de Carvalho Chaves, João Carlos C B Soares de Mello and Lidia Angulo-Meza

Analysis of an order-up-to-level policy for perishables with random issuing pp. 483-505

Harshal Lowalekar, Rahul Nilakantan and N Ravichandran

Two-stage flexible flow shop scheduling subject to fixed job sequences pp. 506-515

F J Hwang and Bertrand M T Lin

A bi-criteria hybrid metaheuristic for analysing an integrated automotive supply chain pp. 516-526

Sherif A Masoud and Scott J Mason

What we talk about when we talk about ‘systems thinking’ pp. 527-528

David C Lane

Response to Lane: ‘What we talk about when we talk about “Systems Thinking” ’ pp. 529-529

Amir M Sharif, Sarmad Alshawi, Muhammad M Kamal, Tillal Eldabi and Aiyaz Mazhar

A comment on a new super-efficiency model in the presence of negative data pp. 530-534

Jafar Pourmahmoud, Adel Hatami-Marbini and Elnaz Babazadeh

Scheduling controllable processing time jobs in a deteriorating environment pp. 535-535

Daniel Oron

Volume 67, issue 2, 2016

Risk management and coordination in service supply chains: information, logistics and outsourcing pp. 159-164

Tsan-Ming Choi, Stein Wallace and Yulan Wang

The impact of fleet size on performance-based incentive management pp. 165-175

Hassan Mirzahosseinian, Rajesh Piplani and Tongdan Jin

Transaction cost analysis of supply chain logistics services: firm-based versus port-focal pp. 176-186

John J Liu, Ziping Wang, Dong-Qing Yao and Xiaohang Yue

Option contracts: a solution for overloading problems in the delivery service supply chain pp. 187-197

Xin Liu, Qinglong Gou, Layth Alwan and Liang Liang

Product damage and free sampling: a newsvendor model with passive and proactive self-consumption pp. 198-213

Fang Liu

Loss-averse newsvendor problem with supply risk pp. 214-228

Lijun Ma, Weili Xue, Yingxue Zhao and Qinghua Zeng

Entry and exit of service providers under cost uncertainty: a real options approach pp. 229-239

Wenbo Shi

Service quality, outsourcing and upward channel decentralization pp. 240-247

Desheng Dash Wu

The impact of decision timing on the suppliers’ interactions: simultaneous moves versus sequential moves pp. 248-258

Guo Li, Xu Guan and Samar K Mukhopadhyay

Design outsourcing in the fashion supply chain: OEM versus ODM pp. 259-268

Bin Shen, Qingying Li, Ciwei Dong and Vincent Quan

Optimal service contract under cost information symmetry/asymmetry pp. 269-279

Xiang Li and Yongjian Li

Signalling effect of daily deal promotion for a start-up service provider pp. 280-293

Ming Zhao, Yulan Wang and Xianghua Gan

The impact of power structure on the retail service supply chain with an O2O mixed channel pp. 294-301

Xu Chen, Xiaojun Wang and Xinkuang Jiang

Offering a downgraded service to enhance profit&quest pp. 302-311

Shaorui Li, Jing Chen and Bintong Chen

Dominance, bargaining power and service platform performance pp. 312-324

Jiahong Zhang, Yong Zha, Xiaohang Yue and Zhongsheng Hua

Sell through a local retailer or operate your own store? Channel structure and risk analysis pp. 325-338

Baozhuang Niu, Liming Liu and Jun Wang

Supplier risk assessment based on trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers and ELECTRE TRI-C: a case illustration involving service suppliers pp. 339-376

Kannan Govindan and Martin Brandt Jepsen

Volume 67, issue 1, 2016

Exploring Management Capability in SMEs using transactional data pp. 1-8

Yigui Ma, Jake Ansell and Galina Andreeva

Efficiency measurement with a non-convex free disposal hull technology pp. 9-19

Hirofumi Fukuyama, Jens Hougaard, Kazuyuki Sekitani and Jianming Shi

A computational study of hybrid approaches of metaheuristic algorithms for the cell formation problem pp. 20-36

Luong Thuan Thanh, Jacques A Ferland, Bouazza Elbenani, Nguyen Dinh Thuc and Nguyen Van Hien

An ILS-biased randomization algorithm for the two-dimensional loading HFVRP with sequential loading and items rotation pp. 37-53

Oscar L Domínguez Rivero, Angel A Juan Pérez, Ignacio A de la Nuez Pestana and Djamila Ouelhadj

Models for single-sector stochastic air traffic flow management under reduced airspace capacity pp. 54-67

Yu-Heng Chang, Senay Solak, John-Paul B Clarke and Ellis L Johnson

A fuzzy logic-based hybrid estimation of distribution algorithm for distributed permutation flowshop scheduling problems under machine breakdown pp. 68-82

Kai Wang, Yun Huang and Hu Qin

A note on scheduling jobs with equal processing times and inclusive processing set restrictions pp. 83-86

Chung-Lun Li and Kangbok Lee

The optimal resource portfolio under consumer choice and demand risk for vertically differentiated products pp. 87-97

Ebru K Bish and Weiping Chen

Forecast-driven model for prepositioning supplies in preparation for a foreseen hurricane pp. 98-113

Gina Galindo Pacheco and Rajan Batta

Optimal trading and shipping of agricultural commodities pp. 114-126

Nicolas Merener, Ramiro Moyano, Nicolas E Stier-Moses and Pablo Watfi

IFPBMs and their application to multiple attribute group decision making pp. 127-147

Yingdong He, Zhen He, Yujia Deng and Panpan Zhou

A heuristic approach to stowing general cargo into platform supply vessels pp. 148-158

Michel Povlovitsch Seixas, André Bergsten Mendes, Marcos Ribeiro Pereira Barretto, Claudio Barbieri da Cunha, Marco Antonio Brinati, Roberto Edward Cruz, Yue Wu and Philip A Wilson