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Volume 64, issue 12, 2013

Hyper-heuristics: a survey of the state of the art pp. 1695-1724

Edmund K Burke, Michel Gendreau, Matthew Hyde, Graham Kendall, Gabriela Ochoa, Ender Özcan and Rong Qu

Automated code generation by local search pp. 1725-1741

M R Hyde, E K Burke and G Kendall

Clustering of search trajectory and its application to parameter tuning pp. 1742-1752

Lindawati, H C Lau and D Lo

Selection hyper-heuristics in dynamic environments pp. 1753-1769

B Kiraz, A Ş Etaner-Uyar and E Özcan

Optimization of the annual planning of targeted offers in direct marketing pp. 1770-1779

S Delanote, R Leus and F Talla Nobibon

A column generation heuristic for congested facility location problem with clearing functions pp. 1780-1789

S Kim

Competitive dynamics in pharmaceutical markets: A case study in the chronic cardiac disease market pp. 1790-1799

M Kunc and R Kazakov

Optimal track class assignment for a railroad network pp. 1800-1809

Lai Y-C, M Dingler, Lin S-Y and Liu K-C

Measuring the relative efficiency of quality management practices in Turkish public and private universities pp. 1810-1830

E Bayraktar, E Tatoglu and S Zaim

Hesitant fuzzy Bonferroni means for multi-criteria decision making pp. 1831-1840

B Zhu and Z S Xu

Scheduling train loading with straddle carriers in container yards pp. 1841-1850

N Boysen, S Emde and M Fliedner

Minimizing maximum lateness of jobs in inventory constrained scheduling pp. 1851-1864

D Briskorn and J Y-T Leung

A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science: The Past and the Future pp. 1865-1865

Richard J Ormerod

Modeling Complex Living Systems: A Kinetic Theory and Stochastic Game Approach pp. 1866-1866

Janet Smart

Games, Groups and the Global Good pp. 1867-1867

Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Modeling and Simulation for Analyzing Global Events pp. 1867-1868

Hassab Elgawi Osman

Volume 64, issue 11, 2013

Choice of item pricing feedback schemes for multiple unit reverse combinatorial auctions pp. 1571-1582

Md Sayed Iftekhar, Atakelty Hailu and R K Lindner

Performances of socially responsible investment and environmentally friendly funds pp. 1583-1594

Yutaka Ito, Shunsuke Managi and Akimi Matsuda

Accounting for economies of scope in performance evaluations of university professors pp. 1595-1606

Kristof De Witte, N Rogge, Laurens Cherchye and T Van Puyenbroeck

Robust balancing of straight assembly lines with interval task times&star pp. 1607-1613

E Gurevsky, Ö Hazır, O Battaïa and A Dolgui

A Lagrangian lower bound for the container transshipment problem at a railway hub for a fast branch-and-bound algorithm pp. 1614-1621

M Barketau, H Kopfer and E Pesch

The effect of non-linear delay costs on workforce mix pp. 1622-1629

D E Simmons

A vehicle routing problem with multi-trips and time windows for circular items pp. 1630-1643

L Martínez and Amaya C-A

Continuous covering and cooperative covering problems with a general decay function on networks pp. 1644-1653

O Berman, Z Drezner and D Krass

Managing the supply and demand uncertainty in workforce recruitment: planned or just-in-time acquisition pp. 1654-1663

Kilhwan Kim, Tae-Sung Kim, Dae-Eun Lim and Hyun Min Park

A mixture experiments multi-objective hyper-heuristic pp. 1664-1675

J A Vázquez-Rodríguez and S Petrovic

Quantile regression for index tracking and enhanced indexation pp. 1676-1692

H Mezali and John Beasley

Comment on ‘Supply chain model for a deteriorating product with time-varying demand and production rate’ by Giri and Maiti pp. 1693-1694

Dye C-Y and Hsieh T-P-

Volume 64, issue 10, 2013

Production planning for hybrid remanufacturing and manufacturing system with component recovery pp. 1447-1460

S H Han, M Y Dong, S X Lu, S C H Leung and M K Lim

Adaptive perturbed neighbourhood search for the expanding capacity multiple-choice knapsack problem pp. 1461-1473

Abdelkader Sbihi

Branch and bound based solution algorithms for the budget constrained discrete time/cost trade-off problem pp. 1474-1484

G Değirmenci and M Azizoğlu

A forward and reverse logistics shipment planning model pp. 1485-1502

Zhaoyong Zhang, Y Van Hui and H Chen

Car sequencing is NP-hard: a short proof pp. 1503-1504

B Estellon and F Gardi

Time-restricted batching models and solution approaches for integrated forward and return product flow handling in warehouses pp. 1505-1516

S Wruck, I F A Vis and J Boter

Optimal transshipments and reassignments under periodic or cyclic holding cost accounting pp. 1517-1539

N Çömez, M Çakany&x131;ldırım and K E Stecke

Planning for meals-on-wheels: algorithms and application pp. 1540-1550

H Yildiz, M P Johnson and S Roehrig

Optimal trade credit and order quantity when trade credit impacts on both demand rate and default risk pp. 1551-1556

Lou K-R and Wang W-C

An interval-coefficient fuzzy binary linear programming, the solution, and its application under uncertainties pp. 1557-1569

W Peng and R V Mayorga

Volume 64, issue 9, 2013

Time varying or static cut-offs for credit scorecards pp. 1299-1306

K M Jung, L C Thomas and M M-C So

Demand selection decisions for a multi-echelon inventory distribution system pp. 1307-1313

Jia Shu, Zhengyi Li and Liya Huang

The value of dynamic pricing for cores in remanufacturing with backorders pp. 1314-1326

Y Xiong and G Li

Solving resource-constrained project scheduling problem with evolutionary programming pp. 1327-1335

M H Sebt, Y Alipouri and Y Alipouri

Re-designing industrial products on a multi-objective basis: a case study pp. 1336-1346

C Achillas, D Aidonis, C Vlachokostas, D Folinas and N Moussiopoulos

A combined statistical approach and ground movement model for improving taxi time estimations at airports pp. 1347-1360

S Ravizza, J A D Atkin, M H Maathuis and E K Burke

Building a photovoltaic marketing model based on feed-in tariffs and system installed cost pp. 1361-1373

Chang P-L, Hsu C-W and Cheng H-L

Enhanced decision support in credit scoring using Bayesian binary quantile regression pp. 1374-1383

V L Miguéis, D F Benoit and Dirk Van den Poel

A literature review on the application of evolutionary computing to credit scoring pp. 1384-1399

A I Marqués, V García and J S Sánchez

Logistics distribution network design with two commodity categories pp. 1400-1408

J Shu, G Wang and K Zhang

Defence resource distribution between protection and decoys for constant resource stockpiling pace pp. 1409-1417

G Levitin and Kjell Hausken

Yard template planning in transshipment hubs under uncertain berthing time and position pp. 1418-1428

L Zhen

Vehicle routing and the value of postponement pp. 1429-1440

G Pang and L Muyldermans

Non-differentiable transformations preserving stochastic dominance pp. 1441-1446

M Denuit, Louis Eeckhoudt and O Jokung

Volume 64, issue 8, 2013

A review of methods and algorithms for optimizing construction scheduling pp. 1091-1105

J Zhou, P E D Love, X Wang, K L Teo and Z Irani

Dynamic priority rule-based forward-backward heuristic algorithm for resource levelling problem in construction project pp. 1106-1117

Lihua He and Lianying Zhang

A Benders decomposition algorithm for a multi-area, multi-stage integrated resource planning in power systems pp. 1118-1136

M Jenabi, S M T Fatemi Ghomi, S A Torabi and S H Hosseinian

An optimization-based model for maximizing the benefits of fast-track construction activities pp. 1137-1146

Y Khoueiry, I Srour and A Yassine

Cost impact of float loss on a project with adjustable activity durations pp. 1147-1156

W Lo and Kuo M-E

A combined bi-level approach for the spatial design of rack storage area pp. 1157-1168

A Ratkiewicz

Sustainable workforce scheduling in construction program management pp. 1169-1181

L Florez, D Castro-Lacouture and A L Medaglia

Integrated methodology to design and manage work-in-process buffers in repetitive building projects pp. 1182-1193

V González, L F Alarcón and T W Yiu

Demand uncertainty in construction supply chains: a discrete event simulation study pp. 1194-1204

C Vidalakis, J E Tookey and J Sommerville

A new decision support model in multi-criteria decision making with intuitionistic fuzzy sets based on risk preferences and criteria reduction pp. 1205-1220

J Liu, Liu S-F, P Liu, Zhou X-Z and B Zhao

A DST-based approach for construction project risk analysis pp. 1221-1230

A Taroun and Yang J-B

Probability distribution fitting of schedule overruns in construction projects pp. 1231-1247

P E D Love, Sing C-P, X Wang, D J Edwards and H Odeyinka

Forecasting tender price index under incomplete information pp. 1248-1257

P H K Ho

Macroeconomic labour productivity and its impact on firm's profitability pp. 1258-1268

K Choi, M Haque, H W Lee, Y K Cho and Y H Kwak

Optimal gainshare/painshare in alliance projects pp. 1269-1278

S M Hosseinian and D G Carmichael

Composite indicator development using utility function and fuzzy theory pp. 1279-1290

Lee S-K and Yu J-H

Construction project monitoring by means of RAM-based composite indicators pp. 1291-1297

I E Tsolas

Volume 64, issue 7, 2013

Set covering location models with stochastic critical distances pp. 945-958

Shangxiong Meng and Shia B-C

Groups and facilitators within problem structuring processes pp. 959-972

S Bell and S Morse

The hub covering flow problem pp. 973-981

T J Lowe and T Sim

Joint optimization of fleet size and maintenance capacity in a fork-join cyclical transportation system pp. 982-994

R Pascual, A Martínez and R Giesen

Scheduling and lot sizing models for the single-vendor multi-buyer problem under consignment stock partnership pp. 995-1009

M Hariga, M Gumus, M Ben-Daya and E Hassini

A hybrid simulated annealing and column generation approach for capacitated multicommodity network design pp. 1010-1020

M Yaghini, M Rahbar and M Karimi

On the approximation of empirical data for service system simulations pp. 1021-1029

A Finlayson

Determination of the optimal trade credit policy: a supplier-Stackelberg model pp. 1030-1048

Zhou Y-W and D Zhou

Modelling toolkit to assist with introducing a stepped care system design in mental health care pp. 1049-1059

C Vasilakis, C Pagel, S Gallivan, D Richards, A Weaver and M Utley

On the suitability of resampling techniques for the class imbalance problem in credit scoring pp. 1060-1070

A I Marqués, V García and J S Sánchez

A path-relinking metaheuristic for the resource levelling problem pp. 1071-1078

M Ranjbar

An approach to decision making based on intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets over two universes pp. 1079-1089

Baohong Sun, Wanglin Ma and Qiujiang Liu

Volume 64, issue 6, 2013

Operational Research for the Real World: big questions from a small island&star pp. 793-804

G Royston

An evaluation of heuristics for scheduling a non-delay permutation flow shop with family setups to minimize total earliness and tardiness pp. 805-816

J Schaller and J M S Valente

Employing integrated reference models to represent interdependency in a complex enterprise pp. 817-824

P J Dortmans and C Durrant

Scheduling dynamic hybrid flowshop with serial batching machines pp. 825-832

H Xuan and B Li

Volume discount pricing strategy in the VMI supply chain with price sensitive demand pp. 833-847

S Braide, Z Cao and X Zeng

Robust planning of blending activities at refineries pp. 848-863

J Bengtsson, D Bredström, P Flisberg and M Rönnqvist

Research on competition diffusion of the multiple-advanced manufacturing mode in a cluster environment pp. 864-872

C G Xue, J J Liu and H W Cao

Multimethodology in Metaheuristics pp. 873-883

J Soeiro Ferreira

Technology selection: application of the PROMETHEE in determining preferences—a real case of nanotechnology in Iran pp. 884-897

S Ghazinoory, M Daneshmand-Mehr and A Azadegan

Scheduling reconstruction operations with modes of execution pp. 898-911

A D Chaney, R F Deckro and J T Moore

Determination of number of dedicated OR's and supporting pricing mechanisms for emergent surgeries pp. 912-924

J A Paul and L MacDonald

Managing vehicle breakdown incidents during urban distribution of a common product pp. 925-937

K Mamasis, I Minis and G Dikas

Rasch model in data envelopment analysis: application in the international tourist hotel industry pp. 938-944

Peng K-H, Huang J-H and Wu W-H

Volume 64, issue 5, 2013

A branch-and-price algorithm for the two-stage guillotine cutting stock problem pp. 629-637

M Mrad, I Meftahi and M Haouari

Managing the social amplification of risk: a simulation of interacting actors pp. 638-653

J S Busby and S Onggo

A method for analysing operational complexity in supply chains pp. 654-667

Y R Wu, L H Huatuco, G Frizelle and J Smart

Constructing a composite indicator with multiplicative aggregation under the objective of ranking alternatives pp. 668-678

F J Blancas, I Contreras and J M Ramírez-Hurtado

A generalised Little's law and its applications for a discrete-time G/D/1 queue with correlated arrivals pp. 679-689

D W-C Miao and H Chen

MIP models for minimizing total tardiness in a two-machine flow shop pp. 690-707

M Kharbeche and M Haouari

Monotonicity-preserving bootstrapped Kriging metamodels for expensive simulations pp. 708-717

Jack Kleijnen and W C M van Beers

Concentration measures in risk management pp. 718-723

S Figini and P Uberti

Tabu search with strategic oscillation for the maximally diverse grouping problem pp. 724-734

M Gallego, M Laguna, R Martí and A Duarte

Optimizing salmon farm cage net management using integer programming pp. 735-747

F Cisternas, D Delle Donne, G Durán, C Polgatiz and A Weintraub

A novel hybrid algorithm combining hunting search with harmony search algorithm for training neural networks pp. 748-761

S Kulluk

Cost efficiency and scale economies in general dental practices in the US: a non-parametric and parametric analysis of Colorado data pp. 762-774

L Chen and Subhash Ray

Multiphase support vector regression for function approximation with break-points pp. 775-785

J I Park, N Kim, M K Jeong and K S Shin

The strong NP-completeness of 3-PARTITION problem with B km pp. 786-787

Z Y Jiang, F F Chen and C Q Wu

Comment on ‘the strong NP-completeness of 3-PARTITION problem with B km’ by Zhongyi Jiang, Fangfang Chen, Chunqing Wu pp. 787-787

A Janiak, M Lichtenstein and M Y Kovalyov

Volume 64, issue 4, 2013

Logic and rationality in OR interventions: an examination in the light of the ‘critical rationalist’ approach pp. 469-487

R J Ormerod

Heavy fuel oil analysis at Iraq's Bayji refinery pp. 488-499

M L Zarracina

Bicriteria efficiency/equity hierarchical location models for public service application pp. 500-512

H K Smith, P R Harper and C N Potts

Using semi-supervised classifiers for credit scoring pp. 513-529

K Kennedy, B Mac Namee and S J Delany

Bi-criteria group scheduling with sequence-dependent setup time in a flow shop pp. 530-546

D Lu and R Logendran

Cynefin, statistics and decision analysis pp. 547-561

S French

Strong guidance on mitigating the effects of uncertainties in the brass casting blending problem: a hybrid optimization approach pp. 562-576

Ü S Sakallı and Ö F Baykoç

Designing global supply networks for conflict or disaster support: the case of the Canadian Armed Forces pp. 577-596

A Martel, A Benmoussa, M Chouinard, W Klibi and O Kettani

A fuzzy attractiveness of market entry (FAME) model for market selection decisions pp. 597-610

M F Shipley, M Johnson, L Pointer and N Yankov

Centrality-based ambulance dispatching for demanding emergency situations pp. 611-618

S Lee

Pricing decision-making units pp. 619-621

R F&aauml;re, Shawna Grosskopf and D Margaritis

On the weighting of the mean-absolute-deviation cost minimization model pp. 622-628

S Wang, Q Meng and Z Liu

Volume 64, issue 3, 2013

Highway improvement project selection by the joint consideration of cost-benefit and risk criteria pp. 313-325

P Kelle, H Schneider, Christian Raschke and H Shirazi

An equitable method for allocating fixed costs by using data envelopment analysis pp. 326-335

A Mostafaee

Channel coordination in green supply chain management pp. 336-351

S Swami and J Shah

A two-stage mathematical-programming method for the multi-floor facility layout problem pp. 352-364

S Bernardi and M F Anjos

Risk sharing in the supplier relations for the Taiwanese automotive industry pp. 365-371

Liu C-L and Shieh-Liang Chen

A multi-state model to improve the design of an automated system to monitor the activity patterns of patients with bipolar disorder pp. 372-383

S G Mohiuddin, S C Brailsford, C J James, J D Amor, J M Blum, J A Crowe, E H Magill and P A Prociow

A heuristic approach based on shortest path problems for integrated flight, aircraft, and passenger rescheduling under disruptions pp. 384-395

N Jozefowiez, C Mancel and F Mora-Camino

A new super-efficiency model in the presence of negative data pp. 396-401

A Hadi-Vencheh and A Esmaeilzadeh

An iterated local search algorithm for the Travelling Salesman Problem with Pickups and Deliveries pp. 402-409

A Subramanian and M Battarra

Master physician scheduling problem pp. 410-425

A Gunawan and H C Lau

Benchmarking countries’ environmental performance pp. 426-438

A Zanella, A S Camanho and T G Dias

A methodology for estimating expected distances between nodes on a network pp. 439-445

T S Hale, F Huq, I Hipkin and C Tucker

Joint spare parts inventory and reliability decisions under a service constraint pp. 446-458

B Selçuk and S Ağralı

Application of Compromise Programming to a semi-detached housing development in order to balance economic and environmental criteria pp. 459-468

M J Ruá and N Guadalajara

Volume 64, issue 2, 2013

Overcoming the barriers: a qualitative study of simulation adoption in the NHS pp. 157-168

S C Brailsford, T B Bolt, G Bucci, T M Chaussalet, N A Connell, P R Harper, J H Klein, M Pitt and M Taylor

Application of fuzzy linear programming to aggregate production plan of a refinery industry in Taiwan pp. 169-184

Wang H-F and Zheng K-W

Implementing a parametric maximum flow algorithm for optimal open pit mine design under uncertain supply and demand pp. 185-197

M W A Asad and R Dimitrakopoulos

A more accurate second-order polynomial metamodel using a pseudo-random number assignment strategy pp. 198-207

M Chih

Competitive travelling salesmen problem: A hyper-heuristic approach pp. 208-216

G Kendall and J Li

Mixture distributions for modelling demand during lead time pp. 217-228

B R Cobb

Intermodal shipments as recourse in logistics disruptions pp. 229-240

R Ishfaq

Optimising passing bay locations and vehicle schedules in underground mines pp. 241-249

H Anjomshoa, A R Albrecht, D H Lee and P J Pudney

Measuring non-convex metafrontier efficiency in international tourist hotels pp. 250-259

Huang C-W, Ting C-T, Lin C-H and Lin C-T

An integrated approach to worker assignment, workforce flexibility acquisition, and task rotation pp. 260-275

N Azizi and M Liang

Technical note: a systematic procedure based on CALIBRA and the Nelder & Mead algorithm for fine-tuning metaheuristics pp. 276-282

A Corominas, A García-Villoria and R Pastor

Flow control in capacity-constrained queueing systems with non-stationary arrivals pp. 283-292

M Haughton and K P S Isotupa

Increasing the total net revenue for single machine order acceptance and scheduling problems using an artificial bee colony algorithm pp. 293-311

Lin S-W and Ying K-C

Volume 64, issue 1, 2013

Metrics for bullwhip effect analysis pp. 1-16

S Cannella, A P Barbosa-Póvoa, J M Framinan and S Relvas

Devolving command decisions in complex operations pp. 17-33

L Dodd and J Q Smith

Investigating the use of metaheuristics for solving single vehicle routing problems with time-varying traversal costs pp. 34-47

K Harwood, C Mumford and R Eglese

A scenario decomposition approach for stochastic production planning in sawmills pp. 48-59

M Kazemi Zanjani, M Nourelfath and D Ait-Kadi

Approaches to determining the relative importance weights for cross-efficiency aggregation in data envelopment analysis pp. 60-69

Y M Wang and S Wang

Adverse selection and non-take inference with coherent risk and response scoring pp. 70-85

R M Oliver and A M Thaker

Super-efficiency and stability intervals in additive DEA pp. 86-96

M C Gouveia, Luis Dias and C H Antunes

JIT delivery with stochastic lead time pp. 97-105

J C Hayya, R V Ramasesh, J G Tyworth, J G Kim and D Sun

Heuristic algorithms for general k-level facility location problems pp. 106-113

R Li, Huang H-C and J Huang

A specialized column generation approach for a vehicle routing problem with demand allocation pp. 114-124

A Ghoniem, C R Scherrer and S Solak

Using a model of the performance measures in Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) to take action: a case study in health care pp. 125-137

K Kotiadis, A A Tako, E A J A Rouwette, C Vasilakis, J Brennan, Priyank Gandhi, H Wegstapel, F Sagias and P Webb

On being balanced in an unbalanced world pp. 138-146

M Skitmore and David Cattell

Single-machine and two-machine flowshop scheduling problems with truncated position-based learning functions pp. 147-156

Wu C-C, Y Yin and Cheng S-R