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Volume 63, issue 12, 2012

Iterative algorithms for part grouping and loading in cellular reconfigurable manufacturing systems pp. 1635-1644

Yu J-M, Doh H-H, Kim H-W, Kim J-S, Lee D-H and Nam S-H

Adaptive consumer credit classification pp. 1645-1654

N G Pavlidis, D K Tasoulis, N M Adams and D J Hand

Supply chain coordination for newsvendor-type products with two ordering opportunities and demand information update pp. 1655-1678

Zhou Y-W and Wang S-D

Analysis of back-office outsourcing contracts for financial services operations pp. 1679-1692

P Basu and S K Nair

Minimizing the maximum network flow: models and algorithms with resource synergy considerations pp. 1693-1707

B J Lunday and H D Sherali

Single-manufacturer, multi-retailer consignment policy for retailers’ generalized demand distributions pp. 1708-1719

J Yu, B R Sarker, Q Duan and B Wu

Strategic competitive location: improving existing and establishing new facilities pp. 1720-1730

T Drezner, Z Drezner and P Kalczynski

Defending and improving the ‘slotting fee’: how it can benefit all the stakeholders dealing with a newsvendor product with price and effort-dependent demand pp. 1731-1751

Wang Y-Y, Lau H-S and Wang J-C

Three revenue-sharing variants: their significant performance differences under system-parameter uncertainties pp. 1752-1764

Wang Y-Y, Lau H-S and Hua Z-S

Optimal challenges in tennis pp. 1765-1772

S R Clarke and J M Norman

A visual interactive approach for scenario-based stochastic multi-objective problems and an application pp. 1773-1787

E Balibek and M Köksalan

‘Actors’ and ‘clients’: why systems dynamics needs help from soft systems methodology and unbounded systems thinking pp. 1788-1789

N Harrop, A Gillies and A T Wood-Harper

Reply to N Harrop, A Gillies and AT Wood-Harper pp. 1789-1789

H J Wong and H Abrams

Volume 63, issue 11, 2012

Minimization of the k-th maximum and its application on LMS regression and VaR optimization&star pp. 1479-1491

X Huang, J Xu, S Wang and C Xu

Online simulation for a real-time route dispatching problem pp. 1492-1498

L Schmidt and P Gazmuri

An (r, nQ) inventory model for packaged deteriorating products with compound Poisson demand pp. 1499-1507

S M H Molana, H Davoudpour and Stefan Minner

Single-machine scheduling problems with past-sequence-dependent delivery times and position-dependent processing times pp. 1508-1515

Yang S-J and Yang D-L

The efficiency of public and publicly subsidized high schools in Spain: Evidence from PISA-2006 pp. 1516-1533

Mancebón M-J, J Calero, Á Choi and Domingo Ximénez-de-Embún

A mathematical programming model for the fuzzy analytic network process—applications of international investment pp. 1534-1544

Huang J-J

Parallel systems under two sequential attacks with imperfect detection of the first attack outcome pp. 1545-1555

G Levitin and Kjell Hausken

Predicting ambulance demand using singular spectrum analysis pp. 1556-1565

J L Vile, J W Gillard, P R Harper and V A Knight

Optimized material requirements planning for semiconductor manufacturing pp. 1566-1577

R J Milne, Wang C-T, A Yen C-K and K Fordyce

Stochastic analysis of ordered median problems pp. 1578-1588

Z Drezner, S Nickel and Ziegler H-P

Scheduling healthcare services in a home healthcare system pp. 1589-1599

An Y-J, Kim Y-D, B J Jeong and Kim S-D

FuelOpt: a decision support system for forest fuel logistics pp. 1600-1612

P Flisberg, M Frisk and M Rönnqvist

Three time-based scale formulations for the two-stage lot sizing and scheduling in process industries pp. 1613-1630

V C B Camargo, F M B Toledo and B Almada-Lobo

Some comments on MacKay's Lanchester mixed forces model pp. 1631-1633

P L Liu, H K Sun and Y T You

Response to ‘Some comments on MacKay's Lanchester mixed forces model’ pp. 1633-1633

N J MacKay

Volume 63, issue 10, 2012

The economics of a closed-loop supply chain with remanufacturing pp. 1323-1335

Chen J-M and Chang C-I

Dynamic simultaneous fare proration for large-scale network revenue management pp. 1336-1350

P Kemmer, A K Strauss and T Winter

The dynamics of brand equity: a hedonic regression approach to the laser printer market pp. 1351-1362

L von Auer and Mark Trede

When do armed revolts succeed: lessons from Lanchester theory pp. 1363-1373

M P Atkinson, A Gutfraind and M Kress

Bound and collapse Bayesian reject inference for credit scoring pp. 1374-1387

G G Chen and Thomas Astebro

Developments in time preference and their implications for medical decision making pp. 1388-1399

Arthur Attema

Reputation-based winner determination problem for combinatorial transportation procurement auctions pp. 1400-1409

M Rekik and S Mellouli

A scenario generation-based lower bounding approach for stochastic scheduling problems pp. 1410-1420

L Liao, S C Sarin and H D Sherali

A revenue management approach to address a truck rental problem pp. 1421-1433

S Benigno, F Guerriero and G Miglionico

A smuggling game with asymmetrical information of players pp. 1434-1446

R Hohzaki and R Masuda

An exact method for minimizing the total treatment time in intensity-modulated radiotherapy pp. 1447-1456

L R Mason, V H Mak-Hau and A T Ernst

Exploring alternative routes to realising the benefits of simulation in healthcare pp. 1457-1466

J Bowers, M Ghattas and G Mould

Planning performance based contracts considering reliability and uncertain system usage pp. 1467-1478

T Jin and P Wang

Volume 63, issue 9, 2012

Mathematical description of a discrete event simulation (DEVS) using factor analytic method pp. 1179-1188

J Rodriquez, J O Miller and K W Bauer

Towards an auction-driven gas supply: a simulation-based optimization framework for utilities pp. 1189-1198

F J Otamendi and Luis Doncel Pedrera

Benchmarking mean-variance portfolios using a shortage function: the choice of direction vector affects rankings! pp. 1199-1212

Kristiaan Kerstens, A Mounir and I Van de Woestyne

A single-resource revenue management problem with random resource consumptions pp. 1213-1227

W Zhuang, M Gumus and D Zhang

Operational research and critical systems thinking—an integrated perspective. Part 1: OR as applied systems thinking pp. 1228-1247

W Ulrich

A heuristic approach to classifying labeled/unlabeled data sets pp. 1248-1257

K Y Huang

Order-lot pegging for minimizing total tardiness in semiconductor wafer fabrication process pp. 1258-1270

Kim J-G and Lim S-K

Automatic aircraft cargo load planning pp. 1271-1283

S Limbourg, M Schyns and G Laporte

Minmax scheduling problems with common flow-allowance pp. 1284-1293

B Mor and G Mosheiov

Robust vehicle routing problem with deadlines and travel time/demand uncertainty pp. 1294-1306

C Lee, K Lee and S Park

Operational research and critical systems thinking—an integrated perspective. Part 2: OR as argumentative practice pp. 1307-1322

W Ulrich

Volume 63, issue 8, 2012

Bayesian policy support for adaptive strategies using computer models for complex physical systems pp. 1021-1033

D Williamson and M Goldstein

The combined manpower planning and preventive maintenance strategies by aggregate planning for the service division of vending machines pp. 1034-1050

S Kim and S Yoo

Pattern recognition for evaluator errors in a credit scoring model for technology-based SMEs pp. 1051-1064

S Y Sohn, M K Doo and Y H Ju

A system dynamics sustainable business model for Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex): case based on the Global Reporting Initiative pp. 1065-1078

J A Duran-Encalada and A Paucar-Caceres

DEA models for minimizing weight disparity in cross-efficiency evaluation pp. 1079-1088

Wang Y-M, Chin K-S and S Wang

Congestion analysis in DEA inputs under weight restrictions pp. 1089-1097

A Davoodi, H Zhiani Rezai and R Fallahnejad

Performance assessment of secondary schools: the snapshot of a country taken by DEA pp. 1098-1115

M C S Portela, A S Camanho and D Borges

Scheduling de-icing vehicles within airport logistics: a heuristic algorithm and performance evaluation pp. 1116-1125

A Norin, D Yuan, T A Granberg and P V&aauml;rbrand

Optimising container storage processes at multimodal terminals pp. 1126-1142

B Casey and E Kozan

Multi-item two-echelon spare parts inventory control problem with batch ordering in the central warehouse under compound Poisson demand pp. 1143-1152

E Topan and Z P Bayindir

Network-based method for ranking of efficient units in two-stage DEA models pp. 1153-1164

J S Liu and Lu W-M

Comparing reinforcement learning approaches for solving game theoretic models: a dynamic airline pricing game example pp. 1165-1173

A Collins and L Thomas

Note on effects of joint replenishment and channel coordination for managing multiple deteriorating products in a supply chain pp. 1177-1177

B C Giri and T Maiti

Volume 63, issue 7, 2012

Optimal pricing strategies under co-existence of price-takers and bargainers in a supply chain pp. 865-882

Kuo C-W, Guo R-S and Wu Y-F

The existence of serial correlation and its effect on the format of a championship playoff series pp. 883-889

T L Urban

A valuation model for NFL and NHL draft positions pp. 890-898

W J Hurley, A Pavlov and W Andrews

Environmentally friendly facility location with market competition pp. 899-908

B Ghaddar and J Naoum-Sawaya

Examining the strategy development process through the lens of complex adaptive systems theory pp. 909-919

R J Hammer, J S Edwards and E Tapinos

Integrating transportation and production: an international study case pp. 920-930

L Bertazzi and O Zappa

Optimal recruitment strategies in a multi-level manpower planning model pp. 931-940

Guerry M-A and T De Feyter

Determining the reorder point and order-up-to level to satisfy two constraints in a periodic review system under negative binomial demand pp. 941-949

E A Silver, D P Bischak and T de Kok

Parallel Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition of petroleum production allocation problems pp. 950-968

E Torgnes, V Gunnerud, E Hagem, M Rönnqvist and B Foss

Individual versus overarching protection against strategic attacks pp. 969-981

G Levitin and Kjell Hausken

Productivity change and innovation in Norwegian electricity distribution companies pp. 982-990

V L Miguéis, A S Camanho, E Bjørndal and M Bjørndal

Myopic control of stochastic inventories with intermittent updates: continuous versus periodic replenishment pp. 991-1005

M Shnaiderman

The transportation problem revisited—preprocessing before using the primal–dual algorithm pp. 1006-1009

S Haddadi and O Slimani

Double acceptance sampling plans for Burr type XII distribution percentiles under the truncated life test pp. 1010-1017

M Aslam, Y Mahmood, Y L Lio, Tsai T-R and M A Khan

Scheduling jobs with position-dependent processing times pp. 1018-1020

A Janiak and M Y Kovalyov

Volume 63, issue 6, 2012

Mathematical expressions for the transit time of merchandise through a liner shipping network pp. 709-714

J F Álvarez

Evaluation of China's regional hospital efficiency: DEA approach with undesirable output pp. 715-725

Hu H-H, Q Qi and Yang C-H

The timing and deterrence of terrorist attacks due to exogenous dynamics pp. 726-735

Kjell Hausken and Jun Zhuang

Group inquiry to aid organisational learning in enterprises pp. 736-747

M Read, T Gear and R Vince

The management of change and the Viplan Methodology in practice pp. 748-761

S A Harwood

Modelling a property's time to sale by inflating its previous selling price pp. 762-770

A Brint

Solving the multi-commodity capacitated multi-facility Weber problem using Lagrangean relaxation and a subgradient-like algorithm pp. 771-789

M H Akyüz, T Öncan and İ K Alt#x131;nel

Modelling ‘contracts’ between a terrorist group and a government in a sequential game pp. 790-809

F He and Jun Zhuang

Dynamic overbooking scheduling system to improve patient access pp. 810-820

Y Huang and P Zuniga

A note on parallel-machine due-window assignment pp. 821-825

D Xu, Li C-L and Q Han

SOM-based recommendations with privacy on multi-party vertically distributed data pp. 826-838

C Kaleli and H Polat

Two-stage assembly-type flowshop batch scheduling problem subject to a fixed job sequence pp. 839-845

F J Hwang and B M T Lin

An imperfect repair strategy for two-dimensional warranty pp. 846-859

S Varnosafaderani and S Chukova

Abduction: the missing link between deduction and induction. A comment on Ormerod's ‘rational inference: deductive, inductive and probabilistic thinking’ pp. 860-861

J Mingers

Note on effects of joint replenishment and channel coordination for managing multiple deteriorating products in a supply chain pp. 861-864

B C Giri and T Maiti

Volume 63, issue 5, 2012

Optimizing vehicle routes in a bakery company allowing flexibility in delivery dates pp. 569-581

J Pacheco, A Alvarez, I García and F Angel-Bello

Multisourcing suppliers selection in service outsourcing pp. 582-596

B Feng

An adaptive search for the response time variability problem&star pp. 597-605

S Salhi and A García-Villoria

A novel heuristic approach to determine compromise management for end-of-life electronic products pp. 606-619

S C Lee and L H Shih

Team assignments and scheduling for the NCAA basketball tournament pp. 620-630

S H Melouk and B B Keskin

Performance comparison of retailing stores using a Malmquist-type index pp. 631-645

C B Vaz and A S Camanho

The equal allocation policy in open shop batch scheduling pp. 646-652

B Mor, G Mosheiov and D Oron

An evaluation of technical efficiency and managerial correlates of solid waste management by Welsh SMEs using parametric and non-parametric techniques pp. 653-664

J J Cordeiro, J Sarkis, D Vazquez-Brust, L Frater and J Dijkshoorn

Supply chain model for a deteriorating product with time-varying demand and production rate pp. 665-673

B C Giri and T Maiti

Operations of online advertising services and publisher's option pp. 674-682

A Srinivasan and Changhyun Kwon

Job scheduling in virtual manufacturing cells with lot-streaming strategy: a new mathematical model formulation and a genetic algorithm approach pp. 683-695

S E Kesen and Z Güngör

On abduction: a response to Mingers pp. 696-697

R J Ormerod

Response to ‘Note on “Effects of joint replenishment and channel coordination for managing multiple deteriorating products in a supply chain” ’ pp. 697-698

Chen J-M and Chen T-H

JORS Referees 2011 pp. 703-707

T Archibald and J Crook

Volume 63, issue 4, 2012

A Bayesian network structure for operational risk modelling in structured finance operations pp. 431-444

A D Sanford and I A Moosa

Minimizing the total completion time in a two-machine flowshop with sequence-independent setup times pp. 445-459

T Ladhari, M K Msakni and A Allahverdi

A distributed algorithm for equitable bandwidth allocation for content distribution in a tree network pp. 460-469

H Luss

Inefficiency countervailed DEA (IC-DEA) method for assessing corporate environmental performance&star pp. 470-477

Huang Y-T and Kao J-J

A revised Inno-Qual performance system for higher education: the integrated applications of DEMATEL and ANP pp. 478-488

I-Shuo Chen

A tabu search algorithm applied to the staffing roster problem of Leicestershire police force pp. 489-496

O S S T Edleston and L M Bartlett

Inventory control for point-of-use locations in hospitals pp. 497-510

M Bijvank and I F A Vis

Simulating student flow through a college of business for policy and structural change analysis pp. 511-523

R M Saltzman and T M Roeder

Complexity of scheduling of coupled tasks with chains precedence constraints and any constant length of gap pp. 524-529

K Ecker and M Tanaś

A multiobjective stochastic program for hospital bed planning pp. 530-538

F Ben Abdelaziz and M Masmoudi

Predicting default of a small business using different definitions of financial distress pp. 539-548

Lin S-M, J Ansell and G Andreeva

Applying a hybrid DEA model to evaluate the influence of marketing activities to operational efficiency on Taiwan’s international tourist hotels pp. 549-560

Huang C-W, Yung-Ho Chiu, Ting C-T and Lin C-H

The relevance of educational background for doing simulation pp. 561-563

B Atkinson

To generalize or not to generalize? Comment on Robinson and Davies pp. 563-565

Breno Sampaio

Response to comments on Robinson and Davies (2010) pp. 565-566

S Robinson

Response to Xu and Xiong pp. 567-567

W J Chen

Minimizing total flow time in the single-machine scheduling problem with periodic maintenance pp. 567-567

D Xu and S Xiong

Volume 63, issue 3, 2012

The unbounded parallel-batch scheduling with rejection pp. 293-298

L Q Zhang, L F Lu and C T Ng

Efficiency and returns-to-scale of local governments pp. 299-305

H Amatatsu, T Ueda and Y Amatatsu

A time-dependent proportional hazards survival model for credit risk analysis pp. 306-321

Im J-K, D W Apley, C Qi and X Shan

Pairwise opposite matrix and its cognitive prioritization operators: comparisons with pairwise reciprocal matrix and analytic prioritization operators pp. 322-338

Kevin Yuen

Implementation of Lean Six Sigma in small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in the Netherlands pp. 339-353

W Timans, J Antony, K Ahaus and R van Solingen

The optimal quantity discount that a supplier should offer pp. 354-367

G Y Ke and J H Bookbinder

An evolutionary approach for tuning parametric Esau and Williams heuristics pp. 368-378

M Battarra, T Öncan, I K Altınel, B Golden, D Vigo and E Phillips

Solving an optimization packing problem of circles and non-convex polygons with rotations into a multiply connected region pp. 379-391

Y G Stoyan, M V Zlotnik and A M Chugay

An empirical study of hyperheuristics for managing very large sets of low level heuristics pp. 392-405

S Remde, P Cowling, K Dahal, N Colledge and E Selensky

Adjusted spherical frontier model: allocating input via parametric DEA pp. 406-417

E C C Guedes, A Z Milioni, J V G de Avellar and R C Silva

Using the Viable Systems Model to examine multi-agency arrangements for combatting transnational organised crime pp. 418-430

J Brocklesby

Volume 63, issue 2, 2012

A spreadsheet decision support optimization model for railcar storage at Canadian Pacific Railway pp. 139-150

R L Espey and J Balakrishnan

A stochastic dynamic programming model for valuing exclusivity from encroachment in franchising pp. 151-159

S Tikoo, S Liu and S K Nair

Scheduling an unbounded batching machine with family jobs and setup times pp. 160-167

R Zheng, Hui Li and X Zhang

A hybrid shifting bottleneck procedure algorithm for the parallel-machine job-shop scheduling problem pp. 168-182

S Q Liu and E Kozan

Generating unconstrained two-dimensional non-guillotine cutting patterns by a Recursive Partitioning Algorithm pp. 183-200

E G Birgin, R D Lobato and R Morabito

Modelling lost demand in competitive facility location pp. 201-206

T Drezner and Z Drezner

The travelling salesperson problem with hotel selection pp. 207-217

P Vansteenwegen, W Souffriau and K Sörensen

FMMSIC: a hybrid fuzzy based decision support system for MMS (in order to estimate interrelationships between criteria) pp. 218-231

F Samimi Namin, K Shahriar, A Bascetin and S H Ghodsypour

An incremental tabu search heuristic for the generalized vehicle routing problem with time windows pp. 232-244

L Moccia, Cordeau J-F and G Laporte

Applying min–max k postmen problems to the routing of security guards pp. 245-260

E J Willemse and J W Joubert

A column generation-based heuristic for rostering with work patterns pp. 261-277

R Lusby, A Dohn, T M Range and J Larsen

An Australian approach to concept development and experimentation: linking strategy to capability pp. 278-292

C van Antwerpen and D K Bowley

Volume 63, issue 1, 2012

Editorial pp. 1-1

J Crook and T Archibald

Modelling and solving an m-location, n-courier, priority-based planning problem on a network pp. 2-15

G Erdoğan, B Tansel and İ Akgün

Value-based DEA models: application-driven developments pp. 16-27

P N de Almeida and Luis Dias

Determining a subsidy rate for Taiwan's recycling glass industry: an application of bi-level programming pp. 28-37

Shih H-S, Cheng C-B, Wen U-P, Huang Y-C and Peng M-Y

Context-dependent data envelopment analysis with cross-efficiency evaluation pp. 38-46

S Lim

Evolving hyper-heuristics for the uncapacitated examination timetabling problem pp. 47-58

N Pillay

An alternative formulation for the fuzzy assignment problem pp. 59-63

A Emrouznejad, M Zerafat Angiz L and W Ho

Efficiency decomposition for parallel production systems pp. 64-71

C Kao

A global cost Malmquist productivity index using data envelopment analysis pp. 72-78

G Tohidi, S Razavyan and S Tohidnia

Using system dynamics principles for conceptual modelling of publicly funded hospitals pp. 79-88

H J Wong, D Morra, R C Wu, M Caesar and H Abrams

Investment decisions in the rent-to-own industry in the absence of inventory pp. 89-106

M H Anderson and S Sibdari

Real options with synergies: static versus dynamic policies pp. 107-121

M Nishihara

Design of the drop-off-pick-up zones in buildings: the case of private transportation at the female university of Riyadh pp. 122-129

F J Otamendi, J Laffond and N S Segundo

Worst-case analysis for flow shop scheduling problems with an exponential learning effect pp. 130-137

Wang J-B and Wang M-Z