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Volume 360, month 5, 2026

Addressing the unaddressed: a review of future research directions for post-pandemic supply chains pp. 1-13

Kannan Govindan

Product availability and stockpiling in times of pandemic: causes of supply chain disruptions and preventive measures in retailing pp. 15-47

Berdymyrat Ovezmyradov

Optimal multi-stage group partition for efficient coronavirus screening pp. 49-65

Yuvraj Gajpal, S. S. Appadoo, Victor Shi and Guoping Hu

Simulation-based multi-criteria decision making: an interactive method with a case study on infectious disease epidemics pp. 67-96

Fabian Dunke and Stefan Nickel

Fighting against COVID-19: what operations research can help and the sense-and-respond framework pp. 97-113

Tsan-Ming Choi

Towards sharing economy 2.0 with autonomous vehicles? Modeling the impact of COVID-19 on the e-hailing taxi service industry pp. 115-146

S. Srivatsa Srinivas and Rahul R. Marathe

A mathematical model for managing the multi-dimensional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in supply chain of a high-demand item pp. 147-192

Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Priyabrata Chowdhury, Ripon Kumar Chakrabortty, Dmitry Ivanov and Karam Sallam

Examining operational efficiency with prudent risks of Covid-19: a contextual DEA analysis with an undesirable intermediate measure pp. 193-223

Sanjeet Singh, Vincent Charles and Utsav Pandey

Organizational resilience of the airline industry using an Integrated epidemic and airline hub location model with traffic prediction pp. 225-250

Mustapha Oudani, Karim Zkik, Amine Belhadi, Sachin Kamble, Anass Sebbar and Hanane El Raoui

Multi-attribute COVID-19 policy evaluation under deep uncertainty pp. 251-288

Jack Mitcham and Jeffrey Keisler

Depth-wise dense neural network for automatic COVID19 infection detection and diagnosis pp. 289-309

Abdul Qayyum, Imran Razzak, M. Tanveer and Ajay Kumar

Optimization of inpatient care unit resources during COVID-19 pandemic pp. 311-334

Manas Ghosh and Elkafi Hassini

COVID19 epidemic outbreak: operating rooms scheduling, specialty teams timetabling and emergency patients' assignment using the robust optimization approach pp. 335-365

Mojtaba Arab Momeni, Amirhossein Mostofi, Vipul Jain and Gunjan Soni

XOR-best worst method and its assessment to COVID-19 sectorial impact pp. 367-390

Noureddine Kouaissah and Amin Hocine

A mathematical programming approach for equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution in developing countries pp. 391-424

Madjid Tavana, Kannan Govindan, Arash Khalili Nasr, Mohammad Saeed Heidary and Hassan Mina

Vaccine supply decisions and government interventions for recurring epidemics pp. 425-452

Yuqing Pan, Chi To Ng, Ciwei Dong and T. C. E. Cheng

A sociotechnical approach to vaccine manufacturer selection as part of a global immunization strategy against epidemics and pandemics pp. 453-482

Fernando A. F. Ferreira, Devika Kannan, Ieva Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė and Inês M. T. Vale

Evaluating the impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on supply chain risks by modified failure mode and effects analysis: a case study in an automotive company pp. 483-513

Amir Hossein Ghadir, Hadi Rezaei Vandchali, Masoud Fallah and Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee

A multi-objective mathematical programming model for location-routing of COVID-19 healthcare waste in Tunisia pp. 515-536

Hela Frikha and Fedia Daami

Data-driven technologies for global healthcare practices and COVID-19: opportunities and challenges pp. 537-572

Nnamdi Ogbuke, Yahaya Y. Yusuf, Angappa Gunasekaran, Nora Colton and Dharma Kovvuri

Impact of sustained lockdown during Covid-19 pandemic on behavioural dynamics through evolutionary game theoretic model pp. 573-589

Prashant Premkumar, Jimut Bahan Chakrabarty and A. Rajeev

Coordination mechanism of integrative humanitarian-business partnership for relief supplies with the consideration of public engagement amidst the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic pp. 591-627

Fanshun Zhang, Hao Huang, Cejun Cao and Qin Yang

Operations research in epidemic-logistics management: from 2012 to 2025 pp. 629-683

Xiaoxiao Zhu, Ming Liu and Enrico Zio

A Shapley value for games with expanded coalitions pp. 685-701

M. J. Albizui, M. Cerny and J. M. Zarzuelo

New DEA models for business partnerships: evidence from nonhomogeneous banking pp. 703-722

Gholam R. Amin and Mustapha Ibn Boamah

Minimising cycle time in multi-manned assembly line balancing problem with dependent task times pp. 723-766

Enric Andreu-Casas, Alberto García-Villoria and Rafael Pastor

An enhanced simulation-based approach for multicriteria evaluation of SMEs’ performance pp. 767-813

Silvia Angilella, Michalis Doumpos, Maria Rosaria Pappalardo and Constantin Zopounidis

Time-constrained energy minimization for online execution of a stochastic DAG task pp. 815-838

Jonatha Anselmi, Bruno Gaujal and Karl Gottlieb

Advancing firefighter games: novel integer programming formulations and the cost-value model pp. 839-878

Marta Baldomero-Naranjo, Jörg Kalcsics, Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía and Catriona Wedderburn

Lifted formulations for the Target Visitation problem pp. 879-914

Ali Balma

Agency theory and higher-order risk changes pp. 915-950

Claudio A. Bonilla, Hervé Roche and Marcos Vergara

The effect of reducing the number of matches in round-robin tournaments with four teams: evidence from beach volleyball pp. 951-977

Alessandro Di Mattia and Alex Krumer

Dynamic aircraft maintenance stand scheduling via graph attention network and deep reinforcement learning pp. 979-1006

Runxia Guo, Yanlong Xie and Guihang Liu

Linear optimization with local differential privacy for resource sharing pp. 1007-1041

Utku Karaca, Nurşen Aydın, Sinan Yıldırım and Ş. İlker Birbil

Restaurant revenue management through combinatorial auctions pp. 1043-1072

Martina Luzzi, Francesca Guerriero, Giusy Macrina and Chefi Triki

Predicting energy poverty using household budget survey: a machine learning approach pp. 1073-1100

Giuseppe Scandurra, Alfonso Carfora, Antonio Thomas and Cecilia Camporeale

Student assignments with preferences and maximum diversity pp. 1101-1124

Arne Schulz

Efficient local and tabu search strategies for large-scale general quadratic integer programming pp. 1125-1147

Haibo Wang and Bahram Alidaee

Unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with setup times and additional resources: an enhanced metaheuristic to address resource-related infeasibilities pp. 1149-1176

Juan C. Yepes-Borrero, Javier Alcaraz, Marta López-García and Mario Villaizán-Vallelado

Can the reliance on project creativity promote its crowdfunding success? pp. 1177-1207

Yue Yu, Honglin Yang and Hong Wan

Mathematical programming for rapid pandemic vaccine distribution under capacity and lead-time constraints pp. 1209-1249

Yun-Chia Liang and Dominico Laksma Paramestha

Correction: How digital transformation enhances supply chain resilience and organisational performance: a digital affordance perspective pp. 1251-1251

Siyue Zhang, Jiangtao Hong, Kwok Hung Lau and Yu Tian

Volume 359, month 4, 2026

OR driven technology innovation for efficient decarbonized supply chains in a digital economy, part 1 pp. 1-4

Guo Li, Suresh K. Jakhar, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Suresh Sethi and Malin Song

A novel predict-then-optimize method for sustainable bike-sharing management: a data-driven study in China pp. 5-37

Yu Zhou, Qin Li, Xiaohang Yue, Jiajia Nie and Qiang Guo

Extended Vidale–Wolfe model on joint emission reduction and low-carbon advertising strategy design in a secondary supply chain pp. 39-78

Huini Zhou, Yong Tan, Xu Guan and Peng Wu

Decarbonised closed-loop supply chains resilience: examining the impact of COVID-19 toward risk mitigation by a fuzzy multi-layer decision-making framework pp. 79-123

Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji, Fatemeh Yaftiyan, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Seyed Hossein Razavi Hajiagha and Yigit Kazancoglu

Optimal post-warranty replacement policies for batteries with mission durations pp. 125-137

Jiajia Cai and Xufeng Zhao

Credit payment services and pricing strategy in the digital economy era pp. 139-156

Huamin Wu, Hong Zheng and Meiyu Zhang

A prescriptive analytics approach to solve the continuous berth allocation and yard assignment problem using integrated carbon emissions policies pp. 157-188

Sunil Kumar Jauhar, Saurabh Pratap, Sachin Kamble, Shivam Gupta and Amine Belhadi

Does technological tools make dirty-work engagement easier? When occupational stigma leads to increased emotional exhaustion and avoidant behaviors at work pp. 189-206

Zhang Guanglei, Wang Huaying, Li Mingze and Longzhu Dong

Network design for a decarbonised supply chain considering cap-and-trade policy of carbon emissions pp. 207-241

Abhijit Majumdar, Surya Prakash Singh, Jessica Jessica and Aashi Agarwal

Joint optimization on green investment and contract design for sustainable supply chains with fairness concern pp. 243-281

Lin Chen, Hui Shen, Qiurui Liu, Congjun Rao, Jing Li and Mark Goh

A decision support model to investigate the pandemic recovery challenges and strategies in the leather supply chain pp. 283-362

Md. Abdul Moktadir, Md. Rayhan Sarker, Taimur Sharif and Mohammad Zoynul Abedin

Operations and decarbonization of gasoline vehicle automakers under the dual credit policy: green technology innovation and electric vehicle market entry strategies pp. 363-394

Zhenyang Pi and Ke Wang

IoT-enabled green product development under competition: the impact of digital value-added services pp. 395-427

Xin Zhang, Xiong Zhang and Lihong Cheng

Analysis of sustainable supply chain and industry 4.0 enablers: a step towards decarbonization of supply chains pp. 429-467

Rahul Sindhwani, Nitasha Hasteer, Abhishek Behl, Chinmayee Chatterjee and Lotfi Hamzi

In-house purchasing for green design products when the manufacturer’s promised-delivery-time matters pp. 469-507

Baozhuang Niu, Fanzhuo Zeng, Zifan Shen and Jimmy Yong Jin

Forward contracting and spot trading in electricity markets pp. 509-553

Lingchunzi Li, Haijun Wang, Xin Yan and Yiwen Bian

Process switching strategies for sustainable production of personal protective equipment pp. 555-580

Yefei Yang, Jiayi Chen, Ciwei Dong and Yuemeng Xu

Energy in the backseat? Investigating decarbonization dialogue in supply chain tweets during and after COVID-19 pp. 581-613

Umer Shahzad, Tuhin Sengupta, Amar Rao and Gagan Deep Sharma

A decision framework for SMEs to address sustainability issues with Industry 4.0 technologies pp. 615-643

Anbesh Jamwal, Niladri Palit, Sushma Kumari, Rajeev Agrawal and Monica Sharma

Supply chain strategies in the presence of livestream e-commerce: channel leadership and low-carbon promotion pp. 645-676

Wei Liu, Xinyan Cao, Xueqi Niu, Xiang Fang and Tsan-Ming Choi

Forward–reverse blockchain traceability: promoting electric vehicles with battery recycling in the presence of subsidy pp. 677-704

Jizi Li, Fangbing Liu, Justin Z. Zhang, Longyu Li and Joao Ferreira

Dual credit policy, product line decisions, and CO2 emission reduction pp. 705-729

Xiang Zhang, Haojie Sun, Kurt Yang Liu and Shaohui Liu

Non-actual controller and enterprise technology innovation pp. 731-753

Ziyu Zhou, Zhiying Liu and Haizhou Fan

Vulnerability analysis of China’s air and high-speed rail composite express network under different node attack strategies pp. 755-789

Nengye Mu, Peiyuan Xin, Yuanshun Wang, Chiyao Cheng, Witold Pedrycz and Zhen-Song Chen

Decarbonization versus Resilience: an optimization study of closed-loop supply chains under major disruptive events pp. 791-823

Sihua Chen, Xiang Wen and Wei He

Anti-counterfeiting strategies in green product market with different supply chain contracts pp. 825-859

Tengfei Nie, Haiyan Shu, Letian Zhang and Jianghua Zhang

Blockchain technology adoption for secured and carbon neutral logistics operations: barrier intensity index framework pp. 861-894

Anchal Gupta, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Muhammad Mustafa Kamal

Order consolidation for the last-mile split delivery problem with green labels pp. 895-919

Yuankai Zhang, Xiangpei Hu and Qiong Tian

Designing a reliable-sustainable supply chain network: adaptive m-objective ε-constraint method pp. 921-952

Arash Sepehri, Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee, Vladimir Simic and Sadia Samar Ali

Analyzing enablers of artificial intelligence for decarbonization: implications for circular supply chains pp. 953-980

Shefali Srivastava, Vipulesh Shardeo, Ashish Dwivedi and Sanjoy Kumar Paul

Decarbonisation in supply chain management with blockchain technology: using multi-criteria decision-making in industry 4.0 pp. 981-1032

Amir Karbassi Yazdi, Gizem Özaydin, Yong Tan, Alessio Ishizaka and Jing Li

Pharmaceutical retail supply chain responses to the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 1033-1058

Maria Schleifenheimer and Dmitry Ivanov

Optimizing collaboration decisions in technological innovation through machine learning: identify trend and partners in collaboration-knowledge interdependent networks pp. 1059-1100

Jianyu Zhao, Zhenjie Dong, Xinlin Yao and Xi Xi

Who should undertake corporate social responsibility in a supply-chain: manufacturer or retailer? pp. 1101-1128

Guowei Liu, Régis Y. Chenavaz, Jianxiong Zhang and Rui Yang

Artificial intelligence investment and vertical cross-shareholding contractual coordination for low-carbon supply chains with forecast inaccuracy and risk concerns pp. 1129-1188

Longfei He, Yujiang Li, Xiaolu Song, Baiyun Yuan, Xiaohang Yue and Runzhu Han

OR driven technology innovation for efficient decarbonized supply chains in a digital economy, part 2 pp. 1189-1192

Guo Li, Suresh K. Jakhar, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Suresh Sethi and Malin Song

The effects and conflicts of co-opetition in a rail-water multimodal transport system pp. 1193-1238

Jiaguo Liu, Haonan Xu and Jihong Chen

Behavior-based pricing and consumer fairness concerns with green product design pp. 1239-1265

Yu Jiang, Xiang Ji, Jie Wu and Wei Lu

Joint balancing and sequencing optimization for type-II robotic mixed-model assembly line considering energy consumption pp. 1267-1295

Baofeng Sun, Jiaojiao Liu, Gendao Li, Xinkang Zhang and Bin Pei

Data science and big data analytics: a systematic review of methodologies used in the supply chain and logistics research pp. 1297-1354

Hamed Jahani, Richa Jain and Dmitry Ivanov

How do weather risks in Canada and the United States affect global commodity prices? Implications for the decarbonisation process pp. 1355-1371

Chi Keung Lau, Yifei Cai and Giray Gözgör

Product-service system toward circularity: hierarchical framework in Indonesia’s home appliance manufacturing industry under uncertainties pp. 1373-1399

Ming-Lang Tseng, Raditia Yudistira Sujanto, Viqi Ardaniah, Tat-Dat Bui, Shulin Lan, Yeneneh Tamirat Negash and Jiun-Wei Tseng

Green power pricing and matching efficiency optimization for peer-to-peer trading platforms considering heterogeneity of supply and demand sides pp. 1401-1424

Haonan He, Wei Chen, Shanyong Wang, Shiqiang Li, Fei Ma and Qipeng Sun

An analysis in production strategies with emissions cap regulation in global trade: production transfer versus remanufacturing pp. 1425-1454

Dan Li and Bin Shen

Decarbonization investment in a supply chain with a retail platform based on blockchain technology pp. 1455-1484

Nenggui Zhao, Jiasen Sun and Qiang Wang

Navigating epistemic uncertainty in third-generation biodiesel supply chain management through robust optimization for economic and environmental performance pp. 1485-1524

Muhammad Umar, Muhammad Tayyab, Hassan Rauf Chaudhry and Chi-Wei Su

Endorsers measurement for decarbonised processed food supply chain through newly befitted interval valued neutrosophic vague sets pp. 1525-1563

Janpriy Sharma, Mohit Tyagi and Arvind Bhardwaj

Contagion effect in the adoption of environmental corporate social responsibility pp. 1565-1602

Zhenjie Liu, Lei Xu, Xiaoxue Ren, Qiang Lu, Xuhui Wang and Sobhan Arisian

Climate change adaptation projects of transport facilities: is a demonstrator necessary? pp. 1603-1632

Shiyuan Zheng, Changmin Jiang and Kun Wang

A multi-stage exponential production model for the assessment of China’s regional electric power supply chain efficiency: Does digital innovation matter? pp. 1633-1660

Jingyun Li, Zhiyang Shen and Michael Vardanyan

An exact algorithm for the home health care routing and scheduling with electric vehicles and synergistic-transport mode pp. 1661-1696

Yunqiang Yin, Xiaochang Liu, Feng Chu and Dujuan Wang

Optimal product line design strategy for green and non-green products with blockchain technology pp. 1697-1726

Yi He, Dexia He and Qingyun Xu

Collaborative emergency adaptation for ripple effect mitigation in intertwined supply networks pp. 1727-1743

Dmitry Ivanov

Open the live streaming sales channel or not? Analysis of strategic decision for a manufacturer pp. 1745-1769

Zhong Du, Zhi-Ping Fan, Fenghao Sun and Yang Liu

An application of artificial intelligence for solving multi-visit scheduling and routing of multi-heterogeneous resources pp. 1771-1820

Rapeepan Pitakaso, Kanchana Sethanan, Ajay Kumar, Kim Hua Tan and Natthapong Nanthasamroeng

Platform operations with strategic inventory and green technology under the regional carbon cap-and-trade scheme pp. 1821-1848

Luling Yan, Ping He, Xiaoping Xu, Jinqiang Chen and T. C. Edwin. Cheng

Cutting emissions through intelligent production in Chinese manufacturing firms: an empirical analysis pp. 1849-1872

Ruting Huang, Qin Miao and Xin Yao

The impact of two-dimensional asymmetric information on carbon emissions reduction in a supply chain pp. 1873-1902

Jianheng Zhou and Bo Wu

Reactive or proactive? An online retailer’s omnichannel strategy for managing consumer returns pp. 1903-1934

Ping Xie, Ruixia Shi, Hongyu Chen and Di Xu

The role of agricultural biomass in supply chain decarbonization pp. 1935-1973

Ruxia Lyu, Sobhan Arisian, Zhitang Li, Mohammad Sadegh Taskhiri and Reza Kiani Mavi

Analysis and influence mapping of socio-technical challenges for developing decarbonization and circular economy practices in the construction and building industry pp. 1975-2013

Vidyasagar Gembali, Aalok Kumar and P. R. S. Sarma

Trade off model for optimal sustainability and resilience through circular economy pp. 2015-2048

K. E. K. Vimal, Jayakrishna Kandasamy, Pranav Joshi, Ayush Kokare, Hrushikesh Kharat and Sonu Rajak

Corporate business expansion and inefficient investment—understanding the barriers in clean energy supply chain pp. 2049-2076

Minyang Li and Boqiang Lin

Carbon emission reducing and financing strategies of capital-constrained supply chains using equity financing under different power structures pp. 2077-2113

Juanjuan Qin, Xiaochen Lyu, Huiping Fu and Ziping Wang

Pay-to-play versus hybrid bundling for digital game platforms in digital decarbonization era pp. 2115-2148

Simeng Liu, Yashuang Wei, Guofang Nan and Dahui Li

A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on incremental support vector regression for the irregular strip packing problem pp. 2149-2187

Zhong-Zhong Jiang, Jiabin Liu, Hongliang Yi and Minghe Sun

The electric vehicle routing problem with synchronized mobile partial recharging and non-strict waiting strategy pp. 2189-2233

Jianhua Xiao, Xiaoyang Liu, Tao Liu, Na Li and Antonio Martinez-Sykora

An environmentally friendly elective patient scheduling under the predict-then-optimize framework pp. 2235-2275

Xiaoyue Gong and Jian-Jun Wang

Green design, recycling, and disposal in apparel closed-loop supply chain under “tax-reduction–subsidy” policy pp. 2277-2307

Hui-ni Zhou, Feng-min Yao, Yu-xin Wen, Yufei Wang and Liu Mengqi

Solution algorithms for a vehicle routing problem with route-cost equity constraints pp. 2309-2349

Maxime Agius, Nabil Absi, Dominique Feillet and Thierry Garaix

The measurement and decomposition of productivity change with environmental variables: a conditional nonparametric frontier analysis approach pp. 2351-2388

Juan Aparicio, Jose M. Cordero and Cristina Polo

Fletcher-reeves-type conjugate direction algorithm for interval-valued multiobjective optimization problems pp. 2389-2429

Balendu Bhooshan Upadhyay, Rupesh Krishna Pandey, Subham Poddar and Shengda Zeng

A game-theoretical pricing model for green/non-green products pp. 2431-2456

Francesco Biancalani, Giorgio Gnecco and Leonardo Badia

Insights into the computational complexity of the single-source capacitated facility location problem with customer preferences pp. 2457-2482

Christina Büsing, Timo Gersing and Sophia Wrede

A Combinatorial Certifying Algorithm for Linear Programming Problems with Gainfree Leontief Substitution Systems pp. 2483-2521

Kei Kimura and Kazuhisa Makino

Multi-echelon location routing problem with vehicle-drone delivery and transshipment for cold chain transportation pp. 2523-2562

Yanfeng Li and Jie Zhang

Product line design for a capital-constrained supply chain: financing via bank or trade credit pp. 2563-2592

Xiangyuan Lu, Zhiqiao Wu and Liwei Xu

The AI-driven Decision-Making (AIDM) Framework: Integrating AHP and ChatGPT for Supplier Selection pp. 2593-2615

Negar Sadeghi, Mohammad Dehghani and Nihan Kabadayi

Resilient supplier selection under operational and disruption risks: A multi-stage framework pp. 2617-2654

Nitin Sahu and Garima Mittal

Semi-parametric estimation of the team wage frontier of European football technology pp. 2655-2679

Gabriel Villa and Sebastián Lozano

Optimization of multi-cycle multi-objective remanufacturing green supply chain network based on improved deep reinforcement learning algorithm considering differentiated incentive compatibility mechanisms pp. 2681-2708

Zhen Wang, Chunming Ye and Jianquan Guo

Modeling knowledge dynamics in collaborative production systems: an evolutionary game approach to manufacturer-supplier input behavior pp. 2709-2736

Zilong Wang and Yuqi Yang

Optimizing Cooperative Carrier-Vehicle Routing with Iterative Second-Order Cone Programming Method pp. 2737-2762

Ning-Wen Yang, Maharani Rizki Larasati, I-Lin Wang and Makoto Yamashita

Collaborative order fulfillment in omni-channel retailing: Unpaired multi-pickup and delivery problem with time windows pp. 2763-2794

Mengqi Yu, Mu Du, Jennifer Shang and Xiangpei Hu

How digital transformation enhances supply chain resilience and organisational performance: a digital affordance perspective pp. 2795-2828

Siyue Zhang, Jiangtao Hong, Kwok Hung Lau and Yu Tian

Supermarket-chain grocery delivery optimization through courier coordination pp. 2829-2868

Bohan Hu and Feng-Jang Hwang

Radiation therapy patient scheduling using a column generation approach: an algorithmic framework and a single-institution study pp. 2869-2915

Sara Frimodig, Per Enqvist, Jan Kronqvist, Carole Mercier and Geert De Kerf