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Volume 329, month 10, 2023

Demand signal transmission in a certified refurbishing supply chain: rules and incentive analysis pp. 1-46

Baozhuang Niu, Lei Chen, Zongbao Zou and Ping Ji

Industry 4.0: driving factors and impacts on firm’s performance: an empirical study on China’s manufacturing industry pp. 47-67

Boqiang Lin, Wei Wu and Malin Song

Mediating role of cloud of things in improving performance of small and medium enterprises in the Indian context pp. 69-98

Vaibhav S. Narwane, Rakesh D. Raut, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Bhaskar B. Gardas, Balkrishna E. Narkhede, Anjali Awasthi and Pragati Priyadarshinee

The impact of ex-post information sharing on a two-echelon supply chain with horizontal competition and capacity constraint pp. 99-125

Hui Lei, Jingru Wang, Honglin Yang and Hong Wan

Using evolutionary game theory to study governments and logistics companies’ strategies for avoiding broken cold chains pp. 127-155

Xiao-Hu Xing, Zhi-Hua Hu and Wen-Ping Luo

Service quality guarantee design: obedience behavior, demand updating and information asymmetry pp. 157-189

Weihua Liu, Xinran Shen, Di Wang and Donglei Zhu

Observability of retailer demand information acquisition in a dual-channel supply chain pp. 191-223

Lei Xiao, Shuting Chen and Song Huang

The optimal order decisions of a risk-averse newsvendor under backlogging pp. 225-247

Jianghua Zhang, Felix T. S. Chan and Xinsheng Xu

To share or not to share: the optimal advertising effort with asymmetric advertising effectiveness pp. 249-276

Qingying Li, Hao Ding, Tianqin Shi and Yanli Tang

Inducing information transparency: The roles of gray market and dual-channel pp. 277-306

Zhong-Zhong Jiang, Jinlong Zhao, Zelong Yi and Yaping Zhao

Information sharing in a transparent supply chain with transportation disruptions and supplier competition pp. 307-329

Yi Tao, Xiaofan Lai and Shaorui Zhou

An advanced buyback contract and information asymmetry pp. 331-351

Layth C. Alwan, Chen Yang and Weiguo Fang

Mobile payment, third-party payment platform entry and information sharing in supply chains pp. 353-372

Xiaojun Fan, Wenyu Zhao, Ting Zhang and Endian Yan

Supply commitment contract in capacity allocation games pp. 373-399

Yefen Chen, Feimin Zhong and Zhongbao Zhou

Leveraging online customer reviews in new product development: a differential game approach pp. 401-424

Wei Liu, Ke Xu, Ruirui Chai and Xiang Fang

The value of personal information in vertically differentiated markets with privacy concerns pp. 425-469

Yongrui Duan, Yuncong Xie and Yihong Hu

Ordering and inventory reallocation decisions in a shared inventory platform with demand information sharing pp. 471-499

Qi Xu, Zhong-miao Sun and Xiao-qing Gao

Effects of consumers’ uncertain valuation-for-quality in a distribution channel pp. 501-526

Xiaoqing Fan, Jianxiong Zhang and Guowei Zhu

The antagonism and cohesion of the upstream supply chain under information asymmetry pp. 527-572

Aijun Liu, Senhao Luo, Jian Mou and Hongwei Qiu

Optimal advance selling strategy with information provision for omni-channel retailers pp. 573-602

Wen Zhang, Yi He, Qinglong Gou and Weizhe Yang

Resale value guaranteed strategy, information sharing and electric vehicles adoption pp. 603-617

Xiang Zhang and Chenguang Zhao

Effect of equity holding on a supply chain’s pricing and emission reduction decisions considering information sharing pp. 619-656

Liangjie Xia, Qingyi Kong, Youdong Li and Juanjuan Qin

Competitive crowdfunding under asymmetric quality information pp. 657-688

He Li and Erbao Cao

Disclosure of quality preference-revealing information in a supply chain with competitive products pp. 689-715

Fei Sun, Hui Yang, Jing Chen and Fa Wang

Influences of information sharing and online recommendations in a supply chain: reselling versus agency selling pp. 717-756

Xue Chen, Bo Li, Weichun Chen and Shuang Wu

Competitor referral by platforms pp. 757-780

Jianqiang Zhang, Qingning Cao and Xiuli He

Vertical value-added cost information sharing in a supply chain pp. 781-814

Mengqi Liu, Yueli Zhao, Rui Huang and Sandun Perera

To share or not to share? When information sharing meets remanufacturing pp. 815-846

Jiajia Nie, Qijun Wang, Gendao Li and Dun Liu

The interplay between quality improvement and information acquisition in an E-commerce supply chain pp. 847-870

Huamin Wu, Hong Zheng and Jinchao Li

The optimal product pricing and carbon emissions reduction profit allocation of CET-covered enterprises in the cooperative supply chain pp. 871-899

Yue-Jun Zhang, Ya-Fang Sun and Bao-Feng Huo

Pricing mechanism of variable opaque products for dual-channel online travel agencies pp. 901-930

Zhaofang Mao, Ting Liu and Xiaomei Li

A conceptual framework for information-leakage-resilience pp. 931-951

Wai-Peng Wong, Kim Hua Tan, Kannan Govindan, Di Li and Ajay Kumar

Impact of demand forecast information sharing on the decision of a green supply chain with government subsidy pp. 953-978

Wenbin Wang, Wanying Lin, Jianhu Cai and Mengxue Chen

Emergence of open supply chain management: the role of open innovation in the future smart industry using digital twin network pp. 979-1007

Sajjad Rahmanzadeh, Mir Saman Pishvaee and Kannan Govindan

Blockchain’s role in e-commerce sellers’ decision-making on information disclosure under competition pp. 1009-1048

Yuguang Song, Jia Liu, Wen Zhang and Jian Li

Green channel coordination under asymmetric information pp. 1049-1082

Amirhossein Ranjbar, Jafar Heydari, Mahsa Madani Hosseini and Davood Yahyavi

Impact of contracting sequence on assembly systems with asymmetric production cost information pp. 1083-1108

Sihua Chen, Lei Xiao and Fei Lv

Digital showroom strategies for dual-channel supply chains in the presence of consumer webrooming behavior pp. 1109-1148

Yanhong Sun, Zihan Wang, Shuai Yan and Xiaohua Han

How retailer overconfidence affects supply chain transparency with manufacturer encroachment pp. 1149-1174

Wei Lu, Yu Jiang, Panpan Xia and Zhimin Huang

Fashion platform operations in the sharing economy with digital technologies: recent development and real case studies pp. 1175-1195

Na Liu, Jiaxin Lin, Shu Guo and Xiutian Shi

Information sharing and coordination in a vaccine supply chain pp. 1197-1220

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

How corporate social responsibility auditing interacts with supply chain information transparency pp. 1221-1240

Zhixin Chen, Xiang Ji, Mingjun Li and Jingyan Li

Pricing and financing strategies of a dual-channel supply chain with a capital-constrained manufacturer pp. 1241-1261

Jiasen Sun, Pengpeng Yuan and Lianlian Hua

Optimal joint decision of information disclosure and ordering in a blockchain-enabled luxury supply chain pp. 1263-1314

Zhiwen Li, Xianhao Xu, Qingguo Bai and Cheng Chen

Supply chain coordination under asymmetric information and partial vertical integration pp. 1315-1356

Grigory Pishchulov, Knut Richter and Sougand Golesorkhi

Dynamics of sensor-based information in supply chains with perishables substitutable by non-perishables pp. 1357-1380

Bryndís Stefánsdóttir, Martin Grunow and Selwyn Piramuthu

Contracts for online retailers considering consumer intra-product showrooming pp. 1381-1423

Han Wei and Xuefeng Zhao

Correction to: Impact of demand forecast information sharingon the decision of a green supply chain with government subsidy pp. 1425-1425

Wenbin Wang, Wanying Lin, Jianhu Cai and Mengxue Chen

Volume 328, month 9, 2023

Preface: advances of machine learning and optimization in healthcare systems and medicine pp. 1-2

Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Hamid Arabnia, Nadi Serhan Aydın and Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee

An efficient healthcare chain design for resolving the patient scheduling problem: queuing theory and MILP-ASA optimization approach pp. 3-33

Ali Ala, Morteza Yazdani, Mohsen Ahmadi, Aida Poorianasab and Mahdi Yousefi Nejad Attari

Viable healthcare supply chain network design for a pandemic pp. 35-73

Mehdi Alizadeh, Mir Saman Pishvaee, Hamed Jahani, Mohammad Mahdi Paydar and Ahmad Makui

A two-stage decision-support approach for improving sustainable last-mile cold chain logistics operations of COVID-19 vaccines pp. 75-105

Eugenia Ama Andoh and Hao Yu

Using network data envelopment analysis to assess the sustainability and resilience of healthcare supply chains in response to the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 107-150

Majid Azadi, Zohreh Moghaddas, Reza Farzipoor Saen, Angappa Gunasekaran, Sachin Kumar Mangla and Alessio Ishizaka

An ensemble method of the machine learning to prognosticate the gastric cancer pp. 151-192

Hirad Baradaran Rezaei, Alireza Amjadian, Mohammad Vahid Sebt, Reza Askari and Abolfazl Gharaei

Data analytics during pandemics: a transportation and location planning perspective pp. 193-244

Elif Bozkaya, Levent Eriskin and Mumtaz Karatas

A simulation-deep reinforcement learning (SiRL) approach for epidemic control optimization pp. 245-277

Sabah Bushaj, Xuecheng Yin, Arjeta Beqiri, Donald Andrews and İ. Esra Büyüktahtakın

Prioritization of healthcare systems during pandemics using Cronbach’s measure based fuzzy WASPAS approach pp. 279-307

Muhammet Deveci, Raghunathan Krishankumar, Ilgin Gokasar and Rumeysa Tuna Deveci

Deep learning and hyperparameter optimization for assessing one’s eligibility for a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator pp. 309-335

Anthony J. Dunn, Stefano Coniglio, Mohamed ElRefai, Paul R. Roberts, Benedict M. Wiles and Alain B. Zemkoho

A data-driven optimization model to response to COVID-19 pandemic: a case study pp. 337-386

Amin Eshkiti, Fatemeh Sabouhi and Ali Bozorgi-Amiri

Diabetic patient review helpfulness: unpacking online drug treatment reviews by text analytics and design science approach pp. 387-418

Yi Feng, Yunqiang Yin, Dujuan Wang, Lalitha Dhamotharan, Joshua Ignatius and Ajay Kumar

Data-driven analysis of influence between radiologists for diagnosis of breast lesions pp. 419-449

Chao Fu, Dongyue Wang and Wenjun Chang

EEG signal classification via pinball universum twin support vector machine pp. 451-492

M. A. Ganaie, M. Tanveer and Jatin Jangir

A robust possibilistic programming framework for designing an organ transplant supply chain under uncertainty pp. 493-530

Alireza Goli, Ali Ala and Seyedali Mirjalili

Designing an integrated responsive-green-cold vaccine supply chain network using Internet-of-Things: artificial intelligence-based solutions pp. 531-575

Fariba Goodarzian, Ali Navaei, Behdad Ehsani, Peiman Ghasemi and Jesús Muñuzuri

A framework for the estimation of treatment costs of cardiovascular conditions in the presence of disease transition pp. 577-616

Mohit Goswami, Yash Daultani, Sanjoy Kumar Paul and Saurabh Pratap

A novel deep neural network model based Xception and genetic algorithm for detection of COVID-19 from X-ray images pp. 617-641

Burak Gülmez

Stochastic weekly operating room planning with an exponential number of scenarios pp. 643-664

Hossein Hashemi Doulabi and Soheyl Khalilpourazari

Two new feature selection methods based on learn-heuristic techniques for breast cancer prediction: a comprehensive analysis pp. 665-700

Kamyab Karimi, Ali Ghodratnama and Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam

A flexible robust model for blood supply chain network design problem pp. 701-726

Soheyl Khalilpourazari and Hossein Hashemi Doulabi

A hybrid heuristic approach to master surgery scheduling with downstream resource constraints and dividable operating room blocks pp. 727-754

Kamran Kianfar and Arezoo Atighehchian

A multi-objective location-routing model for dental waste considering environmental factors pp. 755-792

Ghazale Kordi, Parsa Hasanzadeh-Moghimi, Mohammad Mahdi Paydar and Ebrahim Asadi-Gangraj

Development of a new personalized staff-scheduling method with a work-life balance perspective: case of a hospital pp. 793-820

Halil İbrahim Koruca, Murat Serdar Emek and Esra Gulmez

Minimizing patients total clinical condition deterioration in operating theatre departments pp. 821-857

Omolbanin Mashkani, Andreas T. Ernst, Dhananjay Thiruvady and Hanyu Gu

Robust possibilistic programming to design a closed-loop blood supply chain network considering service-level maximization and lateral resupply pp. 859-901

Mohsen Momenitabar, Zhila Dehdari Ebrahimi, Mohammad Arani and Jeremy Mattson

Resilient and social health service network design to reduce the effect of COVID-19 outbreak pp. 903-975

Seyyed-Mahdi Hosseini-Motlagh, Mohammad Reza Ghatreh Samani and Behnam Karimi

Supplier selection in healthcare supply chain management during the COVID-19 pandemic: a novel fuzzy rough decision-making approach pp. 977-1019

Dragan Pamucar, Ali Ebadi Torkayesh and Sanjib Biswas

MRFE-CNN: multi-route feature extraction model for breast tumor segmentation in Mammograms using a convolutional neural network pp. 1021-1042

Ramin Ranjbarzadeh, Nazanin Tataei Sarshar, Saeid Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi, Mohammad Saleh Esfahani, Mahboub Parhizkar, Yaghoub Pourasad, Shokofeh Anari and Malika Bendechache

Using machine learning in prediction of ICU admission, mortality, and length of stay in the early stage of admission of COVID-19 patients pp. 1043-1071

Sara Saadatmand, Khodakaram Salimifard, Reza Mohammadi, Alex Kuiper, Maryam Marzban and Akram Farhadi

Big data analytics and the effects of government restrictions and prohibitions in the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department sustainable operations pp. 1073-1103

Görkem Sariyer, Mustafa Gokalp Ataman, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Yigit Kazancoglu and Manoj Dora

Locating a disinfection facility for hazardous healthcare waste in the COVID-19 era: a novel approach based on Fermatean fuzzy ITARA-MARCOS and random forest recursive feature elimination algorithm pp. 1105-1150

Vladimir Simic, Ali Ebadi Torkayesh and Abtin Ijadi Maghsoodi

National IoMT platform strategy portfolio decision model under the COVID-19 environment: based on the financial and non-financial value view pp. 1151-1179

Chih-Hao Yang, Yen-Yu Liu, Chia-Hsin Chiang and Ya-Wen Su

On directionally differentiable multiobjective programming problems with vanishing constraints pp. 1181-1212

Tadeusz Antczak

Broadcasting revenue sharing after cancelling sports competitions pp. 1213-1238

Gustavo Bergantiños and Juan Moreno-Ternero

Bi-oriented graphs and four valued logic for preference modelling pp. 1239-1262

Ouahiba Bessouf, Abdelkader Khelladi, Meltem Öztürk and Alexis Tsoukiàs

Optimal seedings in interdependent contests pp. 1263-1285

Chen Cohen, Ishay Rabi and Aner Sela

Efficiency of government policy during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 1287-1312

Manthos D. Delis, Maria Iosifidi and Menelaos Tasiou

A matheuristic for customized multi-level multi-criteria university timetabling pp. 1313-1348

Fabian Dunke and Stefan Nickel

Banzhaf–Coleman–Dubey–Shapley sensitivity index for simple multichoice voting games pp. 1349-1364

Bertrand Mbama Engoulou, Pierre Wambo and Lawrence Diffo Lambo

Investigating the unobserved heterogeneity effect on outreach to women: lessons from microfinance institutions pp. 1365-1386

F. S. Fall, H. Tchakoute Tchuigoua, A. Vanhems and Leopold Simar

Approximation algorithms for coupled task scheduling minimizing the sum of completion times pp. 1387-1408

David Fischer and Péter Györgyi

Production planning under RTP, TOU and PPA considering a redox flow battery storage system pp. 1409-1436

Markus Hilbert, Andreas Dellnitz and Andreas Kleine

Minimizing the makespan for the two-machine flow shop scheduling problem with random breakdown pp. 1437-1460

Faicel Hnaien and Taha Arbaoui

Time-to-build and capacity expansion pp. 1461-1494

Haejun Jeon

Integrated optimal scheduling and routing of repair crew and relief vehicles after disaster: a novel hybrid solution approach pp. 1495-1522

Sakineh Lakzaei, Donya Rahmani, Babak Mohamadpour Tosarkani and Sepideh Nasiri

An analytic derivation of the efficient frontier in biobjective cash management and its implications for policies pp. 1523-1536

Francisco Salas-Molina, David Pla-Santamaria and Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar

Reducing waste and achieving sustainable food security through optimizing surplus-food collection and meal distribution pp. 1537-1555

Pei-Ju Wu and Yu-Shan Lin

Who is better off by selling extended warranties in the supply chain: the manufacturer, the retailer, or both? pp. 1557-1583

Lianmin Zhang, Lei Guan, Daniel Zhuoyu Long, Houcai Shen and Huajun Tang

Relay network design with direct shipment and multi-relay assignment pp. 1585-1614

Amin Ziaeifar and Halit Üster

On disclosure of participation in innovation contests: a dominance result pp. 1615-1629

Bo Chen, Emilios Galariotis, Lijun Ma, Zijia Wang and Zhaobo Zhu