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Volume 338, month 7, 2024

Project management and scheduling 2022 pp. 1-12

Tom Servranckx, José Coelho and Mario Vanhoucke

Large neighborhood search for an aeronautical assembly line time-constrained scheduling problem with multiple modes and a resource leveling objective pp. 13-40

Tamara Borreguero Sanchidrián, Tom Portoleau, Christian Artigues, Alvaro García Sánchez, Miguel Ortega Mier and Pierre Lopez

An efficient relax-and-solve method for the multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem pp. 41-68

Alireza Etminaniesfahani, Hanyu Gu, Leila Moslemi Naeni and Amir Salehipour

Solving a real-life multi-skill resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem pp. 69-114

Rahman Torba, Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès, Claude Yugma, Cédric Gallais and Juliette Pouzet

Simulated annealing for centralised resource-constrained multiproject scheduling to minimise the maximal cash flow gap under different payment patterns pp. 115-149

Yukang He, Tao Jia and Weibo Zheng

Resource overload problems with tardiness penalty: structural properties and solution approaches pp. 151-172

Lena Sophie Wohlert and Jürgen Zimmermann

Generation schemes for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem with partially renewable resources and generalized precedence constraints pp. 173-192

Mareike Karnebogen and Jürgen Zimmermann

Scheduling activities in project network with feeding precedence relations: an earliest start forward recursion algorithm pp. 193-224

Lucio Bianco, Massimiliano Caramia, Stefano Giordani and Alessio Salvatore

A machine-learning-based framework for contractor selection and order allocation in public construction projects considering sustainability, risk, and safety pp. 225-267

Shrey Jain, Sunil Kumar Jauhar and Piyush

Bayer digestion maintenance optimisation with lazy constraints and Benders decomposition pp. 269-302

Sandy Spiers, Hoa T. Bui, Ryan Loxton, Moussa Reda Mansour, Kylie Hollins, Richard Francis, Christopher Martindale and Yogesh Pimpale

A multi-objective competency-based decision support system for the assignment of internal auditors to multiple projects pp. 303-334

Xiong Wang, Fernando A. F. Ferreira and Pengyu Yan

On the local dominance properties in single machine scheduling problems pp. 335-345

Natalia Jorquera-Bravo and Óscar C. Vásquez

Measuring the slack between lower bounds for scheduling on parallel machines pp. 347-377

Jacques Carlier and Claire Hanen

An upper bound for the inter-exit time of two jobs in an m-machine flow shop pp. 379-405

Marcello Urgo and Massimo Manzini

A machine learning enhanced multi-start heuristic to efficiently solve a serial-batch scheduling problem pp. 407-428

Aykut Uzunoglu, Christian Gahm and Axel Tuma

A theoretical and empirical study of job scheduling in cloud computing environments: the weighted completion time minimization problem with capacitated parallel machines pp. 429-452

Ilan Reuven Cohen, Izack Cohen and Iyar Zaks

A stochastic bi-objective project scheduling model under failure of activities pp. 453-476

Fatemeh Rezaei, Amir Abbas Najafi, Erik Demeulemeester and Reza Ramezanian

Software project scheduling under activity duration uncertainty pp. 477-512

Hongbo Li, Hanyu Zhu, Linwen Zheng and Fang Xie

A risk analytics model for strategic workforce planning: readiness of enlisted military personnel pp. 513-533

Leo MacDonald and Jomon Aliyas Paul

Analysis of a time–cost trade-off in a resource-constrained GERT project scheduling problem using the Markov decision process pp. 535-568

Shadi Sadri, S. M. T. Fatemi Ghomi and Amin Dehghanian

The performance of priority rules for the dynamic stochastic resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem: an experimental investigation pp. 569-595

Philipp Melchiors, Rainer Kolisch and John J. Kanet

A new proactive and reactive approach for resource-constrained project scheduling problem under activity and resource disruption: a scenario-based robust optimization approach pp. 597-643

Maziar Khoshsirat and Seyed Meysam Mousavi

Metric estimation approach for managing uncertainty in resource leveling problem pp. 645-673

Ilia Tarasov, Alain Haït, Alexander Lazarev and Olga Battaïa

A novel framework for risk management of software projects by integrating a new COPRAS method under cloud model and machine learning algorithms pp. 675-708

Mohammad Hossein Haghighi and Maryam Ashrafi

A distributionally robust approach for the two-machine permutation flow shop scheduling pp. 709-739

Haimin Lu and Zhi Pei

Robust scheduling in a two-machine re-entrant flow shop to minimise the value-at-risk of the makespan: branch-and-bound and heuristic algorithms based on Markovian activity networks and phase-type distributions pp. 741-764

Lei Liu and Marcello Urgo

Efficient solutions to the m-machine robust flow shop under budgeted uncertainty pp. 765-799

Mario Levorato, David Sotelo, Rosa Figueiredo and Yuri Frota

Minimizing the expected maximum lateness for a job shop subject to stochastic machine breakdowns pp. 801-833

Gabriel Mauricio Zambrano-Rey, Eliana María González-Neira, Gabriel Fernando Forero-Ortiz, María José Ocampo-Monsalve and Andrea Rivera-Torres

An experimental design for comparing interactive methods based on their desirable properties pp. 835-856

Bekir Afsar, Johanna Silvennoinen, Francisco Ruiz, Ana B. Ruiz, Giovanni Misitano and Kaisa Miettinen

Solving the two-machine open shop problem with a single server with respect to the makespan pp. 857-877

Nadia Babou, Djamal Rebaine and Mourad Boudhar

Time varying risk aversion and its connectedness: evidence from cryptocurrencies pp. 879-923

Shaen Corbet, Yang Hou, Yang Hu and Les Oxley

A uniform sampling method for permutation space pp. 925-945

Lin Gui, Xinyu Li, Qingfu Zhang and Liang Gao

Short-term prediction of bank deposit flows: do textual features matter? pp. 947-972

Apostolos Katsafados and Dimitris Anastasiou

Equal support from others for unproductive players: efficient and linear values that satisfy the equal treatment and weak null player out properties for cooperative games pp. 973-989

Takumi Kongo

Consistency of the Owen value for TU-games with coalition and graph structures pp. 991-1017

Wenrong Lyu, Erfang Shan and Zeguang Cui

The all-pairs vitality-maximization (VIMAX) problem pp. 1019-1048

Alice Paul and Susan E. Martonosi

On robust estimation of hidden semi-Markov regime-switching models pp. 1049-1081

Shanshan Qin, Zhenni Tan and Yuehua Wu

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: a power study in signed networks pp. 1083-1100

Wilhelm Rödder, Andreas Dellnitz and Elmar Reucher

Arc-dependent networks: theoretical insights and a computational study pp. 1101-1126

Alvaro Velasquez, P. Wojciechowski, K. Subramani and Matthew Williamson

Disaster relief supply chain network planning under uncertainty pp. 1127-1156

Gang Wang

Joint decision-making for divisional seru scheduling and worker assignment considering process sequence constraints pp. 1157-1185

Lili Wang, Min Li, Guanbin Kong and Haiwen Xu

A comparative analysis of how to handle stockout scenarios: the impact of newsvendor’s risk attitude pp. 1187-1218

Doran Wood and Sıla Çetinkaya

A strategic analysis of timing of wholesale pricing and information sharing strategy in dual-channel retailing pp. 1219-1240

Jianghua Wu, Yuan Xue and Jiahao Yu

Identification, establishment of connection, and clustering of social risks involved in the agri-food supply chains: a cross-country comparative study pp. 1241-1282

Guoqing Zhao, Shaofeng Liu, Carmen Lopez, Yi Wang, Haiyan Lu and Jinhua Zhang

Enhanced branch-and-bound algorithm for chance constrained programs with Gaussian mixture models pp. 1283-1315

Jinxiang Wei, Zhaolin Hu, Jun Luo and Shushang Zhu

Optimal pricing and financing decision of dual-channel green supply chain considering product differentiation and blockchain pp. 1317-1358

Yu Xia, Rongrong Shang, Mingxia Wei and Zhenke Wei

Frontiers and trends of supply chain optimization in the age of industry 4.0: an operations research perspective pp. 1359-1401

Zhitao Xu, Adel Elomri, Roberto Baldacci, Laoucine Kerbache and Zhenyong Wu

A goal-oriented reinforcement learning for optimal drug dosage control pp. 1403-1423

Qian Zhang, Tianhao Li, Dengfeng Li and Wei Lu

Volume 337, month 6, 2024

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Prescriptive analytics applications in sustainable operations research: conceptual framework and future research challenges pp. 1-1

Deepa Bhatt Mishra, Sameen Naqvi, Angappa Gunasekaran and Vartika Dutta

Robust portfolio optimization with fuzzy TODIM, genetic algorithm and multi-criteria constraints pp. 1-22

Ameet Kumar Banerjee, H. K. Pradhan, Ahmet Sensoy, Frank Fabozzi and Biplab Mahapatra

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Evaluating sustainably resilient supply chains: a stochastic double frontier analytic model considering Netzero pp. 3-4

Majid Azadi, Reza Kazemi Matin, Ali Emrouznejad and William Ho

RETRACTION ARTICLE: Two-stage supply chain inventory management based on system dynamics model for reducing bullwhip effect of sulfur product pp. 5-5

Yulan Zhou, Hao Li, Shuoqi Hu and Xiaozhong Yu

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analyzing online consumer purchase psychology through hybrid machine learning pp. 7-8

Praveen Ranjan Srivastava, Prajwal Eachempati, Ritanjali Panigrahi, Abhishek Behl and Vijay Pereira

RETRACTED ARTICLE: A mathematical model to investigate the interactive effects of important economic factors on the behaviors of retailers pp. 9-9

Amir Khakbaz and Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Forecasting carbon emissions future prices using the machine learning methods pp. 11-11

Umer Shahzad, Tuhin Sengupta, Amar Rao and Lianbiao Cui

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Study on regional tourism performance evaluation based on the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and radial basis function neural network pp. 13-13

Yan Wang and Lina Fu

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Assessment of airline industry using a new double-frontier cross-efficiency method based on prospect theory pp. 15-16

Seyedreza Seyedalizadeh Ganji, Mohammad Najafi, Alexandra Mora-Cruz, Anjali Awasthi and Shahruz Fathi Ajirlu

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Defining content marketing and its influence on online user behavior: a data-driven prescriptive analytics method pp. 17-17

Belém Barbosa, José Ramón Saura, Senka Borovac Zekan and Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Responsive strategies for new normal cold supply chain using greenfield, network optimization, and simulation analysis pp. 19-20

Pratik Maheshwari, Sachin Kamble, Amine Belhadi, Cristina Blanco González-Tejero and Sunil Kumar Jauhar

RETRACTED ARTICLE: The impact of high-tech enterprise innovation network on breakthrough technology innovation performance: mediating role of intellectual capital pp. 21-21

Aili Sun, Hui Wu, Zuoyuan Feng and Xiaomin Gu

RETRACTED ARTICLE: A game theory data science-based mechanism for licensed pharmaceutical products concerning their deterioration: a case of a micro, small, and medium enterprise in Iran pp. 23-24

Amirhossein Mostofi, Vipul Jain, Sameer Kumar, Yi Mei and Charu Chandra

Asymptotics for credit portfolio losses due to defaults in a multi-sector model pp. 23-44

Shaoying Chen, Yang Yang and Zhimin Zhang

RETRACTED ARTICLE: A new truck-drone routing problem for parcel delivery by considering energy consumption and altitude pp. 25-25

Maryam Momeni, S. M. J. Mirzapour Al-e-Hashem and Ali Heidari

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Learnings from Industry 4.0 for transitioning towards Industry 4.0+: challenges and solutions for Indian pharmaceutical sector pp. 27-28

Mahak Sharma, Rajat Sehrawat, Mihalis Giannakis and Yogesh K. Dwivedi

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Intelligent data sharing strategy supported by artificial intelligence and blockchain technology: based on medical data pp. 29-29

Chengming Li, Yuan Huang, Yiru Wu, Xiaoxing Wang, Yuan Tian, Runqing Wu, Fuyao Qu and Zeyu Wang

RETRACTED ARTICLE: An optimization framework for the sustainable healthcare facility location problem using a hierarchical conflict resolution approach pp. 31-32

Babak Aslani, Meysam Rabiee, Mona Jabbari and Dursun Delen

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Crude oil futures price prediction by composite machine learning model pp. 33-33

Hao Dong, Yingrong Zheng and Na Li

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Nonlinear interactions via machine learning: Input factor orchestration in sustainable operations pp. 35-36

Neil Johnson, Sameer Prasad, Rimi Zakaria, Amin Vahedian and Nezih Altay

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Developing algorithmic business resource optimization model for code smells detection: an applied case insight from enterprise level software management system pp. 37-38

Priyanka Gupta, Adarsh Anand, Ronnie Das, Laurie Hughes and Yogesh K. Dwivedi

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Research on the decision of green supply chain under the game competition of retailers considering government behavior pp. 39-39

Hengbing Ding and Jixing Yang

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Empirical study of innovation efficiency of China's high-tech industries using two-stage stochastic super-efficiency nonparametric technologies pp. 41-42

Xiaoqing Chen, Xinwang Liu, Zaiwu Gong, Qun Wu, Qingwen Bo and Fausto Cavallaro

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Sustainable regional rail system pricing using a machine learning-based optimization approach pp. 43-44

Ilgin Gokasar, Ahmet Karakurt, Yusuf Kuvvetli, Muhammet Deveci, Dursun Delen and Dragan Pamucar

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Optimizing government resource allocation in public sectors: investigating intelligent urban systems for effective crisis management pp. 45-45

Yingbo Xu, Leven J. Zheng and Wei Liu

Enduring relief or fleeting respite? Bitcoin as a hedge and safe haven for the US dollar pp. 45-73

Thomas Conlon, Shaen Corbet and Richard McGee

Optimal control of a dynamic production-inventory system with various cost criteria pp. 75-103

Subrata Golui, Chandan Pal, R. Manikandan and Abhay Sobhanan

Inventory and order management for healthcare commodities during a pandemic pp. 105-133

Chelsea Greene, Zelda B. Zabinsky, David Sarley and Laila Akhlaghi

Revenue maximization for multiple advertisements placement on a web banner using a pixel-price model pp. 135-166

Edmar Langendoen, Flavius Frasincar, Mark Riezebos, Vladyslav Matsiiako and David Boekestijn

Fixed-income average options: a pricing approach based on Gaussian mean-reverting cyclical models pp. 167-196

Belén León-Pérez and Manuel Moreno

Inventory models for non-instantaneous deteriorating items with expiration dates under the joined effect of preservation technology and linearly time-dependent holding cost when order-size linked to advance payment pp. 197-233

Jui-Jung Liao, H. M. Srivastava and Shy- Der Lin

A semi-supervised multi-criteria sorting approach to constructing social vulnerability composite indicators pp. 235-260

Renata Pelissari, Sarah Ben Amor, Álvaro Oliveira D’Antona, Eduardo José Marandola Júnior and Leonardo Tomazeli Duarte

Mathematical programming-based methodology for the evaluation of supply chain collaborative planning scenarios pp. 261-312

D. Pérez-Perales, A. Boza, F. Alarcón and P. Gómez-Gasquet

Optimizing pricing and ordering strategies for new products in the presence of consumers with pre-purchase beliefs pp. 313-342

Yun Ran, Yun Zeng, Yucheng Dong, Stuart X. Zhu and Meng Wu

Supply chain performance evaluation using a network data envelopment analysis model with bias-corrected estimates pp. 343-395

Ilias Vlachos, Panagiotis Zervopoulos and Gang Cheng

Regularized distributionally robust optimization with application to the index tracking problem pp. 397-424

Leyang Zhao, Guoyin Li and Spiridon Penev

A robust multi-project scheduling problem under a resource dedication-transfer policy pp. 425-457

Yan Zhao, Xuejun Hu, Jianjiang Wang and Nanfang Cui

Design of resilient and viable sourcing strategies in intertwined circular supply networks pp. 459-498

Khadija Echefaj, Abdelkabir Charkaoui, Anass Cherrafi and Dmitry Ivanov

Project management and scheduling 2021 pp. 499-500

Christian Artigues, Cyril Briand and Pierre Lopez

An empirical project forecasting accuracy framework using project regularity pp. 501-521

Paulo André de Andrade, Mario Vanhoucke and Annelies Martens

Risk response budget allocation based on fault tree analysis and optimization pp. 523-564

Xin Guan, Tom Servranckx and Mario Vanhoucke

Shortening the project schedule: solving multimode chance-constrained critical chain buffer management using reinforcement learning pp. 565-592

Claudio Szwarcfiter, Yale T. Herer and Avraham Shtub

On the summary measures for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem pp. 593-625

Rob Eynde, Mario Vanhoucke and José Coelho

MIP-based solution approaches for multi-site resource-constrained project scheduling pp. 627-647

Tamara Bigler, Mario Gnägi and Norbert Trautmann

Exact and heuristic methods for Anchor-Robust and Adjustable-Robust RCPSP pp. 649-682

Adèle Pass-Lanneau, Pascale Bendotti and Luca Brunod-Indrigo

Algorithms to compute the energetic lower bounds of the cumulative scheduling problem pp. 683-713

Jacques Carlier, Antoine Jouglet and Abderrahim Sahli

Triangle width problem: at the intersection of graph theory, scheduling, and matrix visualization pp. 715-730

Khadija Hadj Salem, Luc Libralesso, Vincent Jost, Florian Fontan and Frédéric Maffray

Nonlinear dynamics and game-theoretic modeling in economics and finance pp. 731-737

Gian Italo Bischi, Lorenzo Cerboni Baiardi, Fabio Lamantia and Davide Radi

The impact of pollution on the dynamics of industry location and residence choice pp. 739-768

Pasquale Commendatore, I. Kubin, M. Sodini and I. Sushko

A robust route to randomness in a simple Cournot duopoly game where ambiguity aversion meets constant expectations pp. 769-807

D. Radi, L. Gardini and David Goldbaum

Complex dynamics in a nonlinear duopoly model with heuristic expectation formation and learning behavior pp. 809-834

Sarah Mignot, Fabio Tramontana and Frank Westerhoff

Corporate social responsibility and network externalities: a game-theoretic approach pp. 835-871

Domenico Buccella, Luciano Fanti, Luca Gori and Mauro Sodini

Product life cycles, product innovation and firm growth pp. 873-890

Hiroki Murakami

An evolutive model of a boundedly rational consumer with changing preferences and reference group consumption pp. 891-912

Gian Italo Bischi and Fabio Tramontana

A discontinuous model of exchange rate dynamics with sentiment traders pp. 913-935

Giovanni Campisi, Anastasiia Panchuk and Fabio Tramontana

Nonlinear Kaldor model augmented with retardation and anticipation pp. 937-958

Akio Matsumoto and Ferenc Szidarovszky

On optimal lockdown policies while facing socioeconomic costs pp. 959-992

Elena Gubar, Laura Policardo, Edgar Sánchez Carrera and Vladislav Taynitskiy

Infectious diseases and social distancing under state-dependent probabilities pp. 993-1008

Davide La Torre, Simone Marsiglio and Fabio Privileggi

Green transition and environmental quality: an evolutionary approach pp. 1009-1035

Fausto Cavalli, Enrico Moretto and Ahmad Naimzada

The abatement game in a dynamic oligopoly: social welfare versus profits pp. 1037-1065

Domenico Buccella, Luciano Fanti, Luca Gori and Mauro Sodini

Capital exploitation and environmental awareness: How they affect the economy and the environment in a dynamic framework pp. 1067-1088

Francesca Grassetti, Cristiana Mammana and Elisabetta Michetti

Maladaptation in an unequal world: an evolutionary model with heterogeneous agents pp. 1089-1110

Angelo Antoci, Simone Borghesi, Giulio Galdi, Mauro Sodini and Elisa Ticci

How robust is the natalist bias of pollution control? pp. 1111-1133

Alessia Cafferata and Marwil Dávila-Fernández

Optimal water tariffs for domestic, agricultural and industrial use pp. 1135-1165

Andrea Caravaggio, Luigi De Cesare and Andrea Di Liddo

Valuation of mining projects under dynamic model framework pp. 1167-1204

Jiří Hozman, Tomáš Tichý and Hana Dvořáčková

Dynamical inspection game with continuous strategies pp. 1205-1234

Ugo Merlone, Giovanni Orlando and Arianna Dal Forno