Annals of Operations Research

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Volume 232, month 9, 2015

Brief history of systems analysis in forest resources pp. 1-10

B. Bare and Andres Weintraub

Operations Research challenges in forestry: 33 open problems pp. 11-40

Mikael Rönnqvist, Sophie D’Amours, Andres Weintraub, Alejandro Jofre, Eldon Gunn, Robert Haight, David Martell, Alan Murray and Carlos Romero

Concurrent optimization of harvesting and road network layouts under steep terrain pp. 41-64

Leo Bont, Hans Heinimann and Richard Church

Effects of different cut-to-length harvesting structures on the economic value of a wood procurement planning problem pp. 65-86

Amira Dems, Louis-Martin Rousseau and Jean-Marc Frayret

Flow-based integer linear programs to solve the weekly log-truck scheduling problem pp. 87-97

Nizar Hachemi, Issmail Hallaoui, Michel Gendreau and Louis-Martin Rousseau

Interactive preference elicitation incorporating a priori and a posteriori methods pp. 99-113

Kyle Eyvindson, Teppo Hujala, Mikko Kurttila and Annika Kangas

A compromise programming model for developing the cost of including carbon pools and flux into forest management pp. 115-133

L. Gharis, J. Roise and J. McCarter

Minimum cost in a mix of new and old reusable items: an application to sizing a fleet of delivery trucks pp. 135-149

Eduardo González and Leonardo Epstein

Modeling and solving a logging camp location problem pp. 151-177

Sanjay Jena, Jean-François Cordeau and Bernard Gendron

Using mixed integer programming models to synchronously determine production levels and market prices in an integrated market for roundwood and forest biomass pp. 179-199

Jiehong Kong, Mikael Rönnqvist and Mikael Frisk

An integrated optimization model for fuel management and fire suppression preparedness planning pp. 201-215

James Minas, John Hearne and David Martell

Valuing forestlands with stochastic timber and carbon prices pp. 217-234

Stanislav Petrasek, John Perez-Garcia and B. Bare

Spatially explicit forest harvest scheduling with difference equations pp. 235-257

Rachel St. John and Sándor Tóth

Stochastic optimization models in forest planning: a progressive hedging solution approach pp. 259-274

Fernando Veliz, Jean-Paul Watson, Andres Weintraub, Roger Wets and David Woodruff

Spatial uncertainty in harvest scheduling pp. 275-289

Ran Wei and Alan Murray

Volume 231, month 8, 2015

Advances in stochastic models of manufacturing and service operations pp. 1-3

B. Tan, S. Gershwin, G. Liberopoulos, S. Meerkov and C. Papadopoulos

A general model for batch building processes under the timeout and capacity rules pp. 5-31

Justus Schwarz, Judith Stoll née Matzka and Eda Özden

The two-machine one-buffer continuous time model with restart policy pp. 33-64

Elisa Gebennini, Andrea Grassi and Cesare Fantuzzi

A make-to-stock mountain-type inventory model pp. 65-77

Onno Boxma, Mahmut Parlar and David Perry

Continuous material flow systems: analysis of marine ports handling bulk materials pp. 79-104

Ünsal Özdoğru and Tayfur Altiok

Mathematical programming models for joint simulation–optimization applied to closed queueing networks pp. 105-127

Arianna Alfieri, Andrea Matta and Giulia Pedrielli

Stochastic models for unit-load operations in warehouse systems with autonomous vehicles pp. 129-155

Debjit Roy, Ananth Krishnamurthy, Sunderesh Heragu and Charles Malmborg

Optimal workload allocation in closed queueing networks with state dependent queues pp. 157-183

J. Smith

Integrating inventory control and capacity management at a maintenance service provider pp. 185-206

Nasuh Buyukkaramikli, Henny Ooijen and J. Bertrand

A dynamic inventory rationing problem with uncertain demand and production rates pp. 207-228

Zeynep Turgay, Fikri Karaesmen and E. Örmeci

Distribution-dependent robust linear optimization with applications to inventory control pp. 229-263

Seong-Cheol Kang, Theodora Brisimi and Ioannis Paschalidis

Analysis of production and inventory systems when orders may cross over pp. 265-281

Thomas Wensing and Heinrich Kuhn

Service differentiation in spare parts supply through dedicated stocks pp. 283-303

Elisa Alvarez, Matthieu Heijden and W. Zijm

An optimal inventory management problem with reputation-dependent demand pp. 305-316

Eugene Khmelnitsky and Gonen Singer

Erratum to: An optimal inventory management problem with reputation-dependent demand pp. 317-318

Eugene Khmelnitsky and Gonen Singer

Volume 230, month 7, 2015

Socially responsible service operations management: an overview pp. 1-16

Hosang Jung, Chi-Guhn Lee and Chelsea White

A logistics model for the transport of disaster victims with various injuries and survival probabilities pp. 17-33

Sukho Jin, Sukjae Jeong, Jangyeop Kim and Kyungsup Kim

Differentiated waiting time management according to patient class in an emergency care center using an open Jackson network integrated with pooling and prioritizing pp. 35-55

Sumi Kim and Seongmoon Kim

Inverse optimization for assessing emerging technologies in breast cancer screening pp. 57-85

Turgay Ayer

Passive cold devices for vaccine supply chains pp. 87-104

Sheng-I Chen, Bryan Norman, Jayant Rajgopal and Bruce Lee

Alternative fuel station location model with demand learning pp. 105-127

Shahzad Bhatti, Michael Lim and Ho-Yin Mak

Measuring greenhouse gas emissions for the transportation sector in Korea pp. 129-151

Seungbae Sim, Jisoo Oh and Bongju Jeong

Modeling the impact of donor behavior on humanitarian aid operations pp. 153-168

M. Ülkü, Kathryn Bell and Stephanie Wilson

Volume 229, month 6, 2015

Capacitated lot sizing problems with inventory bounds pp. 1-18

Ayse Akbalik, Bernard Penz and Christophe Rapine

Preprocessing and an improved MIP model for examination timetabling pp. 19-40

Taha Arbaoui, Jean-Paul Boufflet and Aziz Moukrim

A bargaining procedure leading to the serial rule in games with veto players pp. 41-66

J. Arin, Vincent Feltkamp and Maria Montero

Retrial queueing system with balking, optional service and vacation pp. 67-84

D. Arivudainambi and P. Godhandaraman

Continuous accounting of inventory costs with Brownian-motion and Poisson demand processes pp. 85-102

Tal Avinadav

A general solution for robust linear programs with distortion risk constraints pp. 103-120

Pavel Bazovkin and Karl Mosler

A closed-form solution of the multi-period portfolio choice problem for a quadratic utility function pp. 121-158

Taras Bodnar, Nestor Parolya and Wolfgang Schmid

A consolidated approach to the axiomatization of outranking relations: a survey and new results pp. 159-212

Denis Bouyssou and Marc Pirlot

Sustainable supply chain management: a modeling perspective pp. 213-252

Marcus Brandenburg and Tobias Rebs

An empirical study of returns to scale of CPA firms in the post SOX era pp. 253-264

Hsihui Chang, Hiu Choy and Iny Hwang

A new strongly competitive group testing algorithm with small sequentiality pp. 265-286

Yongxi Cheng, Ding-Zhu Du and Feifeng Zheng

Simultaneous pricing and inventory management of deteriorating perishable products pp. 287-301

Prashant Chintapalli

An integrated supply chain problem: a nested lagrangian relaxation approach pp. 303-323

Ali Diabat and Jean-Philippe Richard

Improved efficiency measures through directional distance formulation of data envelopment analysis pp. 325-346

Ali Diabat, Udaya Shetty and T. Pakkala

Strategic manipulability of self-selective social choice rules pp. 347-376

Mostapha Diss

Symmetric coherent upper conditional prevision defined by the Choquet integral with respect to Hausdorff outer measure pp. 377-396

Serena Doria

Solving the parametric bipartite maximum flow problem in unbalanced and closure bipartite graphs pp. 397-408

Mehdi Ghiyasvand

Two-stage portfolio optimization with higher-order conditional measures of risk pp. 409-427

Sıtkı Gülten and Andrzej Ruszczynski

Calibration, sharpness and the weighting of experts in a linear opinion pool pp. 429-450

Stephen Hora and Erim Kardeş

Using the gravitational emulation local search algorithm to solve the multi-objective flexible dynamic job shop scheduling problem in Small and Medium Enterprises pp. 451-474

Ali Hosseinabadi, Hajar Siar, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Mohammad Shojafar and Mohd Nasir

Successive smoothing algorithm for solving large-scale optimization models with fixed cost pp. 475-500

Mashor Housh and Ximing Cai

Cost minimising order schedules for a capacitated inventory system pp. 501-520

F. Kleintje-Ell and G. Kiesmüller

Optimal trading of algorithmic orders in a liquidity fragmented market place pp. 521-540

Miles Kumaresan and Nataša Krejić

The Top-Dog Index: a new measurement for the demand consistency of the size distribution in pre-pack orders for a fashion discounter with many small branches pp. 541-563

Sascha Kurz, Jörg Rambau, Jörg Schlüchtermann and Rainer Wolf

Valuated matroid-based algorithm for submodular welfare problem pp. 565-590

Takanori Maehara and Kazuo Murota

Kusuoka representations of coherent risk measures in general probability spaces pp. 591-605

Nilay Noyan and Gábor Rudolf

Exterior point simplex-type algorithms for linear and network optimization problems pp. 607-633

Konstantinos Paparrizos, Nikolaos Samaras and Angelo Sifaleras

Nonlinear programming applied to the reduction of inconsistency in the AHP method pp. 635-655

Valdecy Pereira and Helder Costa

Optimal allocation of water to competing stakeholders in a shared watershed pp. 657-676

R. Roozbahani, B. Abbasi and S. Schreider

An inventory model with trade-credit policy and variable deterioration for fixed lifetime products pp. 677-702

Biswajit Sarkar, Sharmila Saren and Leopoldo Cárdenas-Barrón

A Robust optimization approach to assess the effect of delays in the connection-to-the-grid time of new generation power plants over transmission expansion planning pp. 703-741

Enzo Sauma, Fernando Traub and Jorge Vera

OSGA: genetic-based open-shop scheduling with consideration of machine maintenance in small and medium enterprises pp. 743-758

Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Mohammad Shojafar, A. Hosseinabadi, Maryam Kardgar, M. Nasir and Rodina Ahmad

Analysis of practical step size selection in stochastic approximation algorithms pp. 759-769

Qi Wang

Systematic evolutionary algorithm for general multilevel Stackelberg problems with bounded decision variables (SEAMSP) pp. 771-790

Ashenafi Woldemariam and Semu Kassa

Multi-criteria decision making based on relative measures pp. 791-811

Meimei Xia, Jian Chen and Juliang Zhang

A novel probabilistic formulation for locating and sizing emergency medical service stations pp. 813-835

Zhi-Hai Zhang and Kang Li