Annals of Operations Research

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Volume 221, month 10, 2014

Operations research in the public sector and nonprofit organizations pp. 1-8

Zilla Sinuany-Stern and H. Sherman

Location-allocation models for traffic police patrol vehicles on an interurban network pp. 9-31

Nicole Adler, Alfred Hakkert, Jonathan Kornbluth, Tal Raviv and Mali Sher

Computing the probabilities of HLA-like matching pp. 33-45

Amir Alalouf, Israel David and Joseph Pliskin

Performance measurement in nonprofit governance: an empirical study of the Minnesota independent school districts pp. 47-71

Rajiv Banker, Hsihui Chang and Ehsan Feroz

Hospital efficiency with risk adjusted mortality as undesirable output: the Turkish case pp. 73-88

Murat Bilsel and Nurhan Davutyan

Decision support for hospital evacuation and emergency response pp. 89-106

Douglas Bish, Esra Agca and Roger Glick

Handling estimated proportions in public sector data envelopment analysis pp. 107-132

Mehmet Ceyhan and James Benneyan

Improving emergency service in rural areas: a bi-objective covering location model for EMS systems pp. 133-159

Sunarin Chanta, Maria Mayorga and Laura McLay

Incorporating health outcomes in Pennsylvania hospital efficiency: an additive super-efficiency DEA approach pp. 161-172

Juan Du, Justin Wang, Yao Chen, Shin-Yi Chou and Joe Zhu

Do internal controls improve operating efficiency of universities? pp. 173-195

Rong-Ruey Duh, Kuo-Tay Chen, Ruey-Ching Lin and Li-Chun Kuo

Nonparametric measurement of productivity and efficiency in education pp. 197-210

Andrew Johnson and John Ruggiero

Heuristics for flight and maintenance planning of mission aircraft pp. 211-238

George Kozanidis, Andreas Gavranis and George Liberopoulos

Accounting disclosure quality, capital market intensity and national productivity pp. 239-254

Yu-Chen Lin, Hsihui Chang, Jengfang Chen and Guan-Syun Wu

Combining optimization with simulation to obtain credible models for intensive care units pp. 255-271

Fermín Mallor and Cristina Azcárate

On centralized resource utilization and its reallocation by using DEA pp. 273-283

Cecilio Mar-Molinero, Diego Prior, Maria-Manuela Segovia and Fabiola Portillo

Modeling social services performance: a four-stage DEA approach to evaluate fundraising efficiency, capacity building, service quality, and effectiveness in the nonprofit sector pp. 285-307

Alexandra Medina-Borja and Konstantinos Triantis

Modeling recreational systems using optimization techniques and information technologies pp. 309-329

Oleg Shcherbina and Elena Shembeleva

A survey of optimization models on cancer chemotherapy treatment planning pp. 331-356

Jinghua Shi, Oguzhan Alagoz, Fatih Erenay and Qiang Su

Quadratic model for allocating operational budget in public and nonprofit organizations pp. 357-376

Zilla Sinuany-Stern

Red Blood Cell Transfusion Safety: Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Cost/ Benefits of Risk Reduction Strategies pp. 377-406

Anthony Slonim, Ebru Bish and Ryan Xie

The stop-and-drop problem in nonprofit food distribution networks pp. 407-426

Senay Solak, Christina Scherrer and Ahmed Ghoniem

Impacts of earmarked private donations for disaster fundraising pp. 427-447

Fuminori Toyasaki and Tina Wakolbinger

A combined evaluation model for encouraging entrepreneurship policies pp. 449-468

Wen-Hsien Tsai, Pei-Ling Lee, Yu-Shan Shen and Elliott Hwang

Publicity vs. impact in nonprofit disclosures and donor preferences: a sequential game with one nonprofit organization and N donors pp. 469-491

Jun Zhuang, Gregory Saxton and Han Wu

Volume 220, month 9, 2014

Editorial: collaborative environmental management and modelling pp. 1-3

Alain Haurie, David Yeung and Georges Zaccour

Simulating a sequential coalition formation process for the climate change problem: first come, but second served? pp. 5-23

Michael Finus, Bianca Rundshagen and Johan Eyckmans

Model predictive control, the economy, and the issue of global warming pp. 25-48

Thierry Bréchet, Carmen Camacho and Vladimir Veliov

Sticks and carrots for the design of international climate agreements with renegotiations pp. 49-68

Hans-Peter Weikard and Rob Dellink

Game theoretic formalization of the concept of sustainable development in the hierarchical control systems pp. 69-86

Guennady Ougolnitsky

LP models for pricing diffuse nitrate discharge permits pp. 87-109

R. Ranga Prabodanie, John Raffensperger, E. Read and Mark Milke

Controlling pollution and environmental absorption capacity pp. 111-133

Fouad Ouardighi, Hassan Benchekroun and Dieter Grass

Environmental collaboration in a closed-loop supply chain with a reverse revenue sharing contract pp. 135-157

Pietro Giovanni

Consistent conjectures in a dynamic model of non-renewable resource management pp. 159-180

Nicolas Querou and Mabel Tidball

Dynamically consistent collaborative environmental management with production technique choices pp. 181-204

David Yeung

Bargaining over a climate deal: deadline and delay pp. 205-221

Pierre Courtois and Tarik Tazdaït

Climate policy under fat-tailed risk: an application of FUND pp. 223-237

David Anthoff and Richard Tol

International environmental cooperation: a new eye on the greenhouse gas emissions’ control pp. 239-262

Mélanie Heugues

On variable discounting in dynamic programming: applications to resource extraction and other economic models pp. 263-278

Anna Jaśkiewicz, Janusz Matkowski and Andrzej Nowak

Volume 219, month 8, 2014

Methods and applications in natural resources management pp. 1-3

Lluís Plà-Aragonés, Béla Vizvári and Anders Kristensen

New opportunities in operations research to improve pork supply chain efficiency pp. 5-23

Sara Rodríguez, Lluis Plà and Javier Faulin

Mathematical formulation and validation of the Be-FAST model for Classical Swine Fever Virus spread between and within farms pp. 25-47

Benjamin Ivorra, Beatriz Martínez-López, José Sánchez-Vizcaíno and Ángel Ramos

A new decision support framework for managing foot-and-mouth disease epidemics pp. 49-62

Lan Ge, Anders Kristensen, Monique Mourits and Ruud Huirne

Markov Limid processes for representing and solving renewal problems pp. 63-84

Erik Jørgensen, Anders Kristensen and Dennis Nilsson

Simulation of the shift from marine netcages to inland recirculating aquaculture systems pp. 85-99

Ilan Halachmi, Yitzhak Simon and Noam Mozes

Combating eutrophication in coastal areas at risk for oil spills pp. 101-121

Kari Hyytiäinen and Anni Huhtala

Simulation and multicriteria optimization modeling approach for regional water restoration management pp. 123-140

Angel Udías, Roman Efremov, Lorenzo Galbiati and Israel Cañamón

An improved decomposition-based heuristic to design a water distribution network for an irrigation system pp. 141-167

Graça Gonçalves, Luís Gouveia and Margarida Pato

Combined land-use and water allocation planning pp. 169-185

Dimitris Fotakis and Epameinondas Sidiropoulos

Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms to identify highly autocorrelated areas: the case of spatial distribution in financially compromised farms pp. 187-202

Carlos García-Alonso, Leonor Pérez-Naranjo and Juan Fernández-Caballero

Application of Decision Theory methods for a soil classification in the Community of Madrid (Spain) pp. 203-229

José Antón, Ana Tarquis, Juan Grau, Elena Sánchez, Antonio Saa and Mari-Cruz Díaz

A stochastic programming based analysis of the field use in a farm pp. 231-242

Béla Vizvári and Zoltán Lakner

A portfolio theory approach to crop planning under environmental constraints pp. 243-264

Marius Rădulescu, Constanta Rădulescu and Gheorghiţă Zbăganu

Sustainable vegetable crop supply problem with perishable stocks pp. 265-283

Alysson Costa, Lana Santos, Douglas Alem and Ricardo Santos

A decision support system to manage the supply chain of sugar cane pp. 285-297

Esteban López-Milán and Lluis Plà-Aragonés

Fuzzy random regression based multi-attribute evaluation and its application to oil palm fruit grading pp. 299-315

A. Nureize, J. Watada and S. Wang

Optimal post-stratification for the study of the sustainability: An application to the monitoring of diversity in Sierra de Guerrero pp. 317-331

Sira Allende, Carlos Bouza and Dante Covarubias

Portfolio value-at-risk estimation in energy futures markets with time-varying copula-GARCH model pp. 333-357

Xun Lu, Kin Lai and Liang Liang

A stochastic approach to optimize Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) stand management scheduling under fire risk. An application in Portugal pp. 359-377

L. Ferreira, M. Constantino and J. Borges

Integrating fire risk in stand management scheduling. An application to Maritime pine stands in Portugal pp. 379-395

J. Garcia-Gonzalo, T. Pukkala and J. Borges

Influence of temporal aggregation on strategic forest management under risk of wind damage pp. 397-414

Nicklas Forsell and Ljusk Eriksson

Introducing cost-plus-loss analysis into a hierarchical forestry planning environment pp. 415-431

Karl Duvemo, Tomas Lämås, Ljusk Eriksson and Peder Wikström

Compactness and flow minimization requirements in reforestation initiatives: a heuristic solution method pp. 433-456

Pablo Vanegas, Dirk Cattrysse, Anja Wijffels and Jos Orshoven

Application of Robust Optimization to the Sawmill Planning Problem pp. 457-475

Pamela Alvarez and Jorge Vera

Application of a primarily deductive framework describing time consumption for hauling of logs to road-side pp. 477-489

Lars Sängstuvall, Tomas Lämås and Tomas Nordfjell