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Volume 218, month 7, 2014

The practice and theory of automated timetabling pp. 1-2

Barry McCollum and Edmund Burke

A constructive approach to examination timetabling based on adaptive decomposition and ordering pp. 3-21

Syariza Abdul-Rahman, Edmund Burke, Andrzej Bargiela, Barry McCollum and Ender Özcan

Memetic techniques for examination timetabling pp. 23-50

Mohammed Al-Betar, Ahamad Khader and Iyad Doush

Bridging the gap between self schedules and feasible schedules in staff scheduling pp. 51-69

Eyjólfur Ásgeirsson

Curriculum-based course timetabling with SAT and MaxSAT pp. 71-91

Roberto Asín Achá and Robert Nieuwenhuis

Optimizing the Simplon railway corridor pp. 93-106

Ralf Borndörfer, Berkan Erol, Thomas Graffagnino, Thomas Schlechte and Elmar Swarat

Network flow models for intraday personnel scheduling problems pp. 107-114

Peter Brucker and Rong Qu

Round-robin tournaments with homogeneous rounds pp. 115-128

Bregje Buiteveld, Erik Holland, Gerhard Post and Dirk Smit

Adaptive selection of heuristics for improving exam timetables pp. 129-145

Edmund Burke, Rong Qu and Amr Soghier

The generalized balanced academic curriculum problem with heterogeneous classes pp. 147-163

Sara Ceschia, Luca Di Gaspero and Andrea Schaerf

A heuristic algorithm based on multi-assignment procedures for nurse scheduling pp. 165-183

Ademir Constantino, Dario Landa-Silva, Everton Melo, Candido Mendonça, Douglas Rizzato and Wesley Romão

A variable neighborhood search based matheuristic for nurse rostering problems pp. 185-199

Federico Della Croce and Fabio Salassa

A comparison of three heuristics on a practical case of sub-daily staff scheduling pp. 201-219

Maik Günther and Volker Nissen

The first international nurse rostering competition 2010 pp. 221-236

Stefaan Haspeslagh, Patrick De Causmaecker, Andrea Schaerf and Martin Stølevik

A 2.75-approximation algorithm for the unconstrained traveling tournament problem pp. 237-247

Shinji Imahori, Tomomi Matsui and Ryuhei Miyashiro

Timetable construction: the algorithms and complexity perspective pp. 249-259

Jeffrey Kingston

A survey of school timetabling research pp. 261-293

Nelishia Pillay

XHSTT: an XML archive for high school timetabling problems in different countries pp. 295-301

Gerhard Post, Jeffrey Kingston, Samad Ahmadi, Sophia Daskalaki, Christos Gogos, Jari Kyngas, Cimmo Nurmi, Nysret Musliu, Nelishia Pillay, Haroldo Santos and Andrea Schaerf

Modelling and evaluation issues in nurse rostering pp. 303-326

Pieter Smet, Burak Bilgin, Patrick De Causmaecker and Greet Vanden Berghe

The design and implementation of an interactive course-timetabling system pp. 327-345

Anthony Wehrer and Jay Yellen

A 5.875-approximation for the Traveling Tournament Problem pp. 347-360

Stephan Westphal and Karl Noparlik

Volume 217, month 6, 2014

Optimal maintenance scheduling for a complex manufacturing system subject to deterioration pp. 1-29

Reza Ahmadi

Identifying distress among banks prior to a major crisis using non-oriented super-SBM pp. 31-53

Necmi Avkiran and Lin Cai

Relations between capacity utilization, minimal bin size and bin number pp. 55-76

Torsten Buchwald, Kirsten Hoffmann and Guntram Scheithauer

A data model for algorithmic multiple criteria decision analysis pp. 77-94

Olivier Cailloux, Tommi Tervonen, Boris Verhaegen and François Picalausa

Multi-project scheduling with two-stage decomposition pp. 95-116

Anıl Can and Gündüz Ulusoy

Optimality conditions and duality in nonsmooth multiobjective optimization problems pp. 117-136

Thai Chuong and Do Kim

Dealing with interaction between bipolar multiple criteria preferences in PROMETHEE methods pp. 137-164

Salvatore Corrente, José Figueira and Salvatore Greco

Weighted matching as a generic pruning technique applied to optimization constraints pp. 165-211

Radosław Cymer

Reformulation and a Lagrangian heuristic for lot sizing problem on parallel machines pp. 213-231

Diego Fiorotto and Silvio Araujo

Pyramidal values pp. 233-252

Ramón Flores, Elisenda Molina and Juan Tejada

Maximum weight archipelago subgraph problem pp. 253-262

Peter Hammer, Péter Majlender, Bruno Simeone and Béla Vizvári

Scheduling for fabrication and assembly in a two-machine flowshop with a fixed job sequence pp. 263-279

F. Hwang, M. Kovalyov and B. Lin

Structure of demand and consistent conjectural variations equilibrium (CCVE) in a mixed oligopoly model pp. 281-297

Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, Vladimir Bulavsky, Vitaliy Kalashnikov and Nataliya Kalashnykova

A noncooperative approach to bankruptcy problems with an endogenous estate pp. 299-318

Emin Karagözoğlu

Optimal processing rate and buffer size of a jump-diffusion processing system pp. 319-335

Xindan Li, Dan Tang, Yongjin Wang and Xuewei Yang

Pavement rehabilitation scheduling and toll pricing under different regulatory regimes pp. 337-355

Zhi-Chun Li and Dian Sheng

A hybrid framework for optimizing beam angles in radiation therapy planning pp. 357-383

Gino Lim, Laleh Kardar and Wenhua Cao

Restricted coloring problems on Graphs with few P 4 ’s pp. 385-397

Cláudia Linhares-Sales, Ana Maia, Nicolas Martins and Rudini Sampaio

Analysis of inventory policies for perishable items with fixed leadtimes and lifetimes pp. 399-423

Fredrik Olsson

The optimal harvesting problem under price uncertainty pp. 425-445

Adriana Piazza and Bernardo Pagnoncelli

On optimal bidding and inventory control in sequential procurement auctions: the multi period case pp. 447-462

Kartikeya Puranam and Michael Katehakis

A constructive heuristic for staff scheduling in the glass industry pp. 463-478

Marta Rocha, José Oliveira and Maria Carravilla

Supply chain scheduling to minimize holding costs with outsourcing pp. 479-490

Esaignani Selvarajah and Rui Zhang

Modeling demand management strategies for evacuations pp. 491-512

Hediye Tuydes-Yaman and Athanasios Ziliaskopoulos

On the ERM formulation and a stochastic approximation algorithm of the stochastic- $$R_0$$ R 0 EVLCP pp. 513-534

Ming-Zheng Wang and Majid Ali

Quantile–DEA classifiers with interval data pp. 535-563

Quanling Wei, Tsung-Sheng Chang and Song Han

Measuring the efficiency of NBA teams: additive efficiency decomposition in two-stage DEA pp. 565-589

Chih-Hai Yang, Hsuan-Yu Lin and Chiang-Ping Chen

General two-function topological minimax theorems pp. 591-598

Qing-Bang Zhang

Volume 216, month 5, 2014

Preface: Special volume on data mining and informatics pp. 1-2

Victoria Chen, Seoung Kim and Theodore Trafalis

A data mining approach to forecast behavior pp. 3-22

Nihat Altintas and Michael Trick

A network-based data mining approach to portfolio selection via weighted clique relaxations pp. 23-34

Vladimir Boginski, Sergiy Butenko, Oleg Shirokikh, Svyatoslav Trukhanov and Jaime Gil Lafuente

Consumer preference and service quality management with RFID pp. 35-51

Wei Zhou and Selwyn Piramuthu

A data-integrated simulation model to forecast ground-level ozone concentration pp. 53-69

Durai Sundaramoorthi

Prediction of methane production in wastewater treatment facility: a data-mining approach pp. 71-81

Andrew Kusiak and Xiupeng Wei

Indoor localization algorithm using clustering on signal and coordination pattern pp. 83-99

Chen-Yang Cheng

Outcomes matter: estimating pre-transplant survival rates of kidney-transplant patients using simulator-based propensity scores pp. 101-128

Inbal Yahav and Galit Shmueli

Clustering noise-included data by controlling decision errors pp. 129-144

Hae-Sang Park, Jeonghwa Lee and Chi-Hyuck Jun

A branch-and-bound approach for maximum quasi-cliques pp. 145-161

Foad Mahdavi Pajouh, Zhuqi Miao and Balabhaskar Balasundaram

Rough set theory: a novel approach for extraction of robust decision rules based on incremental attributes pp. 163-189

Chun-Che Huang, Tzu-Liang Tseng, Fuhua Jiang, Yu-Neng Fan and Chih-Hua Hsu

SVM classification for imbalanced data sets using a multiobjective optimization framework pp. 191-203

Ayşegül Aşkan and Serpil Sayın

Robust support vector machines for multiple instance learning pp. 205-227

Mohammad Poursaeidi and O. Kundakcioglu

Relaxing support vectors for classification pp. 229-255

Onur Şeref, Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse and J. Brooks

The sparse signomial classification and regression model pp. 257-286

Kyungsik Lee, Norman Kim and Myong Jeong

Efficient computer experiment-based optimization through variable selection pp. 287-305

Dachuan Shih, Seoung Kim, Victoria Chen, Jay Rosenberger and Venkata Pilla

A single interval based classifier pp. 307-325

Heeyoung Kim, Xiaoming Huo and Jianjun Shi

Robust generalized eigenvalue classifier with ellipsoidal uncertainty pp. 327-342

Petros Xanthopoulos, Mario Guarracino and Panos Pardalos