Annals of Operations Research

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Volume 215, month 4, 2014

Mathematical modeling of electoral systems: analysis, evaluation, optimization. In memory of Bruno Simeone (1945–2010) pp. 1-14

Isabella Lari, Friedrich Pukelsheim and Federica Ricca

Limit points of the iterative scaling procedure pp. 15-23

Erik Aas

Power distribution in the Weimar Reichstag in 1919–1933 pp. 25-37

Fuad Aleskerov, Manfred Holler and Rita Kamalova

Parametric vs. divisor methods of apportionment pp. 39-48

Michel Balinski and Victoriano Ramirez

The bargaining set for sharing the power pp. 49-61

Michela Chessa and Vito Fragnelli

Political engineering: optimizing a U.S. Presidential candidate’s platform pp. 63-87

James Cochran, David Curry, Rajesh Radhakrishnan and Jon Pinnell

Asymptotic bias of some election methods pp. 89-136

Svante Janson

Heuristic and exact solutions to the inverse power index problem for small voting bodies pp. 137-163

Sascha Kurz and Stefan Napel

Bidimensional allocation of seats via zero-one matrices with given line sums pp. 165-181

Isabella Lari, Federica Ricca and Andrea Scozzari

Dynamic adjustment: an electoral method for relaxed double proportionality pp. 183-199

Svante Linusson and Gustav Ryd

Competition among parties and power: an empirical analysis pp. 201-214

Matteo Migheli, Guido Ortona and Ferruccio Ponzano

Banzhaf index for multiple voting systems. An application to the European Union pp. 215-230

Luisa Monroy and Francisco Fernández

Some remarks on the concept of proportionality pp. 231-244

Hannu Nurmi

The electoral system for the Italian Senate: an analogy with deterministic chaos? pp. 245-256

G. Pontuale, F. Dalton, S. Genovese, E. Nave and A. Petri

Apportionments with minimum Gini index of disproportionality: a Quadratic Knapsack approach pp. 257-267

Daniele Pretolani

Biproportional scaling of matrices and the iterative proportional fitting procedure pp. 269-283

Friedrich Pukelsheim

Evaluation and possible improvements of the Swedish electoral system pp. 285-307

Victoriano Ramírez-González, Blanca Delgado-Márquez, Antonio Palomares and Adolfo López-Carmona

Volume 214, month 3, 2014

Advances in data envelopment analysis pp. 1-4

Ali Emrouznejad

Explaining inefficiency in nonparametric production models: the state of the art pp. 5-30

Luiza Badin, Cinzia Daraio and Leopold Simar

Technological externalities and environmental policy pp. 31-48

Isabelle Piot-Lepetit

Evaluating eco-efficiency with data envelopment analysis: an analytical reexamination pp. 49-71

Chien-Ming Chen

Ownership-specified network DEA models pp. 73-98

Tsung-Sheng Chang, Kaoru Tone and Quanling Wei

A network DEA assessment of team efficiency in the NBA pp. 99-124

Plácido Moreno and Sebastián Lozano

Interactive classification using data envelopment analysis pp. 125-141

Parag Pendharkar and Marvin Troutt

Total factor productivity growth and directions of technical change bias: evidence from 99 OECD and non-OECD countries pp. 143-165

Po-Chi Chen and Ming-Miin Yu

An enhanced DEA model for decomposition of technical efficiency in banking pp. 167-185

Chih-Ching Yang

The fair allocation of common fixed cost or revenue using DEA concept pp. 187-194

M. Khodabakhshi and K. Aryavash

Volume 213, month 2, 2014

Preface pp. 1-1

Vincent T’kindt and Emmanuel Néron

Optimal solutions for a dock assignment problem with trailer transportation pp. 3-25

Lotte Berghman, Roel Leus and Frits Spieksma

A new approach for quantitative risk analysis pp. 27-65

Stefan Creemers, Erik Demeulemeester and Stijn Vonder

A matheuristic approach for the two-machine total completion time flow shop problem pp. 67-78

Federico Della Croce, Andrea Grosso and Fabio Salassa

Two-agent scheduling on uniform parallel machines with min-max criteria pp. 79-94

Donatas Elvikis and Vincent T’kindt

Stable multi-skill workforce assignments pp. 95-114

Murat Fırat, C. Hurkens and Alexandre Laugier

Approximability results for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem with a single type of resources pp. 115-130

Evgeny Gafarov, Alexander Lazarev and Frank Werner

Isomorphic scheduling problems pp. 131-145

Stanisław Gawiejnowicz and Alexander Kononov

Solving an integrated job-shop problem with human resource constraints pp. 147-171

Olivier Guyon, Pierre Lemaire, Éric Pinson and David Rivreau

Makespan minimization for parallel machines scheduling with multiple availability constraints pp. 173-186

Navid Hashemian, Claver Diallo and Béla Vizvári

Batch sizing and just-in-time scheduling with common due date pp. 187-202

Öncü Hazır and Safia Kedad-Sidhoum

Simulated annealing for financing cost distribution based project payment scheduling from a joint perspective pp. 203-220

Zhengwen He, Nengmin Wang and Pengxiang Li

Scheduling job families on non-identical parallel machines with time constraints pp. 221-234

Ali Obeid, Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès and Claude Yugma

Power-aware scheduling of preemptable jobs on identical parallel processors to minimize makespan pp. 235-252

R. Różycki and J. Węglarz

On some properties of optimal schedules in the job shop problem with preemption and an arbitrary regular criterion pp. 253-270

S. Sevastyanov, D. Chemisova and I. Chernykh

Railway scheduling reduces the expected project makespan over roadrunner scheduling in a multi-mode project scheduling environment pp. 271-291

Wendi Tian and Erik Demeulemeester

Integrated production and distribution scheduling with lifespan constraints pp. 293-318

Christian Viergutz and Sigrid Knust

Discrete-continuous project scheduling with discounted cash inflows and various payment models—a review of recent results pp. 319-340

Grzegorz Waligóra

Volume 212, month 1, 2014

Stochastic methods in reliability and risk management pp. 1-2

Lirong Cui, Haijun Li and Susan Xu

Auditing Shaked and Shanthikumar’s ‘excess wealth’ pp. 3-19

Nozer Singpurwalla and Anna Gordon

Lifetime properties of a cumulative shock model with a cluster structure pp. 21-41

Jian-Ming Bai, Zhe Zhang and Ze-Hui Li

Dynamic mean-variance and optimal reinsurance problems under the no-bankruptcy constraint for an insurer pp. 43-59

Junna Bi, Qingbin Meng and Yongji Zhang

On the decomposition of the absolute ruin probability in a perturbed compound Poisson surplus process with debit interest pp. 61-77

Jun Cai and Hailiang Yang

Survival of systems with protection subject to two types of external attacks pp. 79-91

Ji Cha, Maxim Finkelstein and Francois Marais

Reliability measures for two-part partition of states for aggregated Markov repairable systems pp. 93-114

Lirong Cui, Shijia Du and Aofu Zhang

A new look at dynamic behavior of binary coherent system from a state-level perspective pp. 115-125

Serkan Eryilmaz

On the skewness of order statistics with applications pp. 127-138

Subhash Kochar and Maochao Xu

Asymptotic analysis of simultaneous damages in spatial Boolean models pp. 139-154

Haijun Li, Susan Xu and Way Kuo

A note on allocation of portfolio shares of random assets with Archimedean copula pp. 155-167

Xiaohu Li and Yinping You

Interval reliability for aggregated Markov repairable system with repair time omission pp. 169-183

Baoliang Liu, Lirong Cui and Yanqing Wen

A Birnbaum-importance based genetic local search algorithm for component assignment problems pp. 185-200

Qingzhu Yao, Xiaoyan Zhu and Way Kuo

Bi-objective burn-in modeling and optimization pp. 201-214

Zhi-Sheng Ye, Loon-Ching Tang and Min Xie

On maximum order statistics from heterogeneous geometric variables pp. 215-223

Peng Zhao and Feng Su

On generalized start-up demonstration tests pp. 225-239

Xian Zhao

Importance measures in reliability and mathematical programming pp. 241-267

Xiaoyan Zhu and Way Kuo