Annals of Operations Research

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Volume 209, month 10, 2013

Editorial: Stochastic models of manufacturing and service system operations pp. 1-3

George Liberopoulos, James MacGregor Smith, Chrissoleon Papadopoulos and Tullio Tolio

A decomposition method for approximate evaluation of continuous flow multi-stage lines with general Markovian machines pp. 5-40

Marcello Colledani and Stanley Gershwin

Discrete time model for two-machine one-buffer transfer lines with restart policy pp. 41-65

Elisa Gebennini, Andrea Grassi, Cesare Fantuzzi, Stanley Gershwin and Irvin Schick

Approximate analysis of single-server tandem queues with finite buffers pp. 67-84

Remco Bierbooms, Ivo Adan and Marcel Vuuren

Performance analysis of CONWIP systems with batch size constraints pp. 85-114

Kumar Satyam and Ananth Krishnamurthy

Control policies for single-stage production systems with perishable inventory and customer impatience pp. 115-138

Stratos Ioannidis, Oualid Jouini, Angelos Economopoulos and Vassilis Kouikoglou

Optimal configuration of a decentralized, market-driven production/inventory system pp. 139-157

Cigdem Gurgur

Flexible hiring in a make to order system with parallel processing units pp. 159-178

Nasuh Buyukkaramikli, J. Bertrand and Henny Ooijen

The stochastic economic lot sizing problem for non-stop multi-grade production with sequence-restricted setup changeovers pp. 179-205

George Liberopoulos, Dimitrios Pandelis and Olympia Hatzikonstantinou

Two-stage stochastic lot-sizing problem under cost uncertainty pp. 207-230

Zhili Zhou and Yongpei Guan

Reliability of manufacturing equipment in complex environments pp. 231-254

Jeffrey Kharoufeh, Steven Cox and Mark Oxley

Quality risk prediction at a non-sampling station machine in a multi-product, multi-stage, parallel processing manufacturing system subjected to sequence disorder and multiple stream effects pp. 255-277

Anna Rotondo, Paul Young and John Geraghty

Volume 208, month 9, 2013

Optimization under uncertainty: costs, risks and revenues Cyrus Derman memorial volume I pp. 1-1

Michael Katehakis, Sheldon Ross and Jian Yang

Some memories of Cy Derman pp. 3-3

Alvin Roth

On the life and work of Cyrus Derman pp. 5-26

Michael Katehakis, Ingram Olkin, Sheldon Ross and Jian Yang

Taut-string solution of the equilibrium no-lag Clark-Scarf serial inventory problem pp. 27-30

Arthur Veinott

An inequality that subsumes the inequalities of Radon, Bohr, and Shannon pp. 31-36

Ingram Olkin and Larry Shepp

The multi-armed bandit, with constraints pp. 37-62

Eric Denardo, Eugene Feinberg and Uriel Rothblum

Derman’s book as inspiration: some results on LP for MDPs pp. 63-94

Lodewijk Kallenberg

Q-learning and policy iteration algorithms for stochastic shortest path problems pp. 95-132

Huizhen Yu and Dimitri Bertsekas

A generalized coupon collecting model as a parsimonious optimal stochastic assignment model pp. 133-146

Sheldon Ross and David Wu

A concentrated Cauchy distribution with finite moments pp. 147-153

Adi Ben-Israel

Monotonicity properties of a class of stochastic inventory systems pp. 155-186

Awi Federgruen and Min Wang

ABCs of the bomber problem and its relatives pp. 187-208

Richard Weber

A sequential predictor retraining algorithm and its application to market prediction pp. 209-225

Haipeng Zheng, Sanjeev Kulkarni and H. Poor

Linear programming and the inverse method of images pp. 227-243

Paul Zipkin

Sharp bounds for NBUE distributions pp. 245-250

Mark Brown

Supply chain networks with global outsourcing and quick-response production under demand and cost uncertainty pp. 251-289

Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney

Estimating arrival rate of nonhomogeneous Poisson processes with semidefinite programming pp. 291-308

Farid Alizadeh and David Papp

(Approximate) iterated successive approximations algorithm for sequential decision processes pp. 309-320

Pelin Canbolat and Uriel Rothblum

Adaptive aggregation for reinforcement learning in average reward Markov decision processes pp. 321-336

Ronald Ortner

Asymptotically optimal Bayesian sequential change detection and identification rules pp. 337-370

Savas Dayanik, Warren B. Powell and Kazutoshi Yamazaki

Asymptotically optimal Bayesian sequential change detection and identification rules pp. 337-370

Savas Dayanik, Warren Powell and Kazutoshi Yamazaki

An order-centric treatment of the Bayesian supermodular game pp. 371-381

Jian Yang and Xiangtong Qi

Batch mode reinforcement learning based on the synthesis of artificial trajectories pp. 383-416

Raphael Fonteneau, Susan Murphy, Louis Wehenkel and Damien Ernst

Discounting axioms imply risk neutrality pp. 417-432

Matthew Sobel

Variance minimization for constrained discounted continuous-time MDPs with exponentially distributed stopping times pp. 433-450

Jun Fei and Eugene Feinberg

A simple model of optimal clearance of improvised explosive devices pp. 451-468

Peter Kolesar, Kellen Leister, Daniel Stimpson and Ronald Woodaman

Training and repair policies for stand-by systems pp. 469-487

Yeek-Hyun Kim and Lyn Thomas

Equilibrium balking strategies for a clearing queueing system in alternating environment pp. 489-514

Antonis Economou and Athanasia Manou

Customer equilibrium and optimal strategies in Markovian queues in series pp. 515-529

Apostolos Burnetas

Production-inventory control policy under warm/cold state-dependent fixed costs and stochastic demand: partial characterization and heuristics pp. 531-556

Ozgun Caliskan-Demirag, Youhua Chen and Yi Yang

Sourcing from suppliers with random yield for price-dependent demand pp. 557-579

Wen Chen, Qi Feng and Sridhar Seshadri

Inventory replenishment control under supply uncertainty pp. 581-592

Taesu Cheong and Chelsea White

Martingale methods for pricing inventory penalties under continuous replenishment and compound renewal demands pp. 593-612

Junmin Shi, Michael Katehakis and Benjamin Melamed

Volume 207, month 8, 2013

An overview of computational issues in combinatorial optimization pp. 1-5

Laureano Escudero, Silvano Martello and Vitaly Strusevich

Multi-depot Multiple TSP: a polyhedral study and computational results pp. 7-25

Enrique Benavent and Antonio Martínez

A hyper-heuristic approach to sequencing by hybridization of DNA sequences pp. 27-41

Jacek Blazewicz, Edmund Burke, Graham Kendall, Wojciech Mruczkiewicz, Ceyda Oguz and Aleksandra Swiercz

Using parallel & distributed computing for real-time solving of vehicle routing problems with stochastic demands pp. 43-65

Angel Juan, Javier Faulin, Josep Jorba, Jose Caceres and Joan Marquès

Routing and scheduling in project shipping pp. 67-81

Kjetil Fagerholt, Lars Hvattum, Trond Johnsen and Jarl Korsvik

On discrete optimization with ordering pp. 83-96

Elena Fernández, Justo Puerto and Antonio Rodríguez-Chía

New models for the robust shortest path problem: complexity, resolution and generalization pp. 97-120

Virginie Gabrel, Cécile Murat and Lei Wu

Single machine total tardiness maximization problems: complexity and algorithms pp. 121-136

Evgeny Gafarov, Alexander Lazarev and Frank Werner

Alternative formulations for the Set Packing Problem and their application to the Winner Determination Problem pp. 137-160

Mercedes Landete, Juan Monge and Antonio Rodríguez-Chía

Flow location (FlowLoc) problems: dynamic network flows and location models for evacuation planning pp. 161-180

Horst Hamacher, Stephanie Heller and Benjamin Rupp

Strategies in competing subset selection pp. 181-200

Claudia Marini, Gaia Nicosia, Andrea Pacifici and Ulrich Pferschy

Disrupted capacitated vehicle routing problem with order release delay pp. 201-216

Qianxin Mu and Richard Eglese

The Robust Set Covering Problem with interval data pp. 217-235

Jordi Pereira and Igor Averbakh

Decentralized list scheduling pp. 237-259

Marc Tchiboukdjian, Nicolas Gast and Denis Trystram

Solving the quadratic assignment problem by means of general purpose mixed integer linear programming solvers pp. 261-278

Huizhen Zhang, Cesar Beltran-Royo and Liang Ma