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Volume 194, month 4, 2012

Preface pp. 1-1

Edmund Burke and Michel Gendreau

A harmony search algorithm for university course timetabling pp. 3-31

Mohammed Al-Betar and Ahamad Khader

Local search neighbourhoods for dealing with a novel nurse rostering model pp. 33-57

Burak Bilgin, Patrick Causmaecker, Benoît Rossie and Greet Vanden Berghe

Benchmarking curriculum-based course timetabling: formulations, data formats, instances, validation, visualization, and results pp. 59-70

Alex Bonutti, Fabio Cesco, Luca Gaspero and Andrea Schaerf

A branch-and-cut procedure for the Udine Course Timetabling problem pp. 71-87

Edmund Burke, Jakub Mareček, Andrew Parkes and Hana Rudová

Linear combinations of heuristics for examination timetabling pp. 89-109

Edmund Burke, Nam Pham, Rong Qu and Jay Yellen

Local search and constraint programming for the post enrolment-based course timetabling problem pp. 111-135

Hadrien Cambazard, Emmanuel Hebrard, Barry O’Sullivan and Alexandre Papadopoulos

An ILS heuristic for the traveling tournament problem with predefined venues pp. 137-150

Fabrício Costa, Sebastián Urrutia and Celso Ribeiro

Designing the master schedule for demand-adaptive transit systems pp. 151-166

Teodor Crainic, Fausto Errico, Federico Malucelli and Maddalena Nonato

Towards a reference model for timetabling and rostering pp. 167-176

Patrick De Causmaecker and Greet Vanden Berghe

Flight gate scheduling with respect to a reference schedule pp. 177-187

Ulrich Dorndorf, Florian Jaehn and Erwin Pesch

Applying the threshold accepting metaheuristic to curriculum based course timetabling pp. 189-202

Martin Geiger

An improved multi-staged algorithmic process for the solution of the examination timetabling problem pp. 203-221

Christos Gogos, Panayiotis Alefragis and Efthymios Housos

Comparing league formats with respect to match importance in Belgian football pp. 223-240

Dries Goossens, Jeroen Beliën and Frits Spieksma

Resource assignment in high school timetabling pp. 241-254

Jeffrey Kingston

Curriculum based course timetabling: new solutions to Udine benchmark instances pp. 255-272

Gerald Lach and Marco Lübbecke

A time-dependent metaheuristic algorithm for post enrolment-based course timetabling pp. 273-289

Rhyd Lewis

A new model for automated examination timetabling pp. 291-315

Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan, Andrew Parkes, Edmund Burke and Rong Qu

An approximation algorithm for the traveling tournament problem pp. 317-324

Ryuhei Miyashiro, Tomomi Matsui and Shinji Imahori

Solving the post enrolment course timetabling problem by ant colony optimization pp. 325-339

Clemens Nothegger, Alfred Mayer, Andreas Chwatal and Günther Raidl

Managing the tabu list length using a fuzzy inference system: an application to examination timetabling pp. 341-363

Tiago Pais and Paula Amaral

A comparison of two approaches to nurse rostering problems pp. 365-384

Sanja Petrovic and Greet Berghe

An XML format for benchmarks in High School Timetabling pp. 385-397

Gerhard Post, Samad Ahmadi, Sophia Daskalaki, Jeffrey Kingston, Jari Kyngas, Cimmo Nurmi and David Ranson

Strong bounds with cut and column generation for class-teacher timetabling pp. 399-412

Haroldo Santos, Eduardo Uchoa, Luiz Ochi and Nelson Maculan

An effective greedy heuristic for the Social Golfer Problem pp. 413-425

Markus Triska and Nysret Musliu

An improved SAT formulation for the social golfer problem pp. 427-438

Markus Triska and Nysret Musliu

An IP-based heuristic for the post enrolment course timetabling problem of the ITC2007 pp. 439-454

J. Broek and C. Hurkens

Volume 193, month 3, 2012

Applied mathematical programming and modelling 2008 pp. 1-2

Georg Pflug and Ronald Hochreiter

Approximation and contamination bounds for probabilistic programs pp. 3-19

Martin Branda and Jitka Dupačová

A framework for optimization under ambiguity pp. 21-47

David Wozabal

Multivariate value at risk and related topics pp. 49-69

András Prékopa

Hypergraphs as a mean of discovering the dependence structure of a discrete multivariate probability distribution pp. 71-90

Tamás Szántai and Edith Kovács

A stochastic model for the daily coordination of pumped storage hydro plants and wind power plants pp. 91-105

Maria Vespucci, Francesca Maggioni, Maria Bertocchi and Mario Innorta

A stochastic programming model for the optimal electricity market bid problem with bilateral contracts for thermal and combined cycle units pp. 107-127

F.-Javier Heredia, Marcos Rider and Cristina Corchero

Heuristic optimisation in financial modelling pp. 129-158

Manfred Gilli and Enrico Schumann

A stochastic programming model for the optimal issuance of government bonds pp. 159-172

Andrea Consiglio and Alessandro Staino

HMM based scenario generation for an investment optimisation problem pp. 173-192

Christina Erlwein, Gautam Mitra and Diana Roman

Multi-resource allocation in stochastic project scheduling pp. 193-220

Wolfram Wiesemann, Daniel Kuhn and Berç Rustem

Stochastic optimization for real time service capacity allocation under random service demand pp. 221-253

Christopher Dance and Alexei Gaivoronski

The kidney exchange problem: How hard is it to find a donor? pp. 255-271

Katarína Cechlárová and Vladimír Lacko

Complete voting systems with two classes of voters: weightedness and counting pp. 273-289

Josep Freixas, Xavier Molinero and Salvador Roura

Volume 192, month 1, 2012

Foreword pp. 1-2

L. Hong, Xiangtong Qi and Fugee Tsung

LASSO-based multivariate linear profile monitoring pp. 3-19

Changliang Zou, Xianghui Ning and Fugee Tsung

Transshipment service through crossdocks with both soft and hard time windows pp. 21-47

Zhaowei Miao, Feng Yang, Ke Fu and Dongsheng Xu

Fighting strategies in a market with counterfeits pp. 49-66

Jie Zhang, L. Hong and Rachel Zhang

On the tour planning problem pp. 67-86

Chenbo Zhu, J. Hu, Fengchun Wang, Yifan Xu and Rongzeng Cao

Detection and localization of hidden radioactive sources with spatial statistical method pp. 87-104

Hong Wan, Tonglin Zhang and Yu Zhu

A data mining framework for product and service migration analysis pp. 105-121

Siu-Tong Au, Rong Duan and Wei Jiang

Robust berth scheduling with uncertain vessel delay and handling time pp. 123-140

Ya Xu, Qiushuang Chen and Xiongwen Quan

Preemptive repayment policy for multiple loans pp. 141-150

C. Ng, Q. Ding, T. Cheng and S. Lam

Retail service for mixed retail and E-tail channels pp. 151-171

Wei Hu and Yongjian Li