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Volume 191, month 11, 2011

An efficient memetic algorithm for the graph partitioning problem pp. 1-22

Philippe Galinier, Zied Boujbel and Michael Coutinho Fernandes

Improved complexity results for several multifacility location problems on trees pp. 23-36

Jörg Kalcsics

An optimization model and a solution algorithm for the many-to-many car pooling problem pp. 37-71

Shangyao Yan and Chun-Ying Chen

Inventory models with ramp type demand rate, time dependent deterioration rate, unit production cost and shortages pp. 73-95

K. Skouri, I. Konstantaras, S. Manna and K. Chaudhuri

Asymptotical optimality of WSEPT for stochastic online scheduling on uniform machines pp. 97-113

Manzhan Gu and Xiwen Lu

Value of supplier’s capacity information in a two-echelon supply chain pp. 115-135

İsmail Bakal, Nesim Erkip and Refik Güllü

Ensuring the boundedness of the core of games with restricted cooperation pp. 137-154

Michel Grabisch

Worst-case behavior of simple sequencing rules in flow shop scheduling with general position-dependent learning effects pp. 155-169

Ji-Bo Wang and Ming-Zheng Wang

Minimizing the weighted number of tardy jobs with due date assignment and capacity-constrained deliveries pp. 171-181

George Steiner and Rui Zhang

To lay out or not to lay out? pp. 183-192

Sadegh Niroomand, Szabolcs Takács and Béla Vizvári

Controlling job arrivals with processing time windows into Batch Processor Buffer pp. 193-218

John Tajan, Appa Sivakumar and Stanley Gershwin

A sensitivity analysis to assess the completion time deviation for multi-purpose machines facing demand uncertainty pp. 219-249

André Rossi, Alexis Aubry and Mireille Jacomino

A note on the proof of the complexity of the little-preemptive open-shop problem pp. 251-253

Evgeny Shchepin and Nodari Vakhania

Existence conditions for generalized vector variational inequalities pp. 255-262

M. Durea and R. Strugariu

Volume 190, month 10, 2011

Editorial pp. 1-2

Lluís Plà-Aragonés and Béla Vizvári

Enhanced predictions of wood properties using hybrid models of PCR and PLS with high-dimensional NIR spectral data pp. 3-15

Yi Fang, Jong Park, Young-Seon Jeong, Myong Jeong, Seung Baek and Hyun Cho

Forestry management under uncertainty pp. 17-39

Antonio Alonso-Ayuso, Laureano Escudero, Monique Guignard, Martín Quinteros and Andres Weintraub

Modeling forest core area with integer programming pp. 41-55

Huizhen Zhang, Miguel Constantino and André Falcão

Management of the risk of wind damage in forestry: a graph-based Markov decision process approach pp. 57-74

Nicklas Forsell, Peder Wikström, Frédérick Garcia, Régis Sabbadin, Kristina Blennow and Ljusk Eriksson

A multiobjective model for forest planning with adjacency constraints pp. 75-92

T. Gómez, M. Hernández, J. Molina, M. León, E. Aldana and Ricardo Caballero

Supply network planning in the forest supply chain with bucking decisions anticipation pp. 93-115

Satyaveer Chauhan, J.-M. Frayret and Luc LeBel

Design of insurance contracts using stochastic programming in forestry planning pp. 117-130

Jose Mosquera, Mordecai Henig and Andres Weintraub

OR/MS decision support models for the specialty crops industry: a literature review pp. 131-148

Wenbo Zhang and Wilbert Wilhelm

A MIP flow model for crop-rotation planning in a context of forest sustainable development pp. 149-164

L. Alfandari, J. Lemalade, A. Nagih and G. Plateau

Crop rotation scheduling with adjacency constraints pp. 165-180

Lana dos Santos, Philippe Michelon, Marcos Arenales and Ricardo Santos

A goal programming approach for farm planning with resources dimensionality pp. 181-199

M. Ortuño and B. Vitoriano

Optimal crop planting schedules and financial hedging strategies under ENSO-based climate forecasts pp. 201-220

Farid AitSahlia, Chung-Jui Wang, Victor Cabrera, Stan Uryasev and Clyde Fraisse

Mixed valuation methods: a combined AHP-GP procedure for individual and group multicriteria agricultural valuation pp. 221-238

Jerónimo Aznar, Francisco Guijarro and José Moreno-Jiménez

Formulating diets for growing pigs: economic and environmental considerations pp. 239-269

François Dubeau, Pierre-Olivier Julien and Candido Pomar

An integer programming model for optimal pork marketing pp. 271-287

Jeffrey Ohlmann and Philip Jones

Embedding a state space model into a Markov decision process pp. 289-309

Lars Relund Nielsen, Erik Jørgensen and Søren Højsgaard

Risk programming analysis with imperfect information pp. 311-323

Gudbrand Lien, J. Hardaker, Marcel Asseldonk and James Richardson

A stochastic programming and simulation based analysis of the structure of production on the arable land pp. 325-337

Béla Vizvári, Zoltán Lakner, Zsolt Csizmadia and Gergely Kovács

A tactical model for planning the production and distribution of fresh produce pp. 339-358

Omar Ahumada and J. Villalobos

Supply chain models for small agricultural enterprises pp. 359-374

Wooseung Jang and Cerry Klein

P2q hierarchical decomposition algorithm for quantile optimization: application to irrigation strategies design pp. 375-387

O. Crespo, J. Bergez and F. Garcia

Volume 189, month 9, 2011

Preface pp. 1-3

Dirk Kroese, Nahum Shimkin, Joseph Kreimer and Sandeep Juneja

Efficient simulation of tail probabilities of sums of correlated lognormals pp. 5-23

Søren Asmussen, José Blanchet, Sandeep Juneja and Leonardo Rojas-Nandayapa

Setting gates for activities in the stochastic project scheduling problem through the cross entropy methodology pp. 25-42

Illana Bendavid and Boaz Golany

Rare-event probability estimation with conditional Monte Carlo pp. 43-61

Joshua Chan and Dirk Kroese

The design and analysis of a generalized RESTART/DPR algorithm for rare event simulation pp. 63-102

Thomas Dean and Paul Dupuis

A hybrid simulation-optimization algorithm for the Hamiltonian cycle problem pp. 103-125

Ali Eshragh, Jerzy Filar and Michael Haythorpe

On adaptive stratification pp. 127-154

Pierre Etore, Gersende Fort, Benjamin Jourdain and Eric Moulines

Estimating change-points in biological sequences via the cross-entropy method pp. 155-165

G. Evans, G. Sofronov, J. Keith and D. Kroese

A combined splitting—cross entropy method for rare-event probability estimation of queueing networks pp. 167-185

M. Garvels

Adaptive importance sampling for network growth models pp. 187-203

Adam Guetz and Susan Holmes

Cooperative Cross-Entropy method for generating entangled networks pp. 205-214

Kin-Ping Hui

An optimal routing policy for unmanned aerial vehicles (analytical and cross-entropy simulation approach) pp. 215-253

Edward Ianovsky and Joseph Kreimer

Multilevel Monte Carlo for stochastic differential equations with additive fractional noise pp. 255-276

Peter Kloeden, Andreas Neuenkirch and Raffaella Pavani

Approximating zero-variance importance sampling in a reliability setting pp. 277-297

Pierre L’Ecuyer and Bruno Tuffin

State-dependent importance sampling for a slowdown tandem queue pp. 299-329

D. Miretskiy, W. Scheinhardt and M. Mandjes

Generating uniform random vectors over a simplex with implications to the volume of a certain polytope and to multivariate extremes pp. 331-342

Shmuel Onn and Ishay Weissman

Randomized methods based on new Monte Carlo schemes for control and optimization pp. 343-356

Boris Polyak and Elena Gryazina

State-dependent importance sampling schemes via minimum cross-entropy pp. 357-388

Ad Ridder and Thomas Taimre