Annals of Operations Research

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Volume 180, month 11, 2010

Preface for the special volume on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling pp. 1-2

Graham Kendall, Kay Tan, Edmund Burke and Stephen Smith

A multiobjective framework for heavily constrained examination timetabling problems pp. 3-31

Christine Mumford

Metaheuristic methods based on Tabu search for assigning judges to competitions pp. 33-61

Amina Lamghari and Jacques Ferland

Multi-objective and prioritized berth allocation in container ports pp. 63-103

C. Cheong, K. Tan, D. Liu and C. Lin

A model and case study for efficient shelf usage and assortment analysis pp. 105-124

Mehmet Fadılog̃lu, Oya Karaşan and Mustafa Pınar

A hybrid search method for the vehicle routing problem with time windows pp. 125-144

Humberto Brandão de Oliveira and Germano Vasconcelos

Greedy scheduling with custom-made objectives pp. 145-164

Carsten Franke, Joachim Lepping and Uwe Schwiegelshohn

Metaheuristics for the multi-objective FJSP with sequence-dependent set-up times, auxiliary resources and machine down time pp. 165-196

Jacomine Grobler, Andries Engelbrecht, Schalk Kok and Sarma Yadavalli

Generating artificial chromosomes with probability control in genetic algorithm for machine scheduling problems pp. 197-211

Pei-Chann Chang, Shih-Hsin Chen, Chin-Yuan Fan and V. Mani

Optimisation of maintenance scheduling strategies on the grid pp. 213-231

Alex Shenfield, Peter Fleming, Visakan Kadirkamanathan and Jeff Allan

Discovering implied constraints in precedence graphs with alternatives pp. 233-263

Roman Barták, Ondřej Čepek and Pavel Surynek

Applying Local Rescheduling in response to schedule disruptions pp. 265-282

Jürgen Kuster, Dietmar Jannach and Gerhard Friedrich

Volume 179, month 9, 2010

Preface pp. 1-3

Graham Kendall, Karen Daniels and Edmund Burke

Models and algorithms for fair layout optimization problems pp. 5-14

Albert Fernandes Muritiba, Manuel Iori, Silvano Martello and Marcos Negreiros Gomes

Bun splitting: a practical cutting stock problem pp. 15-33

Celia Glass and Jeroen Oostrum

New perspectives in VLSI design automation: deterministic packing by Sequence Pair pp. 35-56

Adam Janiak, Andrzej Kozik and Maciej Lichtenstein

Space and time allocation in a shipyard assembly hall pp. 57-76

Maud Bay, Yves Crama, Yves Langer and Philippe Rigo

The Multi-Story Space Assignment Problem pp. 77-103

Peter Hahn, J. MacGregor Smith and Yi-Rong Zhu

A supernodal formulation of vertex colouring with applications in course timetabling pp. 105-130

Edmund Burke, Jakub Mareček, Andrew Parkes and Hana Rudová

The location and allocation of products and product families on retail shelves pp. 131-147

Robert Russell and Timothy Urban

A piecewise linearization for retail shelf space allocation problem and a local search heuristic pp. 149-167

Hasmukh Gajjar and Gajendra Adil

On the cutting stock problem under stochastic demand pp. 169-186

Douglas Alem, Pedro Munari, Marcos Arenales and Paulo Ferreira

A new destructive bounding scheme for the bin packing problem pp. 187-202

Bassem Jarboui, Saber Ibrahim and Abdelwaheb Rebai

A hybrid GRASP/VND algorithm for two- and three-dimensional bin packing pp. 203-220

F. Parreño, R. Alvarez-Valdes, J. Oliveira and J. Tamarit

A branch-and-price algorithm for the variable size bin packing problem with minimum filling constraint pp. 221-241

Andrea Bettinelli, Alberto Ceselli and Giovanni Righini

A novel non-linear approach to minimal area rectangular packing pp. 243-260

Volker Maag, Martin Berger, Anton Winterfeld and Karl-Heinz Küfer

Optimal rectangle packing pp. 261-295

Richard Korf, Michael Moffitt and Martha Pollack

A heuristic approach based on dynamic programming and and/or-graph search for the constrained two-dimensional guillotine cutting problem pp. 297-315

Reinaldo Morabito and Vitória Pureza

A survey of dual-feasible and superadditive functions pp. 317-342

François Clautiaux, Cláudio Alves and José Valério de Carvalho

Tools of mathematical modeling of arbitrary object packing problems pp. 343-368

J. Bennell, G. Scheithauer, Y. Stoyan and T. Romanova

Generalized hyper-heuristics for solving 2D Regular and Irregular Packing Problems pp. 369-392

H. Terashima-Marín, P. Ross, C. Farías-Zárate, E. López-Camacho and M. Valenzuela-Rendón

Nature inspired genetic algorithms for hard packing problems pp. 393-419

Philipp Rohlfshagen and John Bullinaria

Volume 178, month 7, 2010

Operational research applied to health services: a special volume dedicated to the international conference ORAHS’2007 pp. 1-4

Xiaolan Xie, Steve Gallivan, Alain Guinet and Marion Rauner

Stochastic dynamic nursing service budgeting pp. 5-21

Gergely Mincsovics and Nico Dellaert

Dimensioning hospital wards using the Erlang loss model pp. 23-43

A. Bruin, R. Bekker, L. Zanten and G. Koole

Time-dependent analysis for refused admissions in clinical wards pp. 45-65

R. Bekker and A. Bruin

A loss network model with overflow for capacity planning of a neonatal unit pp. 67-76

Md Asaduzzaman, Thierry Chaussalet and Nicola Robertson

To pool or not to pool in hospitals: a theoretical and practical comparison for a radiotherapy outpatient department pp. 77-89

Paul Joustra, Erik Sluis and Nico Dijk

Suitability and managerial implications of a Master Surgical Scheduling approach pp. 91-104

Jeroen Oostrum, Eelco Bredenhoff and Erwin Hans

A pre-assignment heuristic algorithm for the Master Surgical Schedule Problem (MSSP) pp. 105-119

Elena Tànfani and Angela Testi

Clinic scheduling models with overbooking for patients with heterogeneous no-show probabilities pp. 121-144

Bo Zeng, Ayten Turkcan, Ji Lin and Mark Lawley

Scheduling preparation of doses for a chemotherapy service pp. 145-154

Alexandre Mazier, Jean-Charles Billaut and Jean-François Tournamille

Queueing models for appointment-driven systems pp. 155-172

Stefan Creemers and Marc Lambrecht

Small world network models of the dynamics of HIV infection pp. 173-200

I. Vieira, R. Cheng, P. Harper and V. Senna

Quality competition for screening and treatment services pp. 201-222

Evrim Güneş, Stephen Chick and Luk Wassenhove

Optimal control of dosage decisions in controlled ovarian hyperstimulation pp. 223-245

Miao He, Lei Zhao and Warren Powell

Evaluating the performance of Brazilian university hospitals pp. 247-261

Yasar Ozcan, Marcos Lins, Maria Lobo, Angela da Silva, Roberto Fiszman and Basilio Pereira

Simulation based analysis of patient arrival to health care systems and evaluation of an operations improvement scheme pp. 263-279

Peter Williams, Guangfu Tai and Yiming Lei

Volume 177, month 6, 2010

Preface pp. 1-2

Suvrajeet Sen and Julia Higle

Stochastic programming and the option of doing it differently pp. 3-8

Stein Wallace

Extreme events, discounting and stochastic optimization pp. 9-19

Yuri Ermoliev, Tatiana Ermolieva, Guenther Fischer and Marek Makowski

Living on the edge: how risky is it to operate at the limit of the tolerated risk? pp. 21-45

José Rodríguez-Mancilla

An ALM model for pension funds using integrated chance constraints pp. 47-62

Willem Klein Haneveld, Matthijs Streutker and Maarten Vlerk

Portfolio optimization for wealth-dependent risk preferences pp. 63-90

Luis Rios and Nikolaos Sahinidis

Re-solving stochastic programming models for airline revenue management pp. 91-114

Lijian Chen and Tito Homem- de-Mello

Lipschitz and differentiability properties of quasi-concave and singular normal distribution functions pp. 115-125

René Henrion and Werner Römisch

An exact approach for solving integer problems under probabilistic constraints with random technology matrix pp. 127-137

Patrizia Beraldi and Maria Bruni

Convex approximations for a class of mixed-integer recourse models pp. 139-150

Maarten Vlerk

Online stochastic optimization under time constraints pp. 151-183

Pascal Hentenryck, Russell Bent and Eli Upfal

On numerical calculation of probabilities according to Dirichlet distribution pp. 185-200

Ashraf Gouda and Tamás Szántai