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Volume 173, month 1, 2010

Efficiency and productivity: theory and applications pp. 1-3

Ali Emrouznejad and Rajiv Banker

The assessment of retailing efficiency using Network Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 5-24

C. Vaz, A. Camanho and R. Guimarães

The impact of supervisory monitoring on high-end retail sales productivity pp. 25-37

Rajiv Banker, Seok-Young Lee, Gordon Potter and Dhinu Srinivasan

A DEA methodology to evaluate the impact of information asymmetry on the efficiency of not-for-profit organizations with an application to higher education in Brazil pp. 39-56

José França, João Figueiredo and Jair Lapa

Malmquist indexes with quasi-fixed inputs: an application to school districts in Québec pp. 57-76

Pierre Ouellette and Valerie Vierstraete

Technological progress and productivity growth in the U.S. mobile telecommunications industry pp. 77-87

Rajiv Banker, Zhanwei Cao, Nirup Menon and Ram Natarajan

Using the bootstrap method to detect influential DMUs in data envelopment analysis pp. 89-103

Zijiang Yang, Xiaogang Wang and Dongming Sun

Nonparametric conditional efficiency measures: asymptotic properties pp. 105-122

Seok-Oh Jeong, Byeong Park and Leopold Simar

Gradual technical and scale efficiency improvement in DEA pp. 123-136

Sebastián Lozano and Gabriel Villa

A double-frontier approach for measuring market imperfection pp. 137-144

Michel Mouchart and Marie Vandresse

Hedonic price function estimation in economics and marketing: revisiting Lancaster’s issue of “noncombinable” goods pp. 145-161

Ruben Chumpitaz, Kristiaan Kerstens, Nicholas Paparoidamis and Matthias Staat

Context-dependent performance standards in DEA pp. 163-175

Wade Cook and Joe Zhu

DEA models with undesirable inputs and outputs pp. 177-194

W. Liu, W. Meng, X. Li and D. Zhang

Returns to scale in multiplicative models in data envelopment analysis pp. 195-206

M. Zarepisheh, E. Khorram and G. Jahanshahloo

A classification of DEA models when the internal structure of the Decision Making Units is considered pp. 207-235

Lorenzo Castelli, Raffaele Pesenti and Walter Ukovich

Volume 172, month 11, 2009

Inventory based allocation policies for flexible servers in serial systems pp. 1-23

Ramesh Arumugam, Maria Mayorga and Kevin Taaffe

Stability and accuracy functions in a coalition game with bans, linear payoffs and antagonistic strategies pp. 25-35

Yury Nikulin

Linear transformations to decrease computational requirements of solving some known linear programming models pp. 37-43

M. Soleimani-damaneh and M. Zarepisheh

Fixed Charge Transportation Problems: a new heuristic approach based on Lagrangean relaxation and the solving of core problems pp. 45-69

Jesús Sáez Aguado

Variable neighbourhood search for the minimum labelling Steiner tree problem pp. 71-96

Sergio Consoli, Kenneth Darby-Dowman, Nenad Mladenović and José Moreno-Pérez

Dynamic asset allocation under VaR constraint with stochastic interest rates pp. 97-117

Donatien Hainaut

An efficient model formulation for level of repair analysis pp. 119-142

R. Basten, J. Schutten and M. Heijden

An approximation for multi-server queues with deterministic reneging times pp. 143-151

Wei Xiong and Tayfur Altiok

Differential evolution and combinatorial search for constrained index-tracking pp. 153-176

Thiemo Krink, Stefan Mittnik and Sandra Paterlini

A decision model for ranking suppliers in the presence of cardinal and ordinal data, weight restrictions, and nondiscretionary factors pp. 177-192

Reza Farzipoor Saen

An exact algorithm for the type-constrained and variable sized bin packing problem pp. 193-202

Chunyang Zhou, Chongfeng Wu and Yun Feng

Pareto optimal allocations and dynamic programming pp. 203-219

Sebastian Sitarz

A randomized algorithm for the min-max selecting items problem with uncertain weights pp. 221-230

Adam Kasperski and Paweł Zieliński

Allocating flexible servers in serial systems with switching costs pp. 231-242

Maria Mayorga, Kevin Taaffe and Ramesh Arumugam

Optimally solving the alternative subgraphs assembly line balancing problem pp. 243-258

Armin Scholl, Nils Boysen and Malte Fliedner

Setting gates for activities in the stochastic project scheduling problem through the cross entropy methodology pp. 259-276

Illana Bendavid and Boaz Golany

First-order optimality conditions and duality results for multi-objective optimisation problems pp. 277-289

S. Askar and A. Tiwari

Waiting time approximation in single-class queueing systems with multiple types of interruptions: modeling congestion at waterways entrances pp. 291-313

Özgecan Ulusçu and Tayfur Altıok

Single-machine scheduling with both deterioration and learning effects pp. 315-327

Dar-Li Yang and Wen-Hung Kuo

Distribution systems design with two-level routing considerations pp. 329-347

Jenn-Rong Lin and Hsien-Chung Lei

Optimal hierarchical system of a grid road network pp. 349-361

Masashi Miyagawa

The multichoice coalition value pp. 363-374

M. Albizuri

Learning in nonlinear pricing with unknown utility functions pp. 375-392

Kimmo Berg and Harri Ehtamo

A game-theoretic approach for downgrading the 1-median in the plane with Manhattan metric pp. 393-404

Elisabeth Gassner

Bidirectional best-fit heuristic for orthogonal rectangular strip packing pp. 405-427

Önder Aşık and Ender Özcan

ITC2007 solver description: a hybrid approach pp. 429-446

Tomáš Müller

Assignment problems with changeover cost pp. 447-457

Pritibhushan Sinha

Comments on “Scheduling jobs on a k-stage flexible flow-shop” [Annals of Operations Research (2008) 164: 29–40] pp. 459-462

R. Ramezanian and A. Karamouzian

Errata for “A robustness approach to international sourcing” by G.J. Gutierrez and P. Kouvelis, Annals of Operations Research 59 (1995) 165–193 pp. 463-463

Genaro Gutierrez, Panagiotis Kouvelis and Lawrence Snyder

Volume 171, month 10, 2009

Introduction to the special volume on constraint programming, artificial intelligence, and operations research pp. 1-2

J. Beck and Barbara Smith

Conditional lexicographic orders in constraint satisfaction problems pp. 3-25

Richard Wallace and Nic Wilson

On the separability of subproblems in Benders decompositions pp. 27-43

Marco Cadoli and Fabio Patrizi

The timetable constrained distance minimization problem pp. 45-59

Rasmus Rasmussen and Michael Trick

Combining column generation and constraint programming to solve the tail assignment problem pp. 61-76

Sami Gabteni and Mattias Grönkvist

Finding reliable solutions: event-driven probabilistic constraint programming pp. 77-99

S. Tarim, Brahim Hnich, Steven Prestwich and Roberto Rossi

Online stochastic reservation systems pp. 101-126

Pascal Hentenryck, Russell Bent, Luc Mercier and Yannis Vergados

Undirected forest constraints pp. 127-147

Nicolas Beldiceanu, Irit Katriel and Xavier Lorca