Annals of Operations Research

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): Endre Boros

From Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 158, month 2, 2008

Preface pp. 1-3

Peter Borm, Fioravante Patrone and Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano

A consensus model of political decision-making pp. 5-20

Patrik Eklund, Agnieszka Rusinowska and Harrie Swart

The senatorial election in Spain. Proportional Borda methods for selecting several candidates pp. 21-32

V. Ramírez and A. Palomares

The cohesiveness of subgroups in social networks: A view from game theory pp. 33-46

Daniel Gómez, Enrique González–Arangüena, Conrado Manuel, Guillermo Owen, Mónica Pozo and Martha Saboyá

Interactions between government and firms: a differential game approach pp. 47-61

Jorge Navas and Jesus Marin-Solano

Alliances, partnerships and the Banzhaf semivalue pp. 63-79

M. Llongueras and Antonio Magaña

The Shapley–Shubik index for simple games with multiple alternatives pp. 81-97

Francesc Carreras and Antonio Magaña

The Shapley value for bicooperative games pp. 99-115

J. Bilbao, J. Fernández, N. Jiménez and J. López

Convexity properties for interior operator games pp. 117-131

J. Bilbao, C. Chacón, A. Jiménez-Losada and E. Lebrón

Compromise solutions for bankruptcy situations with references pp. 133-141

M. Pulido, Peter Borm, R. Hendrickx, N. Llorca and Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano

Partially ordered cooperative games: extended core and Shapley value pp. 143-159

J. Puerto, F. Fernández and Y. Hinojosa

Coordination mechanisms for inventory control in three-echelon serial and distribution systems pp. 161-182

Henk Zijm and Judith Timmer

A note on coalitional manipulation and centralized inventory management pp. 183-188

M. Mosquera, I. García-Jurado and M. Fiestras-Janeiro

Sequencing games with repeated players pp. 189-203

Arantza Estévez-Fernández, Peter Borm, Pedro Calleja and Herbert Hamers

Depreciation games pp. 205-218

Juan Aparicio and Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano

Processing games with shared interest pp. 219-228

Marieke Quant, Marc Meertens and Hans Reijnierse

Strategic bidding in continuous electricity auctions: an application to the Spanish electricity market pp. 229-241

Juan Aparicio, Juan Ferrando, Ana Meca and Julia Sancho

Volume 157, month 1, 2008

Preface pp. 1-2

Sira Allende, María Osorio-Lama, Roger Ríos-Mercado and Jan Ruckmann

A general framework for multistage mean-variance post-tax optimization pp. 3-23

Maria Osorio, Nalan Gülpınar and Berç Rustem

A constraint programming approach for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem pp. 25-36

Olivier Liess and Philippe Michelon

Algorithms for finding clique-transversals of graphs pp. 37-45

Guillermo Durán, Min Lin, Sergio Mera and Jayme Szwarcfiter

Two methods for the generation of chordal graphs pp. 47-60

Lilian Markenzon, Oswaldo Vernet and Luiz Araujo

End-to-end availability-dependent pricing of network services pp. 61-71

Héctor Cancela, Pablo Rodríguez-Bocca and Bruno Tuffin

Scatter search for the single source capacitated facility location problem pp. 73-89

Iván Contreras and Juan Díaz

A coupling cutting stock-lot sizing problem in the paper industry pp. 91-104

Sônia Poltroniere, Kelly Poldi, Franklina Toledo and Marcos Arenales

Multi-start and path relinking methods to deal with multiobjective knapsack problems pp. 105-133

Ricardo Beausoleil, Gulnara Baldoquin and Rodolfo Montejo

Network design: taxi planning pp. 135-151

Angel Marín and Esteve Codina

A multi-stop routing problem pp. 153-167

Jose Gonzalez-Velarde, Salvador Garcia-Lumbreras and Alberto Garcia-Diaz

Labeling algorithm for the shortest path problem with turn prohibitions with application to large-scale road networks pp. 169-182

Eliécer Gutiérrez and Andrés Medaglia

Higher-order optimality conditions for strict local minima pp. 183-192

Bienvenido Jiménez and Vicente Novo

A globally convergent inexact Newton method with a new choice for the forcing term pp. 193-205

Márcia Gomes-Ruggiero, Véra Lopes and Julia Toledo-Benavides

A hypercube queueing model embedded into a genetic algorithm for ambulance deployment on highways pp. 207-224

Ana Iannoni, Reinaldo Morabito and Cem Saydam

An M [X] /G/1 retrial queue with server breakdowns and constant rate of repeated attempts pp. 225-243

I. Atencia, G. Bouza and P. Moreno

Volume 156, month 12, 2007

Preface pp. 1-4

Holger Hoos and Thomas Stützle

Local search algorithms for finding the Hamiltonian completion number of line graphs pp. 5-24

Paolo Detti, Carlo Meloni and Marco Pranzo

Solving fractional problems with dynamic multistart improving hit-and-run pp. 25-44

Mirjam Dür, Charoenchai Khompatraporn and Zelda Zabinsky

Multicriteria optimisation and simulation: an industrial application pp. 45-60

D. Duvivier, O. Roux, V. Dhaevers, N. Meskens and A. Artiba

A machine learning approach to algorithm selection for $\mathcal{NP}$ -hard optimization problems: a case study on the MPE problem pp. 61-82

Haipeng Guo and William Hsu

On local optima in multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems pp. 83-97

Luis Paquete, Tommaso Schiavinotto and Thomas Stützle

Memetic particle swarm optimization pp. 99-127

Y. Petalas, K. Parsopoulos and M. Vrahatis

Exploiting relaxation in local search for LABS pp. 129-141

Steven Prestwich

Some effective heuristics for no-wait flowshops with setup times to minimize total completion time pp. 143-171

Rubén Ruiz and Ali Allahverdi

Volume 155, month 11, 2007

Planning production and working time within an annualised hours scheme framework pp. 5-23

Albert Corominas, Amaia Lusa and Rafael Pastor

Modeling mixed push and pull promotion flows in Manpower Planning pp. 25-39

Tim Feyter

A stochastic manpower planning model under varying class sizes pp. 41-49

Asis Chattopadhyay and Arindam Gupta

Workforce planning at USPS mail processing and distribution centers using stochastic optimization pp. 51-78

Jonathan Bard, David Morton and Yong Wang

The minimum shift design problem pp. 79-105

Luca Di Gaspero, Johannes Gärtner, Guy Kortsarz, Nysret Musliu, Andrea Schaerf and Wolfgang Slany

On assigning drivers for a home-delivery system on a performance basis pp. 107-117

Sebastián Genta and Juan Muñoz

Mixed-integer programming models for an employee scheduling problem with multiple shifts and work locations pp. 119-142

Salem Al-Yakoob and Hanif Sherali

On the trade-off between staff-decomposed and activity-decomposed column generation for a staff scheduling problem pp. 143-166

Jeroen Beliën and Erik Demeulemeester

A branch-and-price approach for large-scale employee tour scheduling problems pp. 167-176

Hua Ni and Hernán Abeledo

Bechtold-Jacobs generalized model for shift scheduling with extraordinary overlap pp. 177-205

Idris Addou and François Soumis

Towards constraint-based school timetabling pp. 207-225

Michael Marte

Distributed personnel scheduling—negotiation among scheduling agents pp. 227-255

Eliezer Kaplansky and Amnon Meisels

Towards a practical engineering tool for rostering pp. 257-277

Edward Tsang, John Ford, Patrick Mills, Richard Bradwell, Richard Williams and Paul Scott

Solving the multi-objective nurse scheduling problem with a weighted cost function pp. 279-288

D. Parr and J. Thompson

An estimation of distribution algorithm for nurse scheduling pp. 289-309

Uwe Aickelin and Jingpeng Li

Metaheuristics approach to the aircrew rostering problem pp. 311-338

Panta Lučić and Dušan Teodorović

A methodology to create robust job rotation schedules pp. 339-360

Wipawee Tharmmaphornphilas and Bryan Norman

An integrated staff-sizing approach considering feasibility of scheduling decision pp. 361-390

Yongjian Li, Jian Chen and Xiaoqiang Cai

Handling fuzzy temporal constraints in a planning environment pp. 391-415

Marc Asunción, Luis Castillo, Juan Fernández-Olivares, Oscar García-Pérez, Antonio González and Francisco Palao

Effective search space control for large and/or complex driver scheduling problems pp. 417-435

Raymond Kwan and Ann Kwan

A web-based workforce management system for Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd pp. 437-457

S. Mirrazavi and Henri Beringer