Operational Research

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Nikolaos F. Matsatsinis, John Psarras and Constantin Zopounidis

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Volume 25, issue 2, 2025

Pareto-optimal workforce scheduling with worker skills and preferences pp. 1-27

Ali İşeri, Hatice Güner and Ali Rıza Güner

Decomposition based approach for multi-trip helicopter routing and scheduling problem in last-mile relief distribution and rescue operations pp. 1-46

Deepak Kumar Kushwaha and Goutam Sen

A new cross-efficiency aggregation in data envelopment analysis: considering fairness mentality and group consensus pp. 1-33

Xing-Xian Zhang, Lei Chen, Xu Wang, Wenjin Zuo, Lijun Liu and Ying-Ming Wang

Agri–food supply chain design for perishable products: application to small-scale farmers pp. 1-36

Jorge Bolívar, Víctor Cantillo and Pablo Miranda

A novel inverse data envelopment analysis model with negative ratio data pp. 1-34

Mehdi Soltanifar, Madjid Tavana, Vincent Charles, Mojtaba Ghiyasi and Hamid Sharafi

ESG-driven optimal portfolio selection for separated environmental, social, and governance preferences pp. 1-12

Tomer Shushi

The battle between channel distribution and traffic purchases: a perspective of the mobile application market pp. 1-25

Jingzhe Gao and Haixiao Wei

Assessment of offshore wind farm site suitability in India using GIS and MCDM methods pp. 1-30

Jyoti Luhaniwal, Shivi Agarwal and Trilok Mathur

Optimal service design for heterogeneous queueing system with reverse balking and reneging pp. 1-29

Asmita Tamuli, Dhruba Das, Amit Choudhury and Bhaskar Kushvaha

A proposed integrated methodology for evaluation and adjustment of Balance of Performance (BoP) schemes in Grand Touring (GT) racecar championships pp. 1-38

Angelos T. Kottas, Michail N. Bozoudis and Michael A. Madas

A scheme for emergency material allocation based on decision makers' subjective preference pp. 1-26

Jin Liu, Yanbin Cheng, Yuqing Lin, Zhengyang Wu and Chenye Guo

A remanufacturing inventory optimization model for deteriorating items with volume flexibility pp. 1-47

Neha Punetha, S. R. Singh and Nidhi Handa

Distribution channel strategies of suboptimal food supply chain under demand uncertainty pp. 1-37

Jie Wei, Zhongjin Ying and Chunhai Wen

Volume 25, issue 1, 2025

Product collection structures in closed-loop supply chains pp. 1-38

Mostafa Farokhiani, Iman Nosoohi and Ali Shahandeh Nookabadi

A study on the technological innovation efficiency of China’s high-tech industries based on three-stage DEA and Malmquist index pp. 1-42

Chen Wei and Li Yuan

A super-efficiency model based on the directional distance function under a new direction pp. 1-19

Weiwei Zhu, Zhaowen Bai and Yu Yu

Modeling and simulation of first-come, first-served queueing system with impatient multiclass customers pp. 1-37

Vinay Kumar and Neelesh Shankar Upadhye

A hybrid decision-making conceptual framework based on generalized information quality under neutrosophic evidence theory: a comparative analysis pp. 1-23

Antonios Paraskevas and Michael Madas

Make me an offer: forward and reverse auctioning problems in the tourism industry pp. 1-26

Ioannis T. Christou, Dimitris Doukas, Konstantina Skouri and Gerasimos Meletiou

Optimal trade-in delegation strategy considering third-party recycler intrusion and used products with different durability pp. 1-55

Kaiying Cao, Yajie Gong, Yuqiu Xu and Jia Wang

Decisional performance efficiencies of cross-efficiency DEA decision-making units using benevolent criterion pp. 1-29

Parag C. Pendharkar

A comprehensive review on operating room scheduling and optimization pp. 1-30

Md Al Amin, Roberto Baldacci and Vahid Kayvanfar

Pareto-optimal peer evaluation in context-dependent DEA pp. 1-40

Fatemeh Ghandi, Mostafa Davtalab-Olyaie, Masoud Asgharian, Mehmet A. Begen and Abbas Saadatmandi

Scheduling with step learning and job rejection pp. 1-18

Jiaxin Song, Cuixia Miao and Fanyu Kong

Dynamic vehicle parking pricing: a bilevel optimization approach pp. 1-25

Semeneh Hunachew Bayih and Surafel Luleseged Tilahun

Contract design for a retailer-dominated supply chain under asymmetric green investment cost information pp. 1-31

Niu Yu, Mengni Xiong, Pin Zhou and Qingguo Bai

An improved NSGAII-SA algorithm for the cell manufacturing system layout optimization problem pp. 1-31

Honggen Chen, Pengxiang Wang, Jing Li, Guohui Zhang and Yan Zhang

Evaluation of the eco-efficiency of the industrial system in China considering regional heterogeneity and dynamics pp. 1-36

Kai He and Liu Jie

A quantitative study on the impact of corporate social responsibility on supplier selection and suppliers’ market share in the oil industry pp. 1-43

Hesam Shidpour and Mohsen Shidpour

A new discrete-time queueing model to optimize cargo dispatch for a warehouse pp. 1-33

Qionglin Liu, Yinghui Tang and Miaomiao Yu

A mathematical programming approach for a wildfire suppression problem pp. 1-27

Bibiana Granda, Begoña Vitoriano and José Rui Figueira

Performance dynamics in Greek wine sector: a study of technical efficiency and strategic implications pp. 1-22

Athanasia Mavrommati and Alexandra Pliakoura

Memetic algorithms and dynamic programming on vehicle routing problems in crisis situations pp. 1-28

Stamatios Vasalakis and Athanasios Spyridakos

Ergonomics in warehouse design and operations: a systematic literature review pp. 1-28

Danish Nasir, Rakesh Venkitasubramony and Suresh Kumar Jakhar

Floor prices for spatially distributed markets pp. 1-28

Nikolay Pilnik, Stanislav Radionov and Ilya Tipunin

Volume 24, issue 4, 2024

Algebraic solution of project scheduling problems with temporal constraints pp. 1-27

Nikolai Krivulin and Sergey Gubanov

National brands versus store brands: retailer fight against national brands to improve store brands via a dynamic discount pricing strategy pp. 1-36

Dawood Yahyavi, Ata Allah Taleizadeh and Park Thaichon

Analysing cost-effectiveness in dynamic network DEA: a directional distance function approach pp. 1-31

Rajinder Kaur and Jolly Puri

Vehicle routing Problem for cold chain logistics based on data fusion technology to predict travel time pp. 1-34

Qinyang Bai, Yuxiang Yuan, Xueqin Fu and Zhili Zhou

Enhancing operational research in mechatronic systems via modularization: comparative analysis of four clustering algorithms using validation indices pp. 1-44

Ioannis Mikrou and Nickolas S. Sapidis

Low-carbon supply chain strategy and contract coordination considering manufacturers′ fairness concerns pp. 1-51

Chunhai Yu, Yingxiang Zhang, Ling Liu and Thomas W. Archibald

Changing the perspective of system crowding evaluation using a new congestion measure: application to the Emergency Department pp. 1-35

Adrien Wartelle, Farah Mourad-Chehade, Farouk Yalaoui, David Laplanche and Stéphane Sanchez

Multi-venue location optimization with overlapping audience reach areas pp. 1-16

Shervin Shams-Shoaaee

A bilevel hierarchical covering model to protect a healthcare network against failures pp. 1-40

Raheleh Khanduzi, İhsan Sadati and Vahid Akbari

Operational assessment of nursing homes at times of pandemic: an integrated DEA and machine learning approach pp. 1-40

Ozlem Cosgun, Amjad Umar and Dursun Delen

A tripartite evolutionary game model for tradable green certificate transaction strategies in China pp. 1-29

Shiwei Yu, Chengzhu Gong, Weidong Jia and Li Ma

A novel hybrid decision-making framework based on modified fuzzy analytic network process and fuzzy best–worst method pp. 1-32

Ehsan Khanmohammadi, Maryam Azizi, HamidReza Talaie, Fatih Ecer and Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee

Strategic planning for hub resilience: a stochastic location-routing perspective pp. 1-32

Mir Mohammad Musavi, S. Ali Torabi and Fariborz Jolai

A hybrid metaheuristic optimised ensemble classifier with self organizing map clustering for credit scoring pp. 1-42

Indu Singh, D. P. Kothari, S. Aditya, Mihir Rajora, Charu Agarwal and Vibhor Gautam

Development of a new hybrid method for multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approach: a case study for facility location selection pp. 1-23

Fatih Topaloğlu

Implementation of machine learning in $$\ell _{\infty }$$ ℓ ∞ -based sparse Sharpe ratio portfolio optimization: a case study on Indian stock market pp. 1-26

Jyotirmayee Behera and Pankaj Kumar

Optimal decisions in a dual-channel remanufacturing supply chain with reference quality effect under WTP differentiation pp. 1-37

Lili Dai, Jiawu Peng and Yanyan Zheng

Volume 24, issue 3, 2024

Impact of cities’ issuance of green bonds on local firm performance: evidence from China pp. 1-30

Rongnan Li, Zhuang Liu and Kai Gan

Financing equilibrium in an after-sales service supply chain pp. 1-30

Qinglin Luo and Jianwen Luo

Stochastic transitions of a mixed-integer linear programming model for the construction supply chain: chance-constrained programming and two-stage programming pp. 1-57

Aspasia Koutsokosta and Stefanos Katsavounis

Swarm intelligence and nature inspired algorithms for solving vehicle routing problems: a survey pp. 1-45

Themistoklis Stamadianos, Andromachi Taxidou, Magdalene Marinaki and Yannis Marinakis

Two-machine decentralized flow shop scheduling problem with inter-factory batch delivery system pp. 1-37

Mohammad Rostami and Milad Mohammadi

Subtasks scheduling of tasks with different structures in cloud manufacturing systems under maintenance policy and focusing on logistics, tardiness, and earliness aspects pp. 1-37

Ali Salmasnia, Zahra Kiapasha and Melika Pashaeenejad

The impact of the ECB’s non-regular operations on bank credit: cross-country evidence pp. 1-37

Nikolaos Petrakis, Christos Lemonakis, Christos Floros and Constantin Zopounidis

Charting the future of pilots: maximizing airline workforce efficiency through advanced analytics pp. 1-32

Burak Cankaya, Bulent Erenay, Eyyub Kibis, Aaron Glassman and Dursun Delen

Inventory policy for degrading items under advanced payment with price and memory sensitive demand using metaheuristic techniques pp. 1-34

Praveendra Singh and Madhu Jain

Uncovering external factors that influence the acquisition of knowledge for innovative purposes pp. 1-28

Rosana Fuentes-Fernández, Eduardo Sánchez-García, Javier Martínez-Falcó and Bartolomé Marco-Lajara

Integrated optimization of wagon flow routing and train formation plan pp. 1-36

Bing Li, Ce Yun and Hua Xuan

Joint planning for fuel switching ships in a liner shipping network with transit time pp. 1-36

Yuzhe Zhao, Jingmiao Zhou, Zhongxiu Peng and Peng Jia

The novel hybrid multiple criteria decision method BWM-Moora-N applied for investment funds prioritization pp. 1-43

Victor Rosemberg Reis Mota, Carlos Francisco Simões Gomes, Diogo Ferreira Lima Silva and Marcos Santos

A web-based multi-criteria decision support system for benchmarking marketing decisions alternatives pp. 1-31

Dimitrios Chelioudakis, Fotini Kalafati, Efstathios Gerampinis and Nikolaos F. Matsatsinis

Business failure prediction models with high and stable predictive power over time using genetic programming pp. 1-41

Ángel Beade, Manuel Rodríguez and José Santos

Operational risk management in managerial accounting: a comprehensive examination of strategies and implementation in medium size organizations pp. 1-27

Stavros Kalogiannidis, Stamatis Kontsas, Dimitrios Kalfas and Fotios Chatzitheodoridis

A perspective analysis of obligatory vacation and retention of impatient purchaser on queueing-inventory with retrial policy pp. 1-25

N. Nithya, N. Anbazhagan, S. Amutha and Gyanendra Prasad Joshi

Information systems and strategy-as-practice in the digital era: an artificial neural network model for SMEs pp. 1-20

Maria Kamariotou and Fotis Kitsios

Volume 24, issue 2, 2024

Periodic review policy in the production management of a single-item inventory with deterioration pp. 1-25

Debopriya Dey, Samarjit Kar and Dilip Kumar Bhattacharya

A simplified swarm optimization algorithm to minimize makespan on non-identical parallel machines with unequal job release times under non-renewable resource constraints pp. 1-27

Jianfu Chen, Kai Li, Chengbin Chu and Abderrahim Sahli

Operational taxonomy of farmers' towards circular bioeconomy in regional level pp. 1-27

Christina-Ioanna Papadopoulou, Fotios Chatzitheodoridis, Efstratios Loizou and Piotr Jurga

On the availability and changeover cases of the general lot-sizing and scheduling problem with maintenance modelling: a Lagrangian-based heuristic approach pp. 1-43

Mahyar Alimian, Vahidreza Ghezavati, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and Reza Ramezanian

New method for assigning cardinal weights in multi-criteria decision-making: the constant weight ratio method pp. 1-33

Maria del Mar Casanovas-Rubio and Bernat Vinolas

Cooperative investment strategies of ports and shipping companies in blockchain technology pp. 1-33

Huizhu Ju, Qingcheng Zeng, Xiang Chu and Yimeng Li

Disruption detection for a cognitive digital supply chain twin using hybrid deep learning pp. 1-31

Mahmoud Ashraf, Amr Eltawil and Islam Ali

Meta-frontier: literature review and toolkit pp. 1-28

Barnabé Walheer

A sustainable supply chain model for time-varying deteriorating items under the promotional cost-sharing policy and three-level trade credit financing pp. 1-59

Leyla Aliabadi, Seyed Hessameddin Zegordi, Ali Husseinzadeh Kashan and Mohammad Ali Rastegar

Supply–demand effectiveness: capturing the effects of supply and demand mismatches in operational performance measurement pp. 1-22

Chun Sun, Sheng Ang, Fangqing Wei, Dawei Wang and Feng Yang

A Lagrangian bounding and heuristic principle for bi-objective discrete optimization pp. 1-34

Torbjörn Larsson, Nils-Hassan Quttineh and Ida Åkerholm

The green and economical supply of coated board with intermodal distribution: an implementation of novel evolutionary algorithm pp. 1-34

Rizwan Shoukat and Zhang Xiaoqiang

Sectorial evaluation and characterization of internal marketing orientation through multicriteria analysis pp. 1-19

María M. Muñoz, Sergey Kazakov and Jose L. Ruiz-Alba

Orbit while in service pp. 1-32

Gabi Hanukov and Uri Yechiali

Simultaneous sensitivity analysis of mixed-integer location-allocation models using machine learning tools: cancer hospitals’ network design pp. 1-32

Afshin Kordi and Arash Nemati

A regret-based query selection strategy for the incremental elicitation of the criteria weights in an SRMP model pp. 1-21

Arwa Khannoussi, Alexandru-Liviu Olteanu, Patrick Meyer and Nawal Benabbou

Multi-store consumer satisfaction benchmarking using spatial multiple criteria decision analysis pp. 1-26

Anastasia S. Saridou, Athanasios P. Vavatsikos and Evangelos Grigoroudis

Food supply chain network design under uncertainty and pandemic disruption pp. 1-37

Hanieh Shekarabi, Mohammad Mahdi Vali-Siar and Ashkan Mozdgir

Bilateral shock effect and alleviation strategy: a game-theoretical study in international medical devices supply chain in the pandemic context pp. 1-37

Zhisong Chen, Xiaoying Niu, Qingwu Gao and Jun Wang

A new common weights DEA model based on cluster analysis pp. 1-35

Nam Hyok Kim, Feng He, Kwon Ryong Hong, Hyok-Chol Kim and Sok-Min Han

Pricing strategy with quality improvement in a dual collection channel closed-loop supply chain under return uncertainty pp. 1-40

A. K. Gaula and J. K. Jha

Game-theoretic analysis of competition between access service providers utilizing a Nash genetic algorithm pp. 1-30

Thomas Kamalakis, Georgia Dede, Christos Michalakelis and Mara Nikolaidou

A consistency and consensus model for group decision support based on the outranking approach pp. 1-29

Juan Carlos Leyva-López

Volume 24, issue 1, 2024

Optimal joining strategies in a repairable retrial queue with reserved time and N-policy pp. 1-22

Liuqing He, Ruiling Tian, Yunna Han and Xinyu Wu

Sequencing a tri-criteria multiple job classes and customer orders problem on a single machine by using heuristics and simulated annealing method pp. 1-22

Chin-Chia Wu, Xingong Zhang, Danyu Bai, Ameni Azzouz, Wen-Hsiang Wu, Xin-Rong Chen and Win-Chin Lin

A state-of-the-art classification and review of parameters that affect the design, control, and operating strategies of order-picking systems pp. 1-52

Anastasios Gialos and Vasileios Zeimpekis

Nonparametric efficiency measurement of undergraduate teaching by university size pp. 1-29

Manuel Salas-Velasco

Mathematical models for the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows considering different aspects of the charging process pp. 1-35

Cristian Cataldo-Díaz, Rodrigo Linfati and John Willmer Escobar

Embracing fairness within a cross-efficiency hierarchical network DEA system pp. 1-31

Siwei Xiao, Marios Dominikos Kremantzis, Leonidas Sotirios Kyrgiakos, George Vlontzos and Panos M. Pardalos

Efficiency evaluation of China’s high-tech industry with a dynamic network data envelopment analysis game cross-efficiency model pp. 1-36

Yang Huang and Meiqiang Wang

The value of secondary markets when consumers are socially conscious pp. 1-37

You Zhao, Rui Hou and Zhonghui Ding

Designing a changeable multi-level supply chain network with additive manufacturing capability and costs uncertainty: a Monte Carlo approach pp. 1-37

Pardis Roozkhosh, Alireza Pooya, Omid Soleimani Fard and Rouhollah Bagheri

Correction to: Assessing the efficiency of occupational pension funds in Greece pp. 1-1

Xakousti Chrysanthopoulou, Athanasia Mavrommati and Athanasios Migdalas

Customer purchase prediction in electronic markets from clickstream data using the Oracle meta-classifier pp. 1-32

Fatemeh Ehsani and Monireh Hosseini