Operational Research

2016 - 2025

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Volume 23, issue 4, 2023

Assessing the efficiency of occupational pension funds in Greece pp. 1-30

Xakousti Chrysanthopoulou, Athanasia Mavrommati and Athanasios Migdalas

Pricing, warranty, and shelf space decisions for the supply chain with non-symmetric market and warranty-period dependent demand pp. 1-31

Ata Allah Taleizadeh, Fatemeh Aboutorabian, Rojin Moradi, Ilkyeong Moon and Navid Mohamadi

Understanding freight drivers' behavior and the impact on vehicles' fuel consumption and CO2e emissions pp. 1-35

Zhuowu Zhang, Emrah Demir, Robert Mason and Carla Cairano-Gilfedder

Rang-adjusted measure: modelling and computational aspects from internal and external perspectives for network DEA pp. 1-34

Mohammad Tavassoli, Mahsa Ghandehari and Masoud Taherinia

Effects of price cap regulation on pharmaceutical supply chain under the zero markup drug policy pp. 1-27

Yu Xia, Jing Li and Zhongyang Zhang

Group game cross-efficiency order allocation model based on regret theory and decision consensus pp. 1-39

Xing Shao and Meiqiang Wang

Transient analysis of some queueing/inventory/healthcare models using homotopy perturbation method pp. 1-21

Narayanan C. Viswanath

Bicriteria fabrication scheduling of two-component jobs on a single machine pp. 1-13

Yijie Li

On concept of undesirable outputs in data envelopment analysis: ratio independent undesirable outputs pp. 1-24

S. Ramezani-Tarkhorani and G. H. Shirdel

Return window decision for modular mass customization products in a two-echelon returnable supply chain pp. 1-36

Honglin Yang, Lan Jiang and Hong Wan

Exploring congestion in intermediate products by DEA: an application on Iranian cement supply chain pp. 1-32

Saber Saati and Maryam Shadab

Volume 23, issue 3, 2023

R&D project portfolio selection using the Iterative Trichotomic Approach in order to study how subjectivity of the weights is reflected in the selected projects of the final portfolio pp. 1-18

George Mavrotas and Evangelos Makryvelios

A heuristic method to find a quick feasible solution based on the ratio programming pp. 1-19

M. N. Yarahmadi, S. A. MirHassani and F. Hooshmand

Unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with stochastic sequence dependent setup times pp. 1-19

Tugba Saraç, Feristah Ozcelik and Mehmet Ertem

Parameter optimization of PID controller based on an enhanced whale optimization algorithm for AVR system pp. 1-26

Jinzhong Zhang, Tan Zhang, Gang Zhang and Min Kong

Energy conservation strategy and coordination of a closed-loop supply chain with risk-averse members under carbon tax regulation pp. 1-39

Jianteng Xu, Qingguo Bai and Qian Luo

A robust optimization model for dynamic virtual hub location problem under uncertainty using an M/M/C/K queuing model: two metaheuristic algorithms pp. 1-52

Saber Shiripour, Milad Hematian and Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri

Optimisation of seat reservations on trains to minimise transfer distances pp. 1-31

Karsten Weicker

The impact of COVID-19 on supply chains: systematic review and future research directions pp. 1-31

Hassan Younis, Malek Alsharairi, Hammad Younes and Balan Sundarakani

Information sharing under agency selling in an e-commerce supply chain with competing OEMs pp. 1-27

Peng Liu, Rong Zhang and Bin Liu

Operational research and business intelligence as drivers for digital transformation pp. 1-8

Pavlos Delias and Fotis C. Kitsios

Closest target setting with minimum improvement costs considering demand and resource mismatches pp. 1-29

Fangqing Wei, Yanan Fu, Feng Yang, Chun Sun and Sheng Ang

A fill-and-reduce greedy algorithm for the container pre-marshalling problem pp. 1-29

Ignacio Araya and Martín Toledo

Measuring the efficiency of mutual funds: Does ESG controversies score affect the mutual fund performance during the COVID-19 pandemic? pp. 1-29

Konstantinos Petridis, Nikolaos Kiosses, Ioannis Tampakoudis and Fouad Ben Abdelaziz

Optimal pricing and production lot-size policies in imperfect production system with price-sensitive demand, reworking, scrap, and sales return pp. 1-28

C. K. Sivashankari and R. Valarmathi

Competition–cooperation mechanism of online supply chain finance based on a stochastic evolutionary game pp. 1-28

Jun Du, Jiejie Li, Jiaxin Li and Weiduo Li

Effects of the vaccination and public support on covid-19 cases and number of deaths in Sweden pp. 1-28

Mike Tsionas, Mikael A. Martins and Almas Heshmati

Measuring technical efficiency for multi-input multi-output production processes through OneClass Support Vector Machines: a finite-sample study pp. 1-33

Raul Moragues, Juan Aparicio and Miriam Esteve

Volume 23, issue 2, 2023

System dynamics model for improving the robustness of a fresh agri-food supply chain to disruptions pp. 1-53

Ana Esteso, M. M. E. Alemany, Fernando Ottati and Ángel Ortiz

A generalization of unaimed fire Lanchester’s model in multi-battle warfare pp. 1-19

N. Cangiotti, M. Capolli and M. Sensi

Dynamic sustainability assessment of poverty alleviation in China: evidence from both novel non-convex global two-stage DEA and Malmquist productivity index pp. 1-40

Helu Xiao, Na Wang and Shanping Wang

Simultaneous lot sizing and scheduling in the animal feed premix industry pp. 1-40

Miloš Milenković, Susana Val and Nebojša Bojović

A bi-objective re-entrant permutation flow shop scheduling problem: minimizing the makespan and maximum tardiness pp. 1-41

Maedeh Fasihi, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and Fariborz Jolai

A two-step sub-optimal algorithm for bus evacuation planning pp. 1-35

Yuanyuan Feng, Yi Cao, Shuanghua Yang, Lili Yang and Tangjian Wei

Bi-objective bi-level optimization for integrating lane-level closure and reversal in redesigning transportation networks pp. 1-51

Qiang Zhang, Shi Qiang Liu and Andrea D’Ariano

Two-stage optimization scheme of routing scheduling from a single distribution center to multiple customers pp. 1-29

Matías Núñez-Muñoz, Rodrigo Linfati and John Willmer Escobar

Optimal strategies of social commerce platforms in the context of forwarding and bargaining pp. 1-28

Xu Chen, Yingliang Wu and Rujie Zhong

Optimizing the wine transportation process from bottling plants to ports pp. 1-28

Franco Basso, Juan Pablo Contreras, Raúl Pezoa, Alejandro Troncozo and Mauricio Varas

A biobjective model for resource provisioning in multi-cloud environments with capacity constraints pp. 1-32

Luce Brotcorne, Joaquín Ezpeleta and Carmen Galé

Sustainable hierarchical multi-modal hub network design problem: bi-objective formulations and solution algorithms pp. 1-62

Mohammad Mahdi Nasiri, Amir Khaleghi, Kannan Govindan and Ali Bozorgi-Amiri

Technological, healthcare and consumer funds efficiency: influence of COVID-19 pp. 1-42

Catarina Alexandra Neves Proença, Maria Elisabete Duarte Neves, Maria Castelo Baptista Gouveia and Mara Teresa Silva Madaleno

A multi-objective constrained partially observable Markov decision process model for breast cancer screening pp. 1-42

Robert Kraig Helmeczi, Can Kavaklioglu, Mucahit Cevik and Davood Pirayesh Neghab

Bilevel programming methods in waste-to-energy plants' price-setting game pp. 1-37

Ivan Eryganov, Radovan Šomplák, Dušan Hrabec and Josef Jadrný

Ambulance dispatching and operating room scheduling considering reusable resources in mass-casualty incidents pp. 1-37

Shuwan Zhu, Wenjuan Fan, Xueping Li and Shanlin Yang

Volume 23, issue 1, 2023

A ground crew shift rostering model for Santiago International Airport pp. 1-26

Juan P. Cavada, Cristián E. Cortés, Gustavo Henríquez and Pablo A. Rey

A multi-stage stochastic model for designing a linked cross-docking distribution network with heterogeneous trucks pp. 1-41

Saeid Nasrollahi, Hasan Hosseini-Nasab, Mohammad Bagher Fakhrzad and Mahboobeh Honarvar

How cash-back strategy affect sale rate under refund and customers’ credit pp. 1-69

Ata Allah Taleizadeh, Alireza Mahmoudzade Varzi, Alireza Amjadian, Mahsa Noori-daryan and Ioannis Konstantaras

Single machine scheduling problems involving job-dependent step-deterioration dates and job rejection pp. 1-19

Baruch Mor

A systematic literature review of data envelopment analysis implementation in agriculture under the prism of sustainability pp. 1-38

Leonidas Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Georgios Kleftodimos, George Vlontzos and Panos M. Pardalos

Exact and stochastic methods for robustness analysis in the context of Imprecise Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 1-34

Anna Labijak-Kowalska and Miłosz Kadziński

Efficiently computing the Shapley value of connectivity games in low-treewidth graphs pp. 1-23

Tom C. van der Zanden, Hans L. Bodlaender and Herbert J. M. Hamers

Time-dependent vehicle routing problem of perishable product delivery considering the differences among paths on the congested road pp. 1-23

Fang Zhao, Bingfeng Si, Zhenlin Wei and Tianwei Lu

Interruption flows for reliability evaluation of power distribution networks pp. 1-23

Fábio Luiz Usberti, Celso Cavellucci and Christiano Lyra

Sustainable production inventory management through bi-level greening performance in a three-echelon supply chain pp. 1-55

Subrata Panja and Shyamal Kumar Mondal

Modeling the supply chain network in the fast-moving consumer goods industry during COVID-19 pandemic pp. 1-32

Ezzatollah Asgharizadeh, Amir Daneshvar, Mahdi Homayounfar, Fariba Salahi and Mohsen Amini Khouzani

Multiple criteria decision making and robust optimization to design a development plan for small and medium-sized enterprises in the east of Iran pp. 1-32

Sahar Moazzeni, Sobhan Mostafayi Darmian and Lars Magnus Hvattum

A two-stage local search heuristic for solving the steelmaking continuous casting scheduling problem with dual shared-resource and blocking constraints pp. 1-43

Pieter Moerloose and Broos Maenhout

The aggregator’s contract design problem in the electricity demand response market pp. 1-47

Daeho Kim and Dong Gu Choi

Evaluating efficiency and technology gaps of the national systems of entrepreneurship using stochastic DEA and club convergence pp. 1-28

Panagiotis Mitropoulos and Alexandros Mitropoulos

Lot scheduling involving completion time problems on identical parallel machines pp. 1-29

Biber Nurit, Mor Baruch, Schlissel Yitzhak and Shapira Dana

Educational reforms and secondary school's efficiency performance in Greece: a bootstrap DEA and multilevel approach pp. 1-29

Kostantinos Kounetas, G. Androulakis, M. Kaisari and G. Manousakis

Correction: A data-driven multicriteria decision making tool for assessing investments in energy efficiency pp. 1-2

Elissaios Sarmas, Vangelis Marinakis and Haris Doukas

Stock control analytics: a data-driven approach to compute the fill rate considering undershoots pp. 1-25

Eugenia Babiloni, Ester Guijarro and Juan R. Trapero

A two-phase resource-constrained project scheduling approach for design and development of complex product systems pp. 1-25

Pejman Peykani, Jafar Gheidar-Kheljani, Sheida Shahabadi, Seyyed Hassan Ghodsypour and Mojtaba Nouri

ESG performance, herding behavior and stock market returns: evidence from Europe pp. 1-21

Nektarios Gavrilakis and Christos Floros

Marginal rates in DEA using defining hyperplanes of PPS with CRS technology pp. 1-37

A. Ghazi and F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi