Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR)

2004 - 2025

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Volume 27, issue 06, 2010

THE ALLOCATION OF CUSTOMERS IN A DISCRETE-TIME MULTI-SERVER QUEUEING SYSTEM pp. 649-667

Wei Sun, Naishuo Tian and Shiyong Li

PARALLEL MACHINE SCHEDULING WITH A SIMULTANEITY CONSTRAINT AND UNIT-LENGTH JOBS TO MINIMIZE THE MAKESPAN pp. 669-676

Lin Lin, Yixun Lin, Xianwei Zhou and Ruyan Fu

SHORTEST PATH SIMPLEX ALGORITHM WITH A MULTIPLE PIVOT RULE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY pp. 677-691

A. Sedeño-Noda and C. González-Martín

OPTIMAL DETERIORATING ITEMS INVENTORY MODEL WITH A THREE-ECHELON SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIC ALLIANCE pp. 693-711

Jonas C. P. Yu

A HYBRID PERMUTATION-CODED EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM FOR THE EARLY/TARDY SCHEDULING PROBLEM pp. 713-725

Alok Singh

A RETRIAL QUEUEING MODEL WITH MAP ARRIVALS, CATASTROPHIC FAILURES WITH REPAIRS, AND CUSTOMER IMPATIENCE pp. 727-752

Srinivas R. Chakravarthy, Alexander N. Dudin and Valentina I. Klimenok

OPTIMAL SELECTION OF PROGRAM SUPPLIERS FOR TV COMPANIES USING AN ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS (ANP) APPROACH pp. 753-767

Sen-Kuei Liao, Kuei-Lun Chang and Tzeng-Wei Tseng

ERRATUM: "ANALYSIS OF A MULTI-SERVER QUEUE WITH MARKOVIAN ARRIVALS AND SYNCHRONOUS PHASE TYPE VACATIONS" pp. 769-769

Srinivas R. Chakravarthy

Volume 27, issue 05, 2010

THEl1PENALTY FUNCTION METHOD FOR NONCONVEX DIFFERENTIABLE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS WITH INEQUALITY CONSTRAINTS pp. 559-576

Tadeusz Antczak

SOME IMPROVED ALGORITHMS ON THE SINGLE MACHINE HIERARCHICAL SCHEDULING WITH TOTAL TARDINESS AS THE PRIMARY CRITERION pp. 577-585

Cheng He, Yixun Lin and Jinjiang Yuan

STOCHASTIC MARKET-CLEARING OF JOINT ENERGY AND RESERVES AUCTIONS pp. 587-606

J. Aghaei, H. A. Shayanfar and N. Amjady

A NOTE ON AN EXTENDED NUMERATION METHOD FOR SOLVING FREE DISPOSAL HULL MODELS IN DEA pp. 607-610

Mohammad Reza Alirezaee and Rashed Khanjani Shiraz

A NOTE ON THE OPTIMAL SUPPLY CYCLE WHEN THE WHOLE PERIOD IS STOCKOUT pp. 611-616

Miao-Sheng Chen and Ying-Chieh Chen

TWO-STAGE FLOWSHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEMS WITH IDENTICAL AND BATCH PROCESSORS pp. 617-627

Wen-Wei Wang, Long-Min He and Ming-Bao Cheng

OPTIMAL SOLUTION STRUCTURE FOR MULTI-PERIOD PRODUCTION PLANNING WITH RETURNED PRODUCTS REMANUFACTURING pp. 629-648

Yongjian Li, Jihong Zhang, Jian Chen and Xiaoqiang Cai

Volume 27, issue 04, 2010

THE EFFECTS OF INFLATION AND TIME VALUE OF MONEY ON A PRODUCTION MODEL WITH A RANDOM PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE pp. 437-456

Jonas C. P. Yu, Hui-Ming Wee, Gede A. Widyadana and Jer-Yuan Chang

CAPACITATED TWO-STAGE TIME MINIMIZATION TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM pp. 457-476

Vikas Sharma, Kalpana Dahiya and Vanita Verma

FINANCIALLY OPTIMAL INVENTORY POLICIES WITH NON-LINEAR REPLENISHMENT COSTS pp. 477-492

Jiang Zhang and Matthew J. Sobel

SCHEDULING WITH DISCRETELY COMPRESSIBLE RELEASE DATES TO MINIMIZE MAKESPAN pp. 493-501

Shu-Xia Zhang, Zhi-Gang Cao and Yu-Zhong Zhang

SOME RESULTS ON A NEW CLASS OF SHOCK MODELS pp. 503-515

Alagar Rangan and Ayşe Tansu

DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHMS FOR THE INTERVAL SCHEDULING PROBLEM pp. 517-537

Shidong Wang, Li Zheng and Zhihai Zhang

INTEGRATED PRODUCTION MAINTENANCE MODEL UNDER IMPERFECT AGE-BASED MAINTENANCE POLICY AND NON-NEGLIGIBLE MAINTENANCE TIMES pp. 539-558

Sami El-Ferik and Mohammed Ben-Daya

Volume 27, issue 03, 2010

EFFICIENT NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH FOR THE PROBABILISTIC MULTI-VEHICLE PICKUP AND DELIVERY PROBLEM pp. 301-314

Patrizia Beraldi, Gianpaolo Ghiani, Roberto Musmanno and Francesca Vocaturo

A MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING (MILP) MODEL FOR SHORT-RANGE PRODUCTION SCHEDULING OF CEMENT QUARRY OPERATIONS pp. 315-333

Safi Ur Rehman and Mohammad Waqar Ali Asad

MEAN VALUE ANALYSIS OF SINGLE SERVER RETRIAL QUEUES pp. 335-345

J. R. Artalejo and J. A. C. Resing

NEW SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS FOR CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION pp. 347-367

Linet Özdamar and Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu

DEA PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT OF THE NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM IN ASIA AND EUROPE pp. 369-392

Ta-Wei Pan, Shiu-Wan Hung and Wen-Min Lu

INTEGRATED DYNAMIC PRICING FOR SEASONAL PRODUCTS WITH PRICE AND TIME DEPENDENT DEMAND pp. 393-410

Subrata Saha and Manjusri Basu

OPTIMAL MANPOWER PLANNING DECISION WITH SINGLE EMPLOYEE TYPE CONSIDERING MINIMAL EMPLOYMENT PERIOD CONSTRAINT pp. 411-436

Yongjian Li, Jian Chen, Xiaoqiang Cai and Bengsheng Tu

Volume 27, issue 02, 2010

AVERAGE OPTIONS FOR JUMP DIFFUSION MODELS pp. 143-166

Hiroshi Kunita and Takuya Yamada

ALTERNATIVE RANDOMIZATION FOR VALUING AMERICAN OPTIONS pp. 167-187

Toshikazu Kimura

THE VALUATION OF CALLABLE-PUTTABLE REVERSE CONVERTIBLE BONDS pp. 189-209

Kyoko Yagi and Katsushige Sawaki

COMPUTING BOUNDS ON RISK-NEUTRAL DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE OBSERVED PRICES OF CALL OPTIONS pp. 211-225

Michi Nishihara, Mutsunori Yagiura and Toshihide Ibaraki

THE VALUATION OF RUSSIAN OPTIONS FOR DOUBLE EXPONENTIAL JUMP DIFFUSION PROCESSES pp. 227-242

Atsuo Suzuki and Katsushige Sawaki

PRICING AND CALIBRATION OF A CHOOSER FLEXIBLE CAP pp. 243-256

Daisuke Ito, Masamitsu Ohnishi and Yasuhiro Tamba

AN OPTIMAL MARKET ENTRY/EXIT EVALUATION MODEL WITH PARTIAL FINANCING FUNDS pp. 257-269

Tyrone Lin, Chuan-Chuan Ko and Chien-Yu Liu

IRREVERSIBLE INVESTMENT, OPERATING FLEXIBILITY, AND TIME LAGS pp. 271-286

Ryuta Takashima, Makoto Goto and Motoh Tsujimura

ESTIMATING BIVARIATE GARCH-JUMP MODEL BASED ON HIGH FREQUENCY DATA: THE CASE OF REVALUATION OF THE CHINESE YUAN IN JULY 2005 pp. 287-300

Xinhong Lu, Ken-Ichi Kawai and Koichi Maekawa

Volume 27, issue 01, 2010

A MAXIMAL PREDICTABILITY PORTFOLIO SUBJECT TO A TURNOVER CONSTRAINT pp. 1-13

Yoshihiro Takaya and Hiroshi Konno

SDP RELAXATIONS FOR QUADRATIC OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS DERIVED FROM POLYNOMIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS pp. 15-38

Martin Mevissen and Masakazu Kojima

METRIC-PRESERVING REDUCTION OF EARTH MOVER'S DISTANCE pp. 39-54

Yuichi Takano and Yoshitsugu Yamamoto

A NONMONOTONE FILTER BARZILAI-BORWEIN METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION pp. 55-69

Yan Zhang, Wenyu Sun and Liqun Qi

IMPROVED PROJECTED GRADIENT ALGORITHMS FOR SINGLY LINEARLY CONSTRAINED QUADRATIC PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS pp. 71-84

Yun-Shan Fu and Yu-Hong Dai

A CONVEX APPROXIMATION METHOD FOR LARGE SCALE LINEAR INEQUALITY CONSTRAINED MINIMIZATION pp. 85-101

Hai-Jun Wang and Qin Ni

SAMPLE AVERAGE APPROXIMATION METHODS FOR A CLASS OF STOCHASTIC VARIATIONAL INEQUALITY PROBLEMS pp. 103-119

Huifu Xu

EVALUATION OF THE ARROWS METHOD FOR CLASSIFICATION OF DATA pp. 121-142

Lanting Lu and Christine S. M. Currie

Volume 26, issue 06, 2009

TWO-MACHINE FLOW-SHOP MINIMUM-LENGTH SCHEDULING WITH INTERVAL PROCESSING TIMES pp. 715-734

C. T. Ng, Natalja M. Matsveichuk, Yuri N. Sotskov and T. C. Edwin Cheng

A DECOMPOSITION-COORDINATION METHOD FOR COMPLEX MULTI-OBJECTIVE SYSTEMS pp. 735-757

F. Miguel, T. Gómez, M. Luque, F. Ruiz and R. Caballero

AN EOQ MODEL FOR ITEMS WITH A FIXED SHELF-LIFE AND A DECLINING DEMAND RATE BASED ON TIME-TO-EXPIRY TECHNICAL NOTE pp. 759-767

Tal Avinadav and Teijo Arponen

CONVEX HULL PRESENTATION OF A QUADRATICALLY CONSTRAINED SET AND ITS APPLICATION IN SOLVING QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS pp. 769-778

Yong Xia

ROBUST DYNAMIC PRICING OVER INFINITE HORIZON IN THE PRESENCE OF MODEL UNCERTAINTY pp. 779-804

Gendao Li, Yu Xiong and Zhongkai Xiong

RELIABILITY EVALUATION OF LINEAR CONSECUTIVE-WEIGHTED-k-OUT-OF-n:F SYSTEM pp. 805-816

Serkan Eryilmaz and G. Yazgi Tutuncu

A TABU SEARCH ALGORITHM FOR A PIPE-PROCESSING FLOWSHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEM MINIMIZING TOTAL TARDINESS IN A SHIPYARD pp. 817-829

Xiaofeng Hu, Jingsong Bao and Ye Jin

AN OPTIMAL BLOCK PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE POLICY FOR A MULTI-UNIT SYSTEM CONSIDERING IMPERFECT MAINTENANCE pp. 831-847

J. H. Park, S. C. Lee, J. W. Hong and C. H. Lie

Volume 26, issue 05, 2009

A GOAL PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO FUZZY LINEAR REGRESSION WITH NON-FUZZY INPUT AND FUZZY OUTPUT DATA pp. 587-604

H. Hassanpour, H. R. Maleki and M. A. Yaghoobi

SELLER-BUYER RELATIONSHIP WHEN END DEMAND IS SENSITIVE TO PRICE AND PROMOTION pp. 605-621

Maryam Esmaeili, Prakash L. Abad and Mir-Bahador Aryanezhad

MOULIN REDUCTION, V-N REDUCTION AND AXIOMATIZATIONS OF THE DUPLICATE CORE pp. 623-636

Yu-Hsien Liao

RELIABILITY CENTERED MULTI OBJECTIVE HYBRID FLOW SHOP SCHEDULING pp. 637-653

Tahmina Ferdousi Lipi, Md. Ahsan Akhtar Hasin and Md. Noor-E-Alam

VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH FOR ORDER BATCHING IN A WAREHOUSE pp. 655-683

Maria Albareda-Sambola, Antonio Alonso-Ayuso, Elisenda Molina and Clara Simón de Blas

A 4-DAY OR A 3-DAY WORKWEEKS SCHEDULING PROBLEM WITH A GIVEN WORKFORCE SIZE pp. 685-696

Fethi Jarray

FUNDAMENTAL MATRIX OF TRANSIENT QBD GENERATOR WITH FINITE STATES AND LEVEL DEPENDENT TRANSITIONS pp. 697-714

Yang Woo Shin

Volume 26, issue 04, 2009

A CONTINUATION APPROACH USING NCP FUNCTION FOR SOLVING MAX-CUT PROBLEM pp. 445-456

Fengmin Xu, Chengxian Xu and Jiuquan Ren

A RETAIL CATEGORY MANAGEMENT MODEL INTEGRATING SHELF SPACE AND INVENTORY LEVELS pp. 457-478

B. Ramaseshan, N. R. Achuthan and R. Collinson

ONE IMPROVED AGENT GENETIC ALGORITHM — RING-LIKE AGENT GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR GLOBAL NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION pp. 479-502

Bin Liu, Teqi Duan and Yongming Li

A TWO-STAGE FLOWSHOP SCHEDULING WITH LIMITED BUFFER STORAGE pp. 503-522

Ling-Huey Su, Dar-Li Yang and Hou-Kuan Chou

STABILITY OF EXCESS DEMAND FUNCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO A STRONG VERSION OF WALD'S AXIOM pp. 523-532

Phan Thanh An and Vuong Thi Thao Binh

THE OPTIMAL INVENTORY CONTROL OF A SYSTEM WITH RANDOM LEAD TIME WHERE RANDOM SUPPLY INTERRUPTIONS AFFECT THE REPLENISHMENT pp. 533-557

Yumei Hou and Qiang Zhang

REDUCING COSTS OF SPARE PARTS SUPPLY SYSTEMS VIA STATIC PRIORITIES pp. 559-585

I. J. B. F. Adan, A. Sleptchenko and G. J. van Houtum

Volume 26, issue 03, 2009

BEAM SEARCH HEURISTICS FOR THE SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING PROBLEM WITH LINEAR EARLINESS AND QUADRATIC TARDINESS COSTS pp. 319-339

Jorge M. S. Valente

STABILITY OF THE MULTI-TYPE REENTRANT LINES WITH TYPE PRIORITY SERVICE DISCIPLINE pp. 341-349

Jiankui Yang

THE NP-HARDNESS OF MINIMIZING THE TOTAL LATE WORK ON AN UNBOUNDED BATCH MACHINE pp. 351-363

Jianfeng Ren, Yuzhong Zhang and Guo Sun

AN INTERIOR POINT APPROACH FOR SEMIDEFINITE OPTIMIZATION USING NEW PROXIMITY FUNCTIONS pp. 365-382

M. Reza Peyghami

A SIMPLE ALGORITHM FOR THE BASIC(R, Q)INVENTORY CONTROL MODEL WITH RETURN FLOW pp. 383-398

Huiqing Ouyang and Xiangyang Zhu

ON TWO TYPES OF WARRANTIES: WARRANTY OF MALFUNCTIONING AND WARRANTY OF MISINFORMING pp. 399-420

Dimitar Christozov, Stefanka Chukova and Plamen Mateev

COMBINING PROCESS SELECTION AND LOT SIZING MODELS FOR PRODUCTION SCHEDULING OF ELECTROFUSED GRAINS pp. 421-443

José Roberto Dale Luche, Reinaldo Morabito and Vitória Pureza

Volume 26, issue 02, 2009

A PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM ON JOB-SHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEMS WITH MULTI-PURPOSE MACHINES pp. 161-184

Pisut Pongchairerks and Voratas Kachitvichyanukul

AN EFFICIENTLY NOVEL MODEL FOR VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS WITH STOCHASTIC DEMANDS pp. 185-197

Selçuk Kürşat İşleyen and Ömer Faruk Baykoç

VECTOR-VALUED IMPLICIT LAGRANGIAN FOR SYMMETRIC CONE COMPLEMENTARITY PROBLEMS pp. 199-233

Lingchen Kong, Levent Tunçel and Naihua Xiu

A HYBRID ADAPTIVE ALGORITHM FOR LINEAR OPTIMIZATION pp. 235-256

Maziar Salahi and Tamás Terlaky

A MULTI-CRITERIA PROCEDURE FOR THE USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS LAYOUT PROBLEM pp. 257-284

S. K. Peer, Dinesh K. Sharma, K. Ravindranath and M. M. Naidu

LINEAR PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUE TO SOLVE TWO PERSON MATRIX GAMES WITH INTERVAL PAY-OFFS pp. 285-305

Prasun Kumar Nayak and Madhumangal Pal

A BATCHING PROBLEM WITH LEARNING EFFECT CONSIDERATIONS pp. 307-317

Wen-Hua Yang

Volume 26, issue 01, 2009

A NEW FORMULATION AND RELAXATION OF THE SIMPLE PLANT LOCATION PROBLEM pp. 1-11

R. R. K. Sharma and A. Muralidhar

THE CONTINUOUS STOP LOCATION PROBLEM IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS pp. 13-30

SCHöBEL Anita, Horst W. Hamacher, Annegret Liebers and Dorothea Wagner

AN EFFICIENT OPTIMAL SOLUTION OF A TWO-CRANE SCHEDULING PROBLEM pp. 31-58

Weihua Zhou and Xiaobo Wu

LINEARIZATION OF 0-1 MULTI-QUADRATIC FRACTIONAL PROGRAMMING PROBLEM pp. 59-84

R. Kapoor and S. R. Arora

ANALYSIS OF A MULTI-SERVER QUEUE WITH MARKOVIAN ARRIVALS AND SYNCHRONOUS PHASE TYPE VACATIONS pp. 85-113

Srinivas R. Chakravarthy

EXPLORING THE DIMENSIONALITY OF SERVICE QUALITY: AN APPLICATION OF TOPSIS IN THE INDIAN BANKING INDUSTRY pp. 115-133

Manabendra N. Pal and Koushiki Choudhury

SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION WITH CVaR CRITERION pp. 135-160

Lei Yang, Minghui Xu, Gang Yu and Hanqin Zhang