Journal: Computers & OR

Volume 30, Issue 9

1259 -- 1268Surabhi Sinha. Fuzzy mathematical programming applied to multi-level programming problems
1269 -- 1287Roberto Wolfler Calvo, Roberto Cordone. A heuristic approach to the overnight security service problem
1289 -- 1309Bong Dae Choi, Bara Kim, Sung Ho Choi. An ::::M::::/::::G::::/1 queue with multiple types of feedback, gated vacations and FCFS policy
1311 -- 1317Kun-Jen Chung. An algorithm for an inventory model with inventory-level-dependent demand rate
1319 -- 1333Fang-Chuan Lee, Ming-Jong Yao. A global optimum search algorithm for the joint replenishment problem under power-of-two policy
1335 -- 1347C. J. Liao, W. J. Chen. Single-machine scheduling with periodic maintenance and nonresumable jobs
1349 -- 1366Bülent Çatay, S. Selçuk Erengüç, Asoo J. Vakharia. Tool capacity planning in semiconductor manufacturing
1367 -- 1381Nikolaos F. Giannelos, Michael C. Georgiadis. Efficient scheduling of consumer goods manufacturing processes in the continuous time domain
1383 -- 1399Konstantinos Paparrizos, Nikolaos Samaras, George Stephanides. A new efficient primal dual simplex algorithm
1401 -- 1417Bong-Ryong Jung, Byung-Geun Sun, Jong Soo Kim, Sun-Eung Ahn. Modeling lateral transshipments in multiechelon repairable-item inventory systems with finite repair channels

Volume 30, Issue 8

1103 -- 1119Chung-Chi Hsieh, Yi-Che Hsieh. Reliability and cost optimization in distributed computing systems
1121 -- 1134Jukka K. Nurminen. Using software complexity measures to analyze algorithms - an experiment with the shortest-paths algorithms
1135 -- 1150G. Viswanathkumar, G. Srinivasan. A branch and bound algorithm to minimize completion time variance on a single processor
1151 -- 1171Yeo Keun Kim, Kitae Park, Jesuk Ko. A symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the integration of process planning and job shop scheduling
1173 -- 1185C. T. Daniel Ng, T. C. Edwin Cheng, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov, S. S. Lam. Single machine scheduling with a variable common due date and resource-dependent processing times
1187 -- 1217Monica Gentili. Visiting a network of services with time constraints
1219 -- 1231Tariq A. Aldowaisan, Ali Allahverdi. New heuristics for no-wait flowshops to minimize makespan
1233 -- 1253Madhu Jain, Poonam Singh. Performance prediction of loss and delay Markovian queueing model with nopassing and removable additional servers
1255 -- 1258Bruce J. Chaderjian, Tangan Gao. Comments on An efficient search direction for linear programming problems by H. Luh and R. Tsaih

Volume 30, Issue 7

939 -- 966Shiwei He, Rui Song, Sohail S. Chaudhry. An integrated dispatching model for rail yards operations
967 -- 981Boris Goldengorin, Diptesh Ghosh, Gerard Sierksma. Branch and peg algorithms for the simple plant location problem
983 -- 1003Vladimir Marianov, Daniel Serra. Location models for airline hubs behaving as M/D/::::c:::: queues
1005 -- 1035Juan A. Carrasco. Computation of bounds for transient measures of large rewarded Markov models using regenerative randomization
1037 -- 1049Yen-Liang Chen, Li-Jen Hsiao. Shipping problems with body clock constraints
1051 -- 1066Hsi-Mei Chen. An optimal control problem in determining the optimal reinforcement schedules for the Lanchester equations
1067 -- 1085Patrick P. A. Storms, Frits C. R. Spieksma. An LP-based algorithm for the data association problem in multitarget tracking
1087 -- 1102Jeffery K. Cochran, Shwu-Min Horng, John W. Fowler. A multi-population genetic algorithm to solve multi-objective scheduling problems for parallel machines

Volume 30, Issue 6

809 -- 810Sohail Chaudhry, Huaizu Li, Hong Zhang, Li D. Xu. Computers and operations research in emerging economies
811 -- 819Zhili Zhou, Ling Li. Single hoist cyclic scheduling with multiple tanks: a material handling solution
821 -- 832Feng Shan, Ling Li, Ling Cen, Jingping Huang. Using MLP networks to design a production scheduling system
833 -- 849Vasile Bostan, Ling Li. A decision model for reducing active power losses during electric power dispatching
851 -- 860Zongbin Li, Li Da Xu. Polychromatic sets and its application in simulating complex objects and systems
861 -- 875Kin Keung Lai, J. Xue, B. Xu. A cross-border transportation system under supply and demand constraints
877 -- 886Shiying Xu, Li Da Xu, Xiufang Chen. Determining optimum edible films for kiwifruits using an analytical hierarchy process
887 -- 900An-Sing Chen, Mark T. Leung. A Bayesian vector error correction model for forecasting exchange rates
901 -- 923An-Sing Chen, Mark T. Leung, Hazem Daouk. Application of neural networks to an emerging financial market: forecasting and trading the Taiwan Stock Index
925 -- 938Yi Xu, Bhaba R. Sarker. Models for a family of products with shelf life, and production and shortage costs in emerging markets

Volume 30, Issue 5

643 -- 670John W. Chinneck, Vitória Pureza, Rafik A. Goubran, Gerald M. Karam, Marco Lavoie. A fast task-to-processor assignment heuristic for real-time multiprocessor DSP applications
671 -- 682Po-Chung Yang, Hui-Ming Wee. An integrated multi-lot-size production inventory model for deteriorating item
683 -- 693Muhammad El-Taha. Allocation of service time in a two-server system
695 -- 704N. Hemachandra, Sarat Kumar Eedupuganti. Performance analysis and buffer allocations in some open assembly systems
705 -- 728José-Manuel Belenguer, Enrique Benavent. A cutting plane algorithm for the capacitated arc routing problem
729 -- 744Celik Parkan. Measuring the effect of a new point of sale system on the performance of drugstore operations
745 -- 771Jonathan F. Bard, Canan Binici, Anura H. deSilva. Staff scheduling at the United States Postal Service
773 -- 786In-Chan Choi, Seong-in Kim, Hak Soo Kim. A genetic algorithm with a mixed region search for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem
787 -- 800Barrie M. Baker, M. A. Ayechew. A genetic algorithm for the vehicle routing problem
801 -- 808. Parallel machine earliness and tardiness scheduling with proportional weights

Volume 30, Issue 4

483 -- 490Kun-Jen Chung, Kuo-Lung Hou. An optimal production run time with imperfect production processes and allowable shortages
491 -- 504Fayez F. Boctor, Gilbert Laporte, Jacques Renaud. Heuristics for the traveling purchaser problem
505 -- 526Vincent T Kindt, Jatinder N. D. Gupta, Jean-Charles Billaut. Two-machine flowshop scheduling with a secondary criterion
527 -- 539Elkafi Hassini, Raymond G. Vickson. A two-carousel storage location problem
541 -- 552Chiang Kao, Chang-Chung Li, Shih-Pin Chen. Simulation response optimization via direct conjugate direction method
553 -- 565Joy Bhadury, Horst A. Eiselt, Jorge H. Jaramillo. An alternating heuristic for medianoid and centroid problems in the plane
567 -- 575Yi-Kuei Lin. Extend the quickest path problem to the system reliability evaluation for a stochastic-flow network
577 -- 588Donald E. K. Martin. An algorithm to compute the probability of a run in binary fourth-order Markovian trials
589 -- 601Kuo-Hwa Chang, Wen-Fang Chen. Admission control policies for two-stage tandem queues with no waiting spaces
603 -- 624Gloria Galán Marín, Enrique Mérida Casermeiro, José Muñoz-Pérez. Modelling competitive Hopfield networks for the maximum clique problem
625 -- 641Dennis C. Dietz, Amie J. Elcan, Daphne E. Skipper. Optimization models for ATM network planning

Volume 30, Issue 3

321 -- 337Barrie M. Baker, Carlos A. C. Carreto. A visual interactive approach to vehicle routing
339 -- 352Peter Xiaoping Liu, Ming J. Zuo, Max Q.-H. Meng. Using neural network function approximation for optimal design of continuous-state parallel-series systems
353 -- 365Nam K. Kim, Kyung C. Chae. Transform-free analysis of the GI/G/1/K queue through the decomposed Little s formula
367 -- 381Kevin R. Gue. A dynamic distribution model for combat logistics
383 -- 395Jose Gutiérrez, Antonio Sedeño-Noda, Marcos Colebrook, Joaquin Sicilia. A new characterization for the dynamic lot size problem with bounded inventory
397 -- 410G. Levitin, R. Abezgaouz. Optimal routing of multiple-load AGV subject to LIFO loading constraints
411 -- 426Esmail Mohebbi. Supply interruptions in a lost-sales inventory system with random lead time
427 -- 442Hiroyuki Kubotani, Kazuyuki Yoshimura. Performance evaluation of acceptance probability functions for multi-objective SA
443 -- 462Patrick R. McMullen, Mark Clark, David Albritton, John E. Bell. A correlation and heuristic approach for obtaining production sequences requiring a minimum of tool replacements
463 -- 482Rosangela Helena Loschi, Frederico R. B. Cruz, Pilar Loreto Iglesias, Reinaldo Boris Arellano-Valle. A Gibbs sampling scheme to the product partition model: an application to change-point problems

Volume 30, Issue 2

165 -- 180Luis Gonzalo Acosta Espejo, Roberto D. Galvão, Brian Boffey. Dual-based heuristics for a hierarchical covering location problem
181 -- 198John J. Glen. An iterative mixed integer programming method for classification accuracy maximizing discriminant analysis
199 -- 212Parag C. Pendharkar. Characterization of aggregate fuzzy membership functions using Saaty s eigenvalue approach
213 -- 231W. H. Ip, Min Huang, K. L. Yung, Dingwei Wang. Genetic algorithm solution for a risk-based partner selection problem in a virtual enterprise
233 -- 252Chuen-Lung Chen, Rong-Ho Lin, Jianping Zhang. Genetic algorithms for MD-optimal follow-up designs
253 -- 277Antoine Kreidi, Brunilde Sansò. Optimization of an internationally distributed air-ground airline telecommunication system
279 -- 295Shouhong Wang. Adaptive non-parametric efficiency frontier analysis: a neural-network-based model
297 -- 308Kefeng Xu, Philip T. Evers. Managing single echelon inventories through demand aggregation and the feasibility of a correlation matrix
309 -- 320Ali Tozkapan, Ömer Kirca, Chia-Shin Chung. A branch and bound algorithm to minimize the total weighted flowtime for the two-stage assembly scheduling problem

Volume 30, Issue 14

2081 -- 2095Ching-Fang Liaw. An efficient tabu search approach for the two-machine preemptive open shop scheduling problem
2097 -- 2114Adel A. Ghobbar, Chris H. Friend. Evaluation of forecasting methods for intermittent parts demand in the field of aviation: a predictive model
2115 -- 2134Yong-Wu Zhou. A multi-warehouse inventory model for items with time-varying demand and shortages
2135 -- 2155Hong Yan, Zhenxin Yu, T. C. Edwin Cheng. A strategic model for supply chain design with logical constraints: formulation and solution
2157 -- 2173Kathleen Steinhöfel, Andreas Alexander Albrecht, C. K. Wong. An experimental analysis of local minima to improve neighbourhood search
2175 -- 2189William Ho, Ping Ji. Component scheduling for chip shooter machines: a hybrid genetic algorithm approach
2191 -- 2209Emanuel Melachrinoudis, Zaharias Xanthopulos. Semi-obnoxious single facility location in Euclidean space
2211 -- 2225Jihong Ou, B. Madhu Rao. Benefits of providing amenities to impatient waiting customers
2227 -- 0Nam K. Kim, Kyung C. Chae. Erratum to Transform-free analysis of the GI/G/1/K queue through the decomposed Little s formula [Comput. Oper. Res. 30(3) 353-365]

Volume 30, Issue 13

1917 -- 1929Koo-Min Ahn, Sehun Kim. Optimal bandwidth allocation for bandwidth adaptation in wireless multimedia networks
1931 -- 1944Tetsuya Fujie. An exact algorithm for the maximum leaf spanning tree problem
1945 -- 1958Jose A. Ventura, Daecheol Kim. Parallel machine scheduling with earliness-tardiness penalties and additional resource constraints
1959 -- 1976David C. Novak, Daniel Rowland, Luiz DaSilva. Modeling dialup internet access: an examination of user-to-modem ratios, blocking probability, and capacity planning in a modem pool
1977 -- 2002Joana Dias, M. Eugénia V. Captivo, João C. N. Clímaco. An interactive procedure dedicated to a bicriteria plant location model
2003 -- 2020Thomas Yew Sing Lee. Analysis of random polling system with an infinite number of coupled servers and correlated input process
2021 -- 2045Ho Woo Lee, No Ik Park, Jongwoo Jeon. A new approach to the queue length and waiting time of BMAP/G/1 queues
2047 -- 2069Qian Wang, Rajan Batta, Joyendu Bhadury, Christopher M. Rump. Budget constrained location problem with opening and closing of facilities
2071 -- 2078Philippe Baptiste. A note on scheduling multiprocessor tasks with identical processing times
2079 -- 2080Sigurdur Ólafsson. Focused issue on operations research and data mining

Volume 30, Issue 12

1753 -- 1776Yong-Wu Zhou, Hon-Shiang Lau, Shan-Lin Yang. A new variable production scheduling strategy for deteriorating items with time-varying demand and partial lost sale
1777 -- 1789Ching-Fang Liaw, Yang-Kuei Lin, Chun-Yuan Cheng, Mingchih Chen. Scheduling unrelated parallel machines to minimize total weighted tardiness
1791 -- 1806Hani I. Mesak. On deriving and validating comparative statics of a symmetric model of advertising competition
1807 -- 1829Joris Walraevens, Bart Steyaert, Herwig Bruneel. Performance analysis of a single-server ATM queue with a priority scheduling
1831 -- 1849Masao Yokoyama, Harold W. Lewis III. Optimization of the stochastic dynamic production cycling problem by a genetic algorithm
1851 -- 1864Dong Hwan Han, Chul Geun Park, Kwang Hyun Baik. Performance analysis of an AAL multiplexer with dynamic bandwidth allocation in an IP/ATM environment
1865 -- 1886M. Eugénia V. Captivo, João C. N. Clímaco, José Rui Figueira, Ernesto Martins, José Luis Santos. Solving bicriteria 0-1 knapsack problems using a labeling algorithm
1887 -- 1900Robert L. Bulfin Jr., Rym M Hallah. Minimizing the weighted number of tardy jobs on a two-machine flow shop
1901 -- 1916S. Khanra, K. S. Chaudhuri. A note on an order-level inventory model for a deteriorating item with time-dependent quadratic demand

Volume 30, Issue 11

1575 -- 1593Evelyn C. Brown, Robert T. Sumichrast. Impact of the replacement heuristic in a grouping genetic algorithm
1595 -- 1607Yi-Kuei Lin. Using minimal cuts to study the system capacity for a stochastic-flow network in two-commodity case
1609 -- 1624M. D. H. Gamal, Said Salhi. A cellular heuristic for the multisource Weber problem
1625 -- 1641Jaydeep Balakrishnan, Chun Hung Cheng, Kam-Fai Wong. FACOPT: a user friendly FACility layout OPTimization system
1643 -- 1659Ekaterina M. Gratcheva, James E. Falk. Optimal deviations from an asset allocation
1661 -- 1681Mak A. Kaboudan. Forecasting with computer-evolved model specifications: a genetic programming application
1683 -- 1695Oded Berman, Zvi Drezner, George O. Wesolowsky. Locating service facilities whose reliability is distance dependent
1697 -- 1712Min-Sheng Lin. Linear-time algorithms for computing the reliability of bipartite and (#<=2) star distributed computing systems
1713 -- 1726Erwin Kalvelagen. On solving the progressive party problem as a MIP
1727 -- 1743P. Patrick Wang, Minqing Gong, Tanyu Lee. Waiting time in a combined first-come-first-served and shortest-time-first queue
1745 -- 1749Avital Lann, Gur Mosheiov. A note on the maximum number of on-time jobs on parallel identical machines

Volume 30, Issue 10

1419 -- 1420Edward A. Wasil, Bruce L. Golden. Celebrating 25 years of AHP-based decision making
1421 -- 1434Matthew J. Liberatore, Ronald E. Myers, Robert L. Nydick, Michael Steinberg, Earl R. Brown, Roy Gay, Thomas Powell, Roberta Lee Powell. Decision counseling for men considering prostate cancer screening
1435 -- 1445Edward M. Condon, Bruce L. Golden, Edward A. Wasil. Visualizing group decisions in the analytic hierarchy process
1447 -- 1465Elliot B. Sloane, Matthew J. Liberatore, Robert L. Nydick, Wenhong Luo, Q. B. Chung. Using the analytic hierarchy process as a clinical engineering tool to facilitate an iterative, multidisciplinary, microeconomic health technology assessment
1467 -- 1485Qing Li, Hanif D. Sherali. An approach for analyzing foreign direct investment projects with application to China s Tumen River Area development
1487 -- 1497Lawrence Bodin, Saul I. Gass. On teaching the analytic hierarchy process
1499 -- 1507Kun-Jen Chung. Approximations to production lot sizing with machine breakdowns
1509 -- 1524Dirk Biskup, Dirk Simons, Hermann Jahnke. The effect of capital lockup and customer trade credits on the optimal lot size - a confirmation of the EPQ
1525 -- 1537Alexander Simampo, Sarah M. Ryan. Capacity expansion for a loss system with exponential demand growth
1539 -- 1553Zelda B. Zabinsky, Robert L. Smith, Birna P. Kristinsdottir. Optimal estimation of univariate black-box Lipschitz functions with upper and lower error bounds
1555 -- 1572Christos Valouxis, Efthymios Housos. Constraint programming approach for school timetabling

Volume 30, Issue 1

1 -- 17Chih-Hsiung Wang, Shey-Huei Sheu. Determining the optimal production-maintenance policy with inspection errors: using a Markov chain
19 -- 34W. Wang, A. H. Christer. Solution algorithms for a nonhomogeneous multi-component inspection model
35 -- 50Seong Whan Shinn, Hark Hwang. Optimal pricing and ordering policies for retailers under order-size-dependent delay in payments
51 -- 62T. C. Edwin Cheng, Qing Ding. Scheduling start time dependent tasks with deadlines and identical initial processing times on a single machine
63 -- 74Prakash L. Abad. Optimal price and lot size when the supplier offers a temporary price reduction over an interval
75 -- 85Mélanie Bourgeois, Gilbert Laporte, Frédéric Semet. Heuristics for the black and white traveling salesman problem
87 -- 96Fernando Y. Chiyoshi, Roberto D. Galvão, Reinaldo Morabito. A note on solutions to the maximal expected covering location problem
97 -- 116Raymond A. Patterson, Erik Rolland. The cardinality constrained covering traveling salesman problem
117 -- 138Kyu-Yeul Lee, Seong-Nam Han, Myung-Il Roh. An improved genetic algorithm for facility layout problems having inner structure walls and passages
139 -- 153Dieter Fiems, Bart Steyaert, Herwig Bruneel. Analysis of a discrete-time GI-G-1 queueing model subjected to bursty interruptions
155 -- 164Kim Fung Lam, Jane W. Moy. A simple weighting scheme for classification in two-group discriminant problems