Journal: JORS

Volume 63, Issue 9

1179 -- 1188June D. Rodriguez, John O. Miller, Kenneth W. Bauer Jr.. Mathematical description of a discrete event simulation (DEVS) using factor analytic method
1189 -- 1198F. Javier Otamendi, Luis Miguel Doncel. Towards an auction-driven gas supply: a simulation-based optimization framework for utilities
1199 -- 1212Kristiaan Kerstens, Amine Mounir, Ignace Van de Woestyne. Benchmarking mean-variance portfolios using a shortage function: the choice of direction vector affects rankings!
1213 -- 1227Weifen Zhuang, Mehmet Gümüs, Dan Zhang. A single-resource revenue management problem with random resource consumptions
1228 -- 1247Werner Ulrich. Operational research and critical systems thinking - an integrated perspectivePart 1: OR as applied systems thinking
1248 -- 1257K.-Y. Huang. A heuristic approach to classifying labeled/unlabeled data sets
1258 -- 1270J. G. Kim, S.-K. Lim. Order-lot pegging for minimizing total tardiness in semiconductor wafer fabrication process
1271 -- 1283Sabine Limbourg, Michaël Schyns, Gilbert Laporte. Automatic aircraft cargo load planning
1284 -- 1293Baruch Mor, Gur Mosheiov. Minmax scheduling problems with common flow-allowance
1294 -- 1306Chungmok Lee, Kyungsik Lee, Sungsoo Park. Robust vehicle routing problem with deadlines and travel time/demand uncertainty
1307 -- 1322Werner Ulrich. Operational research and critical systems thinking - an integrated perspectivePart 2: OR as argumentative practice

Volume 63, Issue 8

1021 -- 1033Danny Williamson, M. Goldstein. Bayesian policy support for adaptive strategies using computer models for complex physical systems
1034 -- 1050Seongmoon Kim, Sunghwan Yoo. The combined manpower planning and preventive maintenance strategies by aggregate planning for the service division of vending machines
1051 -- 1064So Young Sohn, Doo Min Kyun, Yong Han Ju. Pattern recognition for evaluator errors in a credit scoring model for technology-based SMEs
1065 -- 1078Jorge A. Duran-Encalada, Alberto Paucar-Caceres. A system dynamics sustainable business model for Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex): case based on the Global Reporting Initiative
1079 -- 1088Ying-Ming Wang, Kwai-Sang Chin, S. Wang. DEA models for minimizing weight disparity in cross-efficiency evaluation
1089 -- 1097A. Davoodi, H. Zhiani Rezai, R. Fallahnejad. Congestion analysis in DEA inputs under weight restrictions
1098 -- 1115Maria Conceição A. Silva Portela, Ana S. Camanho, Diogo Nóvoa Borges. Performance assessment of secondary schools: the snapshot of a country taken by DEA
1116 -- 1125Anna Norin, Di Yuan, Tobias Andersson Granberg, Peter Värbrand. Scheduling de-icing vehicles within airport logistics: a heuristic algorithm and performance evaluation
1126 -- 1142Brad Casey, Erhan Kozan. Optimising container storage processes at multimodal terminals
1143 -- 1152Engin Topan, Z. Pelin Bayindir. Multi-item two-echelon spare parts inventory control problem with batch ordering in the central warehouse under compound Poisson demand
1153 -- 1164John S. Liu, Wen-Min Lu. Network-based method for ranking of efficient units in two-stage DEA models
1165 -- 1173Andrew J. Collins, Lyn C. Thomas. Comparing reinforcement learning approaches for solving game theoretic models: a dynamic airline pricing game example
1177 -- 0Bibhas Chandra Giri, T. Maiti. Note on effects of joint replenishment and channel coordination for managing multiple deteriorating products in a supply chain

Volume 63, Issue 7

865 -- 882Chia-Wei Kuo, R.-S. Guo, Y. F. Wu. Optimal pricing strategies under co-existence of price-takers and bargainers in a supply chain
883 -- 889Timothy L. Urban. The existence of serial correlation and its effect on the format of a championship playoff series
890 -- 898W. J. Hurley, A. Pavlov, W. Andrews. A valuation model for NFL and NHL draft positions
899 -- 908Bissan Ghaddar, Joe Naoum-Sawaya. Environmentally friendly facility location with market competition
909 -- 919Roger Julius Hammer, John S. Edwards, Efstathios Tapinos. Examining the strategy development process through the lens of complex adaptive systems theory
920 -- 930Luca Bertazzi, O. Zappa. Integrating transportation and production: an international study case
931 -- 940Marie-Anne Guerry, Tim De Feyter. Optimal recruitment strategies in a multi-level manpower planning model
941 -- 949Edward A. Silver, Diane P. Bischak, Ton de Kok. Determining the reorder point and order-up-to level to satisfy two constraints in a periodic review system under negative binomial demand
950 -- 968Erlend Torgnes, Vidar Gunnerud, Eirik Hagem, Mikael Rönnqvist, Bjarne Foss. Parallel Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition of petroleum production allocation problems
969 -- 981Gregory Levitin, Kjell Hausken. versus overarching protection against strategic attacks
982 -- 990Vera L. Miguéis, Ana S. Camanho, Endre Bjørndal, Mette Bjørndal. Productivity change and innovation in Norwegian electricity distribution companies
991 -- 1005Matan Shnaiderman. versus periodic replenishment
1006 -- 1009Salim Haddadi, Omar Slimani. The transportation problem revisited - preprocessing before using the primal-dual algorithm
1010 -- 1017Muhammad Aslam, Yasar Mahmood, Yuhlong Lio, Tzong-Ru Tsai, Masood Amjad Khan. Double acceptance sampling plans for Burr type XII distribution percentiles under the truncated life test
1018 -- 1020Adam Janiak, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov. Scheduling jobs with position-dependent processing times

Volume 63, Issue 6

709 -- 714José Fernando Álvarez. Mathematical expressions for the transit time of merchandise through a liner shipping network
715 -- 725Hsin-Hui Hu, Qinghui Qi, Chih-Hai Yang. Evaluation of China's regional hospital efficiency: DEA approach with undesirable output
726 -- 735Kjell Hausken, Jun Zhuang 0001. The timing and deterrence of terrorist attacks due to exogenous dynamics
736 -- 747Martin Read, Tony Gear, Russ Vince. Group inquiry to aid organisational learning in enterprises
748 -- 761Stephen A. Harwood. The management of change and the Viplan Methodology in practice
762 -- 770Andrew T. Brint. Modelling a property's time to sale by inflating its previous selling price
771 -- 789M. Hakan Akyüz, Temel Öncan, I. Kuban Altinel. Solving the multi-commodity capacitated multi-facility Weber problem using Lagrangean relaxation and a subgradient-like algorithm
790 -- 809Fei He, Jun Zhuang 0001. Modelling 'contracts' between a terrorist group and a government in a sequential game
810 -- 820Y. Huang, P. Zuniga. Dynamic overbooking scheduling system to improve patient access
821 -- 825Dongsheng Xu, Chung-Lun Li, Q. Han. A note on parallel-machine due-window assignment
826 -- 838Cihan Kaleli, Huseyin Polat. SOM-based recommendations with privacy on multi-party vertically distributed data
839 -- 845F. J. Hwang, Bertrand M. T. Lin. Two-stage assembly-type flowshop batch scheduling problem subject to a fixed job sequence
846 -- 859Sima Varnosafaderani, Stefanka Chukova. An imperfect repair strategy for two-dimensional warranty
860 -- 861J. Mingers. Abduction: the missing link between deduction and induction. A comment on Ormerod's 'rational inference: deductive, inductive and probabilistic thinking'
861 -- 864Bibhas Chandra Giri, T. Maiti. Note on effects of joint replenishment and channel coordination for managing multiple deteriorating products in a supply chain

Volume 63, Issue 5

569 -- 581Joaquín A. Pacheco, Ada M. Alvarez, Irma García, Francisco Ángel-Bello. Optimizing vehicle routes in a bakery company allowing flexibility in delivery dates
582 -- 596B. Feng. Multisourcing suppliers selection in service outsourcing
597 -- 605Said Salhi, Alberto García-Villoria. An adaptive search for the response time variability problem
606 -- 619S. C. Lee, L. H. Shih. A novel heuristic approach to determine compromise management for end-of-life electronic products
620 -- 630Sharif H. Melouk, Burcu B. Keskin. Team assignments and scheduling for the NCAA basketball tournament
631 -- 645C. B. Vaz, A. S. Camanho. Performance comparison of retailing stores using a Malmquist-type index
646 -- 652Baruch Mor, Gur Mosheiov, Daniel Oron. The equal allocation policy in open shop batch scheduling
653 -- 664James J. Cordeiro, Joseph Sarkis, D. Vazquez-Brust, L. Frater, J. Dijkshoorn. An evaluation of technical efficiency and managerial correlates of solid waste management by Welsh SMEs using parametric and non-parametric techniques
665 -- 673Bibhas Chandra Giri, T. Maiti. Supply chain model for a deteriorating product with time-varying demand and production rate
674 -- 682A. Srinivasan, C. Kwon. Operations of online advertising services and publisher's option
683 -- 695Saadettin Erhan Kesen, Zülal Güngör. Job scheduling in virtual manufacturing cells with lot-streaming strategy: a new mathematical model formulation and a genetic algorithm approach
696 -- 697Richard J. Ormerod. On abduction: a response to Mingers
697 -- 698J.-M. Chen, T. H. Chen. Response to 'Note on "Effects of joint replenishment and channel coordination for managing multiple deteriorating products in a supply chain" '

Volume 63, Issue 4

431 -- 444A. D. Sanford, I. A. Moosa. A Bayesian network structure for operational risk modelling in structured finance operations
445 -- 459Talel Ladhari, Mohamed Kais Msakni, Ali Allahverdi. Minimizing the total completion time in a two-machine flowshop with sequence-independent setup times
460 -- 469Hanan Luss. A distributed algorithm for equitable bandwidth allocation for content distribution in a tree network
470 -- 477Y.-T. Huang, J.-J. Kao. Inefficiency countervailed DEA (IC-DEA) method for assessing corporate environmental performance
478 -- 488I-Shuo Chen. A revised Inno-Qual performance system for higher education: the integrated applications of DEMATEL and ANP
489 -- 496O. S. S. T. Edleston, Lisa M. Bartlett. A tabu search algorithm applied to the staffing roster problem of Leicestershire police force
497 -- 510Marco Bijvank, Iris F. A. Vis. Inventory control for point-of-use locations in hospitals
511 -- 523R. M. Saltzman, T. M. Roeder. Simulating student flow through a college of business for policy and structural change analysis
524 -- 529Klaus Ecker, Michal Tanas. Complexity of scheduling of coupled tasks with chains precedence constraints and any constant length of gap
530 -- 538Fouad Ben Abdelaziz, M. Masmoudi. A multiobjective stochastic program for hospital bed planning
539 -- 548S.-M. Lin, Jake Ansell, Galina Andreeva. Predicting default of a small business using different definitions of financial distress
549 -- 560C. W. Huang, Y. H. Chiu, C.-T. Ting, C. H. Lin. Applying a hybrid DEA model to evaluate the influence of marketing activities to operational efficiency on Taiwan's international tourist hotels
561 -- 563B. Atkinson. The relevance of educational background for doing simulation
563 -- 565B. Sampaio. To generalize or not to generalize? Comment on Robinson and Davies
565 -- 566S. Robinson. Response to comments on Robinson and Davies (2010)
567 -- 0D. Xu, S. Xiong. Minimizing total flow time in the single-machine scheduling problem with periodic maintenance
567 -- 0W. J. Chen. Response to Xu and Xiong

Volume 63, Issue 3

293 -- 298L.-Q. Zhang, L. F. Lu, C. T. Ng. The unbounded parallel-batch scheduling with rejection
299 -- 305Hirofumi Amatatsu, Tohru Ueda, Y. Amatatsu. Efficiency and returns-to-scale of local governments
306 -- 321J.-K. Im, D. W. Apley, C. Qi, X. Shan. A time-dependent proportional hazards survival model for credit risk analysis
322 -- 338K. K. F. Yuen. Pairwise opposite matrix and its cognitive prioritization operators: comparisons with pairwise reciprocal matrix and analytic prioritization operators
339 -- 353Werner Timans, J. Antony, Kees Ahaus, Rini van Solingen. Implementation of Lean Six Sigma in small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in the Netherlands
354 -- 367G. Y. Ke, James H. Bookbinder. The optimal quantity discount that a supplier should offer
368 -- 378Maria Battarra, Temel Öncan, I. Kuban Altinel, B. Golden, Daniele Vigo, E. Phillips. An evolutionary approach for tuning parametric Esau and Williams heuristics
379 -- 391Yu. G. Stoyan, M. V. Zlotnik, A. Chugay. Solving an optimization packing problem of circles and non-convex polygons with rotations into a multiply connected region
392 -- 405Stephen Remde, Peter I. Cowling, Keshav P. Dahal, Nic Colledge, E. Selensky. An empirical study of hyperheuristics for managing very large sets of low level heuristics
406 -- 417E. C. C. Guedes, Armando Zeferino Milioni, José Virgílio Guedes de Avellar, Rodrigo Cesar Silva. Adjusted spherical frontier model: allocating input via parametric DEA
418 -- 430John Brocklesby. Using the Viable Systems Model to examine multi-agency arrangements for combatting transnational organised crime

Volume 63, Issue 2

139 -- 150R. L. Espey, J. Balakrishnan. A spreadsheet decision support optimization model for railcar storage at Canadian Pacific Railway
151 -- 159S. Tikoo, S. Liu, S. K. Nair. A stochastic dynamic programming model for valuing exclusivity from encroachment in franchising
160 -- 167R. Zheng, H. Li, X. Zhang. Scheduling an unbounded batching machine with family jobs and setup times
168 -- 182S. Q. Liu, E. Kozan. A hybrid shifting bottleneck procedure algorithm for the parallel-machine job-shop scheduling problem
183 -- 200Ernesto G. Birgin, Rafael D. Lobato, Reinaldo Morabito. Generating unconstrained two-dimensional non-guillotine cutting patterns by a Recursive Partitioning Algorithm
201 -- 206Tammy Drezner, Zvi Drezner. Modelling lost demand in competitive facility location
207 -- 217Pieter Vansteenwegen, Wouter Souffriau, Kenneth Sörensen. The travelling salesperson problem with hotel selection
218 -- 231F. Samimi Namin, K. Shahriar, A. Bascetin, S. H. Ghodsypour. FMMSIC: a hybrid fuzzy based decision support system for MMS (in order to estimate interrelationships between criteria)
232 -- 244Luigi Moccia, Jean-François Cordeau, Gilbert Laporte. An incremental tabu search heuristic for the generalized vehicle routing problem with time windows
245 -- 260Elias J. Willemse, Johan W. Joubert. k postmen problems to the routing of security guards
261 -- 277Richard Lusby, Anders Dohn, T. M. Range, Jesper Larsen. A column generation-based heuristic for rostering with work patterns
278 -- 292C. van Antwerpen, D. K. Bowley. An Australian approach to concept development and experimentation: linking strategy to capability

Volume 63, Issue 12

1635 -- 1644J.-M. Yu, H.-H. Doh, H.-W. Kim, J. S. Kim, D. H. Lee, S.-H. Nam. Iterative algorithms for part grouping and loading in cellular reconfigurable manufacturing systems
1645 -- 1654Nicos G. Pavlidis, Dimitris K. Tasoulis, Niall M. Adams, David J. Hand. Adaptive consumer credit classification
1655 -- 1678Y.-W. Zhou, S.-D. Wang. Supply chain coordination for newsvendor-type products with two ordering opportunities and demand information update
1679 -- 1692P. Basu, S. K. Nair. Analysis of back-office outsourcing contracts for financial services operations
1693 -- 1707Brian J. Lunday, Hanif D. Sherali. Minimizing the maximum network flow: models and algorithms with resource synergy considerations
1708 -- 1719J. Yu, B. R. Sarker, Q. Duan, B. Wu. Single-manufacturer, multi-retailer consignment policy for retailers' generalized demand distributions
1720 -- 1730Tammy Drezner, Zvi Drezner, Pawel Jan Kalczynski. Strategic competitive location: improving existing and establishing new facilities
1731 -- 1751Y. Y. Wang, H.-S. Lau, J. C. Wang. Defending and improving the 'slotting fee': how it can benefit all the stakeholders dealing with a newsvendor product with price and effort-dependent demand
1752 -- 1764Y. Y. Wang, H.-S. Lau, Z.-S. Hua. Three revenue-sharing variants: their significant performance differences under system-parameter uncertainties
1765 -- 1772S. R. Clarke, J. M. Norman. Optimal challenges in tennis
1773 -- 1787Emre Balibek, Murat Köksalan. A visual interactive approach for scenario-based stochastic multi-objective problems and an application
1788 -- 1789Nick Harrop, Alan Gillies, A. T. Wood-Harper. 'Actors' and 'clients': why systems dynamics needs help from soft systems methodology and unbounded systems thinking
1789 -- 0Hannah J. Wong, Howard Abrams. Reply to N Harrop, A Gillies and AT Wood-Harper

Volume 63, Issue 11

1479 -- 1491X. Huang, J. Xu, S. Wang, C. Xu. k-th maximum and its application on LMS regression and VaR optimization
1492 -- 1498L. Schmidt, P. Gazmuri. Online simulation for a real-time route dispatching problem
1499 -- 1507S. M. H. Molana, Hamid Davoudpour, Stefan Minner. nQ) inventory model for packaged deteriorating products with compound Poisson demand
1508 -- 1515S.-J. Yang, D. L. Yang. Single-machine scheduling problems with past-sequence-dependent delivery times and position-dependent processing times
1516 -- 1533María Jesús Mancebón-Torrubia, Jorge Calero, Álvaro Choi, Domingo P. Ximénez-de-Embún. The efficiency of public and publicly subsidized high schools in Spain: Evidence from PISA-2006
1534 -- 1544Jih-Jeng Huang. A mathematical programming model for the fuzzy analytic network process - applications of international investment
1545 -- 1555Gregory Levitin, Kjell Hausken. Parallel systems under two sequential attacks with imperfect detection of the first attack outcome
1556 -- 1565Julie Leanne Vile, Jonathan Gillard, Paul R. Harper, Vincent A. Knight. Predicting ambulance demand using singular spectrum analysis
1566 -- 1577R. John Milne, Chi-Tai Wang, C.-K. A. Yen, Ken Fordyce. Optimized material requirements planning for semiconductor manufacturing
1578 -- 1588Zvi Drezner, Stefan Nickel, Hans-Peter Ziegler. Stochastic analysis of ordered median problems
1589 -- 1599Y.-J. An, Y. D. Kim, B. J. Jeong, S.-D. Kim. Scheduling healthcare services in a home healthcare system
1600 -- 1612Patrik Flisberg, Mikael Frisk, Mikael Rönnqvist. FuelOpt: a decision support system for forest fuel logistics
1613 -- 1630Victor C. B. Camargo, Franklina Maria Bragion Toledo, Bernardo Almada-Lobo. Three time-based scale formulations for the two-stage lot sizing and scheduling in process industries
1631 -- 1633P. L. Liu, H. K. Sun, Y. T. You. Some comments on MacKay's Lanchester mixed forces model
1633 -- 0N. J. MacKay. Response to 'Some comments on MacKay's Lanchester mixed forces model'

Volume 63, Issue 10

1323 -- 1335Jen-Ming Chen, Flora Chia-I Chang. The economics of a closed-loop supply chain with remanufacturing
1336 -- 1350Philipp Kemmer, Arne Strauss, Thomas Winter. Dynamic simultaneous fare proration for large-scale network revenue management
1351 -- 1362Ludwig von Auer, Mark Trede. The dynamics of brand equity: a hedonic regression approach to the laser printer market
1363 -- 1373Michael P. Atkinson, Alexander Gutfraind, Moshe Kress. When do armed revolts succeed: lessons from Lanchester theory
1374 -- 1387Gongyue Gary Chen, Thomas Åstebro. Bound and collapse Bayesian reject inference for credit scoring
1388 -- 1399Arthur E. Attema. Developments in time preference and their implications for medical decision making
1400 -- 1409Monia Rekik, Sehl Mellouli. Reputation-based winner determination problem for combinatorial transportation procurement auctions
1410 -- 1420Lingrui Liao, Subhash C. Sarin, Hanif D. Sherali. A scenario generation-based lower bounding approach for stochastic scheduling problems
1421 -- 1433Simona Benigno, Francesca Guerriero, Giovanna Miglionico. A revenue management approach to address a truck rental problem
1434 -- 1446Ryusuke Hohzaki, Ryuichi Masuda. A smuggling game with asymmetrical information of players
1447 -- 1456Luke R. Mason, Vicky H. Mak-Hau, Andreas T. Ernst. An exact method for minimizing the total treatment time in intensity-modulated radiotherapy
1457 -- 1466John Bowers, Mikhail Ghattas, Gillian Mould. Exploring alternative routes to realising the benefits of simulation in healthcare
1467 -- 1478T. Jin, P. Wang. Planning performance based contracts considering reliability and uncertain system usage

Volume 63, Issue 1

1 -- 0Jonathan Crook, Thomas W. Archibald. Editorial
2 -- 15Günes Erdogan, Barbaros Ç. Tansel, Ibrahim Akgün. n-courier, priority-based planning problem on a network
16 -- 27P. N. de Almeida, L. C. Dias. Value-based DEA models: application-driven developments
28 -- 37H.-S. Shih, C.-B. Cheng, U.-P. Wen, Y. C. Huang, M.-Y. Peng. Determining a subsidy rate for Taiwan's recycling glass industry: an application of bi-level programming
38 -- 46S. Lim. Context-dependent data envelopment analysis with cross-efficiency evaluation
47 -- 58Nelishia Pillay. Evolving hyper-heuristics for the uncapacitated examination timetabling problem
59 -- 63Ali Emrouznejad, M. Zerafat Angiz L, William Ho. An alternative formulation for the fuzzy assignment problem
64 -- 71C. Kao. Efficiency decomposition for parallel production systems
72 -- 78G. Tohidi, S. Razavyan, S. Tohidnia. A global cost Malmquist productivity index using data envelopment analysis
79 -- 88Hannah J. Wong, Dante Morra, Robert C. Wu, Michael Caesar, Howard Abrams. Using system dynamics principles for conceptual modelling of publicly funded hospitals
89 -- 106M. H. Anderson, S. Sibdari. Investment decisions in the rent-to-own industry in the absence of inventory
107 -- 121Michi Nishihara. versus dynamic policies
122 -- 129F. Javier Otamendi, J. Laffond, N. S. Segundo. Design of the drop-off-pick-up zones in buildings: the case of private transportation at the female university of Riyadh
130 -- 137J.-B. Wang, M. Z. Wang. Worst-case analysis for flow shop scheduling problems with an exponential learning effect