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    Volume 64, Issue 9

    1299 -- 1306Ki Mun Jung, L. C. Thomas, Meko M. C. So. Time varying or static cut-offs for credit scorecards
    1307 -- 1313Jia Shu, Zhengyi Li, Liya Huang. Demand selection decisions for a multi-echelon inventory distribution system
    1314 -- 1326Y. Xiong, G. Li. The value of dynamic pricing for cores in remanufacturing with backorders
    1327 -- 1335Mohammad Hasan Sebt, Yagub Alipouri, Yousef Alipouri. Solving resource-constrained project scheduling problem with evolutionary programming
    1336 -- 1346C. Achillas, D. Aidonis, C. Vlachokostas, Dimitris Folinas, Nicolas Moussiopoulos. Re-designing industrial products on a multi-objective basis: a case study
    1347 -- 1360Stefan Ravizza, Jason A. D. Atkin, Marloes H. Maathuis, Edmund K. Burke. A combined statistical approach and ground movement model for improving taxi time estimations at airports
    1361 -- 1373P.-L. Chang, C. W. Hsu, H.-L. Cheng. Building a photovoltaic marketing model based on feed-in tariffs and system installed cost
    1374 -- 1383Vera L. Miguéis, Dries F. Benoit, Dirk Van den Poel. Enhanced decision support in credit scoring using Bayesian binary quantile regression
    1384 -- 1399A. I. Marqués, Vicente García, J. S. Sánchez. A literature review on the application of evolutionary computing to credit scoring
    1400 -- 1408J. Shu, G. Wang, K. Zhang. Logistics distribution network design with two commodity categories
    1409 -- 1417Gregory Levitin, Kjell Hausken. Defence resource distribution between protection and decoys for constant resource stockpiling pace
    1418 -- 1428L. Zhen. Yard template planning in transshipment hubs under uncertain berthing time and position
    1429 -- 1440Gu Pang, Luc Muyldermans. Vehicle routing and the value of postponement
    1441 -- 1446Michel Denuit, Louis Eeckhoudt, Octave Jokung. Non-differentiable transformations preserving stochastic dominance

    Volume 64, Issue 8

    1091 -- 1105J. Zhou, Peter E. D. Love, Xiangyu Wang, K. L. Teo, Zahir Irani. A review of methods and algorithms for optimizing construction scheduling
    1106 -- 1117Lihua He, Lianying Zhang. Dynamic priority rule-based forward-backward heuristic algorithm for resource levelling problem in construction project
    1118 -- 1136Masoud Jenabi, Seyyed M. T. Fatemi Ghomi, S. Ali Torabi, S. Hossein Hosseinian. A Benders decomposition algorithm for a multi-area, multi-stage integrated resource planning in power systems
    1137 -- 1146Youssef Khoueiry, Issam M. Srour, Ali A. Yassine. An optimization-based model for maximizing the benefits of fast-track construction activities
    1147 -- 1156Wei Lo, Ming-En Kuo. Cost impact of float loss on a project with adjustable activity durations
    1157 -- 1168Andrzej Ratkiewicz. A combined bi-level approach for the spatial design of rack storage area
    1169 -- 1181Laura Florez, Daniel Castro-Lacouture, Andrés L. Medaglia. Sustainable workforce scheduling in construction program management
    1182 -- 1193Vicente González, Luis Fernando Alarcón, T. W. Yiu. Integrated methodology to design and manage work-in-process buffers in repetitive building projects
    1194 -- 1204Christos Vidalakis, John E. Tookey, James Sommerville. Demand uncertainty in construction supply chains: a discrete event simulation study
    1205 -- 1220Jian Liu, Sifeng Liu, Peng Liu, Xianzhong Zhou, Bin Zhao. A new decision support model in multi-criteria decision making with intuitionistic fuzzy sets based on risk preferences and criteria reduction
    1221 -- 1230Abdulmaten Taroun, Jian-Bo Yang. A DST-based approach for construction project risk analysis
    1231 -- 1247Peter E. D. Love, C.-P. Sing, Xiangyu Wang, D. J. Edwards, Henry Odeyinka. Probability distribution fitting of schedule overruns in construction projects
    1248 -- 1257P. H. K. Ho. Forecasting tender price index under incomplete information
    1258 -- 1268Kunhee Choi, M. Haque, Hyun Woo Chris Lee, Y. K. Cho, Young Hoon Kwak. Macroeconomic labour productivity and its impact on firm's profitability
    1269 -- 1278S. Mahdi Hosseinian, David G. Carmichael. Optimal gainshare/painshare in alliance projects
    1279 -- 1290S. K. Lee, J. H. Yu. Composite indicator development using utility function and fuzzy theory
    1291 -- 1297Ioannis E. Tsolas. Construction project monitoring by means of RAM-based composite indicators

    Volume 64, Issue 7

    945 -- 958S. Meng, B.-C. Shia. Set covering location models with stochastic critical distances
    959 -- 972Simon Bell, Stephen Morse. Groups and facilitators within problem structuring processes
    973 -- 981Timothy J. Lowe, Thaddeus Sim. The hub covering flow problem
    982 -- 994Rodrigo Pascual, Alejandro Martínez, Ricardo Giesen. Joint optimization of fleet size and maintenance capacity in a fork-join cyclical transportation system
    995 -- 1009Moncer Hariga, Mehmet Gümüs, Mohamed Ben-Daya, Elkafi Hassini. Scheduling and lot sizing models for the single-vendor multi-buyer problem under consignment stock partnership
    1010 -- 1020Masoud Yaghini, Mohadeseh Rahbar, Mohammad Karimi. A hybrid simulated annealing and column generation approach for capacitated multicommodity network design
    1021 -- 1029Alexander Finlayson. On the approximation of empirical data for service system simulations
    1030 -- 1048Y.-W. Zhou, D. Zhou. Determination of the optimal trade credit policy: a supplier-Stackelberg model
    1049 -- 1059Christos Vasilakis, Christina Pagel, Steve Gallivan, David A. Richards, Alice Weaver, Martin Utley. Modelling toolkit to assist with introducing a stepped care system design in mental health care
    1060 -- 1070Ana Isabel Marqués, Vicente García, José Salvador Sánchez. On the suitability of resampling techniques for the class imbalance problem in credit scoring
    1071 -- 1078M. Ranjbar. A path-relinking metaheuristic for the resource levelling problem
    1079 -- 1089Bing-Zhen Sun, Wei-Min Ma, Qin Liu. An approach to decision making based on intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets over two universes

    Volume 64, Issue 6

    793 -- 804Geoff Royston. Operational Research for the Real World: big questions from a small island
    805 -- 816Jeffrey E. Schaller, Jorge M. S. Valente. An evaluation of heuristics for scheduling a non-delay permutation flow shop with family setups to minimize total earliness and tardiness
    817 -- 824P. J. Dortmans, C. Durrant. Employing integrated reference models to represent interdependency in a complex enterprise
    825 -- 832H. Xuan, B. Li. Scheduling dynamic hybrid flowshop with serial batching machines
    833 -- 847S. Braide, Z. Cao, X. Zeng. Volume discount pricing strategy in the VMI supply chain with price sensitive demand
    848 -- 863Jens Bengtsson, David Bredström, Patrik Flisberg, Mikael Rönnqvist. Robust planning of blending activities at refineries
    864 -- 872C. G. Xue, J. J. Liu, H. W. Cao. Research on competition diffusion of the multiple-advanced manufacturing mode in a cluster environment
    873 -- 883José Soeiro Ferreira. Multimethodology in Metaheuristics
    884 -- 897Sepehr Ghazinoory, M. Daneshmand-Mehr, Arash Azadegan. Technology selection: application of the PROMETHEE in determining preferences - a real case of nanotechnology in Iran
    898 -- 911Andrew D. Chaney, Richard F. Deckro, James T. Moore. Scheduling reconstruction operations with modes of execution
    912 -- 924J. A. Paul, L. MacDonald. Determination of number of dedicated OR's and supporting pricing mechanisms for emergent surgeries
    925 -- 937Kostas Mamasis, Ioannis Minis, George Dikas. Managing vehicle breakdown incidents during urban distribution of a common product
    938 -- 944Kua-Hsin Peng, Jen-Hung Huang, Wen-Hsiang Wu. Rasch model in data envelopment analysis: application in the international tourist hotel industry

    Volume 64, Issue 5

    629 -- 637Mehdi Mrad, I. Meftahi, Mohamed Haouari. A branch-and-price algorithm for the two-stage guillotine cutting stock problem
    638 -- 653J. S. Busby, Stephan Onggo. Managing the social amplification of risk: a simulation of interacting actors
    654 -- 667Yue R. Wu, Luisa Huaccho Huatuco, Gerry Frizelle, Janet Smart. A method for analysing operational complexity in supply chains
    668 -- 678F. J. Blancas, I. Contreras, J. M. Ramírez-Hurtado. Constructing a composite indicator with multiplicative aggregation under the objective of ranking alternatives
    679 -- 689D. W.-C. Miao, H. Chen. A generalised Little's law and its applications for a discrete-time G/D/1 queue with correlated arrivals
    690 -- 707Mohamed Kharbeche, Mohamed Haouari. MIP models for minimizing total tardiness in a two-machine flow shop
    708 -- 717Jack P. C. Kleijnen, Wim C. M. Van Beers. Monotonicity-preserving bootstrapped Kriging metamodels for expensive simulations
    718 -- 723Silvia Figini, Pierpaolo Uberti. Concentration measures in risk management
    724 -- 734Micael Gallego, Manuel Laguna, Rafael Martí, Abraham Duarte. Tabu search with strategic oscillation for the maximally diverse grouping problem
    735 -- 747Francisco Cisternas, Diego Delle Donne, Guillermo Durán, Cristian Polgatiz, Andres Weintraub. Optimizing salmon farm cage net management using integer programming
    748 -- 761Sinem Kulluk. A novel hybrid algorithm combining hunting search with harmony search algorithm for training neural networks
    762 -- 774L. Chen, S. C. Ray. Cost efficiency and scale economies in general dental practices in the US: a non-parametric and parametric analysis of Colorado data
    775 -- 785J. I. Park, N. Kim, M. K. Jeong, K. S. Shin. Multiphase support vector regression for function approximation with break-points
    786 -- 787Z. Y. Jiang, F. F. Chen, C. Q. Wu. m
    787 -- 0Adam Janiak, Maciej Lichtenstein, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov. m' by Zhongyi Jiang, Fangfang Chen, Chunqing Wu

    Volume 64, Issue 4

    469 -- 487Richard J. Ormerod. Logic and rationality in OR interventions: an examination in the light of the 'critical rationalist' approach
    488 -- 499M. L. Zarracina. Heavy fuel oil analysis at Iraq's Bayji refinery
    500 -- 512Honora K. Smith, Paul R. Harper, Chris N. Potts. Bicriteria efficiency/equity hierarchical location models for public service application
    513 -- 529Kenneth Kennedy, Brian Mac Namee, Sarah Jane Delany. Using semi-supervised classifiers for credit scoring
    530 -- 546Dongchen Lu, Rasaratnam Logendran. Bi-criteria group scheduling with sequence-dependent setup time in a flow shop
    547 -- 561S. French. Cynefin, statistics and decision analysis
    562 -- 576Ümit Sami Sakalli, Ömer Faruk Baykoç. Strong guidance on mitigating the effects of uncertainties in the brass casting blending problem: a hybrid optimization approach
    577 -- 596Alain Martel, Abdelhamid Benmoussa, Marc Chouinard, Walid Klibi, Ossama Kettani. Designing global supply networks for conflict or disaster support: the case of the Canadian Armed Forces
    597 -- 610Margaret F. Shipley, Madeline Johnson, Lucille Pointer, Nikola Yankov. A fuzzy attractiveness of market entry (FAME) model for market selection decisions
    611 -- 618S. Lee. Centrality-based ambulance dispatching for demanding emergency situations
    619 -- 621Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Dimitris Margaritis 0002. Pricing decision-making units
    622 -- 628S. Wang, Q. Meng, Z. Liu. On the weighting of the mean-absolute-deviation cost minimization model

    Volume 64, Issue 3

    313 -- 325Peter Kelle, Helmut Schneider, Christian Raschke, Hadi Shirazi. Highway improvement project selection by the joint consideration of cost-benefit and risk criteria
    326 -- 335A. Mostafaee. An equitable method for allocating fixed costs by using data envelopment analysis
    336 -- 351Sanjeev Swami, Janat Shah. Channel coordination in green supply chain management
    352 -- 364Sabrina Bernardi, Miguel F. Anjos. A two-stage mathematical-programming method for the multi-floor facility layout problem
    365 -- 371C. L. Liu, S. L. Chen. Risk sharing in the supplier relations for the Taiwanese automotive industry
    372 -- 383Syed Golam Mohiuddin, Sally C. Brailsford, Christopher J. James, James D. Amor, Jesse Michael Blum, John A. Crowe, Evan H. Magill, Pawel Prociow. A multi-state model to improve the design of an automated system to monitor the activity patterns of patients with bipolar disorder
    384 -- 395Nicolas Jozefowiez, Catherine Mancel, Félix Mora-Camino. A heuristic approach based on shortest path problems for integrated flight, aircraft, and passenger rescheduling under disruptions
    396 -- 401A. Hadi Vencheh, A. Esmaeilzadeh. A new super-efficiency model in the presence of negative data
    402 -- 409A. Subramanian, Maria Battarra. An iterated local search algorithm for the Travelling Salesman Problem with Pickups and Deliveries
    410 -- 425Aldy Gunawan, Hoong Chuin Lau. Master physician scheduling problem
    426 -- 438A. Zanella, A. S. Camanho, Teresa Galvão Dias. Benchmarking countries' environmental performance
    439 -- 445Trevor S. Hale, Faizul Huq, Ian Hipkin, C. Tucker. A methodology for estimating expected distances between nodes on a network
    446 -- 458B. Selçuk, S. Agrali. Joint spare parts inventory and reliability decisions under a service constraint
    459 -- 468M. J. Ruá, N. Guadalajara. Application of Compromise Programming to a semi-detached housing development in order to balance economic and environmental criteria

    Volume 64, Issue 2

    157 -- 168Sally C. Brailsford, Timothy Bolt, G. Bucci, T. M. Chaussalet, N. A. D. Connell, Paul R. Harper, Jonathan H. Klein, M. Pitt, M. Taylor. Overcoming the barriers: a qualitative study of simulation adoption in the NHS
    169 -- 184H. F. Wang, K.-W. Zheng. Application of fuzzy linear programming to aggregate production plan of a refinery industry in Taiwan
    185 -- 197M. W. A. Asad, Roussos Dimitrakopoulos. Implementing a parametric maximum flow algorithm for optimal open pit mine design under uncertain supply and demand
    198 -- 207M. Chih. A more accurate second-order polynomial metamodel using a pseudo-random number assignment strategy
    208 -- 216G. Kendall, J. Li. Competitive travelling salesmen problem: A hyper-heuristic approach
    217 -- 228B. R. Cobb. Mixture distributions for modelling demand during lead time
    229 -- 240Rafay Ishfaq. Intermodal shipments as recourse in logistics disruptions
    241 -- 249H. Anjomshoa, Amie R. Albrecht, D. H. Lee, Peter J. Pudney. Optimising passing bay locations and vehicle schedules in underground mines
    250 -- 259C. W. Huang, C.-T. Ting, C. H. Lin, C.-T. Lin. Measuring non-convex metafrontier efficiency in international tourist hotels
    260 -- 275N. Azizi, M. Liang. An integrated approach to worker assignment, workforce flexibility acquisition, and task rotation
    276 -- 282Albert Corominas, Alberto García-Villoria, Rafael Pastor. Technical note: a systematic procedure based on CALIBRA and the Nelder & Mead algorithm for fine-tuning metaheuristics
    283 -- 292Michael A. Haughton, K. P. Sapna Isotupa. Flow control in capacity-constrained queueing systems with non-stationary arrivals
    293 -- 311S. W. Lin, K. C. Ying. Increasing the total net revenue for single machine order acceptance and scheduling problems using an artificial bee colony algorithm

    Volume 64, Issue 12

    1695 -- 1724Edmund K. Burke, Michel Gendreau, Matthew R. Hyde, Graham Kendall, Gabriela Ochoa, Ender Özcan, Rong Qu. Hyper-heuristics: a survey of the state of the art
    1725 -- 1741Matthew R. Hyde, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall. Automated code generation by local search
    1742 -- 1752Lindawati, H. C. Lau, D. Lo. Clustering of search trajectory and its application to parameter tuning
    1753 -- 1769Berna Kiraz, A. Sima Etaner-Uyar, Ender Özcan. Selection hyper-heuristics in dynamic environments
    1770 -- 1779S. Delanote, Roel Leus, Fabrice Talla Nobibon. Optimization of the annual planning of targeted offers in direct marketing
    1780 -- 1789S. Kim. A column generation heuristic for congested facility location problem with clearing functions
    1790 -- 1799M. Kunc, R. Kazakov. Competitive dynamics in pharmaceutical markets: A case study in the chronic cardiac disease market
    1800 -- 1809Y.-C. Lai, M. Dingler, S. Y. Lin, K. C. Liu. Optimal track class assignment for a railroad network
    1810 -- 1830Erkan Bayraktar, Ekrem Tatoglu, Selim Zaim. Measuring the relative efficiency of quality management practices in Turkish public and private universities
    1831 -- 1840B. Zhu, Z. S. Xu. Hesitant fuzzy Bonferroni means for multi-criteria decision making
    1841 -- 1850Nils Boysen, Simon Emde, Malte Fliedner. Scheduling train loading with straddle carriers in container yards
    1851 -- 1864Dirk Briskorn, Joseph Y.-T. Leung. Minimizing maximum lateness of jobs in inventory constrained scheduling
    1865 -- 0Richard J. Ormerod. A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science: The Past and the Future
    1866 -- 0Janet Smart. Modeling Complex Living Systems: A Kinetic Theory and Stochastic Game Approach
    1867 -- 0Subramanian Ramamoorthy. Games, Groups and the Global Good
    1867 -- 1868Hassab Elgawi Osman. Modeling and Simulation for Analyzing Global Events

    Volume 64, Issue 11

    1571 -- 1582M. S. Iftekhar, A. Hailu, R. K. Lindner. Choice of item pricing feedback schemes for multiple unit reverse combinatorial auctions
    1583 -- 1594Y. Ito, S. Managi, A. Matsuda. Performances of socially responsible investment and environmentally friendly funds
    1595 -- 1606Kristof De Witte, Nicky Rogge, Laurens Cherchye, Tom Van Puyenbroeck. Accounting for economies of scope in performance evaluations of university professors
    1607 -- 1613Evgeny Gurevsky, Öncü Hazir, Olga Battaïa, Alexandre Dolgui. Robust balancing of straight assembly lines with interval task times
    1614 -- 1621M. Barketau, Herbert Kopfer, Erwin Pesch. A Lagrangian lower bound for the container transshipment problem at a railway hub for a fast branch-and-bound algorithm
    1622 -- 1629D. E. Simmons. The effect of non-linear delay costs on workforce mix
    1630 -- 1643L. Martínez, Ciro-Alberto Amaya. A vehicle routing problem with multi-trips and time windows for circular items
    1644 -- 1653Oded Berman, Zvi Drezner, Dmitry Krass. Continuous covering and cooperative covering problems with a general decay function on networks
    1654 -- 1663Kilhwan Kim, Tae Sung Kim, Dae-Eun Lim, Hyunmin Park. Managing the supply and demand uncertainty in workforce recruitment: planned or just-in-time acquisition
    1664 -- 1675J. A. Vázquez-Rodríguez, S. Petrovic. A mixture experiments multi-objective hyper-heuristic
    1676 -- 1692H. Mezali, J. E. Beasley. Quantile regression for index tracking and enhanced indexation
    1693 -- 1694Chung-Yuan Dye, Tsu-Pang Hsieh. Comment on 'Supply chain model for a deteriorating product with time-varying demand and production rate' by Giri and Maiti

    Volume 64, Issue 10

    1447 -- 1460Shui Hua Han, M. Y. Dong, Shui Xiu Lu, Stephen C. H. Leung, Ming K. Lim. Production planning for hybrid remanufacturing and manufacturing system with component recovery
    1461 -- 1473A. Sbihi. Adaptive perturbed neighbourhood search for the expanding capacity multiple-choice knapsack problem
    1474 -- 1484G. Degirmenci, M. Azizoglu. Branch and bound based solution algorithms for the budget constrained discrete time/cost trade-off problem
    1485 -- 1502Z. Zhang, Y. Van Hui, H. Chen. A forward and reverse logistics shipment planning model
    1503 -- 1504Bertrand Estellon, Frédéric Gardi. Car sequencing is NP-hard: a short proof
    1505 -- 1516S. Wruck, I. F. A. Vis, J. Boter. Time-restricted batching models and solution approaches for integrated forward and return product flow handling in warehouses
    1517 -- 1539Nagihan Çömez, Metin Çakanyildirim, Kathryn E. Stecke. Optimal transshipments and reassignments under periodic or cyclic holding cost accounting
    1540 -- 1550H. Yildiz, Michael P. Johnson, Stephen Roehrig. Planning for meals-on-wheels: algorithms and application
    1551 -- 1556K.-R. Lou, W. C. Wang. Optimal trade credit and order quantity when trade credit impacts on both demand rate and default risk
    1557 -- 1569Wei Peng, René V. Mayorga. An interval-coefficient fuzzy binary linear programming, the solution, and its application under uncertainties

    Volume 64, Issue 1

    1 -- 16Salvatore Cannella, Ana Paula F. D. Barbosa-Póvoa, Jose M. Framiñan, Susana Relvas. Metrics for bullwhip effect analysis
    17 -- 33Lorraine Dodd, Jim Q. Smith. Devolving command decisions in complex operations
    34 -- 47K. Harwood, C. Mumford, Richard W. Eglese. Investigating the use of metaheuristics for solving single vehicle routing problems with time-varying traversal costs
    48 -- 59Masoumeh Kazemi Zanjani, Mustapha Nourelfath, Daoud Ait-Kadi. A scenario decomposition approach for stochastic production planning in sawmills
    60 -- 69Y. M. Wang, S. Wang. Approaches to determining the relative importance weights for cross-efficiency aggregation in data envelopment analysis
    70 -- 85R. M. Oliver, A. M. Thaker. Adverse selection and non-take inference with coherent risk and response scoring
    86 -- 96M. C. Gouveia, Luis C. Dias, Carlos Henggeler Antunes. Super-efficiency and stability intervals in additive DEA
    97 -- 105Jack C. Hayya, Ranga V. Ramasesh, John G. Tyworth, John G. Kim, Daewon Sun. JIT delivery with stochastic lead time
    106 -- 113R. Li, H. C. Huang, J. Huang. k-level facility location problems
    114 -- 124Ahmed Ghoniem, C. R. Scherrer, S. Solak. A specialized column generation approach for a vehicle routing problem with demand allocation
    125 -- 137Kathy Kotiadis, Antuela A. Tako, Etiënne A. J. A. Rouwette, Christos Vasilakis, J. Brennan, P. Gandhi, H. Wegstapel, F. Sagias, P. Webb. Using a model of the performance measures in Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) to take action: a case study in health care
    138 -- 146M. Skitmore, D. Cattell. On being balanced in an unbalanced world
    147 -- 156C. C. Wu, Y. Yin, S.-R. Cheng. Single-machine and two-machine flowshop scheduling problems with truncated position-based learning functions
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