European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 197

Volume 197, Number 1, August 2009

Invited Review

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  Fred W. Glover, Toshiyuki Sueyoshi:
  Contributions of Professor William W. Cooper in Operations Research and Management Science. 1-16

Continuous Optimization

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  Kaisa Miettinen, Julián Molina Luque, Mercedes González, Alfredo García Hernández-Díaz, Rafael Caballero:
  Using box indices in supporting comparison in multiobjective optimization. 17-24
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  María del Mar Muñoz, Francisco Ruiz:
  ISTMO: An interval reference point-based method for stochastic multiobjective programming problems. 25-35
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  Z. Ankhili, A. Mansouri:
  An exact penalty on bilevel programs with linear vector optimization lower level. 36-41

Discrete Optimization

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  Patrizia Beraldi, Maria Elena Bruni, Domenico Conforti:
  The stochastic trim-loss problem. 42-49
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  Arun Marar, Warren B. Powell:
  Capturing incomplete information in resource allocation problems through numerical patterns. 50-58
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  Oleg A. Prokopyev, Nan Kong, Dayna L. Martinez-Torres:
  The equitable dispersion problem. 59-67
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  Dirk Briskorn, Andreas Drexl:
  A branching scheme for finding cost-minimal round robin tournaments. 68-76
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  Mohsen A. Jafari, Jiachen Liu, Davood Golmohammadi:
  Network flow formulation of optimal perimeter sensory coverage problem. 77-83

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Ardeshir J. Dalal, Moawia Alghalith:
  Production decisions under joint price and production uncertainty. 84-92
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  Sandra Duni Eksioglu:
  A primal-dual algorithm for the economic lot-sizing problem with multi-mode replenishment. 93-101
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  Michael S. Pangburn, Shankar Sundaresan:
  Capacity decisions for high-tech products with obsolescence. 102-111
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  Adela Pagès, Jacek Gondzio, Narcís Nabona:
  Warmstarting for interior point methods applied to the long-term power planning problem. 112-125
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  Chih-Hsiung Wang:
  Determining the optimal probing lot size for the wafer probe operation in semiconductor manufacturing. 126-133
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  Hantao Li, Peter H. Ritchken, Yunzeng Wang:
  Option and forward contracting with asymmetric information: Valuation issues in supply chains. 134-148
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  Victor V. Podinovski, Finn R. Førsund, Vladimir E. Krivonozhko:
  A simple derivation of scale elasticity in data envelopment analysis. 149-153
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  Min Zhang, Selçuk Savas, Rajan Batta, Rakesh Nagi:
  Facility placement with sub-aisle design in an existing layout. 154-165
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  Daniel Scholz, Anita Petrick, Wolfgang Domschke:
  STaTS: A Slicing Tree and Tabu Search based heuristic for the unequal area facility layout problem. 166-178

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Hoi Ying Wong, Yu Wai Lo:
  Option pricing with mean reversion and stochastic volatility. 179-187
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  Zsolt Saffer, Miklós Telek:
  Stability of periodic polling system with BMAP arrivals. 188-195
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  Gurcan Comert, Mecit Cetin:
  Queue length estimation from probe vehicle location and the impacts of sample size. 196-202

Decision Support

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  Yakov Ben-Haim:
  Info-gap forecasting and the advantage of sub-optimal models. 203-213
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  Hui Li, Jie Sun:
  Hybridizing principles of the Electre method with case-based reasoning for data mining: Electre-CBR-I and Electre-CBR-II. 214-224
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  Kebing Chen, Tiaojun Xiao:
  Demand disruption and coordination of the supply chain with a dominant retailer. 225-234
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  Eduardo Conde:
  A minmax regret approach to the critical path method with task interval times. 235-242

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Kaoru Tone, Miki Tsutsui:
  Network DEA: A slacks-based measure approach. 243-252
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  Young-Hwan Kim, Pete Bettinger, Mark Finney:
  Spatial optimization of the pattern of fuel management activities and subsequent effects on simulated wildfires. 253-265
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  Jian-Cai Wang, Hon-Shiang Lau, Amy Hing Ling Lau:
  When should a manufacturer share truthful manufacturing cost information with a dominant retailer? 266-286
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  Cláudia S. Sarrico, Pedro N. Teixeira, Maria João Rosa, Margarida F. Cardoso:
  Subject mix and productivity in Portuguese universities. 287-295
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  Márton Drótos, Gábor Erdös, Tamás Kis:
  Computing lower and upper bounds for a large-scale industrial job shop scheduling problem. 296-306
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  Juan Carlos Muñoz, Diego Molina:
  A multi-unit tender award process: The case of Transantiago. 307-311
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  Wade D. Cook, Joe Zhu:
  Piecewise linear output measures in DEA (third revision). 312-319
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  Ricardo García-Ródenas, Ángel Marín:
  Simultaneous estimation of the origin-destination matrices and the parameters of a nested logit model in a combined network equilibrium model. 320-331

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Walter Briec, Nicolas Peypoch, Christophe Tavéra:
  alpha-Returns to scale and multi-output production technologies. 332-339
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  Ekaterina V. Karniouchina, William L. Moore, Bo van der Rhee, Rohit Verma:
  Issues in the use of ratings-based versus choice-based conjoint analysis in operations management research. 340-348
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  Gabor Pauler, Minakshi Trivedi, Dinesh K. Gauri:
  Assessing store performance models. 349-359
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  Arnim Wiek, Alexander I. Walter:
  A transdisciplinary approach for formalized integrated planning and decision-making in complex systems. 360-370
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  Yah-Wei Chen, Tai-Hsin Huang:
  The LeChatelier principle in a DEA model. 371-373
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  Gary M. Erickson:
  An oligopoly model of dynamic advertising competition. 374-388
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  Yongjun Li, Feng Yang, Liang Liang, Zhongsheng Hua:
  Allocating the fixed cost as a complement of other cost inputs: A DEA approach. 389-401
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  Nicolas Glady, Bart Baesens, Christophe Croux:
  Modeling churn using customer lifetime value. 402-411

Short Communications

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  Chung-Lun Li:
  A new solution method for the finite-horizon discrete-time EOQ problem. 412-414
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  Nico M. van Dijk, Erik van der Sluis:
  Pooling is not the answer. 415-421
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  Jeffrey E. Schaller:
  Note on Shim and Kim's lower bounds for scheduling on identical parallel machines to minimize total tardiness. 422-426

Volume 197, Number 2, September 2009

Invited Review

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  Hassene Aissi, Cristina Bazgan, Daniel Vanderpooten:
  Min-max and min-max regret versions of combinatorial optimization problems: A survey. 427-438

Discrete Optimization

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  Dominique Fortin, Ider Tseveendorj:
  A trust branching path heuristic for zero-one programming. 439-445
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  Yurij Stoyan, Andrey M. Chugay:
  Packing cylinders and rectangular parallelepipeds with distances between them into a given region. 446-455
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  Shimon Abravaya, Michael Segal:
  Low complexity algorithms for optimal consumer push-pull partial covering in the plane. 456-464
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  F. Höfferl, D. Steinschorn:
  A dynamic programming extension to the steady state refinery-LP. 465-474
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  Ching-Jong Liao, Chien-Wen Chao, Chien-Hung Lin:
  Minimizing the sum of job completion times on capacitated two-parallel machines. 475-481
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  Nelishia Pillay, Wolfgang Banzhaf:
  A study of heuristic combinations for hyper-heuristic systems for the uncapacitated examination timetabling problem. 482-491
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  Doreen Krüger, Armin Scholl:
  A heuristic solution framework for the resource constrained (multi-)project scheduling problem with sequence-dependent transfer times. 492-508
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  Arif Imran, Saïd Salhi, Niaz A. Wassan:
  A variable neighborhood-based heuristic for the heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem. 509-518
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  Ai-Fan Ling, Cheng-Xian Xu, Feng-Min Xu:
  A discrete filled function algorithm embedded with continuous approximation for solving max-cut problems. 519-531
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  Olivier Marchetti, Alix Munier Kordon:
  A sufficient condition for the liveness of weighted event graphs. 532-540
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  Andrea Grosso, A. R. M. J. U. Jamali, Marco Locatelli:
  Finding maximin latin hypercube designs by Iterated Local Search heuristics. 541-547

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Desheng Wu, Opher Baron, Oded Berman:
  Bargaining in competing supply chains with uncertainty. 548-556
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  Antonios Tatarakis, Ioannis Minis:
  Stochastic single vehicle routing with a predefined customer sequence and multiple depot returns. 557-571
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  Alexandros C. Diamantidis, Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos:
  Exact analysis of a two-workstation one-buffer flow line with parallel unreliable machines. 572-580
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  Wan-ting Hu, Seung-Lae Kim, Avijit Banerjee:
  An inventory model with partial backordering and unit backorder cost linearly increasing with the waiting time. 581-587
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  Salil Pradhan, Purushothaman Damodaran:
  Performance characterization of complex manufacturing systems with general distributions and job failures. 588-598
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  Karthik Sourirajan, Leyla Ozsen, Reha Uzsoy:
  A genetic algorithm for a single product network design model with lead time and safety stock considerations. 599-608
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  Robert B. Handfield, Donald P. Warsing Jr., Xinmin Wu:
  (Q, r) Inventory policies in a fuzzy uncertain supply chain environment. 609-619
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  Hui-Ming Wee, Chien-Chung Lo, Ping-Hui Hsu:
  A multi-objective joint replenishment inventory model of deteriorated items in a fuzzy environment. 620-631

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Gülay Samatli-Paç, Mehmet Rüstü Taner:
  The role of repair strategy in warranty cost minimization: An investigation via quasi-renewal processes. 632-641
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  Dolores Romero Morales, Dries Vermeulen:
  Existence of equilibria in a decentralized two-level supply chain. 642-658
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  J. H. Seo, M. Jung, C. M. Kim:
  Design of accelerated life test sampling plans with a nonconstant shape parameter. 659-666
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  Abraham Grosfeld-Nir, David Sarne, Israel Spiegler:
  Modeling the search for the least costly opportunity. 667-674

Decision Support

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  Shaoyuan Li, Chaofang Hu:
  Satisfying optimization method based on goal programming for fuzzy multiple objective optimization problem. 675-684
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  Julián Molina Luque, Luis V. Santana-Quintero, Alfredo García Hernández-Díaz, Carlos A. Coello Coello, Rafael Caballero:
  g-dominance: Reference point based dominance for multiobjective metaheuristics. 685-692
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  Wei-Guo Zhang, Xili Zhang, Wei-Lin Xiao:
  Portfolio selection under possibilistic mean-variance utility and a SMO algorithm. 693-700
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  Kay Chen Tan, Swee Chiang Chiam, Abdullah Al Mamun, Chi Keong Goh:
  Balancing exploration and exploitation with adaptive variation for evolutionary multi-objective optimization. 701-713

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Bonifacio Llamazares, Teresa Peña:
  Preference aggregation and DEA: An analysis of the methods proposed to discriminate efficient candidates. 714-721
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  Jie Wu, Liang Liang, Feng Yang:
  Achievement and benchmarking of countries at the Summer Olympics using cross efficiency evaluation method. 722-730
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  Herbert F. Lewis, Kathleen A. Lock, Thomas R. Sexton:
  Organizational capability, efficiency, and effectiveness in Major League Baseball: 1901-2002. 731-740
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  Marta Anna Krajewska, Herbert Kopfer:
  Transportation planning in freight forwarding companies: Tabu search algorithm for the integrated operational transportation planning problem. 741-751
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  Emma Kushtina, Oleg Zaikin, Przemyslaw Rózewski, Bartlomiej Malachowski:
  Cost estimation algorithm and decision-making model for curriculum modification in educational organization. 752-763
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  Ian Davidson, Giri Kumar Tayi:
  Data preparation using data quality matrices for classification mining. 764-772
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  Kevin P. Scheibe, Cliff T. Ragsdale:
  A model for the capacitated, hop-constrained, per-packet wireless mesh network design problem. 773-784

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Jinxing Xie, Jerry C. Wei:
  Coordinating advertising and pricing in a manufacturer-retailer channel. 785-791
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  John McDonald:
  Using least squares and tobit in second stage DEA efficiency analyses. 792-798
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  Henry Schellhorn:
  A double-sided multiunit combinatorial auction for substitutes: Theory and algorithms. 799-808

Short Communications

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  Bin Gao, Mingfang Ni:
  A note on article "The evidential reasoning approach for multiple attribute decision analysis using interval belief degrees". 809-812
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  Ying-Ming Wang:
  Reply to the note on article "The evidential reasoning approach for multiple attribute decision analysis using interval belief degrees". 813-817
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  Nils Boysen, Malte Fliedner, Armin Scholl:
  The product rate variation problem and its relevance in real world mixed-model assembly lines. 818-824
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  Dehua Xu, Yunqiang Yin, Hongxing Li:
  A note on "scheduling of nonresumable jobs and flexible maintenance activities on a single machine to minimize makespan". 825-827
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  Marc Jegers:
  Applying cost minimization techniques to hospitals: A comment. 828-829
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  Lining Xing, Ying-Wu Chen, Ke-Wei Yang:
  A novel mutation operator based on the immunity operation. 830-833
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  Ion Georgiou:
  A graph-theoretic perspective on the links-to-concepts ratio expected in cognitive maps. 834-836
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  Bruno Bachelet, Christophe Duhamel:
  Aggregation approach for the minimum binary cost tension problem. 837-841

Book Review

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  Sondoss El Sawah, Alan McLucas:
  Complex Decision Making: Theory and Practice, Edited by H. Qudrat-Ullah, J.M. Spector, P.I. Davidsen (Eds.). Springer (2007). 842-843

Erratum

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  Daniel Baraz, Gur Mosheiov:
  Erratum to "A note on a greedy heuristic for flow-shop makespan minimization with no machine idle-time" [European Journal of Operational Research, 184 (2) (2008), 810-813]. 844

Volume 197, Number 3, September 2009

Feature Cluster: Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing

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  Yuri Levin, Jeff McGill:
  Introduction to the special issue on revenue management and dynamic pricing. 845-847
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  Dan Zhang, William L. Cooper:
  Pricing substitutable flights in airline revenue management. 848-861
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  Sirong Luo, Metin Çakanyildirim, Raja G. Kasilingam:
  Two-dimensional cargo overbooking models. 862-883
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  Huseyin Topaloglu:
  On the asymptotic optimality of the randomized linear program for network revenue management. 884-896
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  Zümbül Bulut, Ülkü Gürler, Alper Sen:
  Bundle pricing of inventories with stochastic demand. 897-911
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  Idriss Maoui, Hayriye Ayhan, Robert D. Foley:
  Optimal static pricing for a service facility with holding costs. 912-923
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  Subodha Kumar, Suresh P. Sethi:
  Dynamic pricing and advertising for web content providers. 924-944
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  Abdullah Dasci, Mustafa Karakul:
  Two-period dynamic versus fixed-ratio pricing in a capacity constrained duopoly. 945-968
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  Kyle Y. Lin, Soheil Y. Sibdari:
  Dynamic price competition with discrete customer choices. 969-980
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  Changhyun Kwon, Terry L. Friesz, Reetabrata Mookherjee, Tao Yao, Baichun Feng:
  Non-cooperative competition among revenue maximizing service providers with demand learning. 981-996

Feature Cluster: Operational Research Models and Methods in the Energy Sector

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  Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Álvaro Gomes:
  Operational research models and methods in the energy sector. 997-998
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  Alireza Tehrani Nejad Moghaddam, Christian Michelot:
  A contribution to the linear programming approach to joint cost allocation: Methodology and application. 999-1011
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  Eduardo M. Gouveia, Manuel A. Matos:
  Symmetric AC fuzzy power flow model. 1012-1018
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  Jean André, J. Frédéric Bonnans, Laurent Cornibert:
  Optimization of capacity expansion planning for gas transportation networks. 1019-1027
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  Steven A. Gabriel, Jifang Zhuang, Ruud Egging:
  Solving stochastic complementarity problems in energy market modeling using scenario reduction. 1028-1040
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  Georg Ch. Pflug, Nikola Broussev:
  Electricity swing options: Behavioral models and pricing. 1041-1050
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  Eugeniusz Toczylowski, Izabela Zóltowska:
  A new pricing scheme for a multi-period pool-based electricity auction. 1051-1062
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  Katharina Kowalski, Sigrid Stagl, Reinhard Madlener, Ines Omann:
  Sustainable energy futures: Methodological challenges in combining scenarios and participatory multi-criteria analysis. 1063-1074
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  Espen Løken, Audun Botterud, Arne T. Holen:
  Use of the equivalent attribute technique in multi-criteria planning of local energy systems. 1075-1083
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  Reinhard Madlener, Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Luis C. Dias:
  Assessing the performance of biogas plants with multi-criteria and data envelopment analysis. 1084-1094
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  Hongliang Yang, Michael Pollitt:
  Incorporating both undesirable outputs and uncontrollable variables into DEA: The performance of Chinese coal-fired power plants. 1095-1105

Feature Cluster: Management and Control of Production Systems

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  El Houssaine Aghezzaf, Marino Widmer:
  Feature issue in management and control of production systems. 1106-1107
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  Evren Sahin, Yves Dallery:
  Assessing the impact of inventory inaccuracies within a Newsvendor framework. 1108-1118
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  Alexandre Dolgui, I. Ihnatsenka:
  Branch and bound algorithm for a transfer line design problem: Stations with sequentially activated multi-spindle heads. 1119-1132
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  Jean-Sébastien Tancrez, Pierre Semal, Philippe Chevalier:
  Histogram based bounds and approximations for production lines. 1133-1141
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  V. Boschian, Nidhal Rezg, Anis Chelbi:
  Contribution of simulation to the optimization of maintenance strategies for a randomly failing production system. 1142-1149
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  Racem Mellouli, Cherif Sadfi, Chengbin Chu, Imed Kacem:
  Identical parallel-machine scheduling under availability constraints to minimize the sum of completion times. 1150-1165
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  Thibaut Lust, Olivier Roux, Fouad Riane:
  Exact and heuristic methods for the selective maintenance problem. 1166-1177
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  Boris Detienne, Laurent Péridy, Eric Pinson, David Rivreau:
  Cut generation for an employee timetabling problem. 1178-1184
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  Sara Morin, Caroline Gagné, Marc Gravel:
  Ant colony optimization with a specialized pheromone trail for the car-sequencing problem. 1185-1191
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  Bchira Ben Mabrouk, Hamadi Hasni, Zaher Mahjoub:
  On a parallel genetic-tabu search based algorithm for solving the graph colouring problem. 1192-1201