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July 2010, Volume 178, Issue 1
- 23-43 Dimensioning hospital wards using the Erlang loss model
by A. Bruin & R. Bekker & L. Zanten & G. Koole - 45-65 Time-dependent analysis for refused admissions in clinical wards
by R. Bekker & A. Bruin - 67-76 A loss network model with overflow for capacity planning of a neonatal unit
by Md Asaduzzaman & Thierry Chaussalet & Nicola Robertson - 77-89 To pool or not to pool in hospitals: a theoretical and practical comparison for a radiotherapy outpatient department
by Paul Joustra & Erik Sluis & Nico Dijk - 91-104 Suitability and managerial implications of a Master Surgical Scheduling approach
by Jeroen Oostrum & Eelco Bredenhoff & Erwin Hans - 105-119 A pre-assignment heuristic algorithm for the Master Surgical Schedule Problem (MSSP)
by Elena Tànfani & Angela Testi - 121-144 Clinic scheduling models with overbooking for patients with heterogeneous no-show probabilities
by Bo Zeng & Ayten Turkcan & Ji Lin & Mark Lawley - 145-154 Scheduling preparation of doses for a chemotherapy service
by Alexandre Mazier & Jean-Charles Billaut & Jean-François Tournamille - 155-172 Queueing models for appointment-driven systems
by Stefan Creemers & Marc Lambrecht - 173-200 Small world network models of the dynamics of HIV infection
by I. Vieira & R. Cheng & P. Harper & V. Senna - 201-222 Quality competition for screening and treatment services
by Evrim Güneş & Stephen Chick & Luk Wassenhove - 223-245 Optimal control of dosage decisions in controlled ovarian hyperstimulation
by Miao He & Lei Zhao & Warren Powell - 247-261 Evaluating the performance of Brazilian university hospitals
by Yasar Ozcan & Marcos Lins & Maria Lobo & Angela da Silva & Roberto Fiszman & Basilio Pereira - 263-279 Simulation based analysis of patient arrival to health care systems and evaluation of an operations improvement scheme
by Peter Williams & Guangfu Tai & Yiming Lei
June 2010, Volume 177, Issue 1
- 1-2 Preface
by Suvrajeet Sen & Julia Higle - 3-8 Stochastic programming and the option of doing it differently
by Stein Wallace - 9-19 Extreme events, discounting and stochastic optimization
by Yuri Ermoliev & Tatiana Ermolieva & Guenther Fischer & Marek Makowski - 21-45 Living on the edge: how risky is it to operate at the limit of the tolerated risk?
by José Rodríguez-Mancilla - 47-62 An ALM model for pension funds using integrated chance constraints
by Willem Klein Haneveld & Matthijs Streutker & Maarten Vlerk - 63-90 Portfolio optimization for wealth-dependent risk preferences
by Luis Rios & Nikolaos Sahinidis - 91-114 Re-solving stochastic programming models for airline revenue management
by Lijian Chen & Tito Homem-de-Mello - 115-125 Lipschitz and differentiability properties of quasi-concave and singular normal distribution functions
by René Henrion & Werner Römisch - 127-137 An exact approach for solving integer problems under probabilistic constraints with random technology matrix
by Patrizia Beraldi & Maria Bruni - 139-150 Convex approximations for a class of mixed-integer recourse models
by Maarten Vlerk - 151-183 Online stochastic optimization under time constraints
by Pascal Hentenryck & Russell Bent & Eli Upfal - 185-200 On numerical calculation of probabilities according to Dirichlet distribution
by Ashraf Gouda & Tamás Szántai
April 2010, Volume 176, Issue 1
- 1-5 Introduction to the theory and applications of uncertainty
by Moawia Alghalith & Ardeshir Dalal - 7-39 Inventory management with partially observed nonstationary demand
by Erhan Bayraktar & Michael Ludkovski - 41-75 Dominance-based Rough Set Approach to decision under uncertainty and time preference
by Salvatore Greco & Benedetto Matarazzo & Roman Słowiński - 77-93 Upper bounds for the 0-1 stochastic knapsack problem and a B&B algorithm
by Stefanie Kosuch & Abdel Lisser - 95-107 Employee stock ownership and diversification
by Harry Markowitz & Joseph Blasi & Douglas Kruse - 109-126 A new methodology for studying the equity premium
by Elie Appelbaum & Parantap Basu - 127-152 Run lengths and liquidity
by Sanjiv Das & Paul Hanouna - 153-178 Economically relevant preferences for all observed epsilon
by Haim Levy & Moshe Leshno & Boaz Leibovitch - 179-190 Representing risk preferences in expected utility based decision models
by Jack Meyer - 191-220 Robust portfolios: contributions from operations research and finance
by Frank Fabozzi & Dashan Huang & Guofu Zhou - 221-234 Asset pricing and portfolio selection based on the multivariate extended skew-Student-t distribution
by C. Adcock - 235-258 Moment calculations for piecewise-defined functions: an application to stochastic optimization with coherent risk measures
by E. Borgonovo & L. Peccati - 259-269 Some consequences of correlation aversion in decision science
by Michel Denuit & Louis Eeckhoudt & Béatrice Rey - 271-291 On risk minimizing portfolios under a Markovian regime-switching Black-Scholes economy
by Robert Elliott & Tak Siu - 293-309 Stochastic models for risk estimation in volatile markets: a survey
by Stoyan Stoyanov & Borjana Racheva-Iotova & Svetlozar Rachev & Frank Fabozzi - 311-332 Business value and risk in the presence of price controls: an option-based analysis of margin squeeze rules in the telecommunications industry
by P. Baecker & G. Grass & U. Hommel - 333-348 Valuing the switching flexibility of the ethanol-gas flex fuel car
by Carlos Bastian-Pinto & Luiz Brandão & Mariana Lemos Alves - 349-368 Cost minimization and the stochastic discount factor
by Robert Chambers & John Quiggin - 369-378 Estimation of production risk and risk preference function: a nonparametric approach
by Subal Kumbhakar & Efthymios Tsionas - 379-387 Nondiscrimination and monotonicity in fair division
by John Pratt - 389-408 Optimal investment strategy to minimize occupation time
by Erhan Bayraktar & Virginia Young - 409-424 Shared destinies and the measurement of social risk equity
by Thibault Gajdos & John Weymark & Claudio Zoli
March 2010, Volume 175, Issue 1
- 1-1 Preface
by Denis Bouyssou & Silvano Martello & Frank Plastria - 3-8 Eleven surveys in operations research: II
by Denis Bouyssou & Silvano Martello & Frank Plastria - 9-35 Some operations research methods for analyzing protein sequences and structures
by Piotr Łukasiak & Jacek Błażewicz & Maciej Miłostan - 37-76 Integrating Operations Research in Constraint Programming
by Michela Milano & Mark Wallace - 77-105 Ejection chain and filter-and-fan methods in combinatorial optimization
by César Rego & Fred Glover - 107-158 An updated survey on the linear ordering problem for weighted or unweighted tournaments
by Irène Charon & Olivier Hudry - 159-175 Combinatorial optimization and Green Logistics
by Abdelkader Sbihi & Richard Eglese - 177-211 Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems
by Francisco Facchinei & Christian Kanzow - 213-245 Exact algorithms for routing problems under vehicle capacity constraints
by Roberto Baldacci & Paolo Toth & Daniele Vigo - 247-286 A decade of application of the Choquet and Sugeno integrals in multi-criteria decision aid
by Michel Grabisch & Christophe Labreuche - 287-307 On the use of graphs in discrete tomography
by Dominique Werra & Marie-Christine Costa & C. Picouleau & Bernard Ries - 309-365 Mathematical optimization in intensity modulated radiation therapy
by Matthias Ehrgott & Çiğdem Güler & Horst Hamacher & Lizhen Shao - 367-407 Variable neighbourhood search: methods and applications
by Pierre Hansen & Nenad Mladenović & José Moreno Pérez
February 2010, Volume 174, Issue 1
- 1-2 Special volume on Data Mining
by Victoria Chen - 3-17 Image denoising via solution paths
by Li Wang & Ji Zhu - 19-32 A Bayesian approach for the alignment of high-resolution NMR spectra
by Seoung Kim & Zhou Wang & Basavaraj Hiremath - 33-46 Using clustering to improve sales forecasts in retail merchandising
by Mahesh Kumar & Nitin Patel - 47-66 A framework of irregularity enlightenment for data pre-processing in data mining
by Siu-Tong Au & Rong Duan & Siamak Hesar & Wei Jiang - 67-81 Time-based detection of changes to multivariate patterns
by Jing Hu & George Runger - 83-101 Adjusted support vector machines based on a new loss function
by Shuchun Wang & Wei Jiang & Kwok-Leung Tsui - 103-120 Financial market forecasting using a two-step kernel learning method for the support vector regression
by Li Wang & Ji Zhu - 121-134 Alternating local search based VNS for linear classification
by Frank Plastria & Steven De Bruyne & Emilio Carrizosa - 135-146 Induction over Strategic Agents: a genetic algorithm solution
by Fidan Boylu & Haldun Aytug & Gary Koehler - 147-168 Analysis of the consistency of a mixed integer programming-based multi-category constrained discriminant model
by J. Brooks & Eva Lee - 169-183 Optimizing feature selection to improve medical diagnosis
by Ya-Ju Fan & Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse - 185-199 NeuroGenetic approach for combinatorial optimization: an exploratory analysis
by Anurag Agarwal & Selcuk Colak & Jason Deane - 201-218 A methodology for knowledge discovery to support product family design
by Seung Moon & Timothy Simpson & Soundar Kumara - 219-235 Disparate data fusion for protein phosphorylation prediction
by Genetha Gray & Pamela Williams & W. Brown & Jean-Loup Faulon & Kenneth Sale
January 2010, Volume 173, Issue 1
- 1-3 Efficiency and productivity: theory and applications
by Ali Emrouznejad & Rajiv Banker - 5-24 The assessment of retailing efficiency using Network Data Envelopment Analysis
by C. Vaz & A. Camanho & R. Guimarães - 25-37 The impact of supervisory monitoring on high-end retail sales productivity
by Rajiv Banker & Seok-Young Lee & Gordon Potter & Dhinu Srinivasan - 39-56 A DEA methodology to evaluate the impact of information asymmetry on the efficiency of not-for-profit organizations with an application to higher education in Brazil
by José França & João Figueiredo & Jair Lapa - 57-76 Malmquist indexes with quasi-fixed inputs: an application to school districts in Québec
by Pierre Ouellette & Valérie Vierstraete - 77-87 Technological progress and productivity growth in the U.S. mobile telecommunications industry
by Rajiv Banker & Zhanwei Cao & Nirup Menon & Ram Natarajan - 89-103 Using the bootstrap method to detect influential DMUs in data envelopment analysis
by Zijiang Yang & Xiaogang Wang & Dongming Sun - 105-122 Nonparametric conditional efficiency measures: asymptotic properties
by Seok-Oh Jeong & Byeong Park & Léopold Simar - 123-136 Gradual technical and scale efficiency improvement in DEA
by Sebastián Lozano & Gabriel Villa - 137-144 A double-frontier approach for measuring market imperfection
by Michel Mouchart & Marie Vandresse - 145-161 Hedonic price function estimation in economics and marketing: revisiting Lancaster’s issue of “noncombinable” goods
by Ruben Chumpitaz & Kristiaan Kerstens & Nicholas Paparoidamis & Matthias Staat - 163-175 Context-dependent performance standards in DEA
by Wade Cook & Joe Zhu - 177-194 DEA models with undesirable inputs and outputs
by W. Liu & W. Meng & X. Li & D. Zhang - 195-206 Returns to scale in multiplicative models in data envelopment analysis
by M. Zarepisheh & E. Khorram & G. Jahanshahloo - 207-235 A classification of DEA models when the internal structure of the Decision Making Units is considered
by Lorenzo Castelli & Raffaele Pesenti & Walter Ukovich
November 2009, Volume 172, Issue 1
- 1-23 Inventory based allocation policies for flexible servers in serial systems
by Ramesh Arumugam & Maria Mayorga & Kevin Taaffe - 25-35 Stability and accuracy functions in a coalition game with bans, linear payoffs and antagonistic strategies
by Yury Nikulin - 37-43 Linear transformations to decrease computational requirements of solving some known linear programming models
by M. Soleimani-damaneh & M. Zarepisheh - 45-69 Fixed Charge Transportation Problems: a new heuristic approach based on Lagrangean relaxation and the solving of core problems
by Jesús Sáez Aguado - 71-96 Variable neighbourhood search for the minimum labelling Steiner tree problem
by Sergio Consoli & Kenneth Darby-Dowman & Nenad Mladenović & José Moreno-Pérez - 97-117 Dynamic asset allocation under VaR constraint with stochastic interest rates
by Donatien Hainaut - 119-142 An efficient model formulation for level of repair analysis
by R. Basten & J. Schutten & M. Heijden - 143-151 An approximation for multi-server queues with deterministic reneging times
by Wei Xiong & Tayfur Altiok - 153-176 Differential evolution and combinatorial search for constrained index-tracking
by Thiemo Krink & Stefan Mittnik & Sandra Paterlini - 177-192 A decision model for ranking suppliers in the presence of cardinal and ordinal data, weight restrictions, and nondiscretionary factors
by Reza Farzipoor Saen - 193-202 An exact algorithm for the type-constrained and variable sized bin packing problem
by Chunyang Zhou & Chongfeng Wu & Yun Feng - 203-219 Pareto optimal allocations and dynamic programming
by Sebastian Sitarz - 221-230 A randomized algorithm for the min-max selecting items problem with uncertain weights
by Adam Kasperski & Paweł Zieliński - 231-242 Allocating flexible servers in serial systems with switching costs
by Maria Mayorga & Kevin Taaffe & Ramesh Arumugam - 243-258 Optimally solving the alternative subgraphs assembly line balancing problem
by Armin Scholl & Nils Boysen & Malte Fliedner - 259-276 Setting gates for activities in the stochastic project scheduling problem through the cross entropy methodology
by Illana Bendavid & Boaz Golany - 277-289 First-order optimality conditions and duality results for multi-objective optimisation problems
by S. Askar & A. Tiwari - 291-313 Waiting time approximation in single-class queueing systems with multiple types of interruptions: modeling congestion at waterways entrances
by Özgecan Ulusçu & Tayfur Altıok - 315-327 Single-machine scheduling with both deterioration and learning effects
by Dar-Li Yang & Wen-Hung Kuo - 329-347 Distribution systems design with two-level routing considerations
by Jenn-Rong Lin & Hsien-Chung Lei - 349-361 Optimal hierarchical system of a grid road network
by Masashi Miyagawa - 363-374 The multichoice coalition value
by M. Albizuri - 375-392 Learning in nonlinear pricing with unknown utility functions
by Kimmo Berg & Harri Ehtamo - 393-404 A game-theoretic approach for downgrading the 1-median in the plane with Manhattan metric
by Elisabeth Gassner - 405-427 Bidirectional best-fit heuristic for orthogonal rectangular strip packing
by Önder Aşık & Ender Özcan - 429-446 ITC2007 solver description: a hybrid approach
by Tomáš Müller - 447-457 Assignment problems with changeover cost
by Pritibhushan Sinha - 459-462 Comments on “Scheduling jobs on a k-stage flexible flow-shop” [Annals of Operations Research (2008) 164: 29–40]
by R. Ramezanian & A. Karamouzian - 463-463 Errata for “A robustness approach to international sourcing” by G.J. Gutierrez and P. Kouvelis, Annals of Operations Research 59 (1995) 165–193
by Genaro Gutierrez & Panagiotis Kouvelis & Lawrence Snyder
October 2009, Volume 171, Issue 1
- 1-2 Introduction to the special volume on constraint programming, artificial intelligence, and operations research
by J. Beck & Barbara Smith - 3-25 Conditional lexicographic orders in constraint satisfaction problems
by Richard Wallace & Nic Wilson - 27-43 On the separability of subproblems in Benders decompositions
by Marco Cadoli & Fabio Patrizi - 45-59 The timetable constrained distance minimization problem
by Rasmus Rasmussen & Michael Trick - 61-76 Combining column generation and constraint programming to solve the tail assignment problem
by Sami Gabteni & Mattias Grönkvist - 77-99 Finding reliable solutions: event-driven probabilistic constraint programming
by S. Tarim & Brahim Hnich & Steven Prestwich & Roberto Rossi - 101-126 Online stochastic reservation systems
by Pascal Hentenryck & Russell Bent & Luc Mercier & Yannis Vergados - 127-147 Undirected forest constraints
by Nicolas Beldiceanu & Irit Katriel & Xavier Lorca
September 2009, Volume 170, Issue 1
- 1-2 Note from the editors
by Michel Mandjes & Rob Mei & Rudesindo Núñez-Queija - 3-19 SRPT applied to bandwidth-sharing networks
by Samuli Aalto & Urtzi Ayesta - 21-39 Optimal choice of threshold in Two Level Processor Sharing
by Konstantin Avrachenkov & Patrick Brown & Natalia Osipova - 41-58 Bandwidth-sharing networks under a diffusion scaling
by Urtzi Ayesta & Michel Mandjes - 59-78 Interacting queues with server selection and coordinated scheduling—application to cellular data networks
by Sem Borst & Nidhi Hegde & Alexandre Proutière - 79-94 Poisson convergence, in large deviations, for the superposition of independent point processes
by R. Cruise - 95-112 Analysis of cyclic queueing networks with parallelism and vacation
by Vittoria de Nitto Personè - 113-131 Packet loss characteristics for M/G/1/N queueing systems
by Dieter Fiems & Stijn Vuyst & Sabine Wittevrongel & Herwig Bruneel - 133-159 Heavy-tailed limits for medium size jobs and comparison scheduling
by Predrag Jelenković & Xiaozhu Kang & Jian Tan - 161-182 A decentralized control mechanism for stream processing networks
by Zhen Liu & Ao Tang & Cathy Xia & Li Zhang - 183-197 Radio resource management for the UMTS enhanced uplink in presence of QoS radio bearers
by Andreas Mäder & Dirk Staehle - 199-216 Bivariate statistical analysis of TCP-flow sizes and durations
by Natalia Markovich & Jorma Kilpi - 217-232 An extension of the square root law of TCP
by Krishanu Maulik & Bert Zwart - 233-249 Near optimal control of queueing networks over a finite time horizon
by Yoni Nazarathy & Gideon Weiss - 251-263 Static and dynamic server allocation in systems with on/off sources
by Joris Slegers & Isi Mitrani & Nigel Thomas
July 2009, Volume 169, Issue 1
- 1-2 Preface
by M. Baldoquin & Héctor Cancela & Roger Ríos-Mercado & María Urquhart - 3-16 Exploring the complexity boundary between coloring and list-coloring
by Flavia Bonomo & Guillermo Durán & Javier Marenco - 17-34 NP-hardness of the recognition of coordinated graphs
by Francisco Soulignac & Gabriel Sueiro - 35-53 Urban rapid transit network design: accelerated Benders decomposition
by Ángel Marín & Patricia Jaramillo - 55-80 Interior point method for long-term generation scheduling of large-scale hydrothermal systems
by Anibal Azevedo & Aurelio Oliveira & Secundino Soares - 81-91 Scheduling unit time jobs with integer release dates to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs
by Mitre Dourado & Rosiane Rodrigues & Jayme Szwarcfiter - 93-115 An optimal replenishment policy for an EOQ model with partial backlogging
by Joaquín Sicilia & Luis San-José & Juan García-Laguna - 117-130 An optimization model for the aggregate production planning of a Brazilian sugar and ethanol milling company
by Rafael Paiva & Reinaldo Morabito - 131-147 Who wants to break the hockey-stick sales pattern in the supply chain?
by Marcos Singer & Patricio Donoso & Garo Konstantinidis - 149-165 Cutting optimization of structural tubes to build agricultural light aircrafts
by Alexander Abuabara & Reinaldo Morabito - 167-181 Efficiency and sustainability assessment for a group of farmers in the Brazilian Amazon
by Eliane Gomes & João Soares de Mello & Geraldo Souza & Lidia Angulo Meza & João Mangabeira
April 2009, Volume 168, Issue 1
- 1-4 Introduction: advances in intelligent information processing
by Shoubo Xu - 5-21 A solution for cyclic scheduling of multi-hoists without overlapping
by Zhili Zhou & Ling Li - 23-39 Nested partitions for the large-scale extended job shop scheduling problem
by Hoksung Yau & Leyuan Shi - 41-80 A mathematical model of infectious diseases
by Guangping Huang & Ling Li - 81-99 A CA-based epidemic model for HIV/AIDS transmission with heterogeneity
by Huiyu Xuan & Lida Xu & Lu Li - 101-117 Theoretical insights into the augmented-neural-network approach for combinatorial optimization
by Anurag Agarwal - 119-131 Fuzziness index driven fuzzy relaxation algorithm and applications to image processing
by Shang-Ming Zhou & John Gan & Lida Xu & Robert John - 133-150 Towards optimal workload-aware XML to relational schema mapping
by Xiaoling Wang & Jinfeng Luan & Guimei Liu & Aoying Zhou - 151-168 Cluster-based outlier detection
by Lian Duan & Lida Xu & Ying Liu & Jun Lee - 169-179 Stochastic vendor selection problem: chance-constrained model and genetic algorithms
by Shiwei He & Sohail Chaudhry & Zhonglin Lei & Wang Baohua - 181-203 An approach to the valuation and decision of ERP investment projects based on real options
by F. Wu & H. Li & L. Chu & D. Sculli & K. Gao - 205-223 A rough set approach to knowledge discovery in analyzing competitive advantages of firms
by Yuan Li & Xiuwu Liao & Wenhong Zhao - 225-245 Chameleon based on clustering feature tree and its application in customer segmentation
by Jinfeng Li & Kanliang Wang & Lida Xu - 247-265 ADTreesLogit model for customer churn prediction
by Jiayin Qi & Li Zhang & Yanping Liu & Ling Li & Yongpin Zhou & Yao Shen & Liang Liang & Huaizu Li - 267-290 A diagnostic system based upon knowledge and experience
by Qing Zhou & Xiaofang Deng & James Jones & Kehui Zhang - 291-305 Designing sniping agents
by Chuan-Hoo Tan & Hock-Hai Teo & En Xie & Yuan Li
March 2009, Volume 167, Issue 1
- 1-6 Preface
by Zvi Drezner & Frank Plastria - 7-41 On the point for which the sum of the distances to n given points is minimum
by E. Weiszfeld & Frank Plastria - 43-60 Efficiency for continuous facility location problems with attraction and repulsion
by A. Jourani & C. Michelot & M. Ndiaye - 61-86 Inequality measures and equitable locations
by Włodzimierz Ogryczak - 87-105 A robust and efficient algorithm for planar competitive location problems
by J. Redondo & J. Fernández & I. García & P. Ortigosa - 107-120 Location of retail facilities under conditions of uncertainty
by Tammy Drezner - 121-155 Asymmetric distances, semidirected networks and majority in Fermat–Weber problems
by Frank Plastria - 157-170 Simultaneous siting and sizing of distribution centers on a plane
by Simin Huang & Rajan Batta & Rakesh Nagi - 171-208 Aggregation error for location models: survey and analysis
by R. Francis & T. Lowe & M. Rayco & A. Tamir - 209-251 A computational evaluation of a general branch-and-price framework for capacitated network location problems
by Alberto Ceselli & Federico Liberatore & Giovanni Righini - 253-269 Combined location-routing problems—a neural network approach
by Martin Schwardt & Kathrin Fischer - 271-286 A hierarchical location-allocation model with travel based on expected referral distances
by M. Hodgson & Soren Jacobsen - 287-296 Local improvement in planar facility location using vehicle routing
by Saïd Salhi & Gábor Nagy - 297-306 Efficient solution approaches for a discrete multi-facility competitive interaction model
by Robert Aboolian & Oded Berman & Dmitry Krass - 307-325 Optimal location with equitable loads
by Oded Berman & Zvi Drezner & Arie Tamir & George Wesolowsky - 327-336 On the convergence of the generalized Weiszfeld algorithm
by Zvi Drezner - 337-352 The multiple server center location problem
by Robert Aboolian & Oded Berman & Zvi Drezner - 353-368 Single facility location and relocation problem with time dependent weights and discrete planning horizon
by Reza Farahani & Zvi Drezner & Nasrin Asgari
February 2009, Volume 166, Issue 1
- 1-4 Introduction to the special issue on APMOD06
by Antonio Alonso-Ayuso & Laureano Escudero & Andrés Ramos - 5-22 Use of stochastic and mathematical programming in portfolio theory and practice
by William Ziemba - 23-38 A confidence voting process for ranking problems based on support vector machines
by Tianshi Jiao & Jiming Peng & Tamás Terlaky - 39-56 A genetic algorithm for solving linear fractional bilevel problems
by Herminia Calvete & Carmen Galé & Pedro Mateo - 57-71 A hybrid optimization approach to index tracking
by Rubén Ruiz-Torrubiano & Alberto Suárez - 73-90 A modified PRP conjugate gradient method
by Gonglin Yuan & Xiwen Lu - 91-108 Solving a tactical operating room planning problem by a column-generation-based heuristic procedure with four criteria
by H. Fei & C. Chu & N. Meskens - 109-124 An algorithmic approach for maintenance management based on advanced state space systems and harmonic regressions
by Diego Pedregal & Fausto García & Clive Roberts - 125-146 An effective solution for a real cutting stock problem in manufacturing plastic rolls
by Ramiro Varela & Camino Vela & Jorge Puente & María Sierra & Inés González-Rodríguez - 147-161 An improved partial enumeration algorithm for integer programming problems
by Mohammad Sabbagh & Richard Soland