European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 178

Volume 178, Number 1, April 2007

• Peng Zhou, Kim-Leng Poh, Beng Wah Ang:
  A non-radial DEA approach to measuring environmental performance. 1-9
  

• Jung-Fa Tsai, Ming-Hua Lin, Yi-Chung Hu:
  On generalized geometric programming problems with non-positive variables. 10-19
  
• S. K. Mishra, K. K. Lai:
  Second order symmetric duality in multiobjective programming involving generalized cone-invex functions. 20-26
  

• Haldun Aytug, Gary J. Koehler:
  The effect of multiple optima on the simple GA run-time complexity. 27-45
  
• J. J. Yuan, Y. X. Lin, C. T. Ng, T. C. Edwin Cheng:
  Approximability of single machine scheduling with fixed jobs to minimize total completion time. 46-56
  
• Xiuli Wang, T. C. Edwin Cheng:
  Single-machine scheduling with deteriorating jobs and learning effects to minimize the makespan. 57-70
  
• Abraham Duarte, Rafael Martí:
  Tabu search and GRASP for the maximum diversity problem. 71-84
  

• Pierpaolo Caricato, Gianpaolo Ghiani, Antonio Grieco, Roberto Musmanno:
  Improved formulation, branch-and-cut and tabu search heuristic for single loop material flow system design. 85-91
  
• Chinho Lin, Yihsu Lin:
  A cooperative inventory policy with deteriorating items for a two-echelon model. 92-111
  
• Peter Shaohua Deng, Robert H.-J. Lin, Peter Chu:
  A note on the inventory models for deteriorating items with ramp type demand rate. 112-120
  
• Robert N. Boute, Stephen M. Disney, Marc Lambrecht, Benny Van Houdt:
  An integrated production and inventory model to dampen upstream demand variability in the supply chain. 121-142
  

• Jung Yoon Hwang, Way Kuo:
  Model-based clustering for integrated circuit yield enhancement. 143-153
  
• James W. Taylor:
  Forecasting daily supermarket sales using exponentially weighted quantile regression. 154-167
  

• Ivan Kojadinovic, Jean-Luc Marichal:
  Entropy of bi-capacities. 168-184
  
• Patrik Eklund, Agnieszka Rusinowska, Harrie C. M. de Swart:
  Consensus reaching in committees. 185-193
  
• Youdi Schipper, Peter Nijkamp, Piet Rietveld:
  Deregulation and welfare in airline markets: An analysis of frequency equilibria. 194-206
  
• Wade D. Cook, Joe Zhu:
  Within-group common weights in DEA: An analysis of power plant efficiency. 207-216
  
• Denis Bouyssou, Thierry Marchant:
  An axiomatic approach to noncompensatory sorting methods in MCDM, I: The case of two categories. 217-245
  
• Denis Bouyssou, Thierry Marchant:
  An axiomatic approach to noncompensatory sorting methods in MCDM, II: More than two categories. 246-276
  

• Wen-Chih Chen, Leon F. McGinnis:
  Reconciling ratio analysis and DEA as performance assessment tools. 277-291
  
• Angel M. Prieto, José L. Zofío:
  Network DEA efficiency in input-output models: With an application to OECD countries. 292-304
  
• Mette Asmild, Joseph C. Paradi, David N. Reese, Fai Tam:
  Measuring overall efficiency and effectiveness using DEA. 305-321
  

• Shin-yi Wu:
  Optimal infrastructure design and expansion of broadband wireless access networks. 322-329
  

Volume 178, Number 2, April 2007

• Mikhail Y. Kovalyov, C. T. Ng, T. C. Edwin Cheng:
  Fixed interval scheduling: Models, applications, computational complexity and algorithms. 331-342
  

• Pooja Pandey, Abraham P. Punnen:
  A simplex algorithm for piecewise-linear fractional programming problems. 343-358
  
• Marvin D. Troutt, Ike C. Ehie, Alan A. Brandyberry:
  Maximally productive input-output units. 359-373
  

• Jirachai Buddhakulsomsiri, David S. Kim:
  Priority rule-based heuristic for multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problems with resource vacations and activity splitting. 374-390
  
• Bernd Wagner:
  An exact solution procedure for a cluster hub location problem. 391-401
  
• Christos Koulamas, George J. Kyparisis:
  Single-machine and two-machine flowshop scheduling with general learning functions. 402-407
  

• Jean-Pierre Kenné, Anis Gharbi, M. Beit:
  Age-dependent production planning and maintenance strategies in unreliable manufacturing systems with lost sale. 408-420
  
• Xiangtong Qi:
  Order splitting with multiple capacitated suppliers. 421-432
  
• I. Konstantaras, Sotirios Papachristos:
  Optimal policy and holding cost stability regions in a periodic review inventory system with manufacturing and remanufacturing options. 433-448
  
• H. Edwin Romeijn, Jia Shu, Chung-Piaw Teo:
  Designing two-echelon supply networks. 449-462
  

• Doo Il Choi, Tae-Sung Kim, Sangmin Lee:
  Analysis of a queueing system with a general service scheduling function, with applications to telecommunication network traffic control. 463-471
  
• Sunantha Teyarachakul, Suresh Chand, Jen Tang:
  Estimating the limits for statistical process control charts: A direct method improving upon the bootstrap. 472-481
  
• A. D. Wall, D. J. Worthington:
  Time-dependent analysis of virtual waiting time behaviour in discrete time queues. 482-499
  

• Tommi Tervonen, Risto Lahdelma:
  Implementing stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis. 500-513
  
• Serafim Opricovic, Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng:
  Extended VIKOR method in comparison with outranking methods. 514-529
  
• Rudolf Berghammer, Agnieszka Rusinowska, Harrie C. M. de Swart:
  Applying relational algebra and Rel. 530-542
  
• Husam Hamad, Sami Al-Hamdan:
  Discovering metamodels' quality-of-fit for simulation via graphical techniques. 543-559
  

• Jau-yeu Menq, Pan-chio Tuan, Ta-sheng Liu:
  Discrete Markov ballistic missile defense system modeling. 560-578
  
• Chun-hyun Paik, Samit Soni:
  A simulated annealing based solution approach for the two-layered location registration and paging areas partitioning problem in cellular mobile networks. 579-594
  

• Ephraim Clark, Joshy Z. Easaw:
  Optimal access pricing for natural monopoly networks when costs are sunk and revenues are uncertain. 595-602
  
• Dries R. Goossens, A. J. T. Maas, Frits C. R. Spieksma, Joris van de Klundert:
  Exact algorithms for procurement problems under a total quantity discount structure. 603-626
  

• Sanjay Sharma:
  A fresh approach to performance evaluation in a multi-item production scenario. 627-630
  
• J. J. Yuan, T. C. Edwin Cheng, C. T. Ng:
  NP-hardness of the single-variable-resource scheduling problem to minimize the total weighted completion time. 631-633
  
• Aaron Luntala Nsakanda, Wilson L. Price, Moustapha Diaby, Marc Gravel:
  Ensuring population diversity in genetic algorithms: A technical note with application to the cell formation problem. 634-638
  

• Matthias Ehrgott:
  Review of "Vector Optimization" by Johannes Jahn. 639-642
  

Volume 178, Number 3, May 2007

• Brian Boffey, Roberto D. Galvão, Luis Gonzalo Acosta Espejo:
  A review of congestion models in the location of facilities with immobile servers. 643-662
  

• Jayaram K. Sankaran:
  On solving large instances of the capacitated facility location problem. 663-676
  
• Pawel Jan Kalczynski, Jerzy Kamburowski:
  On no-wait and no-idle flow shops with makespan criterion. 677-685
  
• Daniel Quadt, Heinrich Kuhn:
  A taxonomy of flexible flow line scheduling procedures. 686-698
  
• K. Ganesh, T. T. Narendran:
  CLOVES: A cluster-and-search heuristic to solve the vehicle routing problem with delivery and pick-up. 699-717
  
• Kalpana Dahiya, Vanita Verma:
  Capacitated transportation problem with bounds on RIM conditions. 718-737
  
• Kamlesh Mathur, Prahalad Venkateshan:
  A new lower bound for the linear knapsack problem with general integer variables. 738-754
  
• Nabila Azi, Michel Gendreau, Jean-Yves Potvin:
  An exact algorithm for a single-vehicle routing problem with time windows and multiple routes. 755-766
  

• Chia-Shin Chung, James Flynn, Piotr Stalinski:
  A single-period inventory placement problem for a supply chain with the expected profit objective. 767-781
  
• Indranil Bose, Anand Paul:
  On returns policies with exogenous price. 782-788
  
• Chung-Yuan Dye, Liang-Yuh Ouyang, Tsu-Pang Hsieh:
  Deterministic inventory model for deteriorating items with capacity constraint and time-proportional backlogging rate. 789-807
  

• Sumeetpal S. Singh, Vladislav B. Tadic, Arnaud Doucet:
  A policy gradient method for semi-Markov decision processes with application to call admission control. 808-818
  
• Jonathan E. Leightner, Tomoo Inoue:
  Tackling the omitted variables problem without the strong assumptions of proxies. 819-840
  
• Yan-Kwang Chen:
  Adaptive sampling enhancement for Hotelling's T. 841-857
  
• Ming Dong, David He:
  Hidden semi-Markov model-based methodology for multi-sensor equipment health diagnosis and prognosis. 858-878
  

• Yves Crama, Luc Leruth:
  Control and voting power in corporate networks: Concepts and computational aspects. 879-893
  
• Ryusuke Hohzaki:
  An inspection game with multiple inspectees. 894-906
  
• Howard R. Clayton, Patrick R. McMullen:
  Combining approaches for evaluating auditing populations: A simulation study. 907-917
  

• Jinjiang Yuan, Ameur Soukhal, Youjun Chen, Lingfa Lu:
  A note on the complexity of flow shop scheduling with transportation constraints. 918-925
  
• Cédric Bentz, Marie-Christine Costa, Christophe Picouleau, Maria Zrikem:
  The shortest multipaths problem in a capacitated dense channel. 926-931