European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 186

Volume 186, Number 1, April 2008

• Moutaz Khouja, Suresh Goyal:
  A review of the joint replenishment problem literature: 1989-2005. 1-16
  
• Shiang-Tai Liu:
  Posynomial geometric programming with interval exponents and coefficients. 17-27
  
• S. K. Suneja, Seema Khurana, Vani:
  Generalized nonsmooth invexity over cones in vector optimization. 28-40
  
• Jin-Bao Jian, Qing-Juan Xu, Dao-Lan Han:
  A norm-relaxed method of feasible directions for finely discretized problems from semi-infinite programming. 41-62
  
• Stefan Balev, Nicola Yanev, Arnaud Fréville, Rumen Andonov:
  A dynamic programming based reduction procedure for the multidimensional 0-1 knapsack problem. 63-76
  
• R. Ravi, Amitabh Sinha:
  Approximating k. 77-90
  
• Konstantinos Kaparis, Adam N. Letchford:
  Local and global lifted cover inequalities for the 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problem. 91-103
  
• Raf Jans, Zeger Degraeve:
  A note on a symmetrical set covering problem: The lottery problem. 104-110
  
• Vikrant Vig, Udatta S. Palekar:
  On estimating the distribution of optimal traveling salesman tour lengths using heuristics. 111-119
  
• Amir Azaron, S. M. T. Fatemi Ghomi:
  Lower bound for the mean project completion time in dynamic PERT networks. 120-127
  
• Sanjay Sharma:
  Theory of exchange. 128-136
  
• M. I. M. Wahab, Desheng Wu, Chi-Guhn Lee:
  A generic approach to measuring the machine flexibility of manufacturing systems. 137-149
  
• Sami El-Ferik:
  Economic production lot-sizing for an unreliable machine under imperfect age-based maintenance policy. 150-163
  
• Nico M. van Dijk:
  Error bounds for state space truncation of finite Jackson networks. 164-181
  
• Joris Walraevens, Bart Steyaert, Herwig Bruneel:
  Analysis of a discrete-time preemptive resume priority buffer. 182-201
  
• Vanderlei da Costa Bueno:
  Reliability properties under a stopping time shift. 202-210
  
• William Ho:
  Integrated analytic hierarchy process and its applications - A literature review. 211-228
  
• Yucheng Dong, Yinfeng Xu, Hongyi Li, Min Dai:
  A comparative study of the numerical scales and the prioritization methods in AHP. 229-242
  
• Ying He, Rui-Hua Huang:
  Risk attributes theory: Decision making under risk. 243-260
  
• Barry R. Cobb, Prakash P. Shenoy:
  Decision making with hybrid influence diagrams using mixtures of truncated exponentials. 261-275
  
• So Young Sohn, Michael K. Lim:
  The effect of forecasting and information sharing in SCM for multi-generation products. 276-287
  
• Dan Butnariu, Tomás Kroupa:
  Shapley mappings and the cumulative value for n-person games with fuzzy coalitions. 288-299
  
• Deren Han, Hong K. Lo, Jie Sun, Hai Yang:
  The toll effect on price of anarchy when costs are nonlinear and asymmetric. 300-316
  
• Gerard J. Burke, Janice E. Carrillo, Asoo J. Vakharia:
  Heuristics for sourcing from multiple suppliers with alternative quantity discounts. 317-329
  
• Jie Ding, Linguo Gong:
  The effect of testing equipment shift on optimal decisions in a repetitive testing process. 330-350
  
• Xiaoxia Huang:
  Portfolio selection with a new definition of risk. 351-357
  
• Makoto Mizuno, Akira Saji, Ushio Sumita, Hideo Suzuki:
  Optimal threshold analysis of segmentation methods for identifying target customers. 358-379
  
• Andrea Consiglio, Flavio Cocco, Stavros A. Zenios:
  Asset and liability modelling for participating policies with guarantees. 380-404
  
• Nikhil A. Pujari, Trevor S. Hale, Faizul Huq:
  A continuous approximation procedure for determining inventory distribution schemas within supply chains. 405-422
  
• Mahdieh Allahviranloo, Shahriar Afandizadeh:
  Investment optimization on port's development by fuzzy integer programming. 423-434
  
• Xiaofeng Hu, Erfei Wu, Jin Ye:
  A station-oriented enumerative algorithm for two-sided assembly line balancing. 435-440
  
• S. K. Goyal:
  A factual observation on "Effective and simple EOQ-like solutions for stochastic demand periodic review systems". 441
  

Volume 186, Number 2, April 2008

• Moawia Alghalith:
  Recent applications of theory of the firm under uncertainty. 443-450
  
• Carmen Camacho, Benteng Zou, Maya Briani:
  On the dynamics of capital accumulation across space. 451-465
  
• Maziar Salahi, M. Reza Peyghami, Tamás Terlaky:
  New complexity analysis of IIPMs for linear optimization based on a specific self-regular function. 466-485
  
• Min Li, Xiao-Ming Yuan:
  An APPA-based descent method with optimal step-sizes for monotone variational inequalities. 486-495
  
• Ling-Huey Su, Chung-Jung Chen:
  Minimizing total tardiness on a single machine with unequal release dates. 496-503
  
• Bahram Alidaee, Gary A. Kochenberger, Karen Lewis, Mark Lewis, Haibo Wang:
  A new approach for modeling and solving set packing problems. 504-512
  
• Rafael Martí, Vicente Campos, Estefanía Piñana:
  A branch and bound algorithm for the matrix bandwidth minimization. 513-528
  
• Derek E. Armstrong, Sheldon H. Jacobson:
  An analysis of neighborhood functions on generic solution spaces. 529-541
  
• Jiong Guo, Falk Hüffner, Erhan Kenar, Rolf Niedermeier, Johannes Uhlmann:
  Complexity and exact algorithms for vertex multicut in interval and bounded treewidth graphs. 542-553
  
• Deniz Aksen, Kemal Altinkemer:
  A location-routing problem for the conversion to the "click-and-mortar" retailing: The static case. 554-575
  
• Brian Q. Rieksts, Jose A. Ventura:
  Optimal inventory policies with two modes of freight transportation. 576-585
  
• Harish Abbott, Udatta S. Palekar:
  Retail replenishment models with display-space elastic demand. 586-607
  
• J. Boissière, Yannick Frein, Christophe Rapine:
  Optimal stationary policies in a 3-stage serial production-distribution logistic chain facing constant and continuous demand. 608-619
  
• Peter Berling:
  The capital cost of holding inventory with stochastically mean-reverting purchase price. 620-636
  
• Z. Yao, Stephen C. H. Leung, Kin Keung Lai:
  Manufacturer's revenue-sharing contract and retail competition. 637-651
  
• Bi-Min Hsu, Ming-Hung Shu:
  Fuzzy inference to assess manufacturing process capability with imprecise data. 652-670
  
• James Flynn:
  An effective heuristic for the review period in an inventory model with staggered deliveries and normal demands. 671-680
  
• Zhongju Zhang, Weiguo Fan:
  Web server load balancing: A queueing analysis. 681-693
  
• Delia Montoro-Cazorla, Rafael Pérez-Ocón:
  A maintenance model with failures and inspection following Markovian arrival processes and two repair modes. 694-707
  
• Yu-Hung Chien, Jih-An Chen:
  Optimal spare ordering policy under a rebate warranty. 708-719
  
• Hsu-Shih Shih:
  Incremental analysis for MCDM with an application to group TOPSIS. 720-734
  
• Ying-Ming Wang, Ying Luo, Zhongsheng Hua:
  On the extent analysis method for fuzzy AHP and its applications. 735-747
  
• John C. Butler, James S. Dyer, Jianmin Jia, Kerem Tomak:
  Enabling e-transactions with multi-attribute preference models. 748-765
  
• Michel Grabisch, Ivan Kojadinovic, Patrick Meyer:
  A review of methods for capacity identification in Choquet integral based multi-attribute utility theory: Applications of the Kappalab R package. 766-785
  
• M. Zarepisheh, Majid Soleimani-Damaneh:
  Global variation of outputs with respect to the variation of inputs in performance analysis; generalized RTS. 786-800
  
• Raf Jans, Zeger Degraeve, Luc Schepens:
  Analysis of an industrial component commonality problem. 801-811
  
• Eli V. Olinick, Jay M. Rosenberger:
  Optimizing revenue in CDMA networks under demand uncertainty. 812-825
  
• Hande Yaman, Alper Sen:
  Manufacturer's mixed pallet design problem. 826-840
  
• Fang Zhao, Xiaogang Zeng:
  Optimization of transit route network, vehicle headways and timetables for large-scale transit networks. 841-855
  
• Kjell Hausken:
  Strategic defense and attack for series and parallel reliability systems. 856-881
  
• Han-Lin Li, Jung-Fa Tsai:
  A distributed computation algorithm for solving portfolio problems with integer variables. 882-891
  

Volume 186, Number 3, May 2008

• Masri Ayob, Graham Kendall:
  A survey of surface mount device placement machine optimisation: Machine classification. 893-914
  
• Ihsan Sabuncuoglu, Yasin Gocgun, Erdal Erel:
  Backtracking and exchange of information: Methods to enhance a beam search algorithm for assembly line scheduling. 915-930
  
• Ik Sun Lee, C. S. Sung:
  Minimizing due date related measures for a single machine scheduling problem with outsourcing allowed. 931-952
  
• Aiying Rong, Risto Lahdelma:
  Fuzzy chance constrained linear programming model for optimizing the scrap charge in steel production. 953-964
  
• Giovanni Righini:
  A branch-and-bound algorithm for the linear ordering problem with cumulative costs. 965-971
  
• Ardavan Asef-Vaziri, Marc Goetschalckx:
  Dual track and segmented single track bidirectional loop guidepath layout for AGV systems. 972-989
  
• Tom Van Woensel, Laoucine Kerbache, Herbert Peremans, Nico Vandaele:
  Vehicle routing with dynamic travel times: A queueing approach. 990-1007
  
• Ihab Sbeity, Leonardo Brenner, Brigitte Plateau, William J. Stewart:
  Phase-type distributions in stochastic automata networks. 1008-1028
  
• Michelle L. DePoy Smith, William S. Griffith:
  The analysis and comparison of start-up demonstration tests. 1029-1045
  
• Yu-Hung Chien:
  A general age-replacement model with minimal repair under renewing free-replacement warranty. 1046-1058
  
• Wan Lung Ng:
  An efficient and simple model for multiple criteria supplier selection problem. 1059-1067
  
• Susan Howick, Colin Eden, Fran Ackermann, Terry Williams:
  Building confidence in models for multiple audiences: The modelling cascade. 1068-1083
  
• Mohamed Sadok Cherif, Habib Chabchoub, Belaïd Aouni:
  Quality control system design through the goal programming model and the satisfaction functions. 1084-1098
  
• Wim C. M. Van Beers, Jack P. C. Kleijnen:
  Customized sequential designs for random simulation experiments: Kriging metamodeling and bootstrapping. 1099-1113
  
• Josep Freixas, Montserrat Pons:
  Circumstantial power: Optimal persuadable voters. 1114-1126
  
• Kirti Peniwati, Werner Brenner:
  Multi-decisions rating model: Establishing rescue policies for Regional Drinking Water Companies (PDAMs) in Indonesia. 1127-1136
  
• Ching-Chin Chern, Pei-Szu Chien, Shu-Yi Chen:
  A heuristic algorithm for the hospital health examination scheduling problem. 1137-1157
  
• Thomas Kull, David Closs:
  The risk of second-tier supplier failures in serial supply chains: Implications for order policies and distributor autonomy. 1158-1174
  
• Sakesun Suthummanon, Vincent K. Omachonu:
  Cost minimization models: Applications in a teaching hospital. 1175-1183
  
• Ling-Ming Kung, Shang-Wu Yu:
  Prediction of index futures returns and the analysis of financial spillovers - A comparison between GARCH and the grey theorem. 1184-1200
  
• V. Sridharan, Xiaoming Li:
  Improving delivery reliability by a new due-date setting rule. 1201-1211
  
• Jinjiang Yuan, Xianglai Qi, Lingfa Lu, Wenhua Li:
  Single machine unbounded parallel-batch scheduling with forbidden intervals. 1212-1217