European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 237

Volume 237, Number 1, August 2014

Invited Review

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  Steffen Jørgensen, Georges Zaccour:
  A survey of game-theoretic models of cooperative advertising. 1-14

Discrete Optimization

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  Thibaut Vidal, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Michel Gendreau, Christian Prins:
  Implicit depot assignments and rotations in vehicle routing heuristics. 15-28
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  Ali Divsalar, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Kenneth Sörensen, Dirk Cattrysse:
  A memetic algorithm for the orienteering problem with hotel selection. 29-49
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  Uli Golle, Franz Rothlauf, Nils Boysen:
  Car sequencing versus mixed-model sequencing: A computational study. 50-61
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  Tri-Dung Nguyen:
  A fast approximation algorithm for solving the complete set packing problem. 62-70
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  Edmund K. Burke, Timothy Curtois:
  New approaches to nurse rostering benchmark instances. 71-81
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  Luiz Aizemberg, Hugo Harry Kramer, Artur Alves Pessoa, Eduardo Uchoa:
  Formulations for a problem of petroleum transportation. 82-90

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  A. Gürhan Kök, Kevin H. Shang:
  Evaluation of cycle-count policies for supply chains with inventory inaccuracy and implications on RFID investments. 91-105
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  Jerzy Kamburowski:
  The distribution-free newsboy problem under the worst-case and best-case scenarios. 106-112
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  Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Ruhul A. Sarker, Daryl Essam:
  Real time disruption management for a two-stage batch production-inventory system with reliability considerations. 113-128
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  Kan Wu:
  Taxonomy of batch queueing models in manufacturing systems. 129-135

Stochastics and Statistics

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  Wen Shi, Jack P. C. Kleijnen, Zhixue Liu:
  Factor screening for simulation with multiple responses: Sequential bifurcation. 136-147
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  Ferhan Merdivenci Atici, Funda Ekiz, Alex Lebedinsky:
  Cagan type rational expectation model on complex discrete time domains. 148-151
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  Fotios Petropoulos, Spyros Makridakis, Vassilis Assimakopoulos, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos:
  'Horses for Courses' in demand forecasting. 152-163
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  Wei Xie, Haitao Liao, Tongdan Jin:
  Maximizing system availability through joint decision on component redundancy and spares inventory. 164-176
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  Gábor Rudolf, Nilay Noyan, Vincent Giard:
  Modeling sequence scrambling and related phenomena in mixed-model production lines. 177-195
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  Joe Viana, Sally C. Brailsford, V. Harindra, Paul R. Harper:
  Combining discrete-event simulation and system dynamics in a healthcare setting: A composite model for Chlamydia infection. 196-206

Decision Support

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  Chia-Yen Lee:
  Meta-data envelopment analysis: Finding a direction towards marginal profit maximization. 207-216
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  Shu-Jung Sunny Yang, Edward James Anderson:
  Competition through capacity investment under asymmetric existing capacities and costs. 217-230
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  Annamaria Barbagallo, Patrizia Daniele, Sofia Giuffrè, Antonino Maugeri:
  Variational approach for a general financial equilibrium problem: The Deficit Formula, the Balance Law and the Liability Formula. A path to the economy recovery. 231-244
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  Frédéric Meunier, Thomas Pradeau:
  The uniqueness property for networks with several origin-destination pairs. 245-256
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  Hugh R. Medal, Edward A. Pohl, Manuel D. Rossetti:
  A multi-objective integrated facility location-hardening model: Analyzing the pre- and post-disruption tradeoff. 257-270
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  Raffaella Calabrese:
  Downturn Loss Given Default: Mixture distribution estimation. 271-277

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Yeliz Ekinci, Füsun Ülengin, Nimet Uray, Burç Ülengin:
  Analysis of customer lifetime value and marketing expenditure decisions through a Markovian-based model. 278-288
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  Kristina Lützenkirchen, Daniel Rösch, Harald Scheule:
  Asset portfolio securitizations and cyclicality of regulatory capital. 289-302
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  Davi Michel Valladão, Álvaro Veiga, Geraldo Veiga:
  A multistage linear stochastic programming model for optimal corporate debt management. 303-311
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  Pascal François, Geneviève Gauthier, Frédéric Godin:
  Optimal hedging when the underlying asset follows a regime-switching Markov process. 312-322
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  Shih-Wei Lin, Kuo-Ching Ying:
  Minimizing shifts for personnel task scheduling problems: A three-phase algorithm. 323-334
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  Zhiwang Zhang, Guangxia Gao, Yong Shi:
  Credit risk evaluation using multi-criteria optimization classifier with kernel, fuzzification and penalty factors. 335-348

Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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  Magdalena Kapelko, Alfons Oude Lansink, Spiro E. Stefanou:
  Assessing dynamic inefficiency of the Spanish construction sector pre- and post-financial crisis. 349-357
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  Cinzia Daraio, Léopold Simar:
  Directional distances and their robust versions: Computational and testing issues. 358-369
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  Maximilian Budde, Stefan Minner:
  First- and second-price sealed-bid auctions applied to push and pull supply contracts. 370-382

Short Communication

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  Amin Mostafaee, Majid Soleimani-Damaneh:
  Identifying the anchor points in DEA using sensitivity analysis in linear programming. 383-388

Volume 237, Number 2, September 2014

Invited Review

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  Raimund M. Kovacevic, Georg Ch. Pflug:
  Electricity swing option pricing by stochastic bilevel optimization: A survey and new approaches. 389-403

Discrete Optimization

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  Ruth Hübner, Anita Schöbel:
  When is rounding allowed in integer nonlinear optimization? 404-410
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  Damien Prot, Christophe Rapine, S. Constans, Rémy Fondacci:
  A 4D-sequencing approach for air traffic management. 411-425
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  Jiancheng Long, Wai Yuen Szeto, Hai-Jun Huang:
  A bi-objective turning restriction design problem in urban road networks. 426-439
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  Seiji Kataoka, Takeo Yamada:
  Upper and lower bounding procedures for the multiple knapsack assignment problem. 440-447
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  Edieal J. Pinker, Joseph G. Szmerekovsky, Vera Tilson:
  On the complexity of project scheduling to minimize exposed time. 448-453
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  Daniel Palhazi Cuervo, Peter Goos, Kenneth Sörensen, Emely Arráiz:
  An iterated local search algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with backhauls. 454-464
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  Tatsushi Nishi, Taichi Sugiyama, Masahiro Inuiguchi:
  Two-level decomposition algorithm for crew rostering problems with fair working condition. 465-473

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Dina Smirnov, Yigal Gerchak:
  Inventory sharing via circular unidirectional chaining. 474-486
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  Hamed Soleimani, Kannan Govindan:
  Reverse logistics network design and planning utilizing conditional value at risk. 487-497
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  Céline Gicquel, Abdel Lisser, Michel Minoux:
  An evaluation of semidefinite programming based approaches for discrete lot-sizing problems. 498-507
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  Edward Huang, Marc Goetschalckx:
  Strategic robust supply chain design based on the Pareto-optimal tradeoff between efficiency and risk. 508-518
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  Claudia Archetti, Luca Bertazzi, Maria Grazia Speranza:
  Polynomial cases of the economic lot sizing problem with cost discounts. 519-527
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  Cinthia Pérez, Joseph Geunes:
  A (Q, R) inventory replenishment model with two delivery modes. 528-545

Decision Support

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  Li Xia:
  Service rate control of closed Jackson networks from game theoretic perspective. 546-554
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  Masoud Talebian, Natashia Boland, Martin W. P. Savelsbergh:
  Pricing to accelerate demand learning in dynamic assortment planning for perishable products. 555-565
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  Norma Olaizola, Federico Valenciano:
  Asymmetric flow networks. 566-579
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  Ronald Koch, Ebrahim Nasrabadi:
  Flows over time in time-varying networks: Optimality conditions and strong duality. 580-589
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  Chandra Ade Irawan, Saïd Salhi, Maria Paola Scaparra:
  An adaptive multiphase approach for large unconditional and conditional p-median problems. 590-605
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  Arantza Estévez-Fernández, Hans Reijnierse:
  On the core of cost-revenue games: Minimum cost spanning tree games with revenues. 606-616
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  Thyagaraj S. Kuthambalayan, Peeyush Mehta, Kripa Shanker:
  Integrating operations and marketing decisions using delayed differentiation of products and guaranteed delivery time under stochastic demand. 617-627
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  Bin Zhu, Zeshui Xu:
  Stochastic preference analysis in numerical preference relations. 628-633
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  Kyoung-Kuk Kim, Kun Soo Park:
  Transferring and sharing exchange-rate risk in a risk-averse supply chain of a multinational firm. 634-648
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  Sigi Goode, Chinho Lin, Walter D. Fernández, James J. Jiang:
  Exploring two explanations of loyalty in application service provision. 649-657

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Theodoros Skevas, Spiro E. Stefanou, Alfons Oude Lansink:
  Pesticide use, environmental spillovers and efficiency: A DEA risk-adjusted efficiency approach applied to Dutch arable farming. 658-664
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  Ali R. Zomorrodi, Costas D. Maranas:
  Coarse-grained optimization-driven design and piecewise linear modeling of synthetic genetic circuits. 665-676
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  Knut Haase, Sven Müller:
  Upper and lower bounds for the sales force deployment problem with explicit contiguity constraints. 677-689
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  Bhanuteja Sainathuni, Pratik J. Parikh, Xinhui Zhang, Nan Kong:
  The warehouse-inventory-transportation problem for supply chains. 690-700
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  Amir H. Ansaripoor, Fernando S. Oliveira, Anne Liret:
  A risk management system for sustainable fleet replacement. 701-712
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  Alexander J. Benavides, Marcus Ritt, Cristóbal Miralles:
  Flow shop scheduling with heterogeneous workers. 713-720
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  Luisito Bertinelli, Carmen Camacho, Benteng Zou:
  Carbon capture and storage and transboundary pollution: A differential game approach. 721-728
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  Beatriz Brito Oliveira, Maria Antónia Carravilla, José Fernando Oliveira, Franklina Maria Bragion Toledo:
  A relax-and-fix-based algorithm for the vehicle-reservation assignment problem in a car rental company. 729-737
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  Tao Huang, Robert Fildes, Didier Soopramanien:
  The value of competitive information in forecasting FMCG retail product sales and the variable selection problem. 738-748
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  Chuan-Ju Wang, Tian-Shyr Dai, Yuh-Dauh Lyuu:
  Evaluating corporate bonds with complicated liability structures and bond provisions. 749-757
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  Dmitry A. Ivanov, Alexander N. Pavlov, Boris V. Sokolov:
  Optimal distribution (re)planning in a centralized multi-stage supply network under conditions of the ripple effect and structure dynamics. 758-770

Short Communication

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  Mingming Hu, Peiyu Ren, Jibin Lan, Jun Wang, Weimin Zheng:
  Note on "Some models for deriving the priority weights from interval fuzzy preference relations". 771-773

Volume 237, Number 3, September 2014

Invited Review

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  Emrah Demir, Tolga Bektas, Gilbert Laporte:
  A review of recent research on green road freight transportation. 775-793

Discrete Optimization

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  Yiping Lu, Jianzhong Cha:
  A fast algorithm for identifying minimum size instances of the equivalence classes of the Pallet Loading Problem. 794-801
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  Pieter Vansteenwegen, Manuel Mateo:
  An iterated local search algorithm for the single-vehicle cyclic inventory routing problem. 802-813
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  Wim Vancroonenburg, Federico Della Croce, Dries R. Goossens, Frits C. R. Spieksma:
  The Red-Blue transportation problem. 814-823
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  Elisa M. Alvarez, M. C. van der Heijden, Ingrid M. H. Vliegen, W. H. M. Zijm:
  Service differentiation through selective lateral transshipments. 824-835
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  Michael Poss:
  Robust combinatorial optimization with variable cost uncertainty. 836-845
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  Elsa Silva, José Fernando Oliveira, Gerhard Wäscher:
  2DCPackGen: A problem generator for two-dimensional rectangular cutting and packing problems. 846-856

Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

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  Md. Shamsul Huda, Mali Abdollahian, Musa A. Mammadov, John Yearwood, Shafiq Ahmad, Ibrahim A. Sultan:
  A hybrid wrapper-filter approach to detect the source(s) of out-of-control signals in multivariate manufacturing process. 857-870
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  Panos L. Lorentziadis:
  Pricing in a supply chain for auction bidding under information asymmetry. 871-886
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  Xiaole Wu, Panos Kouvelis, Hirofumi Matsuo, Hiroki Sano:
  Horizontal coordinating contracts in the semiconductor industry. 887-897
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  Jiang Wu, Liang-Yuh Ouyang, Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas-Barrón, Suresh Kumar Goyal:
  Optimal credit period and lot size for deteriorating items with expiration dates under two-level trade credit financing. 898-908

Decision Support

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  Alcino Azevedo, Dean Paxson:
  Developing real option game models. 909-920
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  Biresh K. Sahoo, Mahmood Mehdiloozad, Kaoru Tone:
  Cost, revenue and profit efficiency measurement in DEA: A directional distance function approach. 921-931
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  Mike Yearworth, Leroy White:
  The non-codified use of problem structuring methods and the need for a generic constitutive definition. 932-945
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  Juuso Liesiö, Antti Punkka:
  Baseline value specification and sensitivity analysis in multiattribute project portfolio selection. 946-956
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  Mustafa Ç. Pinar:
  Equilibrium in an ambiguity-averse mean-variance investors market. 957-965
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  John F. Wellington, Alfred L. Guiffrida, Stephen A. Lewis:
  Interior analysis of the green product mix solution. 966-974
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  Gustavo Bergantiños, Ricardo Martínez:
  Cost allocation in asymmetric trees. 975-987
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  Hongping Yuan, Jiayuan Wang:
  A system dynamics model for determining the waste disposal charging fee in construction. 988-996
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  Hirofumi Fukuyama, Yasunobu Maeda, Kazuyuki Sekitani, Jianming Shi:
  Input-output substitutability and strongly monotonic p-norm least distance DEA measures. 997-1007
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  Waldemar Grauberger, Alf Kimms:
  Computing approximate Nash equilibria in general network revenue management games. 1008-1020
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  Richárd Kicsiny, Zoltán Varga, Antonino Scarelli:
  Backward induction algorithm for a class of closed-loop Stackelberg games. 1021-1036

Innovative Applications of O.R.

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  Antonio Miguel Cruz, Gregory L. Haugan, Adriana Maria Rios Rincon:
  The effects of asset specificity on maintenance financial performance: An empirical application of Transaction Cost Theory to the medical device maintenance field. 1037-1053
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  Jason Chao-Hsien Pan, Ming-Hung Wu, Wen-Liang Chang:
  A travel time estimation model for a high-level picker-to-part system with class-based storage policies. 1054-1066
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  Olivier Massol, Albert Banal-Estañol:
  Export diversification through resource-based industrialization: The case of natural gas. 1067-1082
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  Konstantina Kamvysi, Katerina Gotzamani, Andreas Andronikidis, Andreas C. Georgiou:
  Capturing and prioritizing students' requirements for course design by embedding Fuzzy-AHP and linear programming in QFD. 1083-1094
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  Cuneyt Sevim, Asil Oztekin, Özkan Bali, Serkan Gumus, Erkam Güresen:
  Developing an early warning system to predict currency crises. 1095-1104
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  Ahmed F. Abdelghany, Khaled F. Abdelghany, Hani S. Mahmassani, Wael Alhalabi:
  Modeling framework for optimal evacuation of large-scale crowded pedestrian facilities. 1105-1118
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  Francesca Guerriero, Giovanna Miglionico, Filomena Olivito:
  Strategic and operational decisions in restaurant revenue management. 1119-1132
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  Xin Wang, Herbert Kopfer, Michel Gendreau:
  Operational transportation planning of freight forwarding companies in horizontal coalitions. 1133-1141
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  Stijn De Vuyst, Herwig Bruneel, Dieter Fiems:
  Computationally efficient evaluation of appointment schedules in health care. 1142-1154
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  François-Charles Wolff:
  Lift ticket prices and quality in French ski resorts: Insights from a non-parametric analysis. 1155-1164

Short Communication

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  Sarah Ben Amor, Jean-Marc Martel:
  A new distance measure including the weak preference relation: Application to the multiple criteria aggregation procedure for mixed evaluations. 1165-1169