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Volume 196, Issue 1

July 2012

Including Special Section: OR IN MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

Issue Editors:

Eva K. Lee,
Ariela Sofer

41 articles in this issue

New algorithms and complexity status of the reducibility problem of sequences in open shop scheduling minimizing the makespan
Michael Andresen
Tanka Nath Dhamala
OriginalPaper 15 February 2012 Pages: 1 - 26
The average tree solution for multi-choice forest games
S. Béal
A. Lardon
P. Solal
OriginalPaper 04 May 2012 Pages: 27 - 51
A tree search algorithm for solving the multi-dimensional strip packing problem with guillotine cutting constraint
Andreas Bortfeldt
Sabine Jungmann
OriginalPaper 23 February 2012 Pages: 53 - 71
Monte Carlo hyper-heuristics for examination timetabling
Edmund K. Burke
Graham Kendall
Ender Özcan
OriginalPaper 05 September 2010 Pages: 73 - 90
A Pareto-based search methodology for multi-objective nurse scheduling
Edmund K. Burke
Jingpeng Li
Rong Qu
OriginalPaper 01 September 2009 Pages: 91 - 109
A new simulation method based on the RVR principle for the rare event network reliability problem
H. Cancela
M. El Khadiri
G. Rubino
OriginalPaper 19 January 2012 Pages: 111 - 136
Optimal static pricing for a tree network
Felipe Caro
David Simchi-Levi
OriginalPaper 05 April 2012 Pages: 137 - 152
Trade credit contract with limited liability in the supply chain with budget constraints
Xiangfeng Chen
Anyu Wang
OriginalPaper 05 April 2012 Pages: 153 - 165
Optimal design of container inspection strategies considering multiple objectives via an evolutionary approach
Ana Lisbeth Concho
José E. Ramirez-Marquez
OriginalPaper 09 February 2012 Pages: 167 - 187
Approximately optimal bidding policies for repeated first-price auctions
Amir Danak
Shie Mannor
OriginalPaper 11 May 2012 Pages: 189 - 199
Overcoming the drawbacks of a revenue-sharing contract through a support program
Pietro De Giovanni
Maria Roselli
OriginalPaper Open access 04 April 2012 Pages: 201 - 222
Bilevel road pricing: theoretical analysis and optimality conditions
S. Dempe
A. B. Zemkoho
OriginalPaper 16 November 2011 Pages: 223 - 240
Stability of the multiserver queue with addressed retrials
G. Falin
OriginalPaper 31 December 2011 Pages: 241 - 246
Transforming a pseudo-polynomial algorithm for the single machine total tardiness maximization problem into a polynomial one
Evgeny R. Gafarov
Alexander A. Lazarev
Frank Werner
OriginalPaper 10 January 2012 Pages: 247 - 261
Multi-attribute non-expected utility
Gebhard Geiger
OriginalPaper 10 May 2012 Pages: 263 - 292
Some inference results on random pure exchange economies
Yongming Hou
OriginalPaper 15 May 2012 Pages: 293 - 309
Fleet replacement under technological shocks
Natali Hritonenko
Yuri Yatsenko
OriginalPaper 04 February 2012 Pages: 311 - 331
A Bayesian model and numerical algorithm for CBM availability maximization
Rui Jiang
Michael Jong Kim
Viliam Makis
OriginalPaper 18 November 2011 Pages: 333 - 348
Single-machine group scheduling with time-dependent learning effect and position-based setup time learning effect
Wen-Hung Kuo
OriginalPaper 20 March 2012 Pages: 349 - 359
On minimum sum representations for weighted voting games
Sascha Kurz
OriginalPaper 10 March 2012 Pages: 361 - 369
A discrete dynamic convexized method for the max-cut problem
Geng Lin
Wenxing Zhu
OriginalPaper 14 April 2012 Pages: 371 - 390
Stochastic dominance efficiency analysis of diversified portfolios: classification, comparison and refinements
Andrey Lizyayev
OriginalPaper 11 April 2012 Pages: 391 - 410
Network interdiction to minimize the maximum probability of evasion with synergy between applied resources
Brian J. Lunday
Hanif D. Sherali
OriginalPaper 18 April 2012 Pages: 411 - 442
Rectilinear distance to a facility in the presence of a square barrier
Masashi Miyagawa
OriginalPaper 24 January 2012 Pages: 443 - 458
Resource allocation for performance improvement
Nasim Nasrabadi
Akram Dehnokhalaji
Jyrki Wallenius
OriginalPaper 15 November 2011 Pages: 459 - 468
Location-allocation planning of stockpiles for effective disaster mitigation
Jomon Aliyas Paul
Govind Hariharan
OriginalPaper 06 January 2012 Pages: 469 - 490
Scheduling problems with position dependent job processing times: computational complexity results
Radosław Rudek
OriginalPaper Open access 29 February 2012 Pages: 491 - 516
The one-warehouse multi-retailer problem: reformulation, classification, and computational results
Oğuz Solyalı
Haldun Süral
OriginalPaper 23 November 2011 Pages: 517 - 541
Maximization of the Choquet integral over a convex set and its application to resource allocation problems
Mikhail Timonin
OriginalPaper 10 May 2012 Pages: 543 - 579
Solving market split problems with heuristical lattice reduction
Heiko Vogel
OriginalPaper 11 May 2012 Pages: 581 - 590
A mixed 0–1 LP for index tracking problem with CVaR risk constraints
Meihua Wang
Chengxian Xu
Hongang Xue
OriginalPaper 31 December 2011 Pages: 591 - 609
Multi-neighborhood tabu search for the maximum weight clique problem
Qinghua Wu
Jin-Kao Hao
Fred Glover
OriginalPaper 04 April 2012 Pages: 611 - 634
An MIP-based interval heuristic for the capacitated multi-level lot-sizing problem with setup times
Tao Wu
Leyuan Shi
Jie Song
OriginalPaper 30 November 2011 Pages: 635 - 650
Convexity of chance constrained programming problems with respect to a new generalized concavity notion
Zahra Mashayekhi Zadeh
Esmaile Khorram
OriginalPaper 15 March 2012 Pages: 651 - 662
Efficient solutions for the far from most string problem
Paola Festa
Panos M. Pardalos
OriginalPaper 02 December 2011 Pages: 663 - 682
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Special Section: OR in Medicine and Health Care
Scheduling the adjuvant endocrine therapy for early stage breast cancer
Sera Kahruman
Elif Ulusal
Kathleen M. Diehl
OriginalPaper 05 May 2010 Pages: 683 - 705
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An analytic framework to develop policies for testing, prevention, and treatment of two-stage contagious diseases
Hoda Parvin
Piyush Goel
Natarajan Gautam
OriginalPaper 14 March 2012 Pages: 707 - 735
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Discrete and geometric Branch and Bound algorithms for medical image registration
Frank Pfeuffer
Michael Stiglmayr
Kathrin Klamroth
OriginalPaper 10 June 2010 Pages: 737 - 765
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Stochastic programming for off-line adaptive radiotherapy
Mustafa Y. Sir
Marina A. Epelman
Stephen M. Pollock
OriginalPaper 27 August 2010 Pages: 767 - 797
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Mixed-integer programming techniques for decomposing IMRT fluence maps using rectangular apertures
Z. Caner Taşkın
J. Cole Smith
H. Edwin Romeijn
OriginalPaper 22 June 2010 Pages: 799 - 818
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Strong valid inequalities for fluence map optimization problem under dose-volume restrictions
Ali T. Tuncel
Felisa Preciado
Jean-Philippe P. Richard
OriginalPaper 09 June 2010 Pages: 819 - 840
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Special Section: OR in Medicine and Health Care