Fleet management for autonomous vehicles: Online PDP under special constraints
Received: 30 April 2017 / Revised: 15 March 2018 / Accepted: 30 May 2018
RAIRO - Operations Research
Accepted manuscripts
ROADEF 2017
Application of the "descent with mutations" metaheuristic to a clique partitioning problem
Received: 21 April 2017 / Revised: 08 May 2018 / Accepted: 19 June 2018
Multi-item Optimal control problem with fuzzy costs and constraints using Fuzzy variational principle
Received: 11 October 2017 / Revised: 19 January 2019 / Accepted: 24 February 2019
A self-adaptive biogeography based optimization algorithm for solving the set covering problem
Received: 29 April 2017 / Revised: 04 March 2019 / Accepted: 29 March 2019
Development of a new cost pps and decomposition of observed actual cost for DMU in a non-competitive space in DEA
Received: 13 October 2018 / Revised: 24 April 2019 / Accepted: 20 June 2019
Special issue - Operations Research Applications in Industry
An Extended Approach for Manufacturing Strategy Process base on Organization Performance through Fuzzy QFD
Received: 17 March 2017 / Revised: 17 May 2018 / Accepted: 04 September 2018
On the Problem of Minimizing the Cost with Optical Devices in Wavelength Division Multiplexing Optical Networks: complexity analysis, mathematical formulation and improved heuristics
Received: 28 June 2017 / Revised: 09 April 2018 / Accepted: 04 September 2018
A new robust possibilistic programming model for reliable supply chain network design: A case study of lead-acid battery supply chain
Received: 26 March 2017 / Revised: 20 April 2018 / Accepted: 04 September 2018
Cellular layout design using Tabu search, a case study
Received: 15 August 2017 / Revised: 05 March 2018 / Accepted: 08 September 2018
Cubic chromosome representation for patients' scheduling in the emergency department
Received: 31 January 2017 / Revised: 31 August 2018 / Accepted: 08 September 2018
The support unit location problem to road traffic surveys with multi-stages
Received: 22 March 2017 / Revised: 10 October 2017 / Accepted: 30 October 2017
Single-machine lot scheduling problem for deteriorating items with negative exponential deterioration rate
Received: 27 September 2017 / Revised: 04 May 2018 / Accepted: 08 May 2018
Coordinated decision-making on manufacturer's EPQ-based and buyer's period review inventory policies with stochastic price-sensitive demand: A credit option approach
Received: 30 November 2017 / Revised: 29 April 2018 / Accepted: 21 May 2018
Channel coordination through quality improvement with brand halo effect
Received: 10 November 2017 / Revised: 01 May 2018 / Accepted: 30 May 2018
Influence of controllable lead time, premium price, and unequal shipments under environmental effects in a supply chain management
Received: 10 June 2017 / Revised: 04 March 2018 / Accepted: 30 May 2018
A NOVEL APPROACH TO STOCHASTIC INPUT-OUTPUT MODELING
Received: 09 July 2017 / Revised: 31 December 2017 / Accepted: 19 June 2018
A vendor managed inventory on consignment with penalty as a supply chain coordination arrangement
Received: 10 April 2017 / Revised: 25 March 2018 / Accepted: 19 June 2018
Mean-variance portfolio selection with an uncertain exit-time in a regime-switching market
Received: 23 March 2017 / Revised: 02 May 2018 / Accepted: 19 June 2018
Some results on the b-chromatic number in complementary prism graphs
Received: 21 January 2018 / Revised: 31 May 2018 / Accepted: 27 June 2018
STALLING FOR SOLVING SLOW SERVER PROBLEM
Received: 19 November 2017 / Revised: 11 June 2018 / Accepted: 07 July 2018
Analysis of a discrete-time repairable queue with disasters and working breakdowns
Received: 06 November 2017 / Revised: 14 June 2018 / Accepted: 07 July 2018
On multi-level multi-objective linear fractional programming problem with interval parameters
Received: 09 November 2017 / Revised: 06 July 2018 / Accepted: 03 August 2018
A three-echelon supply chain model with price and two-level quality dependent demand
Received: 08 February 2018 / Revised: 14 July 2018 / Accepted: 04 September 2018
Equilibrium and incentives for supervisor-postgraduate collaborations: A game-theoretic approach
Received: 29 January 2018 / Revised: 22 June 2018 / Accepted: 04 September 2018
A mathematical formulation of time-cost and reliability optimisation for supply chain management in Research-Development projects
Received: 16 November 2017 / Revised: 30 March 2018 / Accepted: 04 September 2018
A rule-based heuristic algorithm for on-line order batching and scheduling in an order picking warehouse with multiple pickers
Received: 13 November 2017 / Revised: 24 July 2018 / Accepted: 04 September 2018
Closed form of the response function in FDH technologies: Theory, computation and application
Received: 02 October 2017 / Revised: 01 July 2018 / Accepted: 04 September 2018
An optimization technique for national income determination model with stability analysis of differential equation in discrete and continuous process under the uncertain environment
Received: 16 September 2017 / Revised: 23 June 2018 / Accepted: 04 September 2018
Domination integrity of some graph classes
Received: 06 March 2017 / Revised: 28 June 2018 / Accepted: 04 September 2018
On the star forest polytope for trees and cycles
Received: 01 June 2015 / Revised: 24 June 2018 / Accepted: 04 September 2018
Analysis of state-dependent discrete-time queue with system disaster
Received: 26 March 2017 / Revised: 25 January 2018 / Accepted: 08 September 2018
Second-order sensitivity analysis for parametric equilibrium problems in set-valued optimization
Received: 02 May 2018 / Revised: 30 July 2018 / Accepted: 19 September 2018
A Linear Programming Based Approach for Composite-Action Markov Decision Processes
Received: 12 December 2017 / Revised: 06 July 2018 / Accepted: 19 September 2018
A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT ALGORITHM TO APPROXIMATE THE PARETO FRONT OF MULTI-OBJECTIVE LINEAR FRACTIONAL PROGRAMMING PROBLEM
Received: 13 July 2017 / Revised: 14 March 2018 / Accepted: 19 September 2018
Necessary and sufficient optimality conditions using convexifactors for mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints
Received: 30 June 2017 / Revised: 18 April 2018 / Accepted: 19 September 2018
Facet-inducing inequalities with acyclic supports for the caterpillar-packing polytope
Received: 21 December 2017 / Revised: 11 August 2018 / Accepted: 21 September 2018
Two phases inventory model with variable cycle length under discount policy
Received: 16 September 2017 / Revised: 14 August 2018 / Accepted: 27 September 2018
Optimizing vendor-managed inventory systems with limited storage capacity and partial backordering under stochastic demand
Received: 06 December 2017 / Revised: 25 August 2018 / Accepted: 12 October 2018
Cross-brand and cross-channel advertising strategies in a dual-channel supply chain
Received: 08 February 2018 / Revised: 11 August 2018 / Accepted: 12 October 2018
On an optimal replenishment policy for inventory models for non-instantaneous deteriorating items with stock dependent demand and partial backlogging
Received: 05 April 2018 / Revised: 09 September 2018 / Accepted: 12 October 2018
Two-warehouse inventory model for deteriorating items with partial backlogging and advance payment scheme
Received: 11 May 2018 / Revised: 16 August 2018 / Accepted: 12 October 2018
Governmental subsidy policies and supply chain decisions with carbon emission limit and consumer's environmental awareness
Received: 03 January 2017 / Revised: 10 August 2018 / Accepted: 20 October 2018
A hybrid algorithm Tabu Search - GRASP for wounded evacuation in disaster response.
Received: 17 June 2018 / Revised: 06 September 2018 / Accepted: 20 October 2018
Optimal Multi-Product Supplier Selection under Stochastic Demand with Service Level and Budget Constraints using Learning Vector Quantization Neural Network
Received: 15 March 2018 / Revised: 27 August 2018 / Accepted: 20 October 2018
A PTAS for single-machine scheduling with release dates and job delivery to minimize makespan
Received: 29 December 2016 / Revised: 11 September 2017 / Accepted: 28 October 2018
DEA based production planning considering technology heterogeneity with undesirable outputs
Received: 04 August 2016 / Revised: 18 June 2018 / Accepted: 10 November 2018
Replenishment of imperfect items in an EOQ inventory model with partial backordering
Received: 18 May 2017 / Revised: 26 October 2018 / Accepted: 10 November 2018
A generalized DEA model for inputs (outputs) estimation under inter-temporal dependence
Received: 03 February 2018 / Revised: 19 September 2018 / Accepted: 10 November 2018
Investment for process quality improvement and setup cost reduction in an imperfect production process with warranty policy and shortages
Received: 17 March 2018 / Revised: 09 October 2018 / Accepted: 10 November 2018
Inventory and pricing decisions for imperfect quality items with inspection errors, sales returns, and partial backorders under inflation
Received: 12 April 2018 / Revised: 14 October 2018 / Accepted: 10 November 2018
Preemptive multi-skilled resource constrained project scheduling problem with hard / soft interval due dates
Received: 13 August 2017 / Revised: 25 September 2018 / Accepted: 13 November 2018
Randomized Control of Arrivals in a finite-buffer GI/M/1 System with Starting Failures
Received: 10 October 2017 / Revised: 21 September 2018 / Accepted: 13 November 2018
A common-weight DEA model for multi-criteria ABC inventory classification with quantitative and qualitative criteria
Received: 25 November 2017 / Revised: 29 September 2018 / Accepted: 13 November 2018
Transient and steady-state analysis of a queuing system having customers' impatience with threshold
Received: 04 May 2018 / Revised: 29 October 2018 / Accepted: 13 November 2018
Customer relationship management and new product development in designing a robust supply chain
Received: 08 February 2018 / Revised: 18 October 2018 / Accepted: 13 November 2018
A bi-level multi-objective data envelopment analysis model for estimating profit and operational efficiency of bank branches
Received: 26 July 2017 / Revised: 25 October 2018 / Accepted: 25 November 2018
Modelling pricing, vertical co-op advertising and quality improvement in a non-cooperative three-echelon supply chain using game theory approach
Received: 06 November 2017 / Revised: 29 May 2018 / Accepted: 25 November 2018
A Markov decision model with dead ends for operating room planning considering dynamic patient priority
Received: 15 March 2018 / Revised: 01 November 2018 / Accepted: 25 November 2018
Advertising and pricing policies in a two-echelon supply chain with a capital-constrained retailer
Received: 07 April 2018 / Revised: 25 October 2018 / Accepted: 25 November 2018
A continuous approximation approach for supply network design considering radio frequency identification adoption
Received: 22 April 2018 / Revised: 21 October 2018 / Accepted: 25 November 2018
The effect of full or partial pricing integration on supply chain management
Received: 08 May 2018 / Revised: 29 September 2018 / Accepted: 25 November 2018
A comprehensive study of a backlogging EOQ model with nonlinear heptagonal dense fuzzy environment
Received: 08 July 2018 / Revised: 11 November 2018 / Accepted: 25 November 2018
An inertial modified algorithm for solving variational inequalities
Received: 02 March 2018 / Revised: 26 November 2018 / Accepted: 02 December 2018
Stochastic analysis of a preemptive retrial queue with orbital search and multiple vacations
Received: 31 January 2015 / Revised: 17 September 2017 / Accepted: 09 December 2018
Stochastic decomposition in retrial queueing inventory system
Received: 06 September 2016 / Revised: 06 December 2018 / Accepted: 09 December 2018
Global distribution center number of some graphs and an algorithm
Received: 13 June 2018 / Revised: 25 October 2018 / Accepted: 09 December 2018
A mathematical model on eco-friendly manufacturing system under probabilistic demand
Received: 13 September 2018 / Revised: 15 November 2018 / Accepted: 09 December 2018
Greedy Systems of Linear Inequalities and Lexicographically Optimal Solutions
Received: 13 September 2018 / Revised: 02 December 2018 / Accepted: 22 December 2018
On the Preconditioned Projective Iterative Methods for the Linear Complementarity Problem
Received: 05 July 2018 / Revised: 17 December 2018 / Accepted: 31 December 2018
Complexity of inheritance of F-convexity for restricted games induced by minimum partitions
Received: 22 February 2018 / Revised: 02 November 2018 / Accepted: 31 December 2018
Picture fuzzy multi-criteria group decision-making method to hotel building energy efficiency retrofit project selection
Received: 12 April 2017 / Revised: 03 November 2018 / Accepted: 31 December 2018
Z-equilibria in Bi-matrix Games with Uncertain payoffs
Received: 09 October 2015 / Revised: 27 September 2018 / Accepted: 31 December 2018
An M/G/1 retrial queue with single working vacation under Bernoulli schedule
Received: 15 February 2016 / Revised: 03 January 2019 / Accepted: 05 January 2019
The impact of oil price changes on efficiency of banks: An application in the Middle East oil exporting countries using SORM-DEA
Received: 09 October 2017 / Revised: 08 December 2018 / Accepted: 05 January 2019
A neoteric approach to geometric shipment policy in an integrated supply chain with setup cost reduction and freight cost using service level constraint
Received: 22 March 2018 / Revised: 12 November 2018 / Accepted: 11 January 2019
An innovative four-layer heuristic for scheduling multi-mode projects under multiple resource constrains
Received: 19 February 2018 / Revised: 27 November 2018 / Accepted: 11 January 2019
Making high school students aware of optimization through games and puzzles
Received: 07 October 2018 / Revised: 19 January 2019 / Accepted: 22 January 2019
Purchasing strategy and supply chain management, the Airbus productive system case
Received: 04 February 2018 / Revised: 22 December 2018 / Accepted: 23 January 2019
Impact of carbon emission on imperfect production inventory system with advance payment base free transportation
Received: 26 September 2018 / Revised: 07 January 2019 / Accepted: 23 January 2019
Strategic behavior in the constant retrial queue with a single vacation
Received: 26 November 2018 / Revised: 12 January 2019 / Accepted: 23 January 2019
An exact approach for the multicommodity network optimization problem with a step cost function
Received: 20 February 2018 / Revised: 07 January 2019 / Accepted: 22 January 2019
An exact minimax penalty function approach to solve multitime variational problems
Received: 03 July 2018 / Revised: 24 December 2018 / Accepted: 02 February 2019
The analysis of a discrete time finite-buffer queue with working vacations under Markovian arrival process and PH-service time
Received: 16 August 2015 / Revised: 05 February 2019 / Accepted: 05 February 2019
General lot-sizing and scheduling for perishable food products
Received: 08 June 2017 / Revised: 31 December 2018 / Accepted: 24 February 2019
Comparisons of customer behavior in Markovian queues with vacation policies and geometric abandonments
Received: 11 December 2017 / Revised: 26 January 2019 / Accepted: 24 February 2019
Joint pricing, services and quality decisions in a dual-channel supply chain
Received: 13 June 2018 / Revised: 14 January 2019 / Accepted: 24 February 2019
A Hybrid Fix-and-Optimize Heuristic for Integrated Inventory-Transportation Problem in a Multi-region Multi-facility Supply Chain
Received: 18 June 2018 / Revised: 08 December 2018 / Accepted: 24 February 2019
Inventory management strategies for the Calabrian hospitals system
Received: 29 June 2018 / Revised: 17 January 2019 / Accepted: 24 February 2019
Supply chain encroachment with quality decision and different power structures
Received: 22 October 2018 / Revised: 25 January 2019 / Accepted: 21 February 2019
Variant impatient behavior of a Markovian queue with balking reserved idle time and working vacation
Received: 11 November 2018 / Revised: 17 February 2019 / Accepted: 25 February 2019
Integrated vendor-buyer strategies for imperfect production systems with maintenance and warranty policy
Received: 08 August 2018 / Revised: 15 February 2019 / Accepted: 05 March 2019
A vendor-buyer inventory model with lot-size and production rate dependent lead time under time value of money
Received: 12 November 2018 / Revised: 06 March 2019 / Accepted: 06 March 2019
Decision making and coordination of fresh agriculture product supply chain considering fairness concerns
Received: 27 March 2018 / Revised: 25 December 2018 / Accepted: 14 March 2019
Coordination of elderly healthcare service supply chain with information asymmetry: Designs of option contracts under different demand distribution statuses
Received: 10 July 2018 / Revised: 29 January 2019 / Accepted: 14 March 2019
New second-order radial epiderivatives and applications to optimality conditions
Received: 23 July 2018 / Revised: 06 March 2019 / Accepted: 14 March 2019
Enterprise learning performance evaluation in the process of cooperative innovation using three-parameter fuzzy linguistic Heronian mean operator
Received: 05 January 2019 / Accepted: 14 March 2019
Store-brand introduction and production arrangement in the presence of multiple retailers
Received: 28 June 2017 / Revised: 18 February 2019 / Accepted: 14 March 2019
The disasters queue with working breakdowns and impatient customers
Received: 01 November 2015 / Revised: 13 February 2019 / Accepted: 24 March 2019
A heuristic for the minimum cost chromatic partition problem
Received: 16 January 2019 / Accepted: 27 March 2019
Decision policies on players’ different risk combination under supplier encroachment
Received: 18 November 2018 / Revised: 26 March 2019 / Accepted: 27 March 2019
Retailer's decision selection with dual supply uncertainties under different reliability levels of serving the market
Received: 10 April 2018 / Revised: 20 March 2019 / Accepted: 29 March 2019
New proposals for modelling and solving the problem of covering solids using spheres of different radii
Received: 27 September 2017 / Revised: 01 January 2019 / Accepted: 07 April 2019
Production inventory model for controllable deterioration rate with shortages
Received: 12 September 2017 / Revised: 19 February 2019 / Accepted: 20 April 2019
A non-linear-threshold-accepting function based algorithm for the solution of economic dispatch problem
Received: 03 March 2018 / Revised: 08 April 2019 / Accepted: 20 April 2019
A restart scheme for the Dai-Liao conjugate gradient method by ignoring a direction of maximum magnification by the search direction matrix
Received: 28 August 2018 / Revised: 05 April 2019 / Accepted: 20 April 2019
Robust bi-level risk-based optimal scheduling of microgrid operation against uncertainty
Received: 04 September 2018 / Revised: 26 February 2019 / Accepted: 20 April 2019
Optimal production lot size under backup agreement allowing substitute products
Received: 05 December 2018 / Revised: 19 April 2019 / Accepted: 27 April 2019
Price strategies and salesforce compensation design with overconfident sales agent
Received: 24 June 2018 / Revised: 31 March 2019 / Accepted: 02 May 2019
Global defensive k-alliances in directed graphs: combinatorial and computational issues
Received: 04 October 2018 / Revised: 05 April 2019 / Accepted: 02 May 2019
Multi-choice and stochastic programming for transportation problem involved in supply of foods and medicines to hospitals with consideration of logistic distribution
Received: 28 December 2018 / Revised: 02 April 2019 / Accepted: 02 May 2019
A novel approach to safety stock management in an integrated supply chain with controllable lead time and ordering cost reduction using present value
Received: 05 December 2017 / Revised: 27 February 2019 / Accepted: 07 May 2019
An Optimistic-Pessimistic DEA Model Based on Game Cross Efficiency Approach
Received: 15 July 2018 / Revised: 10 March 2019 / Accepted: 07 May 2019
Strategic sourcing under recall loss sharing and product quality investment
Received: 07 December 2018 / Revised: 18 April 2019 / Accepted: 07 May 2019
Effect of inspection errors on imperfect production inventory model with warranty and price discount dependent demand rate
Received: 22 February 2019 / Revised: 16 April 2019 / Accepted: 06 May 2019
The Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions for multiple objective fractional interval valued optimization problems
Received: 14 January 2019 / Revised: 10 May 2019 / Accepted: 10 May 2019
Economic lot-size problem for a cleaner manufacturing system with warm-up period
Received: 11 February 2019 / Revised: 22 April 2019 / Accepted: 22 May 2019
Solving optimal control problems using the Picard's Iteration Method
Received: 13 June 2018 / Revised: 08 May 2019 / Accepted: 27 May 2019
A geometric programming approach for a vendor managed inventory of a multiretailer multi-item EPQ model
Received: 25 September 2018 / Revised: 14 April 2019 / Accepted: 27 May 2019
Recommending investment opportunities given congestion by adaptive network data envelopment analysis model: Assessing sustainability of supply chains
Received: 07 November 2018 / Revised: 13 February 2019 / Accepted: 27 May 2019
Simultaneous control on lead time elements and ordering cost for an inflationary inventory-production model with mixture of normal distributions LTD under finite capacity
Received: 06 March 2019 / Revised: 02 May 2019 / Accepted: 01 June 2019
A new model for logistic and transportation of fashion goods in the presence of stochastic market demands considering restricted retailers capacity
Received: 29 November 2018 / Revised: 27 May 2019 / Accepted: 04 June 2019
Incentive design with customer satisfaction for business process outsourcing: Multi-task vs. Multi-agent
Received: 22 January 2019 / Revised: 07 June 2019 / Accepted: 07 June 2019
A bi-objective model for robust local container drayage problem
Received: 07 January 2019 / Revised: 26 May 2019 / Accepted: 12 June 2019
An analysis of steady-state distribution in M/M/1 queueing system with balking based on concept of statistical mechanics
Received: 31 October 2018 / Revised: 21 May 2019 / Accepted: 12 June 2019
Warehouse redesigning in a three-echelon supply chain network with consideration of routing under uncertainty
Received: 06 May 2018 / Revised: 20 April 2019 / Accepted: 20 June 2019
Information sharing and leakage in the two-echelon supply chain
Received: 17 February 2019 / Revised: 28 April 2019 / Accepted: 20 June 2019
Review
Dynamic cooperative advertising strategy in OAO supply chain with customer return
Received: 14 September 2018 / Revised: 26 April 2019 / Accepted: 20 June 2019
Sustainable reverse logistic network design for End-of-Life Use-Case Study
Received: 29 November 2018 / Revised: 13 May 2019 / Accepted: 20 June 2019
Regularity conditions and Farkas-type results for systems with fractional functions
Received: 28 November 2018 / Revised: 08 July 2019 / Accepted: 12 July 2019