International Transactions in Operational Research

Article	Citations
Fast or slow? Logistics way choices for perishable products under competition	55
Patient admission scheduling problems with uncertain length of stay: optimization models and an efficient matheuristic approach	48
Issue Information	43
The coupled task scheduling problem: an improved mathematical program and a new solution algorithm	38
Solving a pickup and delivery routing problem for fourth‐party logistics providers	37
Multiobjective model to optimize charging station location for the decarbonization process in Mexico	35
An innovative benefit‐of‐the‐doubt approach for health system effectiveness: a global case study on amenable mortality	33
Solving a harvest scheduling optimization problem with constraints on clearcut area and clearcut proximity	32
An adaptation of Random Forest to estimate convex non‐parametric production technologies: an empirical illustration of efficiency measurement in education	28
Production and carbon emission abatement decisions under different carbon policies: supply chain network equilibrium models with consumers’ low‐carbon awareness	26
Implementing a bivariate ordering and replacement policy for deteriorating systems with two failure types	26
Special Issue on “Logistics Optimization for Social Good”	25
Power approximation for pricing American options	25
Preface to the Special Issue on Developments in Metaheuristics	24
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Formulations and a Lagrangian relaxation approach for the prize collecting traveling salesman problem	23
Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence‐Driven Decision Making in Health and Medicine”	22
Preface to the Special Issue on Multidimensional Finance, Insurance, and Investment	21
Multi‐objective reference point techniques to optimize profitability, growth, and risk in the non‐life insurance industry: international analysis	21
Drone‐enabled material handling in smart manufacturing	20
Unveiling the dynamics of social credit determinants using fuzzy cognitive mapping and system dynamics	20
A fast local search for the identical parallel machine scheduling problem with the position‐based deteriorating effect and maintenance	20
A multicommodity pickup and delivery problem with time windows and handling time in the omni‐channel last‐mile delivery	19
Special Issue on “Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”	19
Two‐stage pricing of products and services considering different competitive environments	19

Optimization of an inventory system with partial backlogging from a financial investment perspective	18
Downstream firm's equity financing for capacity expansion in a supply chain	18
Rebuilding a DSS with feedback from behavioral and neuroscience studies	18
The performance of bank portfolio optimization	18
Top heavy? On the allocative efficiency of small school districts	18
Multimethodology for diagnosis and intervention in a prosthetics and orthotics factory in Brazil	17
Special issue on “Artificial Intelligence for Automation in Freight Transport”	17
Special issue on “Artificial Intelligence for Automation in Freight Transport”	17
Preface to the Special Issue on Data‐Driven Optimization	16
Adaptive coordinate sampling for stochastic primal–dual optimization	16
A stochastic approach for planning airport ground support resources	16
Bi‐objective optimization of the tactical allocation of job types to machines: mathematical modeling, theoretical analysis, and numerical tests	15
Special Issue on “Sustainable and Responsive Transportation and Logistics”	14
Long‐term effects of short planning horizons for inventory routing problems	14
Subsidy strategy for reserving flexible capacity of emergency supply production	14
Prioritizing of volatility models: a computational analysis using data envelopment analysis	14
A matheuristic approach for the minimum broadcast time problem using a biased random‐key genetic algorithm	14
Is group‐buying price mechanism a good choice in the business‐to‐business system?	14
The capacitated family traveling salesperson problem	14
Computing efficiently the nondominated subset of a set sum	13
Prioritizing municipal lead mitigation projects as a relaxed knapsack optimization: a method and case study	13
Desirability–doability group judgment framework for the collaborative multicriteria evaluation of public policies	13
Distributing the fashion product in direct or retail channel: The impact of fashion level and direct selling cost	13
Quay partitioning problem	12
Competing product service in an OEM supply chain with upstream module suppliers as service providers	12
Preface to the Special Issue on Metaheuristics: Recent Advances and Applications	12
Special Issue on “Decision Support Systems in an uncertain world”	12
The impact of product characteristics and innovativeness on the benefits of collaboration	12
Special Issue on “Optimizing Port and Maritime Logistics: Advances for Sustainable and Efficient Operations”	12
Comparison of four mechanisms for request exchange in collaborative transportation	12
A variable neighborhood search for the median location problem with interconnected facilities	12
The biobjective minimum‐cost perfect matching problem and Chinese postman problem	11
Scheduling‐location problem with drones	11
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Competing platform owners’ entry and an OEM's cooperation response	11
An iterated greedy algorithm with variable reconstruction size for the obnoxious p‐median problem	11
Solving a multiobjective professional timetabling problem using evolutionary algorithms at Mandarine Academy	11
Effects of product online reviews on product returns: a review and classification of the literature	10
Special Issue on “Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”	10
Smart selective navigator (SSN): enhancing urban winter road maintenance through optimized arc routing with hard turn restrictions	10
A heuristic for the non‐unicost set covering problem using local branching	10
An optimization model for the management of green areas	10
Special issue on “Metaheuristics: Advances and Applications”	10
Discrete‐event simulation is still alive and strong: evidence from bibliometric performance evaluation of research during COVID‐19 global health pandemic	10
Online demand disruption in the presence of constrained capacity	10
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A value chain modeling approach for upscaling the production of fine flavor cocoa in Arauca (Colombia)	10
An omega portfolio model with dynamic return thresholds	9
Optimisation models for project selection in asset management: an application to the water sector	9
The bright side of third‐party marketplaces in retailing	9

A multistart biased‐randomized algorithm for solving a three‐dimensional case picking problem with real‐life constraints	9
Oil‐to‐electricity retrofitting and deployment of rubber‐tyred gantry cranes considering low‐carbon policies	9
Optimal pricing and warranty strategies of a closed‐loop supply chain under government subsidies	9
Entry deterrence strategies for an incumbent supply chain in the presence of inertial consumer and optimistic entrant	9
A stochastic optimization approach for staff scheduling decisions at inpatient units	9
Mathematical models for the minimization of open stacks problem	9
Optimal drone deployment for cost‐effective and sustainable last‐mile delivery operations	9
Demand information sharing of fresh produce supply chain considering competing suppliers’ freshness‐keeping effort	9
Mechanisms of cooperation between airlines and online travel agencies for flight crowdfunding	8
The multiple container loading problem with loading docks	8
Information and selling mode strategies in a supply chain with an outsourced private label product	8
A blockchain‐based framework to optimize shipping container flows in the hinterland	8
Retailer's selling mode choice under different competition forms	8
Improving supply chain transparency with blockchain technology when considering product returns	8
Managing disruption risk in competing multitier supply chains	8
Special Issue on “Managing Supply Chain Resilience in the Digital Economy Era”	8
Manufacturer encroachment in a vertically differentiated market with competing retailers and counterfeiter	8
Affinely adjustable robust optimization for a multi‐period inventory problem with capital constraints and demand uncertainties	8
Preface to the Special Issue on Operational Research Models for Blockchain	8
Two‐period information‐sharing and quality decision in a supply chain under static and dynamic wholesale pricing strategies	8
Systematic reviews as a metaknowledge tool: caveats and a review of available options	7
A fair classifier chain for multi‐label bank marketing strategy classification	7
The supply chain effect of monitoring cost	7
Exploring barriers and motivations in the adoption of food waste mobile applications	7
An environmental, social, and governance (ESG) model for multiple criteria analysis of investments	7
The role of drones in disaster response: A literature review of operations research applications	7
Research trends in combinatorial optimization	7
Maritime inventory routing: recent trends and future directions	7
Contract choice for upstream innovation in a finance‐constrained supply chain	7
A preemptive goal programming for multi‐objective cooperative games: an application to multi‐objective linear production	7
Sustainable urban farming using a two‐phase multi‐objective and multi‐criteria decision‐making approach	7
Efficient credit portfolios under IFRS 9	7
Service channel choice for supply chain under online marketplace	7
Contractors allocation for public building maintenance: a sustainable approach aligned with SDGs using AHP‐TOPSIS and bi‐objective optimization	7
Combat counterfeits effectively or not? Encroachment and financing strategies with production disruption risk	7
Special Issue on “Decision Support: Combining Technology and Algorithms to Solve Complex Problems”	6
Special Issue on “Decision Support: Combining Technology and Algorithms to Solve Complex Problems”	6
Optimal product design and pricing decisions under “do‐it‐yourself” service introduction in the retail channel	6
Pricing and bundling decisions for complementary products in an agency selling platform with risk‐averse suppliers and stochastic demand	6
Assessing social performance in supply chain design and planning through a monetization approach	6
Filtered beam search algorithm for the two‐dimensional rectangular packing problem	6
Information sharing and production timing strategy in a platform‐based supply chain	6
Compromise solutions for stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis with uncertain preferences and nonmonotonic criteria	6
Integration of e‐commerce traffic supply chain and product supply chain in the era of digital economy	6
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Model‐based solution approach for a short‐term flight rescheduling problem in aerial passenger transportation to maritime units	6
Quality disclosure in agricultural supply chains: farmer versus platform disclosure	6
The electric vehicle routing problem with time windows, partial recharges, and covering locations	6
A constraint‐programming approach for the storage space allocation problem in a distribution center	6
Trends in passenger transport optimisation	6
Pattern mining‐based pruning strategies in stochastic local searches for scheduling problems	6
The bus sightseeing problem	6
A review of network DEA models based on slacks‐based measure: Evolution of literature, applications, and further research direction	6
Service quality and price competition in crowdsourced delivery markets	6
Analyzing changes in EU social inclusion using the global Malmquist productivity index	6
Initialization of metaheuristics: comprehensive review, critical analysis, and research directions	6
Advance selling strategy and pricing decisions with online reviews	6
Optimization of investments in labor productivity in supply chain networks	6
Personalized pricing versus showrooming: competition between online and offline retailers	5
Enhancing logistics through a vehicle routing problem with deliveries, pickups, and backhauls	5
Special Issue on “Multidimensional Finance, Insurance and Investment”	5
Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence‐Driven Decision Making in Health and Medicine”	5
Special Issue on “Efficiency and Productivity Analysis of Public Services in Practice”	5
Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence‐Driven Decision Making in Health and Medicine”	5
The selection of an optimal segmentation region in physiological signals	5
Multi‐objective optimization of the maritime cargo routing and scheduling problem	5
Flexible versus committed and specific versus uniform: wholesale price contracting in a supply chain with downstream process innovation	5
Contract adoption of motivating green technological innovation in a supply chain	5
Special issue on “Decision Support Systems in an uncertain world”	5
Solving the minimum labeling global cut problem by mathematical programming	5
Special Issue on “Operations Research Models for Green Finance”	5
Marketplace or reselling: the pricing decisions and face value of the coupons under the Cap‐and‐Trade regulation	5
A multi‐objective sustainable closed‐loop supply chain network problem with hybrid facilities	5
Maximum weighted induced forests and trees: new formulations and a computational comparative review	5
Improved sequential insertion heuristics for berth allocation problems	5
Preface to the Special Issue on Operations Research in Healthcare	5
Unlocking university efficiency: a Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis	5
Decision‐making and coordination of a three‐tier fresh agricultural product supply chain considering dynamic freshness‐keeping effort	5
A review of mathematical optimization models applied to the sugarcane supply chain	5
Special Issue on “Decision Support Systems in an uncertain world”	5

Statistical proxy based mean‐reverting portfolios with sparsity and volatility constraints	5
ESG portfolio for TDFs with time‐varying higher moments and cardinality constraint	5
Special Issue on “Logistics Optimization for Social Good”	5
Analytics in developing countries: methods, applications, and the impact on the UN Sustainable Development Goals	5
A penalty decomposition algorithm with greedy improvement for mean‐reverting portfolios with sparsity and volatility constraints	5
Linear‐time algorithms for eliminating claws in graphs	5
The effect of few historical data on the performance of sample average approximation method for operating room scheduling	5
Special Issue on “Decision Support Systems in an uncertain world”	5
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Red flag algorithms for Brazilian electronic invoices: outlier detection and price risk classification	5
Distance‐based weighting methods for composite indicators, with applications related to energy sustainability	5
Special issue on “Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”	4
Manufacturer encroachment and quality investment decisions in a two‐period supply chain	4
Issue Information	4
Discrete cooperative coverage location models with alternative facility types in a probabilistic setting	4
Coping with an unreliable supplier: An option contract with a backup supplier	4
Data envelopment analysis of two‐stage processes: an alternative (non‐conventional) approach	4
A metaheuristic for crew scheduling in a pickup‐and‐delivery problem with time windows	4
A bilevel approach to reduce peak load of community microgrid with distributed generators	4
A tutorial on graph models for scheduling round‐robin sports tournaments	4
The K$K$‐prize‐collecting coverage problem by aligned disks	4
Optimal ordering decisions for an omnichannel retailer with ship‐to‐store and ship‐from‐store	4
Clustering analysis and punishment‐driven consensus‐reaching process for probabilistic linguistic large‐group decision‐making with application to car‐sharing platform selection	4
A revenue management approach for tourism logistics optimization	4
Combating fraudulent returns using blockchain technology	4
Computational complexity and linear formulations for optimizing the location of shared mobility stations	4
Special issue on “Metaheuristics: Recent Advances and Applications”	4
Learn to decompose multiobjective optimization models for large‐scale networks	4
Assessing subsidy policies for green products: operational and environmental perspectives	4
Measuring the overall efficiency of SRI and conventional mutual funds by a diversification‐consistent DEA model	4
A new hybrid method for quick and accurate calculation of forest transportation distances	4
DEA cross‐efficiency ranking method considering satisfaction and consensus degree	4
Special Issue on “Multidimensional Finance, Insurance and Investment”	4
Multicriteria evaluation of technological competitiveness in diversification processes. An application to the automotive components industry	4
How the agency contract fails in hybrid mode: agency fees and distribution sequences	4
Comparison of different approaches to multistage lot sizing with uncertain demand	4
Retailer information sharing with green manufacturer encroachment in a hybrid supply chain	4
Identifying suitable benchmarks in the way toward achieving targets using data envelopment analysis	4
Wildlife reserve design with connectivity and buffer requirements	4
Bi‐objective minimization of energy consumption and cycle time for the robotic assembly line balancing problem: pseudo‐polynomial case and reduced search space metaheuristic	4