Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society

Found 4035 papers in total
Using revenue management to improve pricing and capacity management in programme management
2005,
This paper presents revenue management models for pricing, capacity planning, and...
The elastic generalized assignment problem
2004,
The generalized assignment problem (GAP) has been studied by numerous researchers over...
Identification and illumination of popular misconceptions about project scheduling and time buffering in a resource-constrained environment
2005,
The lack of proper project planning is often cited as one of the main reasons why...
Disruption management for resource-constrained project scheduling
2005,
In this paper, we study the problem of how to react when an ongoing project is...
A new heuristic for the multi-mode resource investment
2005,
This paper considers the problem of minimizing resource investment required to execute...
A new model for call centre queue management
2004,
A new model for call centre queue management is described. It incorporates important...
Comparative evaluation of MILP flowshop models
2005,
This paper investigates the performance of two families of mixed-integer linear...
A review and classification of heuristics for permutation flow-shop scheduling with makespan objective
2004,
Makespan minimization in permutation flow-shop scheduling is an operations research...
Generalization of Johnson's and Talwar's scheduling rules in two-machine stochastic flow shops
2004,
The paper deals with the classical problem of minimizing the makespan in a two-machine...
Scheduling for an arc-welding robot considering heat-caused distortion
2005,
This paper focuses on an arc-welding robot scheduling problem, which is the problem of...
Note on scheduling with general learning curves to minimize the number of tardy jobs
2005,
Several research studies have confirmed that people and organizations become better at...
Improved lower bounds for the early/tardy scheduling problem with no idle time
2005,
In this paper, we consider the single machine earliness/tardiness scheduling problem...
The search for an alerted moving target
2005,
We investigate a two-sided, multi-stage search problem where a continuous search...
Greedy algorithms for packing unequal circles into a rectangular container
2005,
In this paper, we study the problem of packing unequal circles into a two-dimensional...
Capacity planning and warehouse location in supply chains with uncertain demands
2005,
We discuss the strategic capacity planning and warehouse location problem in supply...
A new tabu search heuristic for the open vehicle routing problem
2005,
In this paper, another version of the vehicle routing problem – the open vehicle...
A metaheuristic for the vehicle-routing problem with soft time windows
2004,
This paper develops a metaheuristic for the vehicle-routing and scheduling problem...
Solving the open vehicle routing problem via a single parameter metaheuristic algorithm
2005,
In this paper, we consider the open vehicle routing problem (OVRP), in which routes...
Optimizing time limits in retail promotions: an email application
2005,
Most marketing managers know intuitively that once a customer delays a purchase...
A greedy randomized adaptive search procedure algorithm for constrained two-dimensional non-guillotine cutting problems
2005,
This paper presents a greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP) for the...
Ant colony optimization for the examination scheduling problem
2005,
Ant colony optimization is an evolutionary search procedure based on the way that ant...
Cost efficiency, production and value-added models in the analysis of bank branch performance
2005,
This paper develops a framework for performance appraisal in the context of a bank...
An inventory system with investment to reduce yield variability and set-up cost
2005,
The set-up cost and yield variability are given and fixed in existing...
A marketing-oriented inventory model with three-component demand rate dependent on displayed stock level
2005,
This paper investigates a deterministic inventory system for single item with...
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