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{"title":"A time-expanded network design model for staff allocation in mail centres","authors":"Hamish Thorburn, Anna-Lena Sachs, Jamie Fairbrother, John E. Boylan","doi":"10.1080/01605682.2023.2287613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2287613","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a staff allocation problem at a sequential sorting facility. In this facility, staff need to be assigned to work areas, through which commodities flow sequentially to be processed. Assi...","PeriodicalId":17308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Operational Research Society","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138560220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improving disaster relief plans for hurricanes with social media","authors":"Jomon A. Paul, Minjiao Zhang, Muer Yang, Chong Xu","doi":"10.1080/01605682.2023.2288279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2288279","url":null,"abstract":"Decisions on humanitarian responses to natural disasters are subject to considerable epistemic uncertainty. This paper advocates for postponing the decision point of pre-positioning relief supplies...","PeriodicalId":17308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Operational Research Society","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategic investment under uncertainty: why multi-option firms lose the preemption run","authors":"Wencheng Yu, Xingang Wen, Nick F. D. Huberts, Peter M. Kort","doi":"10.1080/01605682.2023.2281535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2281535","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a dynamic duopoly game where firms choose both the timing and size of their investments. The existing real options literature predominantly consists of contributions where firms have a ...","PeriodicalId":17308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Operational Research Society","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dynamic equilibrium mechanism of the closed-loop electric vehicle industry chain based on super-network model","authors":"Zhuoxi Long, Benhai Guo, Jiana Chu","doi":"10.1080/01605682.2023.2280040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2280040","url":null,"abstract":"At present, electric vehicle (EV) development has been widely accepted as a coping strategy by countries encountering environmental issues. However, there remain some uncertainties surrounding the ...","PeriodicalId":17308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Operational Research Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Research on comprehensive optimisation of AGVs scheduling at intelligent express distribution centres based on improved GA","authors":"Shuaihui Tian, Chengyang Huangfu, Xueping Deng","doi":"10.1080/01605682.2023.2283518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2283518","url":null,"abstract":"This study addresses optimisation challenges in scheduling automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) for express distribution centres. A comprehensive model is developed that simultaneously considers makesp...","PeriodicalId":17308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Operational Research Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multi-group decision-making approach for evaluating brand collaboration requirements of large-scale manufacturing industrial value chain","authors":"Congdong Li, Xingyu Chen, Yinyu Yu","doi":"10.1080/01605682.2023.2274445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2274445","url":null,"abstract":"Brand collaboration requirement (BCR) evaluation is a key premise for core manufacturing enterprises to lead the collaborative brand construction of a large-scale manufacturing industry value chain...","PeriodicalId":17308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Operational Research Society","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Technology options and optimal pricing of a two-sided mobile payment platform","authors":"Yu-Hung Chen, Ling-Chieh Kung, Chieh-Hsiang Hu, Chien-Yu Huang","doi":"10.1080/01605682.2023.2274953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2274953","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the pricing strategies of a mobile payment platform connecting merchants and customers who may bypass the platform and trade in cash. Our analytical model incorporates cross...","PeriodicalId":17308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Operational Research Society","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138543208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An adaptive multi-objective optimal forecast combination and its application for predicting intermittent demand","authors":"Nachiketas Waychal, Arnab Kumar Laha, Ankur Sinha","doi":"10.1080/01605682.2023.2277865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2277865","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractWhile time series forecasting models are generally trained by optimising certain forms of error, the end-user’s forecasting needs in a multi-objective setting can be broader, and often mutually conflicting. A production manager may prioritise high product fill rates and low average inventory resulting from a forecast over just low error. The conflict among multiple objectives is notably worrisome in intermittent demand forecasting, where error-minimising approaches can devalue the practitioner’s objectives. To address such forecasting problems, we propose an Adaptive Multi-objective Optimal Combination (AMOC) of forecasts which incorporates the end-user’s preferences across multiple objectives. We demonstrate the use of AMOC in a real-life application of intermittent demand forecasting for optimising four distinct inventory management objectives using five specialised forecasting methods across single-period and multi-period inventory handling scenarios. Additionally, we conduct a comprehensive experiment on a subset of M5 competition data to exhibit the robustness of the AMOC using 13 diverse forecasting methods and four statistical objectives.Keywords: Time series forecastingmulti-objective optimisationpreference value functionadaptive algorithmforecast combination Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 An older working paper was available at the IIMA Research and Publications department (https://www.iima.ac.in/sites/default/files/rnpfiles/73560124152022-06-04.pdf?cv=1).","PeriodicalId":17308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Operational Research Society","volume":"338 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135474900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A critical review of planning and scheduling in steel-making and continuous casting in the steel industry","authors":"Myungho Lee, Kyungduk Moon, Kangbok Lee, Juntaek Hong, Michael Pinedo","doi":"10.1080/01605682.2023.2265416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2265416","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractSteel-making and continuous casting (SCC) processes are considered the main bottlenecks in the steel industry. We consider planning and scheduling problems in SCC processes and provide an overview of the literature with our commentary. The planning problem has as goal to create out of customer orders production units for the various production processes. The scheduling problem assigns these production units to the production facilities over different time intervals. We review a large number of planning and scheduling papers and propose two basic models for the planning and the scheduling problems that incorporate the most common and essential features. We describe for each problem the respective constraints and objectives as well as the practical implications in an actual production environment. We also analyse the methodologies used in their solutions, including decomposition strategies. In the last section, we present the conclusions of our survey and propose new research directions.Keywords: Steel-makingcontinuous castingproduction planningschedulingsurvey Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) (Grant Number: NRF-2023R1A2C200694911).","PeriodicalId":17308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Operational Research Society","volume":"214 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135476102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrated stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis and data envelopment analysis with fixed-sum outputs: an application for evaluating participating nations in the Winter Olympics Games","authors":"Danlu Zhang, Feng Li, Lin Wei","doi":"10.1080/01605682.2023.2277251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2023.2277251","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractAlong with the popularity of Olympic Games, evaluating and ranking participating nations has become one of the hottest issues in recent years. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is extensively used for participating nations’ performance evaluation, while the prior literature mainly addresses the maximum efficiency by ignoring the weights diversity, which might lead to unreasonable and biased results. By considering the fixed-sum medals constraint, this paper proposes an integrated approach of stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA) and DEA for evaluating the participating nations. The proposed approach addresses the weights diversity and multiple equilibrium efficient frontiers by investigating the overall feasible space, and two strategies are considered to guarantee the fairness concern for calculating the efficiencies. Besides, the proposed approach provides both rank acceptability and holistic acceptability index to obtain the complete ranking from the best to the worst and to get the relative ranking relationship in the overall feasible space. The proposed approach can provide more reasonable performance measurements since it explores different rank positions and improves the whole satisfaction of all participating nations. Finally, the proposed approach is applied to empirically analyze the participating nations in the Winter Olympic Games from 2010 to 2022 and some valuable analytical results are provided.Keywords: Data envelopment analysis (DEA)Fixed-sum outputs (FSO)Stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA)Performance evaluationWinter Olympic Games AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank editors and two anonymous reviewers for their kind work and insightful comments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThis research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Nos. 71901178 and 72201123], the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (NO. 23XJC630007), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [No. JBK2307014] and Guanghua Talent Project of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics","PeriodicalId":17308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Operational Research Society","volume":"48 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135432228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}