Van-Nam Huynh, Katsuhiro Honda, Bac H. Le, Masahiro Inuiguchi
{"title":"Uncertainty in data and decision analytics – IUKM 2023","authors":"Van-Nam Huynh, Katsuhiro Honda, Bac H. Le, Masahiro Inuiguchi","doi":"10.1007/s10479-026-07427-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-026-07427-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"365 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149125596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction: Application of a disaster related emergency response model to a food bank network","authors":"Faith Idoko, Lauren Davis, Chrysafis Vogiatzis","doi":"10.1007/s10479-026-07377-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-026-07377-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"364 3","pages":"3419 - 3419"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10479-026-07377-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148965355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smart and sustainable production, logistics, and supply chain: trends, challenges, methods, and best practices II, part 2","authors":"Beata Mrugalska, Paulina Golinska-Dawson, Youngchul Shin, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber","doi":"10.1007/s10479-026-07376-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-026-07376-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"364 2","pages":"1379 - 1386"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148903533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smart and sustainable production, logistics, and supply chain: trends, challenges, methods, and best practices II, part 1","authors":"Paulina Golinska-Dawson, Beata Mrugalska, Youngchul Shin, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber","doi":"10.1007/s10479-026-07375-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-026-07375-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"364 1","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148903364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Criteria traffic network equilibrium problems with flexible demands and capacity constraints of arcs","authors":"Yangdong Xu, Xingxing Ma, Yanrou Li","doi":"10.1007/s10479-026-07374-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-026-07374-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper mainly deals with a multi-criteria traffic network equilibrium problem with flexible demands and capacity constraints of arcs. A multi-objective minimum cost flow problem with flexible demands is firstly introduced. A set of (weak) vector minimum cost flows is obtained by using an inexact multi-objective augmented Lagrangian method. Since (weak) vector minimum cost flows may not be a (weak) vector equilibrium flows, we pay attention to constructing equivalent optimization problems for weak vector equilibrium flows and vector equilibrium flows in terms of an activation function ReLU and a vector version of the Heaviside step function, respectively. In addition, numerical methods based on smoothing the objective functions are proposed to generalize the set of the (weak) vector equilibrium flows. Finally, extensive numerical examples are given to illustrate excellence of our algorithms compared with existing algorithms. It is shown that the proposed smoothing method is more efficient and can find more vector equilibrium flows.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"364 3","pages":"3351 - 3386"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148965295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving futures market predictions with sentiment using a pre-trained robustly-optimized bidirectional encoder representations from transformers approach in China","authors":"Weijie Hu, Xiang Zhang, Monica Billio, Bertrand B. Maillet, Zhining Yuan","doi":"10.1007/s10479-026-07369-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-026-07369-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study bridges operational research and financial analysis to investigate the interdependencies between price discovery processes and media sentiments related to commodities in the Chinese futures market. Across a data-rich span from January 2018 to May 2023, we systematically aggregate and assess daily sentiment data extracted from a diverse array of media sources. By adapting the Robustly-optimized Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers pretraining approach, our Operational Research processing improves traditional sentiment scoring methods, enabling a holistic assimilation of semantic data that encapsulates both influential and consequential market factors. Our empirical investigation focusing on the predictive modelling of Chinese commodity futures’ returns, identifies sentiment as a key extra element, also confirming the most relevant factors already identified in the literature, showing an enhanced adjustment effect of sentiment in the Chinese market compared to findings in other international futures markets. The incorporation of extensive semantic analysis into our Operational Research models affords a fresh vantage point upon sentiment’s role in shaping market behaviours, thus informing some past conclusions. This confluence of Operational Research textual analysis methodology and financial analysis enriches the available toolkit for market strategists, and offers a new conduit for academic and practitioner inquiries into financial markets’ dynamics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"364 3","pages":"2971 - 3006"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148965294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge M. S. Valente, Jeffrey E. Schaller, Maria Inês F. Cerveira Dominguez
{"title":"Efficient heuristics for the weighted tardiness distributed permutation flowshop scheduling problem","authors":"Jorge M. S. Valente, Jeffrey E. Schaller, Maria Inês F. Cerveira Dominguez","doi":"10.1007/s10479-026-07368-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-026-07368-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we consider the distributed permutation flowshop scheduling problem with a total weighted tardiness objective. Our focus is on dispatching rules, which are widely used in practical settings and can quickly provide solutions for even quite large instances. We consider a total of 23 dispatching rules. Twelve are adaptations to the distributed flowshop setting of existing heuristics, two are simple distributed flowshop rules, four are modified versions of two procedures developed for the distributed flowshop with a blocking constraint and five are newly developed procedures. These dispatching rules are combined with three factory assignment rules, as well as with two different approaches (one newly proposed) for dealing with the last few jobs. Therefore, a total of 138 procedures are considered and evaluated. Extensive preliminary tests were performed to determine appropriate values for the parameters required by some of the procedures. The heuristics were then evaluated on a dataset that is both quite large, and diverse in terms of due dates. Multiple performance measures, as well as statistical tests, were used to evaluate the procedures, the factory assignment rules and the two ways of dealing with the last few jobs. The computational results show that a new approach for dealing with the last few jobs outperforms its traditional counterpart. The top positions in terms of solution quality were consistently occupied by the newly developed rules. In particular, the WIT_WCT_3 procedure achieved, with a single exception, the best performance across all solution quality performance measures and factory assignment rules.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"364 3","pages":"3287 - 3349"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148965265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal investment and fair sharing rules of incentives in virtual renewable energy communities","authors":"Almendra Awerkin, Paolo Falbo, Tiziano Vargiolu","doi":"10.1007/s10479-026-07336-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-026-07336-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines two interconnected challenges in Renewable Energy Communities (REC) optimization: investment in renewable technologies and equitable sharing of incentives, usually offered by a central authority. Focusing on a REC under the so-called <i>virtual framework</i> and composed of a household and a biogas producer — common in rural and urban contexts — we analyze how investment decisions and incentive-sharing mechanisms impact community profitability and self-consumption. The household invests in photovoltaic panels to reduce energy purchases and monetize surplus generation, while the biogas producer either converts biogas into electricity or sells it on the gas market. We model this interaction as a leader-follower problem: an administrator (leader) defines the incentive-sharing rule, while a household and a biogas producer (followers) determine their optimal investments. Modeling the objective of the leader as a Nash bargaining problem and a Nash equilibrium for the followers’ static game, we provide model-based insights into efficient REC design and policy implications for fostering sustainable community energy systems. The model is applied to this stylized case of a REC, under realistic data about the random variables and investment costs. We obtain structural insights into how specific incentive policies and members’ investment decisions interact within this specialized configuration, highlighting trade-offs that can guide the strategic organization of similar community energy frameworks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"364 3","pages":"2751 - 2797"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10479-026-07336-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148965412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Further developments on stochastic dominance for convex combinations of infinite-mean random variables","authors":"Keyi Zeng, Zhenfeng Zou, Yuting Su, Taizhong Hu","doi":"10.1007/s10479-026-07354-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-026-07354-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In recent years, stochastic dominance for independent and identically distributed (iid) infinite-mean random variables has received considerable attention. The literature has identified several classes of distributions of nonnegative random variables that encompass many common heavy-tailed distributions. A key result demonstrates that the weighted sum of iid random variables from these classes is stochastically larger than any individual random variable in the sense of the first-order stochastic dominance. This paper systematically investigates the properties and inclusion relationships among these distribution classes, and extends some existing results to more practical scenarios. Furthermore, we analyze the case where each random variable follows a compound binomial distribution, establishing necessary and sufficient conditions for the preservation of the aforementioned stochastic dominance relation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"364 3","pages":"3387 - 3417"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148965256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impossibility theorem for two-tier electoral systems","authors":"Sebastian Tim Holdum, Frederik Ravn Klausen","doi":"10.1007/s10479-026-07344-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10479-026-07344-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Two-tier electoral systems aim to balance regional representation and proportionality. Recently, the mathematical mechanisms of several Northern European two-tier systems have been challenged by increasing political party fragmentation, as evidenced by the expanding German parliament and the majority-deciding disproportionality of Denmark’s 2022 election. Regionality, proportionality, and two-tier systems are defined mathematically and used to identify the common cause behind these developments through the formulation of an impossibility theorem: no electoral system with fixed parliament size can guarantee both proportional and geographic representation. Finally, a new algorithm, <i>geographically ranked guaranteed proportionality</i>, is proposed to circumvent the impossibility theorem.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8215,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Operations Research","volume":"364 3","pages":"2945 - 2970"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10479-026-07344-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148965495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}