# Annals of Operations Research

## List of Papers (Total 196)

#### On packet scheduling with adversarial jamming and speedup

In Packet Scheduling with Adversarial Jamming, packets of arbitrary sizes arrive over time to be transmitted over a channel in which instantaneous jamming errors occur at times chosen by the adversary and not known to the algorithm. The transmission taking place at the time of jamming is corrupt, and the algorithm learns this fact immediately. An online algorithm maximizes the...

#### International capital asset pricing model: the case of asymmetric information and short-sale

We develop an international capital asset pricing model in the presence of shadow costs of incomplete information and short sales. Our model shows the direct effect of exchange rate risk, information costs and short sales costs on asset prices. At equilibrium, this model gives an explicit expression of two systematic risk premium. The first one is linked to the exchange rate. The...

#### A randomized method for handling a difficult function in a convex optimization problem, motivated by probabilistic programming

We propose a randomized gradient method for handling a convex function whose gradient computation is demanding. The method bears a resemblance to the stochastic approximation family. But in contrast to stochastic approximation, the present method builds a model problem. The approach is adapted to probability maximization and probabilistic constrained problems. We discuss...

#### Elucidation of IS project success factors: an interpretive structural modelling approach

This study extends the debate surrounding the components of IS project success by reviewing success factors from the perspective of their interdependency and influence on each other. This research utilises interpretive structural modelling as the methodology and framework to develop the relationships between the selected factors. This approach is presented as a mechanism that can...

#### K competing queues with customer abandonment: optimality of a generalised $$c \mu$$ -rule by the Smoothed Rate Truncation method

We consider a K-competing queues system with the additional feature of customer abandonment. Without abandonment, it is optimal to allocate the server to a queue according to the $$c \mu$$-rule. To derive a similar rule for the system with abandonment, we model the system as a continuous-time Markov decision process. Due to impatience, the Markov decision process has unbounded...

#### Disaster management in Bangladesh: developing an effective emergency supply chain network

This study has addressed and identified the problems in managing the existing emergency supply chain of Bangladesh in all phases of operation in terms of the primary drivers of the supply chain. It has also attempted to conceptualize and suggest an effective emergency supply chain. In this context, a thorough field investigation in several districts was conducted among the...

#### Parameterized games of perfect information

Considered are perfect information games with a Borel measurable payoff function that is parameterized by points of a Polish space. The existence domain of such a parameterized game is the set of parameters for which the game admits a subgame perfect equilibrium. We show that the existence domain of a parameterized stopping game is a Borel set. In general, however, the existence...

#### Supply chain sustainability performance measurement of small and medium sized enterprises using structural equation modeling

Sustainability of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is significant as SMEs contribute to GDP substantially in every economy. This research develops an innovative sustainable supply chain performance measurement model for SMEs. Prior researches predominantly use balanced score card (BSC) approach that presume causal relationship of criteria and Data Envelopment Analysis...

#### Unlocking the power of big data in new product development

This study explores how big data can be used to enable customers to express unrecognised needs. By acquiring this information, managers can gain opportunities to develop customer-centred products. Big data can be defined as multimedia-rich and interactive low-cost information resulting from mass communication. It offers customers a better understanding of new products and...

#### Use of twitter data for waste minimisation in beef supply chain

Approximately one third of the food produced is discarded or lost, which accounts for 1.3 billion tons per annum. The waste is being generated throughout the supply chain viz. farmers, wholesalers/processors, logistics, retailers and consumers. The majority of waste occurs at the interface of retailers and consumers. Many global retailers are making efforts to extract...

#### Big data-driven fuzzy cognitive map for prioritising IT service procurement in the public sector

The prevalence of big data is starting to spread across the public and private sectors however, an impediment to its widespread adoption orientates around a lack of appropriate big data analytics (BDA) and resulting skills to exploit the full potential of big data availability. In this paper, we propose a novel BDA to contribute towards this void, using a fuzzy cognitive map (FCM...

#### Alternative-fuel station network design under impact of station failures

In this paper, we have formulated a mixed-integer non-linear programming model for alternative-fuel station location problem in which each station can fail with a site-specific probability. The model aims to maximise the total expected traffic volume that can be refuelled by the unreliable alternative-fuel stations. Based on the linearisation techniques, i.e., probability chains...

#### How to obtain an equitable optimal fair division

A nonlinear programming method is used for finding an equitable optimal fair division of the unit interval [0, 1) among n players. Players’ preferences are described by nonatomic probability measures $$\mu _{1},\ldots ,\mu _{n}$$ with density functions having piecewise strict monotone likelihood ratio property. The presented algorithm can be used to obtain also an equitable...

#### A unified cooperative model for environmental costs in supply chains: the Shapley value for the linear case

This paper provides a normative framework based on cooperative game theory aimed at studying the problem of pollution responsibility allocation across multi-tier supply chains. The model is further developed with reference to the case of a linear supply chain, by using three responsibility principles (namely: Upstream, Downstream and Local Responsibility). Allocation rules are...

#### A novel TOPSIS–CBR goal programming approach to sustainable healthcare treatment

Cancer is one of the most common diseases worldwide and its treatment is a complex and time-consuming process. Specifically, prostate cancer as the most common cancer among male population has received the attentions of many researchers. Oncologists and medical physicists usually rely on their past experience and expertise to prescribe the dose plan for cancer treatment. The main...

#### A measure of total firm performance: new insights for the corporate objective

Because heterogenous and unknown shareholder utility functions make it difficult to define a corporate objective common to all shareholders based on utility, the traditional theory of the firm concentrates on wealth maximization as the main measure of performance. Using the concept of ranked marginal utility, we develop a multi-dimensional measure of firm performance (TPM) that...

#### Factors affecting innovation and imitation of ICT in the agrifood sector

Diffusion of innovations has gained a lot of attention and concerns different scientific fields. Many studies, which examine the determining factors of technological innovations in the agricultural and agrifood sector, have been conducted using the widely used Technology Accepted Model, for a random sample of farmers or firms engaged in agricultural sector. In the present study...

#### Sustainable distribution system design: a two-phase DoE-guided meta-heuristic solution approach for a three-echelon bi-objective AHP-integrated location-routing model

This article introduces a sustainable integrated bi-objective location-routing model, its two-phase solution approach and an analysis procedure for the distribution side of three-echelon logistics networks. The mixed-integer programming model captures several real-world factors by introducing an additional objective function and a set of new constraints in the model that outbound...

#### Is stock liquidity transferred and upgraded in acquisitions? Evidence from liquidity synergies in US freeze-outs

This paper investigates the value successful bidders generate from acquiring less liquid targets. This synergy is traced with both theoretical and empirical evidence from the squeeze-out stage of going private transactions, when bidders hold sizeable toeholds in target shares. By transferring their superior liquidity, acquirers can add value to the valuation of their toeholds in...

#### Human actions recognition from motion capture recordings using signal resampling and pattern recognition methods

In this paper we will experimentally prove that after recalculating the motion capture (MoCap) data to position-invariant representation it can be directly used by classifier to successfully recognize various actions types. The assumption on classifier is that it is capable to deal with objects that are described by hundreds of numeric values. The second novelty of this paper is...

#### Multi-objective optimization of genome-scale metabolic models: the case of ethanol production

Ethanol is among the largest fermentation product used worldwide, accounting for more than $$90\%$$ of all biofuel produced in the last decade. However current production methods of ethanol are unable to meet the requirements of increasing global demand, because of low yields on glucose sources. In this work, we present an in silico multi-objective optimization and analyses of...