Annals of Operations Research

Volume 233 Number 1 October 2015

Contents

PREFACE

Mathematics in business management

G. Arivarignan • R. Bharati 1

ORIGINAL PAPERS

Optimal control of service parameter for a perishable inventory system maintained

at service facility with impatient customers

H.M. Al Hamadi • N. Sangeetha • B. Sivakumar 3

A perishable inventory system with service facility and feedback customers

M. Amirthakodi • V. Radhamani • B. Sivakumar 25

Backlogging EOQ model for promotional effort and selling price sensitive

demand- an intuitionistic fuzzy approachS.K. De • S.S. Sana 57

Optimal sampling strategies in the coupon collector's problem with unknown

population size

G. Dobson • T. Tezcan 77

A multi-server queueing system with service interruption, partial protectionand repetition of service

A. Dudin • V. Jacob • A. Krishnamoorthy 101

A robust optimization solution to bottleneck generalized assignment problem

under uncertaintyY. Fu • J. Sun • K.K. Lai • J.W.K. Leung 123

Portfolio optimization with transaction costs: a two-period mean-variance model

Y.H. Fu • K.M. Ng • B. Huang • H.C. Huang 135

Competitiveness based on logistic management: a real case studyF.P. Garcia Marquez • LP. Garcia Pardo • M.R.M. Nieto 157

Stochastic modeling for delay analysis of a VoIP network

V. Gupta • S. Dharmaraja • V. Arunachalam 171

Modeling brand advertising with heterogeneous consumer response: channel

implicationsS. Karray 181

Queues with interruption in random environment

A. Krishnamoorthy • S. Jaya • B. Lakshmy 201

A revisit to queueing-inventory system with positive service time

A. Krishnamoorthy • R. Manikandan • B. Lakshmy 221

Performance analysis of wireless sensor networks using queuing networks

R.B. Lenin • S. Ramaswamy 237

Online purchaser segmentation and promotion strategy selection: evidence from Chinese

E-commerce market

Y. Liu • H. Li • G. Peng • B. Lv • C. Zhang 263

A trust model of cloud computing based on Quality of Service

P. Manuel 281

Challenges, strategies and metrics for supply-driven enterprises

P. Manuel • H. Al-Hamadi • K. Qureshi 293

Developing a multi-period robust optimization model considering American style options

S. Marzban • M. Mahootchi • A. Arshadi Khamseh 305

The multi server MlMl(s,S) queueing inventory system

A.N. Nair • M.J. Jacob • A. Krishnamoorthy 321

A retrial inventory system with single and modified multiple vacation for server

I. Padmavathi • B. Sivakumar • G. Arivarignan 335

A two-item two-warehouse periodic review inventory model with transshipment

K.S. Ramakrishna • M. Sharafali • Y.F. Lim 365

An EOQ model for stochastic demand for limited capacity of own warehouse

S.S. Sana 383

(Q, r, L) model for stochastic demand with lead-time dependent partial backlogging

S.S. Sana • S.K. Goyal 401

Cost analysis ofan (S -1, S) inventory system with two demand classes and rationing

K.P. Sapna Isotupa 411

Implementation of interpretive structural modelling methodology as a strategic decision

making tool in a Green Supply Chain Context

R. Sivaprakasam V. Selladurai • P. Sasikumar 423

Sequential unreliable newsboy ordering policies

D. Tiwari • R. Patil • J. Shah 449

A piecewise nonlinear optimization for a production-inventory model under maintenance,

variable setup costs, and trade credits

Y.-C. Tsao 465

Firm credit risk evaluation: a series two-stage DEA modeling framework

I.E. Tsolas 483

Practical statistical methods for call centres with a case study addressing urgent medical

care deliveryD.A. Wooff • S.G. Stirling 501

Two substitutable perishable product disaster inventory systemsV.S.S. Yadavalli • D.K. Sundar • S. Udayabaskaran 517

SMAA-PO: project portfolio optimization problems based on stochastic multicriteria

acceptability analysisF. Yang • S. Song • W. Huang • Q. Xia 535

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