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American Journal of Operations Research (AJOR) is an international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of high quality, original papers that contribute to the methodology of operational research and to the practice of decision making. AJOR contains the following types of papers: (1)In…
Kai Ji, Wei Song, Renwen Wang
China’s commercial banks are confronted with fierce competition from advanced big commercial banks abroad, which have much better performance in non-performing loans (NPLs) than China’s commercial banks. In this case, efficiency rating and ranking of China’s…
Kyriaki Kitikidou
In two-phase sampling, or double sampling, from a population with size N we take one, relatively large, sample size n. From this relatively large sample we take a small sub-sample size m, which usually costs more per sample unit than the first one. In double…
Mohammed Faisal Khan, Irfan Ali, Yashpal Singh Raghav, Abdul Bari
In this paper, we consider an allocation problem in multivariate surveys with non-linear costs of enumeration as a problem of non-linear stochastic programming with multiple objective functions. The solution is obtained through Chance Constrained programming.…
Han Qiao, Hong-Wei Gao
In this paper, the definition of weak dominance is proposed for a NTU game and two new solution concepts of NTU games are introduced: the refined core and weakly stable set. The relationship is explored among the core, the weakly stable set and the refined co…
Lei Weng, Wei Song, Si-Bei Sheng
With the explosive growth of knowledge and the further improvement of economic globalization, technology gradually represents its greater significance as the core factor of the strategic resources and competence for national and regional development, which be…
Takayuki Kimura, Tohru Ikeguchi, Chi K. Tse
In this paper, we propose a new packet routing strategy that incorporates memory information for reducing congestion in communication networks. First, we study the conventional routing strategy which selects the paths for transmitting packets to destinations…
Zehui Ge, Qiying Hu
The significant effect of social preference on strategic behavior has been convinced by recent research. Along this stream of research, we study firms’ altruistic incentives in supply chains since the selfish rationality can’t deal with economic behaviors. We…
Amit Sharma, Ruchi Goel, Naresh Kumar Dua
In general, a supplier/retailer frequently offer trade credit to stimulate their respective sales. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal supplier/retailer’s replenishment decisions under two levels of trade credit policy within the econ…
Kazuhiro Esaki, Yuki Ichinose, Shigeru Yamada
Software projects influenced by many human factors generate various risks. In order to develop highly quality software, it is important to respond to these risks reasonably and promptly. In addition, it is not easy for project managers to deal with these risk…
Naomi Honda, Shigeru Yamada
It remains important for a development organization to configure a software process that enables it to develop software products with the least possible number of defects after shipment. A development organization of CMMI level 5 has, over three years, been s…
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