Interfaces

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Volume 27, issue 6, 1997

Locating and Sizing Plants for Bottling Propane in South India pp. 1-15

Jayaram K. Sankaran and N. R. Srinivasa Raghavan

The Easy Chair: Is It Possible to Have a Good Definitional Description of Operations Research and Management Science? pp. 16-21

Hugh J. Miser

Bombardier Turned to Simulation to Validate the CF-18 Maintenance Program pp. 22-34

Ali Gharbi, Jean Girard, Robert Pellerin and Laurent Villeneuve

An Application of Discrete-Event Simulation for Batch-Process Chemical-Plant Design pp. 35-50

Edward F. Watson

Production Scheduling in the Snack-Food Industry pp. 51-64

Victor Portougal

Model World: OR is the Bridge to the 21st Century pp. 65-68

Saul I. Gass

Optimal Investment Policies for Pollution Control in the Copper Industry pp. 69-87

Susana V. Mondschein and Ariel Schilkrut

The Fifth Column: A Test for Recruitment Reliability or Convincing a General What's Right When it's Greek to Him pp. 88-90

Robert E. D. Woolsey and William R. Astle

Management Science—Total Quality Management Interfaces: An Integrative Framework pp. 91-105

Sanjay L. Ahire

Creativity in OR/MS: The Creative Problem-Solving Process—Part 2 pp. 106-111

James R. Evans

Practice Abstract pp. 112-114

Donald L. Keefer

Managerial Relevance: The Key to Survival for OR/MS pp. 115-130

Robert L. Carraway and Dana R. Clyman

Teaching Decision Analysis pp. 131-139

James L. Corner

Book Reviews pp. 140-148

Benjamin Lev

Volume 27, issue 5, 1997

Simulating Queue Scheduling Policies for a Spacecraft Simulator pp. 1-8

Paul Savory and Gene Saghi

Finding the Yellow Brick Road: Part 7, I Finally Have a Brain! pp. 9-14

Warren B. Powell and Donald E. Mayoras

Optimization and Persistence pp. 15-37

Gerald G. Brown, Robert F. Dell and R. Kevin Wood

Estimating and Projecting Regional HIV/AIDS Cases and Costs, 1990–2000: A Case Study pp. 38-53

Carl M. Harris and Edward Rattner

Model World: The Academic Midlife Crisis pp. 54-57

Saul I. Gass, Steven Nahmias and Carl M. Harris

Selecting Employees for Random Drug Tests at Union Pacific Railroad pp. 58-67

Jennifer L. Meyer and Paul A. Savory

Automatic Optimization of Subproblems in Scheduling Airline Crews pp. 68-77

Efthymios Housos and Tony Elmroth

Creativity in OR/MS: The Creative Problem-Solving Process, Part 1 pp. 78-83

James R. Evans

ETC Measures the Impact of ISO 9002 on Corporate Quality pp. 84-92

Yasemin Aksoy and Peter G. Schaedel

Teaching Undergraduate Operations Research in Some of the Business Schools in Asia pp. 93-103

Chiang Kao, Quey-Jen Yeh and Yao-Chuan Tsai

Learning the Practice of Operations Research pp. 104-115

B. Curtis Eaves

Erratum to: “The Variance Paradox and its Implications for Japanese Production Theory” pp. 116-116

Diwakar Gupta and Mandyam M. Srinivasan

Book Reviews pp. 117-122

Benjamin Lev

Volume 27, issue 4, 1997

Assigning Telephone Operators to Shifts at New Brunswick Telephone Company pp. 1-11

Gary M. Thompson

Finding the Yellow Brick Road: Part 6, Courage! pp. 12-18

Warren B. Powell and Donald E. Mayoras

Editorial: Which Universities Contribute to the Practice Literature? The Second Interfaces Ranking pp. 19-22

Michael H. Rothkopf

South Carolina Counties Use a Mixed-Integer Programming-Based Decision Support Tool for Planning Municipal Solid Waste Management pp. 23-34

William G. Ferrell and Haluk Hizlan

An Integrated Spatial DSS for Scheduling and Routing Home-Health-Care Nurses pp. 35-48

Sachidanand V. Begur, David M. Miller and Jerry R. Weaver

The Problem of Generating Crew Bidlines pp. 49-64

Ahmad I. Z. Jarrah and James T. Diamond

Practice Abstracts pp. 65-66

Donald L. Keefer

Automated Timetabling Improves Course Scheduling at UCLA pp. 67-81

Jan Stallaert

Book Reviews pp. 82-90

Benjamin Lev

Volume 27, issue 3, 1997

The Shuttle by United pp. 1-13

Sheryl E. Kimes and Franklin S. Young

Finding the Yellow Brick Road: Part 5, Through the Crystal Ball pp. 14-21

Warren B. Powell and Donald E. Mayoras

The Cost of Regulation pp. 22-28

Earl Littrell and Fred Thompson

Evaluating New Weapon Systems Technology: The Javelin versus the Dragon pp. 29-38

David Anthony Cannella, So Young Sohn and Charles Pate

The Logistics Impact of the Channel Tunnel pp. 39-59

Philippe-Pierre Dornier and Ricardo Ernst

Evaluating Future Military Space Technologies pp. 60-73

Roger C. Burk and Gregory S. Parnell

The Institute of Management Sciences: A Prehistory and Commentary on the Occasion of TIMS' 40th Anniversary pp. 74-85

Melvin E. Salveson

The Fifth Column: Optimization of Academic Raises, or Optimizing Academia for Fun and Profit, Part 2 pp. 86-87

Robert E. D. Woolsey

The Teachers' Forum: From Intelligent Consumer to Active Modeler, Two MBA Success Stories pp. 88-98

Stephen G. Powell

Book Reviews pp. 99-122

Benjamin Lev

Volume 27, issue 2, 1997

FedEx Generates Bid Lines Using Simulated Annealing pp. 1-16

Kevin W. Campbell, R. Bret Durfee and Gail S. Hines

Absolutely, Positively Operations Research: The Federal Express Story pp. 17-36

Richard O. Mason, James L. McKenney, Walter Carlson and Duncan Copeland

Finding the Yellow Brick Road: Part 4, I Wish I Had a Brain pp. 37-43

Warren B. Powell and Donald E. Mayoras

The Occasional Observer: Sex, the Battle of the Sexes, and Innumeracy pp. 44-47

Frederic H. Murphy

Modeling for Litigation: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches pp. 48-65

Fran Ackermann, Colin Eden and Terry Williams

Evaluation of Vision Correction Alternatives for Myopic Adults pp. 66-84

G. Mark Brown

Using Citation Analysis to Explore the Intellectual Base, Knowledge Dissemination, and Research Impact of Interfaces (1970–1992) pp. 85-101

Uma G. Gupta

The Fifth Column: Goals Optimization and the Vice-Presidential Assumption, or Optimizing Academia for Fun and Profit, Part 1 pp. 102-106

Robert E. D. Woolsey

Practice Abstracts pp. 107-111

Donald L. Keefer

Book Reviews pp. 112-122

Benjamin Lev

Volume 27, issue 1, 1997

Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement pp. 1-6

Howard Finkelberg and Stephen C. Graves

Guns or Butter: Decision Support for Determining the Size and Shape of the South African National Defense Force pp. 7-28

Ivan Gryffenberg, Jean L. Lausberg, Willem J. Smit, Stephanus Uys, Sally Botha, F. Rauten Hofmeyr, Ruppert P. Nicolay, Willie L. van der Merwe and Gysbert J. Wessels

Automating Credit and Collections Decisions at AT&T Capital Corporation pp. 29-52

George Curnow, Gary Kochman, Steven Meester, Debashish Sarkar and Keith Wilton

A New Formula for Distributing Hospital Funds in England pp. 53-70

Roy A. Carr-Hill, Geoffrey Hardman, Stephen Martin, Stuart Peacock, Trevor A. Sheldon and Peter C. Smith

Pontis: A System for Maintenance Optimization and Improvement of US Bridge Networks pp. 71-88

Kamal Golabi and Richard Shepard

A Solution to Post Crash Debt Entanglements in Kuwait's al-Manakh Stock Market pp. 89-106

A. A. Elimam, M. Girgis and S. Kotob

Revenue Management Saves National Car Rental pp. 107-127

M. K. Geraghty and Ernest Johnson

Blending OR/MS, Judgment, and GIS: Restructuring P&G's Supply Chain pp. 128-142

Jeffrey D. Camm, Thomas E. Chorman, Franz A. Dill, James R. Evans, Dennis J. Sweeney and Glenn W. Wegryn

Finding the Yellow Brick Road: Part 3, The Wizard of Oz pp. 143-154

Warren B. Powell and Donald E. Mayoras

Book Reviews pp. 155-166

Benjamin Lev