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1988, issue 12, vol 34

Inducing Rules for Expert System Development: An Example Using Default and Bankruptcy Data pp. 1403-1415

William F. Messier, Jr. and James V. Hansen

One-Switch Utility Functions and a Measure of Risk pp. 1416-1424

David E. Bell

An Object-Oriented World-View for Intelligent, Discrete, Next-Event Simulation pp. 1425-1440

James R. Burns and J. Darrell Morgeson

Approximating Expected Warranty Costs pp. 1441-1449

Edward W. Frees and Seong-Hyun Nam

Dynamically Updating Relevance Judgements in Probabilistic Information Systems Via Users' Feedback pp. 1450-1459

Peter J. Lenk and Barry D. Floyd

Selection and Design of Heuristic Procedures for Solving Roll Trim Problems pp. 1460-1471

Robert W. Haessler

Computing Block-Angular Karmarkar Projections with Applications to Stochastic Programming pp. 1472-1479

John Birge and Liqun Qi

The Single Machine Problem with a Quadratic Cost Function of Completion Times pp. 1480-1488

Wlodzimierz Szwarc, Marc E. Posner and John J. Liu

Towards a Heuristic Theory of Problem Structuring pp. 1489-1506

Gerald F. Smith

Note---On Piecewise Reference Technologies pp. 1507-1511

R. Färe, Shawna Grosskopf and D. Njinkeu

Erratum: "The Theory of Ratio Scale Estimation: Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process" (Vol. 33, No. 11, November 1987) pp. 1511-1511

Patrick T. Harker and Luis G. Vargas

About Authors pp. 1512-1513

Anonymous

1988, issue 11, vol 34

Convergence Properties of Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis Estimates pp. 1281-1302

Philip Heidelberger, Xi-Ren Cao, Michael A. Zazanis and Rajan Suri

Resolving a Conflict Situation with a Reference Outcome: An Axiomatic Model pp. 1303-1314

Sunil Gupta and Zvi A. Livne

Competitive Dealing Strategy and Deal Value Escalation pp. 1315-1323

Cynthia Fraser and James L. Ginter

A Sequential Lot Sizing Heuristic with Optimal Average Performance pp. 1324-1332

Sven Axsäter

A Light-Traffic Approximation for Single-Class Departure Processes from Multi-Class Queues pp. 1333-1346

Ward Whitt

Economic Design of Control Charts with Different Control Limits for Different Assignable Causes pp. 1347-1366

George Tagaras and Hau L. Lee

Modeling Time-Dependent Arrivals to Service Systems: A Case in Using a Piecewise-Polynomial Rate Function in a Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process pp. 1367-1379

Edward P. C. Kao and Sheng-Lin Chang

Determining Safety Stock in the Presence of Stochastic Lead Time and Demand pp. 1380-1390

Gary D. Eppen and R. Kipp Martin

Note---Comments on "A Quantity Discount Pricing Model to Increase Vendor Profits" pp. 1391-1398

Prafulla N. Joglekar

Reply---On "Comments on a Quantity Discount Pricing Model to Increase Vendor Profits" pp. 1398-1400

James P. Monahan

Correction to Reply---"Consider the Principal Finding: A Reply to William T. Ross" (Vol. 34, No. 5, May 1988, pp. 672--673) pp. 1400-1400

Robin Hogarth and Spyros Makridakis

About Authors pp. 1401-1402

Anonymous

1988, issue 10, vol 34

The Speed and Cost of Industrial Innovation in Japan and the United States: External vs. Internal Technology pp. 1157-1168

Edwin Mansfield

Comparative Invention Performance of Major Industrial Countries: Patterns and Explanations pp. 1169-1187

Hans H. Glismann and Ernst-Jürgen Horn

The Adoption of the M-Form Organizational Structure: A Test of Imitation Hypothesis pp. 1188-1201

Vijay Mahajan, Subhash Sharma and Richard A. Bettis

Reduced System Algorithms for Markov Chains pp. 1202-1220

Ram Lal and U. Narayan Bhat

Multiple Shift Workforce Lower Bounds pp. 1221-1230

Gerald J. Koop

Event Graph Modelling for Simulation with an Application to Flexible Manufacturing Systems pp. 1231-1251

Robert G. Sargent

Managerial Influence in the Implementation of New Technology pp. 1252-1265

Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Isabelle Deschamps

The Generalized Stein/Rubinstein Covariance Formula and Its Application to Estimate Real Systematic Risk pp. 1266-1270

K. C. John Wei and Cheng F. Lee

Note---Can a Reduction in Set Up Costs Indeed Increase Total Costs? pp. 1271-1272

Yigal Gerchak

Rejoinder---Rejoinder to the Note by Yigal Gerchak pp. 1272-1273

Willard I. Zangwill

Note---A Note on "The Use of Categorical Variables in Data Envelopment Analysis" pp. 1273-1276

Wagner A. Kamakura

Erratum to: Sharp Bounds and Simple Approximations for the Erlang Delay and Loss Formulas pp. 1277-1277

Arie Harel

About Authors pp. 1278-1279

Anonymous

1988, issue 9, vol 34

The Effect of Unions on Productivity: U.S. Surface Mining of Coal pp. 1037-1053

Patricia Byrnes, Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf and C. Lovell

Financial Planning Where the Firm's Demand for Funds is Nonstationary and Stochastic pp. 1054-1066

John D. Martin and George Emir Morgan

Estimation Risk and Incentive Contracts for Portfolio Managers pp. 1067-1079

Susan I. Cohen and Laura T. Starks

Rethinking the Product Portfolio: A Generalized Investment Model pp. 1080-1095

Timothy M. Devinney and David W. Stewart

Strategies for the Probabilistic Lot-Sizing Problem with Service-Level Constraints pp. 1096-1108

James H. Bookbinder and Jin-Yan Tan

On a Possible Benefit to Bid Takers from Using Multi-Stage Auctions pp. 1109-1120

Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans

M/G/c Queueing Systems with Multiple Customer Classes: Characterization and Control of Achievable Performance Under Nonpreemptive Priority Rules pp. 1121-1138

A. Federgruen and H. Groenevelt

A One-Sided Double Screening Procedure Using Individual Unit Misclassification Error pp. 1139-1153

Herbert Moskowitz and Hsien-Tang Tsai

About Authors pp. 1154-1156

Anonymous

1988, issue 8, vol 34

Optimal Strategic Pricing of Reproducible Consumer Products pp. 921-937

Fernando Nascimento and Wilfried R. Vanhonacker

Determining Optimal Reorder Intervals in Capacitated Production-Distribution Systems pp. 938-958

Peter L. Jackson, William L. Maxwell and John A. Muckstadt

Sharp Bounds and Simple Approximations for the Erlang Delay and Loss Formulas pp. 959-972

Arie Harel

A Nonlinear Optimization Model of Water Allocation for Hydroelectric Energy Production and Irrigation pp. 973-990

Gad Rabinowitz, Abraham Mehrez and Gideon Oron

Joint Determination of Optimal Inventory and Quality Control Policy pp. 991-1004

Michael H. Peters, Helmut Schneider and Kwei Tang

Lagrangian Relaxation Methods for Solving the Minimum Fleet Size Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows pp. 1005-1022

Jacques Desrosiers, Michel Sauvé and François Soumis

Note---On the Minimum of a Nonconvex Inventory Function pp. 1023-1026

Chandrasekhar Das

Note---On Making the Illustration Illustrative: A Comment on Banker, Conrad and Strauss pp. 1026-1029

Richard G. Frank

Note---A Note on Including Ordinal Relations Among Multipliers in Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 1029-1033

Boaz Golany

Erratum---"Reply: Consider the Principal Finding": A Reply to William T. Ross (Vol. 34, No. 5, May 1988, pp. 672--673) pp. 1033-1033

Robin Hogarth and Spyros Makridakis

Erratum---"Long Range Process Design and Compatibility Among Operations" (Vol. 34, No. 5, May 1988) pp. 1033-1033

Jaya Singhal, Kalyan Singhal and James K. Weeks

About Authors pp. 1034-1035

Anonymous

1988, issue 7, vol 34

Defensive Marketing Strategies: An Equilibrium Analysis Based on Decoupled Response Function Models pp. 805-815

K. Ravi Kumar and D. Sudharshan

Strategic Decision Processes in High Velocity Environments: Four Cases in the Microcomputer Industry pp. 816-835

L. J. Bourgeois, III and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

An Additive Group Utility for a Fund Manager pp. 836-842

Robert F. Bordley

Algorithms for Scheduling a Single Machine to Minimize the Weighted Number of Late Jobs pp. 843-858

C. N. Potts and L. N. Van Wassenhove

Mitigating End Effects in the Dynamic Vehicle Allocation Model pp. 859-879

Richard E. Hughes and Warren B. Powell

Stock Allocation in a Two-Echelon Distribution System Or "What to Do Until Your Ship Comes In" pp. 880-895

Peter L. Jackson

The Siting of Emergency Service Facilities with Workload Capacities and Backup Service pp. 896-908

Hasan Pirkul and David A. Schilling

Note---When Does Lag Structure Really Matter... Indeed? pp. 909-916

Alain Bultez and Philippe Naert

Reply to "When Does Lag Structure Really Matter... Indeed?" pp. 917-918

Wesley A. Magat, John M. McCann and Richard C. Morey

About Authors pp. 919-920

Anonymous

1988, issue 6, vol 34

Decision Analysis: Practice and Promise pp. 679-695

Ronald A. Howard

Blacklisting Social Science Departments with Poor Ph.D. Submission Rates pp. 696-706

Richard A. Colombo and Donald G. Morrison

Competitive Maps: The Structure Underlying Asymmetric Cross Elasticities pp. 707-723

Lee G. Cooper

Game-Theoretic Optimal Portfolios pp. 724-733

Robert Bell and Thomas M. Cover

Forecasting with a Repeat Purchase Diffusion Model pp. 734-752

Ambar G. Rao and Masataka Yamada

Component Commonality with Service Level Requirements pp. 753-760

Yigal Gerchak, Michael J. Magazine and A. Bruce Gamble

A Continuous Review Model for an Inventory System with Two Supply Modes pp. 761-773

Kamran Moinzadeh and Steven Nahmias

A Transportation Problem in Which Costs Depend on the Order of Arrival pp. 774-783

Eric V. Denardo, Uriel G. Rothblum and Arthur J. Swersey

A Comparison of Two Elicitation Methods for a Prior Distribution for a Binomial Parameter pp. 784-790

Umesh Gavasakar

Periodic Versus "Can-Order" Policies for Coordinated Multi-Item Inventory Systems pp. 791-796

Derek R. Atkins and Paul O. Iyogun

The Value of Pre-Decision Side Bets for Utility Maximizers pp. 797-800

David E. Bell

About Authors pp. 801-803

Anonymous

1988, issue 5, vol 34

An Experiment in Approval Voting pp. 555-568

Peter C. Fishburn and John D. C. Little

Lead User Analyses for the Development of New Industrial Products pp. 569-582

Glen L. Urban and Eric von Hippel

Information Technology and Organizational Change: Causal Structure in Theory and Research pp. 583-598

M. Lynne Markus and Daniel Robey

Strategic Implications of Darwinian Economics for Selling Efficiency and Choice of Integrated or Independent Sales Forces pp. 599-618

Erin Anderson

Long Range Process Design and Compatibility Among Operations pp. 619-632

Jaya Singhal, Kalyan Singhal and James K. Weeks

A New Algorithm for the 0-1 Knapsack Problem pp. 633-644

Silvano Martello and Paolo Toth

Utility Functions for Infinite-Period Planning pp. 645-665

Charles M. Harvey

Note---Optimal Pricing Policy for the Service Facility Offering a Set of Priority Prices pp. 666-671

Hanna Alperstein

Reply---Consider the Principal Finding: A Reply to William T. Ross pp. 672-673

Robin Hogarth and Spyros Makridakis

About Authors pp. 676-677

Anonymous

1988, issue 4, vol 34

The Effects of Splitting Attributes on Weights in Multiattribute Utility Measurement pp. 431-445

Martin Weber, Franz Eisenführ and Detlof von Winterfeldt

Mean Lower Partial Moment Valuation and Lognormally Distributed Returns pp. 446-453

Wayne Y. Lee and Ramesh K. S. Rao

Dominance Conditions for Multivariate Utility Functions pp. 454-460

Marco Scarsini

A Study of User Interface Aids for Model-Oriented Decision Support Systems pp. 461-468

Brian L. Dos Santos and Martin L. Bariff

State-Level Efforts to Transfer Manufacturing Technology: A Survey of Programs and Practices pp. 469-481

Andrew W. Wyckoff and Louis G. Tornatzky

Service Constrained (s, S) Inventory Systems with Priority Demand Classes and Lost Sales pp. 482-499

Morris A. Cohen, Paul R. Kleindorfer and Hau L. Lee

Optimal Order of Servers for Tandem Queues in Light Traffic pp. 500-508

Betsy S. Greenberg and Ronald W. Wolff

The Relationship Between Shareholding Concentration and Shareholder Voting Power in British Companies: A Study of the Application of Power Indices for Simple Games pp. 509-527

Dennis Leech

Economic Contests with Incomplete Information and Optimal Contest Design pp. 528-540

Nirvikar Singh and Donald Wittman

A Simple Method of Computing Prediction Intervals for Time Series Forecasts pp. 541-546

Everette S. Gardner, Jr.

Note---Optimal Work-Rest Scheduling with Exponential Work-Rate Decay pp. 547-552

Stephen E. Bechtold and DeWitt L. Sumners

About Authors pp. 553-554

Anonymous

1988, issue 3, vol 34

The Design, Analysis and Implementation of Heuristics pp. 263-265

Marshall L. Fisher and Alexander H. G. Rinnooy Kan

Asymptotic Methods in the Probabilistic Analysis of Sequencing and Packing Heuristics pp. 266-290

E. G. Coffman, Jr., G. S. Lueker and A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan

Heuristics Based on Spacefilling Curves for Combinatorial Problems in Euclidean Space pp. 291-305

John J. Bartholdi, III and Loren K. Platzman

Minimum Spillage Sequencing pp. 306-330

Craig A. Tovey, Gideon Weiss and James R. Wilson

Heuristics with Constant Error Guarantees for the Design of Tree Networks pp. 331-341

Kemal Altinkemer and Bezalel Gavish

Finding Embedded Network Rows in Linear Programs I. Extraction Heuristics pp. 342-376

Robert E. Bixby and Robert Fourer

A Heuristic Scheduling Policy for Multi-Item, Single-Machine Production Systems with Time-Varying, Stochastic Demands pp. 377-390

Robert C. Leachman and André Gascon

The Shifting Bottleneck Procedure for Job Shop Scheduling pp. 391-401

Joseph Adams, Egon Balas and Daniel Zawack

Note---An Approximate Algorithm for Multidimensional Zero-One Knapsack Problems---A Parametric Approach pp. 402-410

Jae Sik Lee and Monique Guignard

Piecewise-Linear Approximation Methods for Nonseparable Convex Optimization pp. 411-419

B. Feijoo and R. R. Meyer

An O(T 2 ) Algorithm for the NI/G/NI/ND Capacitated Lot Size Problem pp. 420-426

Chia-Shin Chung and Chien-Hua Mike Lin

About Authors pp. 427-429

Anonymous

1988, issue 2, vol 34

Decision Support System Effectiveness: A Review and an Empirical Test pp. 139-159

Ramesh Sharda, Steve H. Barr and James C. McDonnell

Momentum Accounting and Managerial Goals on Impulses pp. 160-166

Yuji Ijiri

Modeling Multiattribute Utility, Risk, and Belief Dynamics for New Consumer Durable Brand Choice pp. 167-185

John H. Roberts and Glen L. Urban

The Reliability of Subjective Probabilities Obtained Through Decomposition pp. 186-199

H. V. Ravinder, Don N. Kleinmuntz and James S. Dyer

Frames of Mind in Intertemporal Choice pp. 200-214

George Loewenstein

Optimizing Resource Acquisition Decisions by Stochastic Programming pp. 215-229

Daniel Bienstock and Jeremy F. Shapiro

Information Cost and Innovation Adoption Policies pp. 230-239

Richard Jensen

Optimally Balancing Large Assembly Lines with "Fable" pp. 240-253

Roger V. Johnson

Note---A Branch-and-Bound Approach to the Bicriterion Scheduling Problem Involving Total Flowtime and Range of Lateness pp. 254-260

Tapan Sen, Farhad M. E. Raiszadeh and Parthasarati Dileepan

About Authors pp. 261-262

Anonymous

1988, issue 1, vol 34

A Goal Programming/Constrained Regression Review of the Bell System Breakup pp. 1-26

A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper and T. Sueyoshi

Rejoinder---Natural Monopoly and the Bell System: Response to Charnes, Cooper and Sueyoshi pp. 27-38

David Evans and James Heckman

Perturbation Analysis Gives Strongly Consistent Sensitivity Estimates for the M/G/1 Queue pp. 39-64

Rajan Suri and Michael A. Zazanis

Analyzing Simulation Experiments with Common Random Numbers pp. 65-74

Jack Kleijnen

Multiproduct Queueing Networks with Deterministic Routing: Decomposition Approach and the Notion of Interference pp. 75-100

Gabriel R. Bitran and Devanath Tirupati

Evaluating Project Scheduling and Due Date Assignment Procedures: An Experimental Analysis pp. 101-118

John Dumond and Vincent A. Mabert

Optimal Advertising Policies for Diffusion Models of New Product Innovation in Monopolistic Situations pp. 119-130

Engelbert Dockner and Steffen Jørgensen

Note---Price Indexes to Calculate Real R&D Expenditures pp. 131-134

Klaus Brockhoff

About Authors pp. 136-137

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