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Volume 59, issue 6, 2011

From the Editor: Reflections on the Last Six Years pp. 1317-1319

David Simchi-Levi

Nurse Staffing in Medical Units: A Queueing Perspective pp. 1320-1331

Francis de Véricourt and Otis B. Jennings

Generation Capacity Expansion in a Risky Environment: A Stochastic Equilibrium Analysis pp. 1332-1346

Andreas Ehrenmann and Yves Smeers

Optimal Energy Commitments with Storage and Intermittent Supply pp. 1347-1360

Jae Ho Kim and Warren B. Powell

Dynamic Pricing with Loss-Averse Consumers and Peak-End Anchoring pp. 1361-1368

Javad Nasiry and Ioana Popescu

Integrated Optimization of Procurement, Processing, and Trade of Commodities pp. 1369-1381

Sripad K. Devalkar, Ravi Anupindi and Amitabh Sinha

“We Will Be Right with You”: Managing Customer Expectations with Vague Promises and Cheap Talk pp. 1382-1394

Gad Allon, Achal Bassamboo and Itai Gurvich

Efficient Simulation of Value at Risk with Heavy-Tailed Risk Factors pp. 1395-1406

Cheng- Der Fuh, Inchi Hu, Ya-Hui Hsu and Ren-Her Wang

Optimal Selection of Airport Runway Configurations pp. 1407-1419

Dimitris Bertsimas, Michael Frankovich and Amedeo Odoni

Convexity Results for the Erlang Delay and Loss Formulae When the Server Utilization Is Held Constant pp. 1420-1426

Arie Harel

Shadow-Routing Based Control of Flexible Multiserver Pools in Overload pp. 1427-1444

Alexander L. Stolyar and Tolga Tezcan

Rational Generating Functions and Integer Programming Games pp. 1445-1460

Matthias Köppe, Christopher Thomas Ryan and Maurice Queyranne

A Study of Interactions in the Risk Assessment of Complex Engineering Systems: An Application to Space PSA pp. 1461-1476

E. Borgonovo and C. L. Smith

Benders Decomposition for Large-Scale Uncapacitated Hub Location pp. 1477-1490

Ivan Contreras, Jean-François Cordeau and Gilbert Laporte

The Worst-Case Efficiency of Cost Sharing Methods in Resource Allocation Games pp. 1491-1503

Tobias Harks and Konstantin Miller

Revised Delivery-Time Quotation in Scheduling with Tardiness Penalties pp. 1504-1511

George Steiner and Rui Zhang

Refining Square-Root Safety Staffing by Expanding Erlang C pp. 1512-1522

A. J. E. M. Janssen, J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden and Bert Zwart

TECHNICAL NOTE---An Optimal Policy for Joint Dynamic Price and Lead-Time Quotation pp. 1523-1527

Jiejian Feng, Liming Liu and Xiaoming Liu

TECHNICAL NOTE---Decentralized Inventory Sharing with Asymmetric Information pp. 1528-1538

Xinghao Yan and Hui Zhao

TECHNICAL NOTE---Cellular Bucket Brigades pp. 1539-1545

Yun Fong Lim

Volume 59, issue 5, 2011

Dynamic Reserve Selection: Optimal Land Retention with Land-Price Feedbacks pp. 1059-1078

Sándor F. Tóth, Robert G. Haight and Luke W. Rogers

Parameterized Supply Function Bidding: Equilibrium and Efficiency pp. 1079-1089

Ramesh Johari and John N. Tsitsiklis

Process Flexibility Revisited: The Graph Expander and Its Applications pp. 1090-1105

Mabel C. Chou, Geoffrey A. Chua, Chung-Piaw Teo and Huan Zheng

Wait-Time Predictors for Customer Service Systems with Time-Varying Demand and Capacity pp. 1106-1118

Rouba Ibrahim and Ward Whitt

Acquisition of Project-Specific Assets with Bayesian Updating pp. 1119-1130

H. Dharma Kwon and Steven A. Lippman

Optimizing the Societal Benefits of the Annual Influenza Vaccine: A Stochastic Programming Approach pp. 1131-1143

Osman Y. Özaltın, Oleg A. Prokopyev, Andrew J. Schaefer and Mark S. Roberts

Integration of Inventory and Pricing Decisions with Costly Price Adjustments pp. 1144-1158

Xin Chen, Sean X. Zhou and Youhua (Frank) Chen

A Fluid Approximation for Service Systems Responding to Unexpected Overloads pp. 1159-1170

Ohad Perry and Ward Whitt

Rating Customers According to Their Promptness to Adopt New Products pp. 1171-1183

Dorit S. Hochbaum, Erick Moreno-Centeno, Phillip Yelland and Rodolfo A. Catena

An Interior Point Constraint Generation Algorithm for Semi-Infinite Optimization with Health-Care Application pp. 1184-1197

Mohammad R. Oskoorouchi, Hamid R. Ghaffari, Tamás Terlaky and Dionne M. Aleman

The Impact of Delaying the Delay Announcements pp. 1198-1210

Gad Allon and Achal Bassamboo

General Bounds and Finite-Time Improvement for the Kiefer-Wolfowitz Stochastic Approximation Algorithm pp. 1211-1224

Mark Broadie, Deniz Cicek and Assaf Zeevi

Projected Perspective Reformulations with Applications in Design Problems pp. 1225-1232

Antonio Frangioni, Claudio Gentile, Enrico Grande and Andrea Pacifici

Exact Simulation of Point Processes with Stochastic Intensities pp. 1233-1245

K. Giesecke, H. Kakavand and M. Mousavi

Patrolling Games pp. 1246-1257

Steve Alpern, Alec Morton and Katerina Papadaki

Find-and-Fetch Search on a Tree pp. 1258-1268

Steve Alpern

New Route Relaxation and Pricing Strategies for the Vehicle Routing Problem pp. 1269-1283

Roberto Baldacci, Aristide Mingozzi and Roberto Roberti

An Exact Method for the Capacitated Location-Routing Problem pp. 1284-1296

Roberto Baldacci, Aristide Mingozzi and Roberto Wolfler Calvo

TECHNICAL NOTE---A Computational Approach for Optimal Joint Inventory-Pricing Control in an Infinite-Horizon Periodic-Review System pp. 1297-1303

Youyi Feng and Youhua (Frank) Chen

TECHNICAL NOTE---A Note on Profit Maximization and Monotonicity for Inbound Call Centers pp. 1304-1308

Ger Koole and Auke Pot

An Erratum on the Multiproduct Network Equilibrium Model pp. 1309-1310

Yunan Wu and T. C. E. Cheng

Volume 59, issue 4, 2011

American Options Under Stochastic Volatility pp. 793-809

Arun Chockalingam and Kumar Muthuraman

A Complementarity Framework for Forward Contracting Under Uncertainty pp. 810-834

Uday V. Shanbhag, Gerd Infanger and Peter W. Glynn

A Network of Time-Varying Many-Server Fluid Queues with Customer Abandonment pp. 835-846

Yunan Liu and Ward Whitt

Tight Bounds for Some Risk Measures, with Applications to Robust Portfolio Selection pp. 847-865

Li Chen, Simai He and Shuzhong Zhang

Managing a Noncooperative Supply Chain with Limited Capacity pp. 866-881

Rodney P. Parker and Roman Kapuściński

Dynamic Pricing of Limited Inventories When Customers Negotiate pp. 882-897

Chia-Wei Kuo, Hyun-Soo Ahn and Göker Aydın

A Sequential Sampling Procedure for Stochastic Programming pp. 898-913

Güzin Bayraksan and David P. Morton

Purchasing Under Asymmetric Demand and Cost Information: When Is More Private Information Better? pp. 914-928

Dimitris Kostamis and Izak Duenyas

Adaptive Data-Driven Inventory Control with Censored Demand Based on Kaplan-Meier Estimator pp. 929-941

Woonghee Tim Huh, Retsef Levi, Paat Rusmevichientong and James B. Orlin

Identifying Good Nursing Levels: A Queuing Approach pp. 942-955

Natalia Yankovic and Linda V. Green

An Economic Model for Resource Allocation in Grid Computing pp. 956-972

Massimiliano Caramia and Stefano Giordani

Robust Optimization Made Easy with ROME pp. 973-985

Joel Goh and Melvyn Sim

Strategic Behavior and Social Optimization in Markovian Vacation Queues pp. 986-997

Pengfei Guo and Refael Hassin

Efficient Nested Simulation for Estimating the Variance of a Conditional Expectation pp. 998-1007

Yunpeng Sun, Daniel W. Apley and Jeremy Staum

Network Cargo Capacity Management pp. 1008-1023

Tatsiana Levina, Yuri Levin, Jeff McGill and Mikhail Nediak

Multiple Variable Proportionality in Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 1024-1032

Wade D. Cook and Joe Zhu

TECHNICAL NOTE---Procurement Strategies with Unreliable Suppliers pp. 1033-1039

Awi Federgruen and Nan Yang

TECHNICAL NOTE---Inventory Systems with a Generalized Cost Model pp. 1040-1047

Woonghee Tim Huh, Ganesh Janakiraman, Alp Muharremoglu and Anshul Sheopuri

Volume 59, issue 3, 2011

Introduction to “Little's Law as Viewed on Its 50th Anniversary” pp. 535-535

David Simchi-Levi and Michael A. Trick

OR FORUM---Little's Law as Viewed on Its 50th Anniversary pp. 536-549

John D. C. Little

A Unified Framework for Dynamic Prediction Market Design pp. 550-568

Shipra Agrawal, Erick Delage, Mark Peters, Zizhuo Wang and Yinyu Ye

A Geometric Perspective on Lifting pp. 569-577

Michele Conforti, Gérard Cornuéjols and Giacomo Zambelli

Sourcing Flexibility, Spot Trading, and Procurement Contract Structure pp. 578-601

Pamela Pen-Erh Pei, David Simchi-Levi and Tunay I. Tunca

Valuation of Storage at a Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal pp. 602-616

Guoming Lai, Mulan X. Wang, Sunder Kekre, Alan Scheller-Wolf and Nicola Secomandi

Sequential Convex Approximations to Joint Chance Constrained Programs: A Monte Carlo Approach pp. 617-630

L. Jeff Hong, Yi Yang and Liwei Zhang

Selecting Optimal Alternatives and Risk Reduction Strategies in Decision Trees pp. 631-647

Hanif D. Sherali, Evrim Dalkiran and Theodore S. Glickman

Heavy-Traffic Analysis of a Multiple-Phase Network with Discriminatory Processor Sharing pp. 648-660

I. M. Verloop, U. Ayesta and R. Núñez-Queija

Accounting for Parameter Uncertainty in Large-Scale Stochastic Simulations with Correlated Inputs pp. 661-673

Bahar Biller and Canan G. Corlu

Charlemagne's Challenge: The Periodic Latency Problem pp. 674-683

Sofie Coene, Frits C. R. Spieksma and Gerhard J. Woeginger

Structured Replacement Policies for Components with Complex Degradation Processes and Dedicated Sensors pp. 684-695

Alaa H. Elwany, Nagi Z. Gebraeel and Lisa M. Maillart

Economic and Emissions Implications of Load-Based, Source-Based, and First-Seller Emissions Trading Programs Under California AB32 pp. 696-712

Yihsu Chen, Andrew L. Liu and Benjamin F. Hobbs

Mixed 0-1 Linear Programs Under Objective Uncertainty: A Completely Positive Representation pp. 713-728

Karthik Natarajan, Chung Piaw Teo and Zhichao Zheng

Efficient Resource Allocation via Efficiency Bootstraps: An Application to R&D Project Budgeting pp. 729-741

Chien-Ming Chen and Joe Zhu

A Periodic-Review Base-Stock Inventory System with Sales Rejection pp. 742-753

Yanyi Xu, Arnab Bisi and Maqbool Dada

Fault Reporting in Partially Known Networks and Folk Theorems pp. 754-763

Tristan Tomala

One-Switch Independence for Multiattribute Utility Functions pp. 764-771

Ali E. Abbas and David E. Bell

TECHNICAL NOTE---Queueing Systems with Synergistic Servers pp. 772-780

Sigrún Andradóttir, Hayriye Ayhan and Douglas G. Down

TECHNICAL NOTE---Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in General Acyclic Networks pp. 781-787

Salal Humair and Sean P. Willems

Volume 59, issue 2, 2011

OR PRACTICE---Production Planning with Patterns: A Problem from Processed Food Manufacturing pp. 267-282

Mili Mehrotra, Milind Dawande, Srinagesh Gavirneni, Mehmet Demirci and Sridhar Tayur

A Top-Down Approach to Multiname Credit pp. 283-300

Kay Giesecke, Lisa R. Goldberg and Xiaowei Ding

An Elasticity Approach to the Newsvendor with Price-Sensitive Demand pp. 301-312

Ayşe Kocabıyıkoğlu and Ioana Popescu

Multidimensional Approximation Algorithms for Capacity-Expansion Problems pp. 313-327

Truong Van-Anh and Robin O. Roundy

Fixed-Point Approaches to Computing Bertrand-Nash Equilibrium Prices Under Mixed-Logit Demand pp. 328-345

W. Ross Morrow and Steven J. Skerlos

A Multiproduct Risk-Averse Newsvendor with Law-Invariant Coherent Measures of Risk pp. 346-364

Sungyong Choi, Andrzej Ruszczynski and Yao Zhao

Discounted Robust Stochastic Games and an Application to Queueing Control pp. 365-382

Erim Kardeş, Fernando Ordóñez and Randolph W. Hall

The Irrevocable Multiarmed Bandit Problem pp. 383-399

Vivek F. Farias and Ritesh Madan

An Ascending Vickrey Auction for Selling Bases of a Matroid pp. 400-413

Sushil Bikhchandani, Sven de Vries, James Schummer and Rakesh V. Vohra

An Exact Algorithm for the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows pp. 414-426

Roberto Baldacci, Enrico Bartolini and Aristide Mingozzi

Drift Control with Changeover Costs pp. 427-439

Melda Ormeci Matoglu and John Vande Vate

Quantifying the Impact of Layout on Productivity: An Analysis from Robotic-Cell Manufacturing pp. 440-454

Tharanga Rajapakshe, Milind Dawande and Chelliah Sriskandarajah

Performance Analysis of Queueing Networks via Robust Optimization pp. 455-466

Dimitris Bertsimas, David Gamarnik and Alexander Anatoliy Rikun

Support Vector Machines with the Ramp Loss and the Hard Margin Loss pp. 467-479

J. Paul Brooks

Modeling Cross Correlation in Three-Moment Four-Parameter Decomposition Approximation of Queueing Networks pp. 480-497

Sunkyo Kim

TECHNICAL NOTE---Revenue Management with Bargaining pp. 498-506

Atul Bhandari and Nicola Secomandi

TECHNICAL NOTE---A Comparison of Bertrand and Cournot Profits in Oligopolies with Differentiated Products pp. 507-513

Amr Farahat and Georgia Perakis

TECHNICAL NOTE---Optimal Product Acquisition, Pricing, and Inventory Management for Systems with Remanufacturing pp. 514-521

Sean X. Zhou and Yikun Yu

TECHNICAL NOTE---Optimal Control of an Assembly System with Multiple Stages and Multiple Demand Classes pp. 522-529

Saif Benjaafar, Mohsen ElHafsi, Chung-Yee Lee and Weihua Zhou

Volume 59, issue 1, 2011

OR PRACTICE---Scheduling of Dynamic In-Game Advertising pp. 1-16

John Turner, Alan Scheller-Wolf and Sridhar Tayur

The Price of Fairness pp. 17-31

Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis

Risk Analysis of Collateralized Debt Obligations pp. 32-49

Kay Giesecke and Baeho Kim

Routing and Staffing in Large-Scale Service Systems: The Case of Homogeneous Impatient Customers and Heterogeneous Servers pp. 50-65

Mor Armony and Avishai Mandelbaum

On the Minimax Complexity of Pricing in a Changing Environment pp. 66-79

Omar Besbes and Assaf Zeevi

Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering: An Equivalence Principle and Dimension Reduction pp. 80-95

Xiaoqun Wang and Ian H. Sloan

Kernel Estimation of the Greeks for Options with Discontinuous Payoffs pp. 96-108

Guangwu Liu and L. Jeff Hong

Optimal Inventory Policies when Purchase Price and Demand Are Stochastic pp. 109-124

Peter Berling and Victor Martínez- de-Albéniz

Risk-Averse Two-Stage Stochastic Linear Programming: Modeling and Decomposition pp. 125-132

Naomi Miller and Andrzej Ruszczynski

Clique Relaxations in Social Network Analysis: The Maximum k -Plex Problem pp. 133-142

Balabhaskar Balasundaram, Sergiy Butenko and Illya V. Hicks

Average Cost Single-Stage Inventory Models: An Analysis Using a Vanishing Discount Approach pp. 143-155

Woonghee Tim Huh, Ganesh Janakiraman and Mahesh Nagarajan

Supply Chain Competition with Multiple Manufacturers and Retailers pp. 156-172

Elodie Adida and Victor DeMiguel

Solving Nonlinear Covering Problems Arising in WLAN Design pp. 173-187

Edoardo Amaldi, Sandro Bosio, Federico Malucelli and Di Yuan

Information Collection on a Graph pp. 188-201

Ilya O. Ryzhov and Warren B. Powell

Finite Disjunctive Programming Characterizations for General Mixed-Integer Linear Programs pp. 202-210

Binyuan Chen, Simge Küçükyavuz and Suvrajeet Sen

An Integer Optimization Approach to Large-Scale Air Traffic Flow Management pp. 211-227

Dimitris Bertsimas, Guglielmo Lulli and Amedeo Odoni

An Exact Algorithm for the Period Routing Problem pp. 228-241

Roberto Baldacci, Enrico Bartolini, Aristide Mingozzi and Andrea Valletta

TECHNICAL NOTE---The Adaptive Knapsack Problem with Stochastic Rewards pp. 242-248

Taylan İlhan, Seyed M. R. Iravani and Mark S. Daskin

TECHNICAL NOTE---Exact Analysis of a Lost Sales Model Under Stuttering Poisson Demand pp. 249-253

Jie Chen, Peter L. Jackson and John A. Muckstadt

TECHNICAL NOTE---Robust Newsvendor Competition Under Asymmetric Information pp. 254-261

Houyuan Jiang, Serguei Netessine and Sergei Savin