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Volume 58, issue 6, 2010

OR FORUM---High Leverage Interventions: Three Cases of Defensive Action and Their Lessons for OR/MS Today pp. 1535-1547

David C. Lane

OR PRACTICE---R&D Project Portfolio Analysis for the Semiconductor Industry pp. 1548-1563

Banu Gemici-Ozkan, S. David Wu, Jeffrey T. Linderoth and Jeffry E. Moore

A Model of ICU Bumping pp. 1564-1576

Gregory Dobson, Hsiao-Hui Lee and Edieal Pinker

Optimal Breast Biopsy Decision-Making Based on Mammographic Features and Demographic Factors pp. 1577-1591

Jagpreet Chhatwal, Oguzhan Alagoz and Elizabeth S. Burnside

Do Firms Invest in Forecasting Efficiently? The Effect of Competition on Demand Forecast Investments and Supply Chain Coordination pp. 1592-1610

Hyoduk Shin and Tunay I. Tunca

Sensitivity Estimates from Characteristic Functions pp. 1611-1623

Paul Glasserman and Zongjian Liu

Optimization Services: A Framework for Distributed Optimization pp. 1624-1636

Robert Fourer, Jun Ma and Kipp Martin

A Framework of Peak Load Pricing with Strategic Firms pp. 1637-1649

Gregor Zöttl

Algorithms for Scheduling Runway Operations Under Constrained Position Shifting pp. 1650-1665

Hamsa Balakrishnan and Bala G. Chandran

Dynamic Assortment Optimization with a Multinomial Logit Choice Model and Capacity Constraint pp. 1666-1680

Paat Rusmevichientong, Zuo-Jun Max Shen and David B. Shmoys

Fast Algorithms for Specially Structured Minimum Cost Flow Problems with Applications pp. 1681-1696

Balachandran Vaidyanathan and Ravindra K. Ahuja

Optimal Control of a Mean-Reverting Inventory pp. 1697-1710

Abel Cadenillas, Peter Lakner and Michael Pinedo

Capacity Allocation and Scheduling in Supply Chains pp. 1711-1725

Nicholas G. Hall and Zhixin Liu

Network Design and Allocation Mechanisms for Carrier Alliances in Liner Shipping pp. 1726-1742

Richa Agarwal and Özlem Ergun

Differential Characteristics of Efficient Frontiers in Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 1743-1754

Victor V. Podinovski and Finn Førsund

Consensus Building in AHP-Group Decision Making: A Bayesian Approach pp. 1755-1773

Alfredo Altuzarra, José María Moreno-Jiménez and Manuel Salvador

An Exact Algorithm for the Two-Dimensional Strip-Packing Problem pp. 1774-1791

Marco Antonio Boschetti and Lorenza Montaletti

TECHNICAL NOTE---Optimal Product Pricing and Component Production Quantities for an Assembly System Under Supply Uncertainty pp. 1792-1797

Wenting Pan and Kut C. So

Volume 58, issue 5, 2010

Dynamic Policy Modeling for Chronic Diseases: Metaheuristic-Based Identification of Pareto-Optimal Screening Strategies pp. 1269-1286

Marion S. Rauner, Walter J. Gutjahr, Kurt Heidenberger, Joachim Wagner and Joseph Pasia

An Analysis of the Impact of Passenger Profiling for Transportation Security pp. 1287-1302

Huseyin Cavusoglu, Byungwan Koh and Srinivasan Raghunathan

Investment and Market Structure in Industries with Congestion pp. 1303-1317

Ramesh Johari, Gabriel Y. Weintraub and Benjamin Van Roy

Subproblem Approximation in Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition of Variational Inequality Models with an Application to a Multicommodity Economic Equilibrium Model pp. 1318-1327

William Chung and J. David Fuller

Information Acquisition for Capacity Planning via Pricing and Advance Selling: When to Stop and Act? pp. 1328-1349

Tamer Boyacı and Özalp Özer

Competition and Cooperation in a Two-Stage Supply Chain with Demand Forecasts pp. 1350-1363

Tetsuo Iida and Paul Zipkin

Assortment Planning and Inventory Decisions Under Stockout-Based Substitution pp. 1364-1379

Dorothée Honhon, Vishal Gaur and Sridhar Seshadri

Dynamic Supplier Contracts Under Asymmetric Inventory Information pp. 1380-1397

Hao Zhang, Mahesh Nagarajan and Greys Sošić

On the Accuracy of Fluid Models for Capacity Sizing in Queueing Systems with Impatient Customers pp. 1398-1413

Achal Bassamboo and Ramandeep S. Randhawa

Inventory Control with Generalized Expediting pp. 1414-1426

Eric Logan Huggins and Tava Lennon Olsen

The c(mu)/(theta) Rule for Many-Server Queues with Abandonment pp. 1427-1439

Rami Atar, Chanit Giat and Nahum Shimkin

An Analytic Method for Evaluating the Performance of Aggregation Rules for Probability Densities pp. 1440-1449

Stephen C. Hora

Aggregate Diffusion Dynamics in Agent-Based Models with a Spatial Structure pp. 1450-1468

Gadi Fibich and Ro'i Gibori

A Computable Plug-In Estimator of Minimum Volume Sets for Novelty Detection pp. 1469-1480

Chiwoo Park, Jianhua Z. Huang and Yu Ding

A Confidence Interval Procedure for Expected Shortfall Risk Measurement via Two-Level Simulation pp. 1481-1490

Hai Lan, Barry L. Nelson and Jeremy Staum

Functional Optimization Through Semilocal Approximate Minimization pp. 1491-1504

Cristiano Cervellera, Danilo Macciò and Marco Muselli

Stochastic Root Finding and Efficient Estimation of Convex Risk Measures pp. 1505-1521

Jörn Dunkel and Stefan Weber

Correction to the Paper “Optimal Product Launch Times in a Duopoly: Balancing Life-Cycle Revenues with Product Cost” pp. 1522-1523

Renato Guseo and Cinzia Mortarino

Volume 58, issue 4-part-2, 2010

Preface to the Special Issue on Computational Economics pp. 1035-1036

Kenneth Judd and Garrett van Ryzin

Tackling Multiplicity of Equilibria with Gröbner Bases pp. 1037-1050

Felix Kubler and Karl Schmedders

Sharing Supermodular Costs pp. 1051-1056

Andreas S. Schulz and Nelson A. Uhan

Multigrid Techniques in Economics pp. 1057-1078

Adam Speight

Multidimensional Mechanism Design: Finite-Dimensional Approximations and Efficient Computation pp. 1079-1089

Alexandre Belloni, Giuseppe Lopomo and Shouqiang Wang

Endogenous Selection and Moral Hazard in Compensation Contracts pp. 1090-1106

Christopher S. Armstrong, David F. Larcker and Che-Lin Su

On a Markov Game with One-Sided Information pp. 1107-1115

Johannes Hörner, Dinah Rosenberg, Eilon Solan and Nicolas Vieille

A User's Guide to Solving Dynamic Stochastic Games Using the Homotopy Method pp. 1116-1132

Ron N. Borkovsky, Ulrich Doraszelski and Yaroslav Kryukov

Intertemporal Pricing and Consumer Stockpiling pp. 1133-1147

Xuanming Su

Option Pricing Under GARCH Processes Using PDE Methods pp. 1148-1157

Michèle Breton and Javier de Frutos

Monotone Approximation of Decision Problems pp. 1158-1177

Naveed Chehrazi and Thomas Weber

Lumpy Capacity Investment and Disinvestment Dynamics pp. 1178-1193

David Besanko, Ulrich Doraszelski, Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu and Mark Satterthwaite

On Cournot Equilibria in Electricity Transmission Networks pp. 1194-1209

A. Downward, G. Zakeri and A. B. Philpottt

A Single-Settlement, Energy-Only Electric Power Market for Unpredictable and Intermittent Participants pp. 1210-1219

Geoffrey Pritchard, Golbon Zakeri and Andrew Philpott

A Soft Robust Model for Optimization Under Ambiguity pp. 1220-1234

Aharon Ben-Tal, Dimitris Bertsimas and David B. Brown

Myopic Solutions of Homogeneous Sequential Decision Processes pp. 1235-1246

Matthew J. Sobel and Wei Wei

Computational Methods for Oblivious Equilibrium pp. 1247-1265

Gabriel Y. Weintraub, C. Lanier Benkard and Benjamin Van Roy

Volume 58, issue 4-part-1, 2010

Terror Queues pp. 773-784

Edward H. Kaplan

Information Relaxations and Duality in Stochastic Dynamic Programs pp. 785-801

David B. Brown, James E. Smith and Peng Sun

Optimal Allocation of Surgery Blocks to Operating Rooms Under Uncertainty pp. 802-816

Brian T. Denton, Andrew J. Miller, Hari J. Balasubramanian and Todd R. Huschka

Revenue Management with Partially Refundable Fares pp. 817-833

Guillermo Gallego and Özge Şahin

The Value of Flexibility in Make-to-Order Systems: The Effect of Demand Correlation pp. 834-848

Jiri Chod, David Pyke and Nils Rudi

A Stochastic Programming Based Inventory Policy for Assemble-to-Order Systems with Application to the W Model pp. 849-864

Mustafa K. Doğru, Martin I. Reiman and Qiong Wang

A Shadow Simplex Method for Infinite Linear Programs pp. 865-877

Archis Ghate, Dushyant Sharma and Robert L. Smith

Optimal Selection of Customers for a Last-Minute Offer pp. 878-888

Roberto Cominetti, José R. Correa, Thomas Rothvoß and Jaime San Martín

On Choosing Parameters in Retrospective-Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Root Finding and Simulation Optimization pp. 889-901

Raghu Pasupathy

Distributionally Robust Optimization and Its Tractable Approximations pp. 902-917

Joel Goh and Melvyn Sim

An Approximation Approach for the Deviation Matrix of Continuous-Time Markov Processes with Application to Markov Decision Theory pp. 918-932

Nicole Leder, Bernd Heidergott and Arie Hordijk

Coordinated Multistage Scheduling of Parallel Batch-Processing Machines Under Multiresource Constraints pp. 933-947

Payman Jula and Robert C. Leachman

Irregular Packing Using the Line and Arc No-Fit Polygon pp. 948-970

E. K. Burke, R. S. R. Hellier, G. Kendall and G. Whitwell

Analysis of Page Replacement Policies in the Fluid Limit pp. 971-984

Ryo Hirade and Takayuki Osogami

Preferences for Consumption Streams: Scale Invariance, Correlation Aversion, and Delay Aversion Under Mortality Risk pp. 985-997

Kenneth C. Lichtendahl and Samuel E. Bodily

Reliable Facility Location Design Under the Risk of Disruptions pp. 998-1011

Tingting Cui, Yanfeng Ouyang and Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Technical Note ---Preservation of Quasi- K -Concavity and Its Applications pp. 1012-1016

Xin Chen, Yuhan Zhang and Sean X. Zhou

Technical Note ---Capacitated Serial Inventory Systems: Sample Path and Stability Properties Under Base-Stock Policies pp. 1017-1022

Woonghee Tim Huh, Ganesh Janakiraman and Mahesh Nagarajan

Technical Note ---Stochastic Sequential Decision-Making with a Random Number of Jobs pp. 1023-1027

Alexander G. Nikolaev and Sheldon H. Jacobson

Volume 58, issue 3, 2010

On the Impact of Forward Markets on Investments in Oligopolistic Markets with Reference to Electricity pp. 515-528

Frederic Murphy and Yves Smeers

Long-Run Equilibrium Modeling of Emissions Allowance Allocation Systems in Electric Power Markets pp. 529-548

Jinye Zhao, Benjamin F. Hobbs and Jong-Shi Pang

A Stochastic Model for Order Book Dynamics pp. 549-563

Rama Cont, Sasha Stoikov and Rishi Talreja

An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to Benchmark Practice-Based Heuristics for Natural Gas Storage Valuation pp. 564-582

Guoming Lai, François Margot and Nicola Secomandi

Robust Approximation to Multiperiod Inventory Management pp. 583-594

Chuen-Teck See and Melvyn Sim

Distributionally Robust Optimization Under Moment Uncertainty with Application to Data-Driven Problems pp. 595-612

Erick Delage and Yinyu Ye

Utility-Maximizing Resource Control: Diffusion Limit and Asymptotic Optimality for a Two-Bottleneck Model pp. 613-623

Heng-Qing Ye and David D. Yao

Fair Dynamic Routing in Large-Scale Heterogeneous-Server Systems pp. 624-637

Mor Armony and Amy R. Ward

Invest or Exit? Optimal Decisions in the Face of a Declining Profit Stream pp. 638-649

H. Dharma Kwon

Quantitative Comparison of Approximate Solution Sets for Multicriteria Optimization Problems with Weighted Tchebycheff Preference Function pp. 650-659

Bilge Bozkurt, John W. Fowler, Esma S. Gel, Bosun Kim, Murat Köksalan and Jyrki Wallenius

Cooperation in Service Systems pp. 660-673

Shoshana Anily and Moshe Haviv

Optimal Multileaf Collimator Leaf Sequencing in IMRT Treatment Planning pp. 674-690

Z. Caner Taşkın, J. Cole Smith, H. Edwin Romeijn and James F. Dempsey

No-Holdback Allocation Rules for Continuous-Time Assemble-to-Order Systems pp. 691-705

Yingdong Lu, Jing-Sheng Song and Yao Zhao

Gradient Estimation for Multicomponent Maintenance Systems with Age-Replacement Policy pp. 706-718

Bernd Heidergott and Taoying Farenhorst-Yuan

How Much Demand Should Be Fulfilled? pp. 719-733

Amar Sapra, Truong Van-Anh and Rachel Q. Zhang

New Policies for the Stochastic Inventory Control Problem with Two Supply Sources pp. 734-745

Anshul Sheopuri, Ganesh Janakiraman and Sridhar Seshadri

Rescheduling for Job Unavailability pp. 746-755

Nicholas G. Hall and Chris N. Potts

Series Expansions for Continuous-Time Markov Processes pp. 756-767

Bernd Heidergott, Arie Hordijk and Nicole Leder

Volume 58, issue 2, 2010

Inventory Management of a Fast-Fashion Retail Network pp. 257-273

Felipe Caro and Jérémie Gallien

Capacity Rationing in Stochastic Rental Systems with Advance Demand Information pp. 274-288

Felix Papier and Ulrich W. Thonemann

Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control: Uncertainty and Competition pp. 289-302

Elodie Adida and Georgia Perakis

Mixed-Integer Models for Nonseparable Piecewise-Linear Optimization: Unifying Framework and Extensions pp. 303-315

Juan Pablo Vielma, Shabbir Ahmed and George Nemhauser

Service-Level Differentiation in Many-Server Service Systems via Queue-Ratio Routing pp. 316-328

Itai Gurvich and Ward Whitt

Confronting Entrenched Insurgents pp. 329-341

Edward H. Kaplan, Moshe Kress and Roberto Szechtman

An Integrated Solver for Optimization Problems pp. 342-356

Tallys Yunes, Ionuţ D. Aron and J. N. Hooker

Pathwise Estimation of Probability Sensitivities Through Terminating or Steady-State Simulations pp. 357-370

L. Jeff Hong and Guangwu Liu

Stochastic Kriging for Simulation Metamodeling pp. 371-382

Bruce Ankenman, Barry L. Nelson and Jeremy Staum

Dynamic Lead-Time Quotation for an M/M/1 Base-Stock Inventory Queue pp. 383-395

Seçil Savaşaneril, Paul M. Griffin and Pınar Keskinocak

Bounds and Heuristics for Optimal Bayesian Inventory Control with Unobserved Lost Sales pp. 396-413

Li Chen

Optimal and Heuristic Echelon ( r, nQ, T ) Policies in Serial Inventory Systems with Fixed Costs pp. 414-427

Kevin H. Shang and Sean X. Zhou

Economic Lot-Sizing for Integrated Production and Transportation pp. 428-444

Hark-Chin Hwang

Mechanism Design for Decentralized Online Machine Scheduling pp. 445-457

Birgit Heydenreich, Rudolf Müller and Marc Uetz

Competitive Two-Agent Scheduling and Its Applications pp. 458-469

Joseph Y.-T. Leung, Michael Pinedo and Guohua Wan

From CVaR to Uncertainty Set: Implications in Joint Chance-Constrained Optimization pp. 470-485

Wenqing Chen, Melvyn Sim, Jie Sun and Chung-Piaw Teo

On the Optimal Policy Structure in Serial Inventory Systems with Lost Sales pp. 486-491

Woonghee Tim Huh and Ganesh Janakiraman

A Power-of-Two Ordering Policy for One-Warehouse Multiretailer Systems with Stochastic Demand pp. 492-502

Leon Yang Chu and Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Provably Near-Optimal LP-Based Policies for Revenue Management in Systems with Reusable Resources pp. 503-507

Retsef Levi and Ana Radovanović

A Note on the Optimality Proof of the Kise-Ibaraki-Mine Algorithm pp. 508-509

Shanlin Li, Zhi-Long Chen and Guochun Tang

Volume 58, issue 1, 2010

OR Practice---Implementing Seasonal Logistics Tactics for Finished Goods Distribution at Deere & Company's C&CE Division pp. 1-15

Valerie Tardif, Sridhar Tayur, James Reardon, Reid Stines and Pete Zimmerman

Dynamic Pricing with a Prior on Market Response pp. 16-29

Vivek F. Farias and Benjamin Van Roy

Equilibrium Capacity Expansion Under Stochastic Demand Growth pp. 30-42

Alfredo Garcia and Zhijiang Shen

Design for Process Flexibility: Efficiency of the Long Chain and Sparse Structure pp. 43-58

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

Worst-Case Analysis for a General Class of Online Lot-Sizing Heuristics pp. 59-67

Wilco van den Heuvel and Albert P. M. Wagelmans

The Effect of Lead Time and Demand Uncertainties in ( r, q ) Inventory Systems pp. 68-80

Jing-Sheng Song, Hanqin Zhang, Yumei Hou and Mingzheng Wang

Information Sharing in a Long-Term Supply Chain Relationship: The Role of Customer Review Strategy pp. 81-93

Z. Justin Ren, Morris A. Cohen, Teck Ho and Christian Terwiesch

Dynamic Control of N -Systems with Many Servers: Asymptotic Optimality of a Static Priority Policy in Heavy Traffic pp. 94-110

Tolga Tezcan and J. G. Dai

Inventory Management with an Exogenous Supply Process pp. 111-129

Alp Muharremoglu and Nan Yang

Integrated Production and Outbound Distribution Scheduling: Review and Extensions pp. 130-148

Zhi-Long Chen

Data Envelopment Analysis as Nonparametric Least-Squares Regression pp. 149-160

Timo Kuosmanen and Andrew Johnson

Robust Optimization for Unconstrained Simulation-Based Problems pp. 161-178

Dimitris Bertsimas, Omid Nohadani and Kwong Meng Teo

Branch-and-Price-and-Cut for the Split-Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows pp. 179-192

Guy Desaulniers

Acceleration Operators in the Value Iteration Algorithms for Markov Decision Processes pp. 193-202

Oleksandr Shlakhter, Chi-Guhn Lee, Dmitry Khmelev and Nasser Jaber

Percentile Optimization for Markov Decision Processes with Parameter Uncertainty pp. 203-213

Erick Delage and Shie Mannor

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes: A Geometric Technique and Analysis pp. 214-228

Hao Zhang

Disjunctive Decomposition for Two-Stage Stochastic Mixed-Binary Programs with Random Recourse pp. 229-243

Lewis Ntaimo

Technical note ---Linear Inflation Rules for the Random Yield Problem: Analysis and Computations pp. 244-251

Woonghee Tim Huh and Mahesh Nagarajan