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Volume 56, issue 6, 2008

Introduction to the Special Issue on Operations Research in Health Care pp. 1333-1334

H. Edwin Romeijn and Stefanos A. Zenios

Personal Decisions Are the Leading Cause of Death pp. 1335-1347

Ralph L. Keeney

An Analysis of Pediatric Vaccine Formulary Selection Problems pp. 1348-1365

Shane N. Hall, Sheldon H. Jacobson and Edward C. Sewell

Controlling Co-Epidemics: Analysis of HIV and Tuberculosis Infection Dynamics pp. 1366-1381

Elisa F. Long, Naveen K. Vaidya and Margaret L. Brandeau

Algorithmic Prediction of Health-Care Costs pp. 1382-1392

Dimitris Bertsimas, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Michael A. Kane, J. Christian Kryder, Rudra Pandey, Santosh Vempala and Grant Wang

Estimating the Patient's Price of Privacy in Liver Transplantation pp. 1393-1410

Burhaneddin Sandıkçı, Lisa M. Maillart, Andrew J. Schaefer, Oguzhan Alagoz and Mark S. Roberts

Assessing Dynamic Breast Cancer Screening Policies pp. 1411-1427

Lisa M. Maillart, Julie Simmons Ivy, Scott Ransom and Kathleen Diehl

Optimal Initiation and Management of Dialysis Therapy pp. 1428-1449

Chris P. Lee, Glenn M. Chertow and Stefanos A. Zenios

Novel Optimization Models for Abnormal Brain Activity Classification pp. 1450-1460

W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Ya-Ju Fan and Rajesh C. Sachdeo

Robust Management of Motion Uncertainty in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy pp. 1461-1473

Thomas Bortfeld, Timothy C. Y. Chan, Alexei Trofimov and John N. Tsitsiklis

A Dynamic Simulator for the Management of Disorders of the Body Water Homeostasis pp. 1474-1492

Ozge Karanfil and Yaman Barlas

Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination pp. 1493-1506

Stephen E. Chick, Hamed Mamani and David Simchi-Levi

Dynamic Multipriority Patient Scheduling for a Diagnostic Resource pp. 1507-1525

Jonathan Patrick, Martin L. Puterman and Maurice Queyranne

Reducing Delays for Medical Appointments: A Queueing Approach pp. 1526-1538

Linda V. Green and Sergei Savin

Milestone Payments or Royalties? Contract Design for R&D Licensing pp. 1539-1552

Pascale Crama, Bert De Reyck and Zeger Degraeve

Volume 56, issue 5, 2008

OR FORUM---Catching the “Network Science” Bug: Insight and Opportunity for the Operations Researcher pp. 1047-1065

David L. Alderson

OR PRACTICE---Assisting Defined-Benefit Pension Plans pp. 1066-1078

John M. Mulvey, Koray D. Simsek, Zhuojuan Zhang, Frank Fabozzi and William R. Pauling

OR PRACTICE---Optimization of Vacation Timeshare Scheduling pp. 1079-1088

Scott E. Sampson

A Single-Unit Decomposition Approach to Multiechelon Inventory Systems pp. 1089-1103

Alp Muharremoglu and John N. Tsitsiklis

Joint Design and Pricing on a Network pp. 1104-1115

Luce Brotcorne, Martine Labbé, Patrice Marcotte and Gilles Savard

Modeling the Impact of Market Interventions on the Strategic Evolution of Electricity Markets pp. 1116-1130

Derek W. Bunn and Fernando S. Oliveira

Regulation of Natural Gas Distribution Using Policy Benchmarks pp. 1131-1145

Kumar Muthuraman, Tarik Aouam and Ronald Rardin

Scoring Rules, Generalized Entropy, and Utility Maximization pp. 1146-1157

Victor Richmond R. Jose, Robert F. Nau and Robert L. Winkler

Asymptotically Optimal Control for an Assemble-to-Order System with Capacitated Component Production and Fixed Transport Costs pp. 1158-1171

Erica L. Plambeck

Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Stochastic Uncapacitated Lot-Sizing Problems pp. 1172-1183

Yongpei Guan and Andrew J. Miller

Approximation Algorithms for Capacitated Stochastic Inventory Control Models pp. 1184-1199

Retsef Levi, Robin O. Roundy, David B. Shmoys and Truong Van Anh

Fast Simulation of Multifactor Portfolio Credit Risk pp. 1200-1217

Paul Glasserman, Wanmo Kang and Perwez Shahabuddin

Optimization Models of Discrete-Event System Dynamics pp. 1218-1237

Wai Kin (Victor) Chan and Lee Schruben

Analysis of the ( Q, r ) Inventory Model for Perishables with Positive Lead Times and Lost Sales pp. 1238-1246

Emre Berk and Ülkü Gürler

Joint Inventory and Pricing Decisions for an Assortment pp. 1247-1255

Goker Aydin and Evan L. Porteus

Old and New Methods for Lost-Sales Inventory Systems pp. 1256-1263

Paul Zipkin

Distribution Coordination Between Suppliers and Customers with a Consolidation Center pp. 1264-1277

Haiqing Song, Vernon N. Hsu and Raymond K. Cheung

The DEA Game Cross-Efficiency Model and Its Nash Equilibrium pp. 1278-1288

Liang Liang, Jie Wu, Wade D. Cook and Joe Zhu

Cumulative Dominance and Heuristic Performance in Binary Multiattribute Choice pp. 1289-1304

Manel Baucells, Juan A. Carrasco and Robin Hogarth

Technical Note---A Risk-Sensitive Model for Managing Perishable Products pp. 1305-1311

Youyi Feng and Baichun Xiao

Technical Note---A Make-to-Stock System with Multiple Customer Classes and Batch Ordering pp. 1312-1320

Boray Huang and Seyed M. R. Iravani

Volume 56, issue 4, 2008

The Innovest Austrian Pension Fund Financial Planning Model InnoALM pp. 797-810

Alois Geyer and William T. Ziemba

Efficient Computation of Hedging Parameters for Discretely Exercisable Options pp. 811-826

Ron Kaniel, Stathis Tompaidis and Alexander Zemlianov

Service Competition with General Queueing Facilities pp. 827-849

Gad Allon and Awi Federgruen

Now or Later: A Simple Policy for Effective Dual Sourcing in Capacitated Systems pp. 850-864

Senthil Veeraraghavan and Alan Scheller-Wolf

Simulation-Based Optimization of Virtual Nesting Controls for Network Revenue Management pp. 865-880

Garrett van Ryzin and Gustavo Vulcano

Optimal Joint Inventory and Transshipment Control Under Uncertain Capacity pp. 881-897

Xinxin Hu, Izak Duenyas and Roman Kapuscinski

Promised Lead-Time Contracts Under Asymmetric Information pp. 898-915

Holly Lutze and Özalp Özer

Selecting a Portfolio of Suppliers Under Demand and Supply Risks pp. 916-936

Awi Federgruen and Nan Yang

On the Structure of Lost-Sales Inventory Models pp. 937-944

Paul Zipkin

The Stochastic Knapsack Revisited: Switch-Over Policies and Dynamic Pricing pp. 945-957

Grace Y. Lin, Yingdong Lu and David D. Yao

A Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo Simulation Method for Markov Chains pp. 958-975

Pierre L'Ecuyer, Christian Lécot and Bruno Tuffin

Optimal Position-Based Warehouse Ordering in Divergent Two-Echelon Inventory Systems pp. 976-991

Sven Axsäter and Johan Marklund

The Pseudoflow Algorithm: A New Algorithm for the Maximum-Flow Problem pp. 992-1009

Dorit S. Hochbaum

Multitask and Multistage Production Planning and Scheduling for Process Industries pp. 1010-1025

Francesco Gaglioppa, Lisa A. Miller and Saif Benjaafar

An Exact Approach to the One-Dimensional Facility Layout Problem pp. 1026-1033

André R. S. Amaral

Analysis of Perishable-Inventory Systems with Censored Demand Data pp. 1034-1038

Xiangwen Lu, Jing-Sheng Song and Kaijie Zhu

Note: A Simple Heuristic for Serial Inventory Systems with Fixed Order Costs pp. 1039-1043

Kevin H. Shang

Volume 56, issue 3, 2008

Repeated Commit-or-Defer Decisions with a Deadline: The Influenza Vaccine Composition pp. 527-541

Laura J. Kornish and Ralph L. Keeney

A New Mixed-Integer Programming Model for Harvest Scheduling Subject to Maximum Area Restrictions pp. 542-551

Miguel Constantino, Isabel Martins and José G. Borges

A Game-Theoretic Approach to Efficient Power Management in Sensor Networks pp. 552-561

Enrique Campos-Nañez, Alfredo Garcia and Chenyang Li

Competition for Procurement Contracts with Service Guarantees pp. 562-575

Fernando Bernstein and Francis de Véricourt

Revenue Management for a Primary-Care Clinic in the Presence of Patient Choice pp. 576-592

Diwakar Gupta and Lei Wang

Portfolio Credit Risk with Extremal Dependence: Asymptotic Analysis and Efficient Simulation pp. 593-606

Achal Bassamboo, Sandeep Juneja and Assaf Zeevi

Multilevel Monte Carlo Path Simulation pp. 607-617

Michael B. Giles

Impulse Control of Brownian Motion: The Constrained Average Cost Case pp. 618-629

Melda Ormeci, J. G. Dai and John Vande Vate

A Static Approximation for Dynamic Demand Substitution with Applications in a Competitive Market pp. 630-645

Wallace J. Hopp and Xiaowei Xu

Using Stochastic Approximation Methods to Compute Optimal Base-Stock Levels in Inventory Control Problems pp. 646-664

Sumit Kunnumkal and Huseyin Topaloglu

An Asset Assembly Problem pp. 665-680

Alexandar Angelus and Evan L. Porteus

A Dynamic Principal-Agent Model with Hidden Information: Sequential Optimality Through Truthful State Revelation pp. 681-696

Hao Zhang and Stefanos Zenios

Finding Supply Function Equilibria with Asymmetric Firms pp. 697-711

Edward J. Anderson and Xinmin Hu

Relaxations of Weakly Coupled Stochastic Dynamic Programs pp. 712-727

Daniel Adelman and Adam J. Mersereau

Resource-Sharing Queueing Systems with Fluid-Flow Traffic pp. 728-744

Sai Rajesh Mahabhashyam, Natarajan Gautam and Soundar R. T. Kumara

Generalized Online Routing: New Competitive Ratios, Resource Augmentation, and Asymptotic Analyses pp. 745-757

Patrick Jaillet and Michael R. Wagner

Transportation Procurement with Seasonally Varying Shipper Demand and Volume Guarantees pp. 758-771

Andrew Lim, Brian Rodrigues and Zhou Xu

Improved Bounds for the Symmetric Rendezvous Value on the Line pp. 772-782

Qiaoming Han, Donglei Du, Juan Vera and Luis F. Zuluaga

( s, S ) Optimality in Joint Inventory-Pricing Control: An Alternate Approach pp. 783-790

Woonghee Tim Huh and Ganesh Janakiraman

Operations Research Call for Papers: Special Issue on Computational Economics pp. 0796-0796

Kenneth Judd and Garrett J. van Ryzin

Volume 56, issue 2, 2008

The OR/MS Ecosystem: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats pp. 267-277

ManMohan S. Sodhi and Christopher S. Tang

OR PRACTICE---An Economic Equilibrium Model of the Market for Marine Transportation Services in Petroleum Products pp. 278-285

Murthy Mudrageda and Frederic H. Murphy

Fast Pricing of Basket Default Swaps pp. 286-303

Zhiyong Chen and Paul Glasserman

Pricing Options in Jump-Diffusion Models: An Extrapolation Approach pp. 304-325

Liming Feng and Vadim Linetsky

Risk in Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing pp. 326-343

Yuri Levin, Jeff McGill and Mikhail Nediak

A Linear Decision-Based Approximation Approach to Stochastic Programming pp. 344-357

Xin Chen, Melvyn Sim, Peng Sun and Jiawei Zhang

Optimal Dynamic Trading Strategies with Risk Limits pp. 358-368

Domenico Cuoco, Hua He and Sergei Isaenko

Supply Function Equilibrium in a Constrained Transmission System pp. 369-382

Robert Wilson

Two-Stage Fleet Assignment Model Considering Stochastic Passenger Demands pp. 383-399

Hanif D. Sherali and Xiaomei Zhu

Optimal Dynamic Production and Inventory Transshipment Policies for a Two-Location Make-to-Stock System pp. 400-410

Hui Zhao, Jennifer K. Ryan and Vinayak Deshpande

Diversity Maximization Approach for Multiobjective Optimization pp. 411-424

Michael Masin and Yossi Bukchin

An Optimization Algorithm for the Ordered Open-End Bin-Packing Problem pp. 425-436

Alberto Ceselli and Giovanni Righini

Evaluation and Optimization of Installation Base-Stock Policies in Supply Chains with Compound Poisson Demand pp. 437-452

Yao Zhao

Heavy-Traffic Optimality of a Stochastic Network Under Utility-Maximizing Resource Allocation pp. 453-470

Heng-Qing Ye and David D. Yao

Regulated Random Walks and the LCFS Backlog Probability: Analysis and Application pp. 471-486

Opher Baron

Multivariate Bayesian Control Chart pp. 487-496

Viliam Makis

Subset-Row Inequalities Applied to the Vehicle-Routing Problem with Time Windows pp. 497-511

Mads Jepsen, Bjørn Petersen, Simon Spoorendonk and David Pisinger

Visualizing and Constructing Cycles in the Simplex Method pp. 512-518

David Avis, Bohdan Kaluzny and David Titley-Péloquin

Technical Note---A Note on Parametric Analysis in Linear Assignment pp. 519-522

A. Volgenant

Volume 56, issue 1, 2008

From the Editor pp. 1-2

David Simchi-Levi

OR PRACTICE---The Dance of the Thirty-Ton Trucks: Dispatching and Scheduling in a Dynamic Environment pp. 3-19

Martin Durbin and Karla Hoffman

The Optimal Time to Initiate HIV Therapy Under Ordered Health States pp. 20-33

Steven M. Shechter, Matthew D. Bailey, Andrew J. Schaefer and Mark S. Roberts

Modeling and Computing Two-Settlement Oligopolistic Equilibrium in a Congested Electricity Network pp. 34-47

Jian Yao, Ilan Adler and Shmuel S. Oren

Evaluating Contextual Variables Affecting Productivity Using Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 48-58

Rajiv D. Banker and Ram Natarajan

Optimal Policy for a Periodic-Review Inventory System Under a Supply Capacity Contract pp. 59-68

Xiuli Chao and Paul H. Zipkin

CAR-DEA: Context-Dependent Assurance Regions in DEA pp. 69-78

Wade D. Cook and Joe Zhu

Equity-Efficiency Bicriteria Location with Squared Euclidean Distances pp. 79-87

Yoshiaki Ohsawa, Naoya Ozaki and Frank Plastria

Preventing Large Sojourn Times Using SMART Scheduling pp. 88-101

Misja Nuyens, Adam Wierman and Bert Zwart

Truthful Double Auction Mechanisms pp. 102-120

Leon Yang Chu and Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Price and Order Postponement in a Decentralized Newsvendor Model with Multiplicative and Price-Dependent Demand pp. 121-139

Daniel Granot and Shuya Yin

Arrival Rate Approximation by Nonnegative Cubic Splines pp. 140-156

Farid Alizadeh, Jonathan Eckstein, Nilay Noyan and Gábor Rudolf

Versioning and Piracy Control for Digital Information Goods pp. 157-172

Shin-yi Wu and Pei-yu Chen

Dimensioning Large-Scale Membership Services pp. 173-187

Francis de Véricourt and Otis B. Jennings

Regret in the Newsvendor Model with Partial Information pp. 188-203

Georgia Perakis and Guillaume Roels

Analyzing Cost-Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope: A Nonparametric Methodology pp. 204-221

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

Integrating Approximation and Interactive Decision Making in Multicriteria Optimization pp. 222-234

Kathrin Klamroth and Kaisa Miettinen

Bayesian Analysis of the Sequential Inspection Plan via the Gibbs Sampler pp. 235-246

Young H. Chun

TECHNICAL NOTE---Spatial Queueing Analysis of an Interdiction System to Protect Cities from a Nuclear Terrorist Attack pp. 247-254

Michael P. Atkinson and Lawrence M. Wein

TECHNICAL NOTE---Solving Linear Cost Dynamic Lot-Sizing Problems in O ( n log n ) Time pp. 255-261

Ravindra K. Ahuja and Dorit S. Hochbaum