Operations Research

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Volume 50, issue 6, 2002

Cutting and Reuse: An Application from Automobile Component Manufacturing pp. 923-934

Claudio Arbib, Fabrizio Marinelli, Fabrizio Rossi and Francesco Di Iorio

Common Mistakes in Making Value Trade-Offs pp. 935-945

Ralph L. Keeney

Nature Reserve Site Selection to Maximize Expected Species Covered pp. 946-955

Jeffrey D. Camm, Susan K. Norman, Stephen Polasky and Andrew R. Solow

The Probabilistic Set-Covering Problem pp. 956-967

Patrizia Beraldi and Andrzej Ruszczynski

Algorithms for Radio Link Frequency Assignment: The Calma Project pp. 968-980

Karen Aardal, Cor Hurkens, Jan Karel Lenstra and Sergey Tiourine

D-Optimal Sequential Experiments for Generating a Simulation-Based Cycle Time-Throughput Curve pp. 981-990

Sungmin Park, John W. Fowler, Gerald T. Mackulak, J. Bert Keats and W. Matthew Carlyle

Managing Learning and Turnover in Employee Staffing pp. 991-1006

Noah Gans and Yong-Pin Zhou

Inventory Cost Rate Functions with Nonlinear Shortage Costs pp. 1007-1017

Kaj Rosling

Finite-Size Facility Placement in the Presence of Barriers to Rectilinear Travel pp. 1018-1031

Selçuk Savaş, Rajan Batta and Rakesh Nagi

Brownian Approximations of Multiclass Open-Queueing Networks pp. 1032-1049

Hong Chen, Xinyang Shen and David D. Yao

Linear Facility Location in Three Dimensions---Models and Solution Methods pp. 1050-1057

Jack Brimberg, Henrik Juel and Anita Schöbel

On the Effectiveness of Zero-Inventory-Ordering Policies for the Economic Lot-Sizing Model with a Class of Piecewise Linear Cost Structures pp. 1058-1067

Lap Mui Ann Chan, Ana Muriel, Zuo-Jun Shen and David Simchi-Levi

When Uncertainty Is Beneficial: Interesting Implications for the Hydrocarbon Discovery Process pp. 1068-1072

Yigal Gerchak, Qi-Ming He, J. David Fuller and Ekachidd Chungcharoen

An Object-Oriented Random-Number Package with Many Long Streams and Substreams pp. 1073-1075

Pierre L'Ecuyer, Richard Simard, E. Jack Chen and W. David Kelton

Volume 50, issue 5, 2002

Achieving Environmental and Productivity Improvements Through Model-Based Process Redesign pp. 751-763

Kumar Rajaram and Charles J. Corbett

The Circuit-Switched Network Design and Analysis Model: A Chronology of Its Development and Use pp. 764-771

Harry G. Barker, David A. Calabrese, Martin J. Fischer, David A. Garbin, J. Edward Knepley and Gregor W. Swinsky

Rendezvous Search: A Personal Perspective pp. 772-795

Steve Alpern

Structural Properties of Stochastic Dynamic Programs pp. 796-809

James E. Smith and Kevin F. McCardle

On the Value of Binary Expansions for General Mixed-Integer Linear Programs pp. 810-819

Jonathan H. Owen and Sanjay Mehrotra

Chessboard Distributions and Random Vectors with Specified Marginals and Covariance Matrix pp. 820-834

Soumyadip Ghosh and Shane G. Henderson

Exotic Options for Interruptible Electricity Supply Contracts pp. 835-850

Rajnish Kamat and Shmuel S. Oren

Modeling and Solving the Train Timetabling Problem pp. 851-861

Alberto Caprara, Matteo Fischetti and Paolo Toth

A Multilevel Approach to the Travelling Salesman Problem pp. 862-877

Chris Walshaw

Comparing the Effectiveness of Various Bayesian X̄ Control Charts pp. 878-888

George Tagaras and Yiannis Nikolaidis

Performance Analysis and Optimization of Assemble-to-Order Systems with Random Lead Times pp. 889-903

Jing-Sheng Song and David D. Yao

A Primal-Dual Decomposition-Based Interior Point Approach to Two-Stage Stochastic Linear Programming pp. 904-915

Arjan Berkelaar, Cees Dert, Bart Oldenkamp and Shuzhong Zhang

Volume 50, issue 4, 2002

Implementing Real-Time Optimization Models: A Case Application From The Motor Carrier Industry pp. 571-581

Warren B. Powell, Arun Marar, Jack Gelfand and Steve Bowers

Optimizing Military Airlift pp. 582-602

Steven F. Baker, David P. Morton, Richard E. Rosenthal and Laura Melody Williams

A Market-Based Approach to Optimal Resource Allocation in Integrated-Services Connection-Oriented Networks pp. 603-616

Panagiotis Thomas, Demosthenis Teneketzis and Jeffrey K. Mackie-Mason

Spare-Capacity Assignment For Line Restoration Using a Single-Facility Type pp. 617-635

Anantaram Balakrishnan, Thomas L. Magnanti, Joel S. Sokol and Yi Wang

A New Interior-Point Boundary Projection Method For Solving Nonlinear Groundwater Pollution Control Problems pp. 636-644

Ann E. Mulligan and David P. Ahlfeld

Nonparametric Efficiency Estimation In Stochastic Environments pp. 645-655

Thierry Post, Laurens Cherchye and Timo Kuosmanen

On Tightening the Relaxations of Miller-Tucker-Zemlin Formulations for Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problems pp. 656-669

Hanif D. Sherali and Patrick J. Driscoll

A Bi-Objective Median Location Problem With a Line Barrier pp. 670-679

Kathrin Klamroth and Margaret M. Wiecek

Product Cycling With Uncertain Yields: Analysis and Application to the Process Industry pp. 680-691

Kumar Rajaram and Uday S. Karmarkar

A Fluid Heuristic for Minimizing Makespan in Job Shops pp. 692-707

J. G. Dai and Gideon Weiss

Facets and Reformulations for Solving Production Planning With Changeover Costs pp. 708-719

Thomas L. Magnanti and Trilochan Sastry

Asymptotic Behavior of an Allocation Policy for Revenue Management pp. 720-727

William L. Cooper

A Statistical Test for Nested Radial Dea Models pp. 728-735

Jesús T. Pastor, JosÉ L. Ruiz and Inmaculada Sirvent

The Access-Control Problem on Capacitated FIFO Networks With Unique O-D Paths is Hard pp. 736-743

Alan L. Erera, Carlos F. Daganzo and David J. Lovell

Note: Online Searching / on the Optimality of the Geometric Sequences for the m Ray Search Online Searching pp. 744-745

Patrick Jaillet, Matthew Stafford and Shmuel Gal

Volume 50, issue 3, 2002

Modeling Farmers' Response to Uncertain Rainfall in Burkina Faso: A Stochastic Programming Approach pp. 399-414

Arno Maatman, Caspar Schweigman, Arjan Ruijs and Maarten H. van Der Vlerk

An Integer L -Shaped Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands pp. 415-423

Gilbert Laporte, FranÇois V. Louveaux and Luc van Hamme

Optimal Lot Sizes with Geometric Production Yield and Rigid Demand pp. 424-432

Shoshana Anily, Avraham Beja and Amit Mendel

Global Optimization Procedures for the Capacitated Euclidean and l p Distance Multifacility Location-Allocation Problems pp. 433-448

Hanif D. Sherali, Intesar Al-Loughani and Shivaram Subramanian

Double Auctions Across a Constrained Transmission Line pp. 449-461

Joel I. Singer

A Stochastic Convergence Model for Portfolio Selection pp. 462-476

Amy V. Puelz

Using Supply Functions for Offering Generation into an Electricity Market pp. 477-489

E. J. Anderson and A. B. Philpott

Large-Scale Integer Programs in Image Analysis pp. 490-500

Geir Dahl, Geir Storvik and Alice Fadnes

Confidentiality via Camouflage: The CVC Approach to Disclosure Limitation When Answering Queries to Databases pp. 501-516

Ram Gopal, Robert Garfinkel and Paulo Goes

The Censored Newsvendor and the Optimal Acquisition of Information pp. 517-527

Xiaomei Ding, Martin L. Puterman and Arnab Bisi

Production and Inventory Model Using Net Present Value pp. 528-537

Daning Sun and Maurice Queyranne

Hybrid Fiber Coaxial Network Design pp. 538-551

Raymond A. Patterson and Erik Rolland

An Adaptive Bayesian Replacement Policy with Minimal Repair pp. 552-558

Savaş Dayanik and Ülkü Gürler

On the Tail of the Waiting Time in a Markov-Modulated M/G/1 Queue pp. 559-565

Søren Asmussen and Colm O'cinneide

Corrigendum: New Selection Procedures pp. 566-566

Stephen E. Chick and Koichiro Inoue

Volume 50, issue 2, 2002

Scheduling Solutions for the Paper Industry pp. 249-259

Pinar Keskinocak, Frederick Wu, Richard Goodwin, Sesh Murthy, Rama Akkiraju, Santhosh Kumaran and Annap Derebail

Simplex and Interior Point Specialized Algorithms for Solving Nonoriented Multicommodity Flow Problems pp. 260-276

P. Chardaire and A. Lisser

Survival Analysis Methods for Personal Loan Data pp. 277-289

Maria Stepanova and Lyn Thomas

A Criterion for Burn-in that Balances Mean Residual Life and Residual Variance pp. 290-296

Henry W. Block, Thomas H. Savits and Harshinder Singh

Short-Term Generation Asset Valuation: A Real Options Approach pp. 297-310

Chung-Li Tseng and Graydon Barz

Searching for an Agent Who May OR May Not Want to be Found pp. 311-323

Steve Alpern and Shmuel Gal

Order Allocation for Stock Cutting in the Paper Industry pp. 324-332

Syam Menon and Linus Schrage

Design of Capacitated Multicommodity Networks with Multiple Facilities pp. 333-344

Yogesh K. Agarwal

Analysis of a Least Recently Used Cache Management Policy for Web Browsers pp. 345-357

Vijay S. Mookerjee and Yong Tan

On the Relation Between Option and Stock Prices: A Convex Optimization Approach pp. 358-374

Dimitris Bertsimas and Ioana Popescu

Flexible Service Capacity: Optimal Investment and the Impact of Demand Correlation pp. 375-388

Serguei Netessine, Gregory Dobson and Robert A. Shumsky

An Inverse Problem of the Lanchester Square Law in Estimating Time-Dependent Attrition Coefficients pp. 389-394

Hsi-Mei Chen

Volume 50, issue 1, 2002

Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Issue of Operations Research pp. iii-iii

Lawrence M. Wein

The Genesis of “Optimal Inventory Policy” pp. 1-2

Kenneth Arrow

Solving Real-World Linear Programs: A Decade and More of Progress pp. 3-15

Robert E. Bixby

Crime Modeling 1 pp. 16-24

Alfred Blumstein

Army Operations Research---Historical Perspectives and Lessons Learned pp. 25-34

Seth Bonder

Abraham Charnes and W. W. Cooper (et al.): A Brief History of a Long Collaboration in Developing Industrial Uses of Linear Programming pp. 35-41

W. W. Cooper

Linear Programming pp. 42-47

George B. Dantzig

Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming pp. 48-51

Stuart Dreyfus

Some Origins of Operations Research in the Health Services pp. 52-60

Charles D. Flagle

The First Linear-Programming Shoppe pp. 61-68

Saul I. Gass

The Origins of Traffic Theory pp. 69-77

Denos C. Gazis

Early Integer Programming pp. 78-81

Ralph E. Gomory

War and Peace: The First 25 Years of or in Great Britain pp. 82-88

K. Brian Haley

Energy Modeling for Policy Studies pp. 89-95

William W. Hogan

Learning How to Plan Production, Inventories, and Work Force pp. 96-99

Charles C. Holt

Comments on the Origin and Application of Markov Decision Processes pp. 100-102

Ronald A. Howard

Navy Operations Research pp. 103-111

Wayne P. Hughes

How Networks of Queues Came About pp. 112-113

Jim Jackson

Interdisciplinary Meandering in Science pp. 114-121

Samuel Karlin

Looking Back: Four Decades of Analysis pp. 122-124

Glenn Kent

Creating a Mathematical Theory of Computer Networks pp. 125-131

Leonard Kleinrock

Being in the Right Place at the Right Time pp. 132-134

Harold W. Kuhn

Public Sector Operations Research: A Personal Journey pp. 135-145

Richard Charles Larson

Philip M. Morse and the Beginnings pp. 146-148

John D. C. Little

Operations Research at Arthur D. Little, Inc.: The Early Years pp. 149-153

John F. Magee

Efficient Portfolios, Sparse Matrices, and Entities: A Retrospective pp. 154-160

Harry Markowitz

Perspectives on the Evolution of Simulation pp. 161-172

Richard E. Nance and Robert G. Sargent

Memoirs on Highway Traffic Flow Theory in the 1950s pp. 173-178

G. F. Newell

Decision Analysis: A Personal Account of How It Got Started and Evolved pp. 179-185

Howard Raiffa

Inventory Theory pp. 186-191

Herbert Scarf

Game Theory and Operations Research: Some Musings 50 Years Later pp. 192-196

Martin Shubik

Analysis, Design, and Control of Queueing Systems pp. 197-216

Shaler Stidham

And Then There Were None pp. 217-226

Harvey M. Wagner

Applied Probability in Great Britain pp. 227-239

Peter Whittle