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Volume 46, issue 6, 1998

A Multiattribute Utility Analysis of Alternatives for the Disposition of Surplus Weapons-Grade Plutonium pp. 749-762

James S. Dyer, Thomas Edmunds, John C. Butler and Jianmin Jia

SUMT (Revisited) pp. 763-775

Stephen G. Nash

Individual Equilibrium and Learning in Processor Sharing Systems pp. 776-784

Eitan Altman and Nahum Shimkin

Airline Network Design pp. 785-804

Phillip J. Lederer and Ramakrishnan S. Nambimadom

Multiperiod Airline Overbooking with a Single Fare Class pp. 805-819

Richard E. Chatwin

Modeling and Solving the Crew Rostering Problem pp. 820-830

Alberto Caprara, Paolo Toth, Daniele Vigo and Matteo Fischetti

On the Order Fill Rate in a Multi-Item, Base-Stock Inventory System pp. 831-845

Jing-Sheng Song

Capacity Expansion and Equipment Replacement: A Unified Approach pp. 846-857

S. Rajagopalan

Leadtime-Inventory Trade-Offs in Assemble-to-Order Systems pp. 858-871

Paul Glasserman and Yashan Wang

Probabilistic Analysis and Practical Algorithms for the Flow Shop Weighted Completion Time Problem pp. 872-882

Philip Kaminsky and David Simchi-Levi

Determining Production Schedules Under Base-Stock Policies in Single Facility Multi-Item Production Systems pp. 883-898

Awi Federgruen and Ziv Katalan

A Capacitated Production-Inventory Model with Periodic Demand pp. 899-911

Roman Kapuściński and Sridhar Tayur

Lower Bounds for the Quadratic Assignment Problem Based upon a Dual Formulation pp. 912-922

Peter Hahn and Thomas Grant

Quantum Mechanical and Human Violations of Compound Probability Principles: Toward a Generalized Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle pp. 923-926

Robert F. Bordley

On Quasi-Reversibility and Local Balance: An Alternative Derivation of the Product-Form Results pp. 927-933

Xiuli Chao and Masakiyo Miyazawa

How Larger Demand Variability May Lead to Lower Costs in the Newsvendor Problem pp. 934-936

Ad Ridder, Erwin van der Laan and Marc Salomon

Volume 46, issue 5, 1998

Coordinating Clearance Markdown Sales of Seasonal Products in Retail Chains pp. 609-624

Gabriel Bitran, René Caldentey and Susana Mondschein

Modeling of Transport Risk for Hazardous Materials pp. 625-642

Erhan Erkut and Vedat Verter

Achieving Air Quality Standards in the European Union pp. 643-654

Zeger Degraeve and Gert Jan Koopman

Constrained Maximum-Entropy Sampling pp. 655-664

Jon Lee

Strong Stochastic Bounds for the Stationary Distribution of a Class of Multicomponent Performability Models pp. 665-674

P. G. Taylor and N. M. Van Dijk

Optimal Component Assignment and Board Grouping in Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing pp. 675-689

Mark S. Hillier and Margaret L. Brandeau

A Dynamic Stochastic Stock-Cutting Problem pp. 690-701

Elena V. Krichagina, Rodrigo Rubio, Michael I. Taksar and Lawrence M. Wein

Solving a Class of Two-Dimensional Uncapacitated Location-Allocation Problems by Dynamic Programming pp. 702-709

Jack Brimberg and Robert F. Love

Stopping Rules for a Class of Sampling-Based Stochastic Programming Algorithms pp. 710-718

David P. Morton

Optimal Placement of Add/Drop Multiplexers: Heuristic and Exact Algorithms pp. 719-728

Alain S. Sutter, François Vanderbeck and Laurence Wolsey

Parallel Machine Scheduling, Linear Programming, and Parameter List Scheduling Heuristics pp. 729-741

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

Resource Constrained Chain Scheduling of UET Jobs on Two Machines pp. 742-746

W. Kubiak, J. Błażewicz, M. Dror, N. Katoh and H. Rock

Volume 46, issue 4, 1998

Formulation of the Russell-Yasuda Kasai Financial Planning Model pp. 433-449

David R. Cariño and William T. Ziemba

Concepts, Technical Issues, and Uses of the Russell-Yasuda Kasai Financial Planning Model pp. 450-462

David R. Cariño, David H. Myers and William T. Ziemba

A Primal Method for the Solution of the Groundwater Quality Management Problem pp. 463-473

Tullio Tucciarelli, George P. Karatzas and George F. Pinder

Drive: Dynamic Routing of Independent Vehicles pp. 474-490

Martin Savelsbergh and Marc Sol

Diagnosis with Dependent Symptoms: Bayes Theorem and the Analytic Hierarchy Process pp. 491-502

Thomas L. Saaty and Luis G. Vargas

From Valid Inequalities to Heuristics: A Unified View of Primal-Dual Approximation Algorithms in Covering Problems pp. 503-514

Dimitris Bertsimas and Chung-Piaw Teo

Models for Design and Control of Single Server Polling Computer and Communication Systems pp. 515-531

Thomas (Yew Sing) Lee

Dynamic Scheduling of a Two-Class Queue with Setups pp. 532-547

Martin I. Reiman and Lawrence M. Wein

Solution of the Multisource Weber and Conditional Weber Problems by D.-C. Programming pp. 548-562

Pey-Chun Chen, Pierre Hansen, Brigitte Jaumard and Hoang Tuy

Optimal Load Balancing on Distributed Homogeneous Unreliable Processors pp. 563-573

Zhen Liu and Rhonda Righter

Correlation-Induction Techniques for Estimating Quantiles in Simulation Experiments pp. 574-591

Athanassios N. Avramidis and James R. Wilson

Near-Optimal Echelon-Stock (R, nQ) Policies in Multistage Serial Systems pp. 592-602

Fangruo Chen and Yu-Sheng Zheng

Volume 46, issue 3-supplement-3, 1998

The Stock Size Problem pp. S1-S12

Hans Kellerer, Vladimir Kotov, Franz Rendl and Gerhard J. Woeginger

A Multiclass Hybrid Production Center in Heavy Traffic pp. S13-S25

Viên Nguyen

Stationary Policies in Multiechelon Inventory Systems with Deterministic Demand and Backlogging pp. S26-S34

Fangruo Chen

A Dynamic Model for Requirements Planning with Application to Supply Chain Optimization pp. S35-S49

Stephen C. Graves, David B. Kletter and William B. Hetzel

A Subassembly Manufacturing Yield Problem with Multiple Production Runs pp. S50-S64

Purushottaman Nandakumar and Jeffrey L. Rummel

AN (S − 1, S) Inventory System with Fixed Shelf Life and Constant Lead Times pp. S65-S71

David Perry and M. J. M. Posner

The Stabilizing Effect of Inventory in Supply Chains pp. S72-S83

Manuel P. Baganha and Morris A. Cohen

Scheduling with Finite Capacity Output Buffers pp. S84-S97

Nicholas G. Hall, Marc E. Posner and Chris N. Potts

Managing Stochastic Multiproduct Systems: Model, Measures, and Analysis pp. S98-S111

Ravi Anupindi and Sridhar Tayur

An Inventory Model with Order Crossover pp. S112-S119

Xin X. He, Susan H. Xu, John Ord and Jack C. Hayya

On the Meaningfulness of Optimal Solutions to Scheduling Problems: Can an Optimal Solution be Nonoptimal? pp. S120-S134

N. V. R. Mahadev, Aleksandar Pekeč and Fred S. Roberts

Evaluation of Installation Stock Based (R, Q)-Policies for Two-Level Inventory Systems with Poisson Demand pp. S135-S145

Sven Axsäter

Multiclass Production Systems with Setup Times pp. S146-S153

Rhonda Righter and J. George Shanthikumar

Scheduling with Finite Capacity Input Buffers pp. S154-S159

Nicholas G. Hall, Marc E. Posner and Chris N. Potts

Volume 46, issue 3, 1998

Mosaicking of Aerial Photographic Maps Via Seams Defined by Bottleneck Shortest Paths pp. 293-304

Elena Fernandez, Robert Garfinkel and Roman Arbiol

Managing Redundancy in Distributed Computer Networks: A State Transition Graph Approach for the Stashing Problem pp. 305-315

Brian Walker and Brunilde Sansó

Branch-and-Price: Column Generation for Solving Huge Integer Programs pp. 316-329

Cynthia Barnhart, Ellis L. Johnson, George L. Nemhauser, Martin W. P. Savelsbergh and Pamela H. Vance

A Generalized Insertion Heuristic for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows pp. 330-335

Michel Gendreau, Alain Hertz, Gilbert Laporte and Mihnea Stan

Submodular Returns and Greedy Heuristics for Queueing Scheduling Problems pp. 336-346

R. Garbe and K. D. Glazebrook

An Axiomatic Characterization of a Class of Locations in Tree Networks pp. 347-354

Dean P. Foster and Rakesh V. Vohra

Solving a Truck Dispatching Scheduling Problem Using Branch-and-Cut pp. 355-367

Robert E. Bixby and Eva K. Lee

A Decomposition Approach for a Class of Economic Equilibrium Models pp. 368-377

Frederic H. Murphy and Murthy V. Mudrageda

Moments in Tandem Queues pp. 378-380

Alan Scheller-Wolf and Karl Sigman

On Optimal Allocation of Indivisibles Under Uncertainty pp. 381-395

Vladimir I. Norkin, Yuri M. Ermoliev and Andrzej Ruszczynski

Exploiting Special Structures in Constructing a Hierarchy of Relaxations for 0-1 Mixed Integer Problems pp. 396-405

Hanif D. Sherali, Warren P. Adams and Patrick J. Driscoll

The Air Traffic Flow Management Problem with Enroute Capacities pp. 406-422

Dimitris Bertsimas and Sarah Stock Patterson

Note on “Parallel Machine Scheduling with Batch Setup Times” pp. 423-423

Scott Webster

Tandem Queues with Blocking: A Comparison Between Dependent and Independent Service pp. 424-429

Sharon Guy Browning

Volume 46, issue 2, 1998

Integrated Simulation, Heuristic and Optimisation Approaches to Staff Scheduling pp. 161-175

Andrew J. Mason, David M. Ryan and David M. Panton

Some Quality Improvement Principles Useful in the OR/MS Research and Publication Process pp. 176-183

Marvin D. Troutt

Stochastic Network Interdiction pp. 184-197

Kelly J. Cormican, David P. Morton and R. Kevin Wood

Valuing Oil Properties: Integrating Option Pricing and Decision Analysis Approaches pp. 198-217

James E. Smith and Kevin F. McCardle

Control of a Single-Server Tandem Queueing System with Setups pp. 218-230

Izak Duenyas, Diwakar Gupta and Tava Lennon Olsen

A Scaling Algorithm for Multicommodity Flow Problems pp. 231-246

Rina R. Schneur and James B. Orlin

Solving the Uncapacitated Network Design Problem by a Lagrangean Heuristic and Branch-and-Bound pp. 247-259

Kaj Holmberg and Johan Hellstrand

The Aircraft Maintenance Routing Problem pp. 260-271

Ram Gopalan and Kalyan T. Talluri

Algorithms for Separable Nonlinear Resource Allocation Problems pp. 272-284

Muralidharan S. Kodialam and Hanan Luss

On Derivative Estimation of the Mean Time to Failure in Simulations of Highly Reliable Markovian Systems pp. 285-290

Marvin K. Nakayama

Volume 46, issue 1, 1998

Scheduling A Major College Basketball Conference pp. 1-8

George L. Nemhauser and Michael A. Trick

Reflections and Projections on Creativity in Operations Research and Management Science: A Pressing Need for a Shift in Paradigm pp. 9-16

Thomas L. Saaty

The Dynamic and Stochastic Knapsack Problem pp. 17-35

Anton J. Kleywegt and Jason D. Papastavrou

Partial Characterization of Optimal Hedging Point Policies in Unreliable Two-Part-Type Manufacturing Systems pp. 36-45

N. Srivatsan and Yves Dallery

Optimal Pricing of Priority Services pp. 46-56

S. Rao and E. R. Petersen

Multiairport Ground Holding Problem: A Computational Evaluation of Exact Algorithms pp. 57-64

Giovanni Andreatta and Lorenzo Brunetta

The Multiprocessor Scheduling of Precedence-Constrained Task Systems in the Presence of Interprocessor Communication Delays pp. 65-72

Sanjoy K. Baruah

Evidence Propagation and Value of Evidence on Influence Diagrams pp. 73-83

Kazuo J. Ezawa

Direction Choice for Accelerated Convergence in Hit-and-Run Sampling pp. 84-95

David E. Kaufman and Robert L. Smith

Probabilistic Analyses and Practical Algorithms for Inventory-Routing Models pp. 96-106

Lap Mui Ann Chan, Awi Federgruen and David Simchi-Levi

Quality Control for Products Supplied with Warranty pp. 107-115

Jinfa Chen, David D. Yao and Shaohui Zheng

Designing Hierarchical Survivable Networks pp. 116-136

Anantaram Balakrishnan, Thomas L. Magnanti and Prakash Mirchandani

Performance Bounds and Pathwise Stability for Generalized Vacation and Polling Systems pp. 137-148

Eitan Altman, Serguei Foss, Eric Riehl and Shaler Stidham

Computing Loss Probabilities in Discrete-Time Queues pp. 149-154

Frank N. Gouweleeuw and Henk C. Tijms

A Note on the Optimal Positioning of Service Units pp. 155-156

E. Carrizosa, M. Muñoz-Márquez and J. Puerto

Comments on the Paper: ‘Heuristic and Special Case Algorithms for Dispersion Problems’ by S. S. Ravi, D. J. Rosenkrantz, and G. K. Tayi pp. 157-158

Arie Tamir