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Volume 41, issue 6, 1993

Formulating a Mixed Integer Programming Problem to Improve Solvability pp. 1013-1019

Cynthia Barnhart, Ellis L. Johnson, George L. Nemhauser, Gabriele Sigismondi and Pamela Vance

R&D Project Appraisal at the Gas Research Institute: Part II pp. 1020-1032

William M. Burnett, Barry G. Silverman and Dominic J. Monetta

Further Developments and Tests of a Progressive Algorithm for Multiple Criteria Decision Making pp. 1033-1045

Pekka Korhonen, Herbert Moskowitz, Pekka Salminen and Jyrki Wallenius

Optimal Scheduling of a Flexible-Duration Rest Period for a Work Group pp. 1046-1054

Stephen E. Bechtold and Gary M. Thompson

The Delivery Man Problem and Cumulative Matroids pp. 1055-1064

Matteo Fischetti, Gilbert Laporte and Silvano Martello

Basic Techniques for Lot Streaming pp. 1065-1076

Dan Trietsch and Kenneth R. Baker

Developing Conflict-Free Routes for Automated Guided Vehicles pp. 1077-1090

Nirup N. Krishnamurthy, Rajan Batta and Mark H. Karwan

Batching and Scheduling in FMS Hubs: Flow Time Considerations pp. 1091-1103

Daniel E. Lane and Jeffrey B. Sidney

Dynamic Scheduling of a Multiclass Fluid Network pp. 1104-1115

Hong Chen and David D. Yao

Time-Sharing Policies for Controlled Markov Chains pp. 1116-1124

Eitan Altman and Adam Shwartz

Two Simple Control Policies for a Multicomponent Maintenance System pp. 1125-1136

Frank A. van der Duyn Schouten and Stephan G. Vanneste

Optimal Expulsion Control—A Dual Approach to Admission Control of an Ordered-Entry System pp. 1137-1152

Susan H. Xu and J. George Shanthikumar

Global Convergence of a Generalized Iterative Procedure for the Minisum Location Problem with lp Distances pp. 1153-1163

Jack Brimberg and Robert F. Love

On the Convergence of a Hyperboloid Approximation Procedure for the Perturbed Euclidean Multifacility Location Problem pp. 1164-1171

J. B. Rosen and G. L. Xue

Implicit Enumeration for the Pure Integer 0/1 Minimax Programming Problem pp. 1172-1176

Moustapha Diaby

Volume 41, issue 5, 1993

Design and Implementation of an Expert System for Controlling Health Care Costs pp. 819-834

Jack L. Martin and Terry P. Harrison

Material Management in Decentralized Supply Chains pp. 835-847

Hau L. Lee and Corey Billington

Local Drug Markets' Response to Focused Police Enforcement pp. 848-863

Jonathan P. Caulkins

Decision Analysis with Incomplete Utility and Probability Information pp. 864-879

Herbert Moskowitz, Paul Preckel and Aynang Yang

Simulation Designs and Correlation Induction for Reducing Second-Order Bias in First-Order Response Surfaces pp. 880-902

Joan M. Donohue, Ernest C. Houck and Raymond H. Myers

Approximating Nonrenewal Processes by Markov Chains: Use of Super-Erlang (SE) Chains pp. 903-923

Gabriel R. Bitran and Sriram Dasu

A Bayesian Sequential Single Machine Scheduling Problem to Minimize the Expected Weighted Sum of Flowtimes of Jobs with Exponential Processing Times pp. 924-934

Toshio Hamada and Kevin D. Glazebrook

Cyclic Transfer Algorithm for Multivehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems pp. 935-946

Paul M. Thompson and Harilaos N. Psaraftis

Stochastic Analysis of Cyclic Schedules pp. 947-958

R. A. Bowman and J. A. Muckstadt

Minimax Resource Allocation Problems with Resource-Substitutions Represented by Graphs pp. 959-971

Rachelle S. Klein, Hanan Luss and Uriel G. Rothblum

A Random Activity Network Generator pp. 972-980

E. Demeulemeester, B. Dodin and W. Herroelen

Analysis of Heuristics for Preemptive Parallel Machine Scheduling with Batch Setup Times pp. 981-993

Clyde L. Monma and Chris N. Potts

The Repair Kit Problem Revisited pp. 994-1006

Shelby Brumelle and Daniel Granot

Volume 41, issue 4, 1993

The Natural Drift: What Happened to Operations Research? pp. 625-640

Charles J. Corbett and Luk N. Van Wassenhove

BPSS: A Scheduling Support System for the Packaging Industry pp. 641-648

Leonard Adler, Nelson Fraiman, Edward Kobacker, Michael Pinedo, Juan Carlos Plotnicoff and Tso Pang Wu

Allocating Games for the NHL Using Integer Programming pp. 649-654

Charles Fleurent and Jacques A. Ferland

Worldwide Nuclear Coalition Games: A Valuation of Strategic Offensive and Defensive Forces pp. 655-668

Jerome Bracken and Martin Shubik

A Primal Partitioning Solution for the Arc-Chain Formulation of a Multicommodity Network Flow Problem pp. 669-693

Judith M. Farvolden, Warren B. Powell and Irvin J. Lustig

Convergence Rates of Finite-Difference Sensitivity Estimates for Stochastic Systems pp. 694-703

Michael A. Zazanis and Rajan Suri

A Randomization Rule for Selecting Forecasts pp. 704-709

Dean P. Foster and Rakesh V. Vohra

The On-Time Machines: Some Analyses of Airline Punctuality pp. 710-720

Jonathan P. Caulkins, Arnold Barnett, Patrick D. Larkey, Yuehong Yuan and Jesse Goranson

A Stochastic, Multiclass Airline Network Equilibrium Model pp. 721-730

François Soumis and Anna Nagurney

The Physics of the Mt/G/∞ Queue pp. 731-742

Stephen G. Eick, William A. Massey and Ward Whitt

Scheduling Networks of Queues: Heavy Traffic Analysis of a Multistation Closed Network pp. 743-758

Philippe Chevalier and Lawrence M. Wein

A Family of Search Directions for Karmarkar's Algorithm pp. 759-767

Kurt M. Anstreicher and Patrick Watteyne

Best-First Search Methods for Constrained Two-Dimensional Cutting Stock Problems pp. 768-776

K. V. Viswanathan and A. Bagchi

Exact and Approximate Evaluation of Batch-Ordering Policies for Two-Level Inventory Systems pp. 777-785

Sven Axsäter

Stochastic Single Machine Scheduling with Quadratic Early-Tardy Penalties pp. 786-796

John Mittenthal and M. Raghavachari

On the Minimization of the Makespan Subject to Flowtime Optimality pp. 797-801

Brian Thomas Eck and Michael Pinedo

Comment on “A Randomization Rule for Selecting Forecasts” pp. 801-802

Robert T. Clemen

Reply to Professor Clemen pp. 802-803

Dean P. Foster and Rakesh V. Vohra

Volume 41, issue 3, 1993

Exploratory Modeling for Policy Analysis pp. 435-449

Steve Bankes

Measuring Performance in a Multiproduct Firm: An Application to the U.S. Postal Service pp. 450-458

Michael D. Bradley and Donald M. Baron

Numerical Solution of Continuous-State Dynamic Programs Using Linear and Spline Interpolation pp. 484-500

Sharon A. Johnson, Jery R. Stedinger, Christine A. Shoemaker, Ying Li and José Alberto Tejada-Guibert

Variance of the Sample Mean: Properties and Graphs of Quadratic-Form Estimators pp. 501-517

Wheyming Tina Song and Bruce W. Schmeiser

Shadow Prices for Measures of Effectiveness, I: Linear Model pp. 518-535

Stephen M. Robinson

Shadow Prices for Measures of Effectiveness, II: General Model pp. 536-548

Stephen M. Robinson

Improved Algorithms for Economic Lot Size Problems pp. 549-571

Alok Aggarwal and James K. Park

Delta-Wye Transformations and the Efficient Reduction of Two-Terminal Planar Graphs pp. 572-582

Thomas A. Feo and J. Scott Provan

Suboptimal Policies, with Bounds, for Parameter Adaptive Decision Processes pp. 583-599

William S. Lovejoy

A Direct Approach to the GI/G/1 Queueing System with Finite Capacity pp. 600-607

Wolfgang Stadje

Decomposition for Scheduling Flexible Manufacturing Systems pp. 608-617

Robert R. Inman and Philip C. Jones

Volume 41, issue 2, 1993

Making Large-Scale Models Manageable: Modeling from an Operations Management Perspective pp. 241-252

Frederic H. Murphy

Cost-Based Scheduling of Workers and Equipment in a Fabrication and Assembly Shop pp. 253-268

Bruce Faaland and Tom Schmitt

Scheduling Medical Residents to Rotations: Solving the Large-Scale Multiperiod Staff Assignment Problem pp. 269-279

Lori S. Franz and Janis L. Miller

Structuring Conditional Relationships in Influence Diagrams pp. 280-297

James E. Smith, Samuel Holtzman and James E. Matheson

A Model for Allocating Budgets in a Closed System Which Simultaneously Computes DRG Allocation Weights pp. 298-309

Max A. Woodbury, Kenneth G. Manton and James C. Vertrees

Optimal Search Density for a Stationary Target Among Stationary False Targets pp. 310-318

D. V. Kalbaugh

A Massively Parallel Algorithm for Nonlinear Stochastic Network Problems pp. 319-337

Soren S. Nielsen and Stavros Zenios

A Faster Strongly Polynomial Minimum Cost Flow Algorithm pp. 338-350

James B. Orlin

Inventory Control in a Fluctuating Demand Environment pp. 351-370

Jing-Sheng Song and Paul Zipkin

Efficient, Effective Lot Sizing for Multistage Production Systems pp. 371-385

Robin O. Roundy

On Decomposition Methods for Tandem Queueing Networks with Blocking pp. 386-399

Yves Dallery and Yannick Frein

Estimating Customer and Time Averages pp. 400-408

Peter W. Glynn, Benjamin Melamed and Ward Whitt

New Approximations for the Event Count Distribution for Superimposed Renewal Processes at the Time Origin with Application to the Reliability of New Series Systems pp. 409-418

Saul Blumenthal

On Aggregation of Items in Single-Stage Production Systems with Limited Inventory Levels pp. 419-426

Krzysztof Pieńkosz and Eugeniusz Toczyłowski

Volume 41, issue 1, 1993

Stochastic and Dynamic Models in Transportation pp. 11-14

Moshe Dror and Warren Powell

A Reliability Model Applied to Emergency Service Vehicle Location pp. 18-36

Michael O. Ball and Feng L. Lin

Two-Echelon Distribution Systems with Vehicle Routing Costs and Central Inventories pp. 37-47

S. Anily and A. Federgruen

Dynamic Lot Sizing for Multi-Echelon Distribution Systems with Purchasing and Transportation Price Discounts pp. 48-59

Moustapha Diaby and Alain Martel

Stochastic and Dynamic Vehicle Routing in the Euclidean Plane with Multiple Capacitated Vehicles pp. 60-76

Dimitris J. Bertsimas and Garrett van Ryzin

A Markov Decision Model and Decomposition Heuristic for Dynamic Vehicle Dispatching pp. 77-90

Alan S. Minkoff

Dynamic Shortest Paths in Acyclic Networks with Markovian Arc Costs pp. 91-101

Harilaos N. Psaraftis and John N. Tsitsiklis

Dynamic and Stochastic Models for the Allocation of Empty Containers pp. 102-126

Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Michel Gendreau and Pierre Dejax

Airline Seat Allocation with Multiple Nested Fare Classes pp. 127-137

S. L. Brumelle and J. I. McGill

Strategic Flow Management for Air Traffic Control pp. 138-152

Mostafa Terrab and Amedeo R. Odoni

Demand Driven Dispatch: A Method for Dynamic Aircraft Capacity Assignment, Models and Algorithms pp. 153-168

Matthew E. Berge and Craig A. Hopperstad

Large Population Approximations of a General Stochastic Traffic Assignment Model pp. 169-178

Gary A. Davis and Nancy L. Nihan

A Variational Inequality Formulation of the Dynamic Network User Equilibrium Problem pp. 179-191

Terry L. Friesz, David Bernstein, Tony E. Smith, Roger L. Tobin and B. W. Wie

A New Class of Instantaneous Dynamic User-Optimal Traffic Assignment Models pp. 192-202

Bin Ran, David E. Boyce and Larry J. LeBlanc

Optimal Flows in Stochastic Dynamic Networks with Congestion pp. 203-216

John Birge and James K. Ho

Externalities, Average and Marginal Costs, and Tolls on Congested Networks with Time-Varying Flows pp. 217-231

Malachy Carey and Ashok Srinivasan