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Volume 35, issue 6, 1987

OR Practice—Playing the Turn-of-the-Year Effect with Index Futures pp. 799-813

Ross Clark and William T. Ziemba

Improving on Bold Play at Craps pp. 814-819

S. N. Ethier

Generating Alternative Mixed-Integer Programming Models Using Variable Redefinition pp. 820-831

R. Kipp Martin

Solving Multi-Item Capacitated Lot-Sizing Problems Using Variable Redefinition pp. 832-848

Gary D. Eppen and R. Kipp Martin

The Fixed Job Schedule Problem with Spread-Time Constraints pp. 849-858

Matteo Fischetti, Silvano Martello and Paolo Toth

An Interval Arithmetic Approach to Sensitivity Analysis in Geometric Programming pp. 859-866

John J. Dinkel and Marietta J. Tretter

Ergodicity in Parametric Nonstationary Markov Chains: An Application to Simulated Annealing Methods pp. 867-874

Shoshana Anily and Awi Federgruen

A New Optimality Criterion for Nonhomogeneous Markov Decision Processes pp. 875-883

Wallace J. Hopp, James C. Bean and Robert L. Smith

The “Largest Variance First” Policy in Some Stochastic Scheduling Problems pp. 884-891

Michael Pinedo and Gideon Weiss

Technical Note—Variate Generation for Accelerated Life and Proportional Hazards Models pp. 892-894

Lawrence M. Leemis

OR Forum—Perspectives on Queues: Social Justice and the Psychology of Queueing pp. 895-905

Richard C. Larson

Perspectives on Queues: Combining Queues is Not Always Beneficial pp. 906-909

Michael H. Rothkopf and Paul Rech

U.S. Operations Research in World War II pp. 910-925

Joseph F. McCloskey

Presidents' Symposium: The Current Missionary Role of OR/MS pp. 926-929

Alfred Blumstein

Letter to the Editor—Comments on “On Optimal Inventory Policies When Ordering Prices are Random” by Kamal Golabi pp. 930-931

Vangelis F. Magirou

Volume 35, issue 5, 1987

Feature Article—Mathematical Models in Farm Planning: A Survey pp. 641-666

John J. Glen

OR Practice—Policy Decision Modeling of the Costs and Outputs of Education in Medical Schools pp. 667-683

Hau L. Lee, William P. Pierskalla, William L. Kissick, Joanne H. Levy, Henry A. Glick and Bernard S. Bloom

An Integrated Budget Model for Medical School Financial Planning pp. 684-703

Margaret L. Brandeau, David S. P. Hopkins and Kenneth L. Melmon

The Optimal Timing of New Plants for Oil from the Alberta Tar Sands pp. 704-715

J. D. Fuller and R. G. Vickson

Using Expert Advice on a Skew Judgmental Distribution pp. 716-721

Dennis V. Lindley

Decision Analysis Under States-Additive SSB Preferences pp. 722-735

Irving H. Lavalle and Peter C. Fishburn

Some Monotonicity Results for Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes pp. 736-743

William S. Lovejoy

Correlated Simulation Experiments in First-Order Response Surface Design pp. 744-758

James R. Hussey, Raymond H. Myers and Ernest C. Houck

The Arrangement of Servers in an Ordered-Entry System pp. 759-763

David D. Yao

The Economic Lot-Scheduling Problem: Achieving Feasibility Using Time-Varying Lot Sizes pp. 764-771

Gregory Dobson

The Product Matrix Traveling Salesman Problem: An Application and Solution Heuristic pp. 772-783

Robert D. Plante, Timothy J. Lowe and R. Chandrasekaran

Technical Note—Successive Approximations in Value Determination for a Markov Decision Process pp. 784-786

Theodore J. Sheskin

OR Forum—Presidents' Symposium: Reflections on OR/MS Education pp. 787-791

Jack R. Borsting

Volume 35, issue 4, 1987

OR Practice—The Status of Nonlinear Programming Software: An Update pp. 489-503

Allan D. Waren, Ming S. Hung and Leon S. Lasdon

Modeling the IRS Telephone Taxpayer Information System pp. 504-523

Carl M. Harris, Karla L. Hoffman and Patsy B. Saunders

Optimal Threats pp. 524-536

Steven Brams and D. Marc Kilgour

Optimal Terminal Defense Tactics When Several Sequential Engagements are Possible pp. 537-542

Richard M. Soland

The Break-Bulk Role of Terminals in Many-to-Many Logistic Networks pp. 543-555

Carlos F. Daganzo

Interstage Transportation Planning in the Deterministic Flow-Shop Environment pp. 556-564

Michael A. Langston

Competitive Location on a Network pp. 565-574

Gregory Dobson and Uday S. Karmarkar

Dynamics of the M / G /1 Vacation Model pp. 575-582

J. Keilson and L. D. Servi

Stochastic Monotonicity of the Queue Lengths in Closed Queueing Networks pp. 583-588

J. George Shanthikumar and David D. Yao

Simple Inequalities for the D / G /1 Queue pp. 589-597

Teunis J. Ott

Estimation of Percentile Residual Life pp. 598-606

Miklós Csörgő and Sándor Csörgő

The Distribution of Maximum Flow with Applications to Multistate Reliability Systems pp. 607-618

George S. Fishman

Technical Note—On the Convexity of Policy Regions in Partially Observed Systems pp. 619-621

William S. Lovejoy

OR Forum—Presidents' Symposium: George E. Kimball, A Pioneering Giant in Operations Research pp. 622-624

John F. Magee

Volume 35, issue 3, 1987

OR Practice—Determining Lot Sizes and Resource Requirements: A Review pp. 329-345

Harish C. Bahl, Larry P. Ritzman and Jatinder N. D. Gupta

Optimal Selection of Ingot Sizes Via Set Covering pp. 346-353

F. J. Vasko, F. E. Wolf and K. L. Stott

A Nonlinear Programming Heuristic for Computing Optimal Link Capacities in a Multi-Hour Alternate Routing Communications Network pp. 354-364

Eric Rosenberg

A Convergent Interactive Cutting-Plane Algorithm for Multiobjective Optimization pp. 365-377

G. V. Loganathan and Hanif D. Sherali

Scheduling Tasks with Due Dates in a Fabrication/Assembly Process pp. 378-388

Bruce Faaland and Tom Schmitt

The Dynamic Lot-Sizing Problem with Startup and Reservation Costs pp. 389-398

Uday S. Karmarkar, Sham Kekre and Sunder Kekre

98%-Effective Lot-Sizing for One-Warehouse, Multi-Retailer Inventory Systems with Backlogging pp. 399-404

Joseph S. B. Mitchell

Strong Convexity Results for Queueing Systems pp. 405-418

Arie Harel and Paul H. Zipkin

Approximating the Mean Time in System in a Multiple-Server Queue that Uses Threshold Scheduling pp. 419-427

Randolph Nelson and Don Towsley

Using Standardized Time Series to Estimate Confidence Intervals for the Difference Between Two Stationary Stochastic Processes pp. 428-436

Bor-Chung Chen and Robert G. Sargent

An Algorithmic Aid for Intensity Measures of Consumer Preference pp. 437-444

K. Pasumarty, D. F. Karney and T. D. Morley

Technical Note—An Algorithm for Computing the Convolution of Poisson Negative Binomial and Geometric Distributions pp. 445-449

Colm Art O'Cinneide and Helmut Schneider

Technical Note—A Note on the Weighted Tardiness Problem pp. 450-452

Ram Mohan V. Rachamadugu

OR Forum—British Operational Research in World War II pp. 453-470

Joseph F. McCloskey

Presidents' Symposium: OR, A Post Mortem pp. 471-474

Russell L. Ackoff

Volume 35, issue 2, 1987

OR Practice—A Utility Fuel Inventory Model pp. 169-184

Peter A. Morris, M. James Sandling, Richard B. Fancher, Michael A. Kohn, Hung-Po Chao and Stephen W. Chapel

Derived Demand and Capacity Planning Under Uncertainty pp. 185-197

Eduardo Marco Modiano

The Role of External Search in Bilateral Bargaining pp. 198-205

Shirish D. Chikte and Sudhakar D. Deshmukh

Constant Exchange Risk Properties pp. 206-214

Peter H. Farquhar and Yutaka Nakamura

Aggregation in Dynamic Programming pp. 215-220

James C. Bean, John Birge and Robert L. Smith

The P -Centroid Problem on an Inclined Plane pp. 221-233

M. John Hodgson, Richard T. Wong and John Honsaker

The Role of Cost Allocation in Locational Models pp. 234-248

Daniel Granot

Multifacility-Type Capacity Expansion Planning: Algorithms and Complexities pp. 249-253

Sang-Bum Lee and Hanan Luss

Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems with Time Window Constraints pp. 254-265

Marius M. Solomon

Vehicle Routing with Time Windows pp. 266-273

A. W. J. Kolen, A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan and H. W. J. M. Trienekens

Inventory Policy in the Presence of Market Disruptions pp. 274-281

Hung-Po Chao

A Method to Calculate Steady-State Distributions of Large Markov Chains by Aggregating States pp. 282-290

Brion N. Feinberg and Samuel S. Chiu

An Efficient Decomposition Method for the Approximate Evaluation of Tandem Queues with Finite Storage Space and Blocking pp. 291-305

Stanley B. Gershwin

Comparison of Policies for Routing Customers to Parallel Queueing Systems pp. 306-310

D. J. Houck

Technical Note—An Improved Lower Bound for Minimizing Weighted Completion Times with Deadlines pp. 311-313

Uttarayan Bagchi and Reza H. Ahmadi

OR Forum—Presidents' Symposium: Science and Professionalism in Operations Research pp. 314-319

Hugh J. Miser

OR Forum—President's Symposium: A Perspective on the Future of Operations Research pp. 320-321

Saul I. Gass

Volume 35, issue 1, 1987

Editorial pp. 2-163

Thomas L. Magnanti

OR Practice—Computerized Vehicle Routing in the Soft Drink Industry pp. 6-17

Bruce L. Golden and Edward A. Wasil

Prison Populations: A Projection Model pp. 18-34

Arnold Barnett

Administrative Days in Acute Care Facilities: A Queueing-Analytic Approach pp. 35-44

Elliott N. Weiss and John O. McClain

Solving Mixed Integer Programming Problems Using Automatic Reformulation pp. 45-57

Tony J. Van Roy and Laurence A. Wolsey

Optimal Time-Varying Flows on Congested Networks pp. 58-69

Malachy Carey

Approximation of Pareto Optima in Multiple-Objective, Shortest-Path Problems pp. 70-79

Arthur Warburton

An Efficient Geometric Solution to the Minimum Spanning Circle Problem pp. 80-86

B. John Oommen

Modeling a Class of Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Reversible Routing pp. 87-93

David D. Yao and J. A. Buzacott

Some Optimum Algorithms for Scheduling Problems with Changeover Costs pp. 94-99

T. C. Hu, Y. S. Kuo and F. Ruskey

A Modular Approach to Optimal Multiple-Shift Manpower Scheduling pp. 100-110

R. N. Burns and G. J. Koop

Deterministic and Random Single Machine Sequencing with Variance Minimization pp. 111-120

Vina Vani and M. Raghavachari

Computing Optimal Policies for Controlled Tandem Queueing Systems pp. 121-126

Katsuhisa Ohno and Kuniyoshi Ichiki

Statistical Analysis for Use with the Schruben and Margolin Correlation Induction Strategy pp. 127-139

Ardavan Nozari, Steven F. Arnold and C. Dennis Pegden

Technical Note—Recognizing Unbounded Integer Programs pp. 140-142

R. H. Byrd, A. J. Goldman and Miriam Heller

OR Forum—The Beginnings of Operations Research: 1934–1941 pp. 143-152

Joseph F. McCloskey

Presidents' Symposium: Creating Growth in OR/MS pp. 153-156

William P. Pierskalla

Presidents' Symposium: OR Elsewhere pp. 157-160

Robert E. Machol