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Volume 22, issue 6, 1974

Ellis A. Johnson, 1906–1973 pp. 1141-1155

Thornton Page, George S. Pettee and William A. Wallace

An Optimal-Control-Theory Approach to the Education-Investment Decision pp. 1156-1174

Lawrence Southwick and Stanley Zionts

A Stochastic Analysis of Programs for the Mentally Retarded pp. 1175-1191

Frank H. Trinkl

Failure-Rate Analysis Applied to Recidivism Data pp. 1192-1205

Stephen Stollmack and Carl M. Harris

Identifying Product-Safety Priorities pp. 1206-1223

John W. Locke

Experience with a Successful System for Forecasting and Inventory Control pp. 1224-1231

Jack L. Bishop

Direct Solutions of M / G /1 Processor-Sharing Models pp. 1232-1235

T. M. O'Donovan

Optimal Test Design for Reliability Demonstration pp. 1236-1242

Shmuel Gal

Random-Payoff Two-Person Zero-Sum Games pp. 1243-1251

Roger A. Blau

Strong Optimality of the Shoot-Adjust-Shoot Strategy pp. 1252-1257

Donald R. Barr

Technical Note—The Expected Number of Idle Servers in a Queuing System pp. 1258-1259

Robert Harris

Technical Note—Counterexamples for the Location of Emergency Service Facilities pp. 1259-1261

Ashok Rao

Technical Note—Reply to Rao's Note on the Location of Emergency Service Facilities pp. 1262-1267

Constantine Toregas, Charles ReVelle and Ralph Swain

Technical Note—Fault Testing for a k -out-of- n System pp. 1267-1271

Jonathan Halpern

Technical Note—A Production-Scheduling Problem with Batch Processing pp. 1271-1279

Robert C. Dorsey, Thom J. Hodgson and H. Donald Ratliff

Erratum pp. 1279-1280

A. L. Soyster

Erratum pp. 1280-1280

Suresh Advani

The Editor's Easy Chair—Appreciations pp. 1281-1282

Hugh J. Miser

Volume 22, issue 5, 1974

Operations Research in the Insurance Industry: I. A Survey of Applications pp. 918-928

William S. Jewell

Operations Research in the Insurance Industry: II. An Application in Claims Operations of Workmen's Compensation Insurance pp. 929-941

William S. Jewell, Tom L. Johnston and Stephen S. Leavitt

Actuarial Techniques and Their Relations to Noninsurance Models pp. 942-953

David G. Halmstad

The Long-Term Effects of Merit-Rating Plans on Individual Motorists pp. 954-978

Joseph Ferreira

Optimal Claim Decisions by Policyholders in Automobile Insurance with Merit-Rating Structures pp. 979-990

Christoph Haehling von Lanzenauer

Insurance Exposure and Investment Risks: An Analysis Using Chance-Constrained Programming pp. 991-1007

Howard E. Thompson, John P. Matthews and Bob C. L. Li

Optimal Dispatching of an Infinite-Capacity Shuttle: Control at a Single Terminal pp. 1008-1024

Edward Ignall and Peter Kolesar

A Probabilistic Model for Analyzing Campus Parking Policies pp. 1025-1039

E. A. Narragon, M. I. Dessouky and R. E. DeVor

A Model for Evaluating Golf Handicapping pp. 1040-1050

Stephen M. Pollock

Optimal Priority-Purchasing and Pricing Decisions in Nonmonopoly and Monopoly Queues pp. 1051-1066

I. Adiri and U. Yechiali

The Structure of Integer Programs under the Hermitian Normal Form pp. 1067-1080

V. Joseph Bowman

Pseudo-Boolean Solutions to Multidimensional Location Problems pp. 1081-1085

Abraham Warszawski

Defense Applications of Mathematical Programs with Optimization Problems in the Constraints pp. 1086-1096

Jerome Bracken and James T. McGill

Technical Note—A Method for Solving Mathematical Programs with Nonlinear Programs in the Constraints pp. 1097-1101

Jerome Bracken and James T. McGill

Technical Note—The Equivalence of Two Mathematical Programs with Optimization Problems in the Constraints pp. 1102-1104

Jerome Bracken, James E. Falk and James T. McGill

Technical Note—A Method for Combining Three-Valued Predictions pp. 1104-1109

William H. Sutherland

Technical Note—Numerical Investigation of Optimal Parallel Redundancy in Series Systems pp. 1110-1117

Dennis W. McLeavey

Technical Note—An Improved Feasibility Test for Gorenstein's Algorithm pp. 1117-1119

G. E. Bennington and L. F. McGinnis

Technical Note—Some Explanatory Remarks on the Optimal Control of the Vidale-Wolfe Advertising Model pp. 1119-1120

Suresh Sethi

Errata pp. 1120-1120

Vinod K. Sahney

Errata pp. 1121-1121

Nicos Christofides

Volume 22, issue 4, 1974

Modeling the Movement of Coronary Patients within a Hospital by Semi-Markov Processes pp. 683-699

Edward P. C. Kao

Resource Planning in University Management by Goal Programming pp. 700-710

Roger G. Schroeder

Modeling Food Preferences Over Time pp. 711-727

Joseph L. Balintfy, William J. Duffy and Prabhakant Sinha

An Analysis of Baseball Batting Order by Monte Carlo Simulation pp. 728-735

R. Allan Freeze

Optimal Control of a Maintenance System with Variable Service Rates pp. 736-745

Thomas B. Crabill

Optimal Price and Promotion for Interdependent Market Segments pp. 746-755

Dennis H. Gensch and Ulf Peter Welam

Solving Lanchester-Type Equations for “Modern Warfare” with Variable Coefficients pp. 756-770

James G. Taylor

Production Planning for a Stochastic Demand Process pp. 771-787

Nicholas J. Gonedes and Zvi Lieber

Simultaneous Price-Production Decisions pp. 788-794

Dov Pekelman

A Decision Rule for Producing Christmas Greeting Cards pp. 795-801

S. K. Goyal

Application of Programs with Maximin Objective Functions to Problems of Optimal Resource Allocation pp. 802-807

Seymour Kaplan

The Operator-Scheduling Problem: A Network-Flow Approach pp. 808-823

M. Segal

The Optimal Order of Service in Tandem Queues pp. 824-832

Shantanu V. Tembe and Ronald W. Wolff

A Control Policy for a Priority Queue with Removable Server pp. 833-837

Henk Tijms

Work Rates in Closed Queuing Networks with General Independent Servers pp. 838-847

A. Chang and S. S. Lavenberg

A New Look at Brown’s Dynamic Inventory System pp. 848-857

William G. Howe

The Optimality of General-Order Exponential Smoothing pp. 858-867

K. O. Cogger

Exponential Smoothing as a Special Case of a Linear Stochastic System pp. 868-879

S. M. Pandit and S. M. Wu

A New Look at Higher-Order Exponential Smoothing for Forecasting pp. 880-888

M. L. Goodman

Technical Note—A Counterexample for an Optimal Search-and-Stop Model pp. 889-892

Y. C. Kan

Technical Note—A Duality Theory for Convex Programming with Set-Inclusive Constraints pp. 892-898

A. L. Soyster

Technical Note—The Waiting Time in the E k / M /1 Queuing System pp. 898-902

Martin J. Fischer

The Editor's Easy Chair—What is Operations Research? pp. 903-909

Hugh J. Miser

Volume 22, issue 3, 1974

Faculty Early-Retirement Programs pp. 455-467

David S. P. Hopkins

A Generalized System of Prognosis Curves to Facilitate Utilizing the Survival-Rate Criterion pp. 468-477

E. E. Payne and R. P. Lutz

The Optimal Location of Nuclear-Power Facilities in the Pacific Northwest pp. 478-487

Ron Dutton, George Hinman and C. B. Millham

Transitive Majority Rule and the Theorem of the Alternative pp. 488-496

V. J. Bowman and C. S. Colantoni

Reachable Sets for Tracking pp. 497-509

Peter J. Wong and Andrew J. Korsak

Technical Note—A Note on Cost Estimation and the Optimal Bidding Strategy pp. 510-513

Martin J. Beckmann

Technical Note—Price and Production Decisions with Random Demand pp. 513-518

L. Joseph Thomas

Technical Note—The Method of Successive Approximations and Markovian Decision Problems pp. 519-521

Arie Hordijk and Henk Tijms

Approximate Analysis of a Hierarchical Queuing Network pp. 522-544

Thomas Reed Willemain

Optimal Dynamic Pricing Policies for an M / M / s Queue pp. 545-561

David W. Low

The M / M /1 Queue in a Markovian Environment pp. 562-569

Peter Purdue

Technical Note—Distribution of Attained and Residual Service in General Queuing Systems pp. 570-575

Thomas M. O'Donovan

Technical Note—Conditional Delays Measured in Events for the M / M / c Queue pp. 575-581

D. P. Heyman and M. Segal

The Disjunctive-Facet Problem: Formulation and Solution Techniques pp. 582-601

F. Glover, D. Klingman and J. Stutz

Global Maximization of a Convex Function with Linear Inequality Constraints pp. 602-609

Philip B. Zwart

Distribution-Free Approximations for Chance Constraints pp. 610-621

F. M. Allen, R. N. Braswell and P. V. Rao

An Efficient Equipment-Layout Algorithm pp. 622-628

Farrokh Neghabat

Heuristic-Programming Solution of a Flowshop-Scheduling Problem pp. 629-638

Martin J. Krone and Kenneth Steiglitz

The Elementary Redundancy-Optimization Problem: A Case Study in Probabilistic Multiple-Goal Programming pp. 639-653

G. G. Hendrix and A. C. Stedry

Technical Note—Dynamic Programming and Probabilistic Constraints pp. 654-664

D. J. White

Technical Note—Generalized Upper Bounds and Triangular Decomposition in the Simplex Method pp. 664-668

J. A. Tomlin

Volume 22, issue 2, 1974

A Model for Managing a Family-Planning System pp. 205-233

Glen L. Urban

The Role of Operations Research in Regional Health Planning pp. 234-248

Larry J. Shuman, Harvey Wolfe and R. Dixon Speas

An Algorithm for the Dynamic Relocation of Fire Companies pp. 249-274

Peter Kolesar and Warren E. Walker

Using the Set-Covering Problem to Assign Fire Companies to Fire Houses pp. 275-277

Warren Walker

The Design of Production and Inventory Systems for Multifacility and Multiwarehouse Companies pp. 278-291

Harvey M. Wagner

Letter to the Editor—Financing Mental-Health Services in the State of New York: An Update pp. 292-294

Lawrence D. Bodin and T. Owen Carroll

Technical Note—A Linear-Programming Approach to Air-Cleaner Design pp. 295-297

Suresh Advani

A Discrete-Time Population-Control Model with Setup Cost pp. 298-303

David L. Jaquette

Some Differential Games of Tactical Interest pp. 304-317

James G. Taylor

Markov Duels pp. 318-330

C. Bernard Barfoot

Queuing Models with Lane Selection: A New Class of Problems pp. 331-339

Benjamin L. Schwartz

A Heuristic Algorithm for the Vehicle-Dispatch Problem pp. 340-349

Billy E. Gillett and Leland R. Miller

Fractional Programming with Homogeneous Functions pp. 350-357

Stephen P. Bradley and Sherwood C. Frey

Chance-Constrained Programming with Joint Constraints pp. 358-372

R. Jagannathan

Optimal Facility Location with Concave Costs pp. 373-382

Richard M. Soland

A Bounding Minimization Problem for Primal Integer Programming pp. 383-392

Larry R. Arnold and Mandell Bellmore

A Procedure for Optimal Stepwise MSAE Regression Analysis pp. 393-399

Gary M. Roodman

Technical Note—Location Theory: A Selective Bibliography pp. 400-410

R. L. Francis and J. M. Goldstein

Technical Note—Sharper Bounds on Nonconvex Programs pp. 410-413

James E. Falk

Technical Note—Clustering a Data Array and the Traveling-Salesman Problem pp. 413-414

J. K. Lenstra

Technical Note—A Note on the Application of Nonlinear Programming to Chemical-Process Optimization pp. 415-417

T. H. I. Jaakola and Rein Luus

Technical Note—A Last Word on L = λ W pp. 417-421

Shaler Stidham

Technical Note—Parameter Estimation from Cross-Sectional Observations on an Elementary Queuing System pp. 422-428

Dennis J. Aigner

Technical Note—A Multiserver Queue with No Passing pp. 428-434

Alan Washburn

Technical Note—The Monte Carlo Simulation of Operating-Room and Recovery-Room Usage pp. 434-440

Paul J. Kuzdrall, N. K. Kwak and Homer H. Schmitz

Technical Note—A Two-State Markovian Correlated Combat pp. 440-444

G. C. Jain and A. Nagabhushanam

Volume 22, issue 1, 1974

Decision Analysis and Medical Malpractice pp. 1-12

Brian E. Forst

A Mathematical Model for Simultaneously Determining the Optimal Brand-Collection and Display-Area Allocation pp. 13-21

Evan E. Anderson and Henry N. Amato

Multiplicative Utility Functions pp. 22-34

Ralph L. Keeney

von Neumann-Morgenstera Utility Functions on Two Attributes pp. 35-45

Peter C. Fishburn

Coordinating Aggregate and Detailed Scheduling Decisions in the One-Machine Job Shop: Part I. Theory pp. 46-60

L. Gelders and P. R. Kleindorfer

A Markov-Decision-Chain Approach to a Stochastic Assignment Problem pp. 61-64

S. Christian Albright

A Continous-Review ( s, S ) Inventory System with Arbitrary Interarrival Distribution between Unit Demand pp. 65-71

B. D. Sivazlian

Estimation in Multiserver Queuing Simulations pp. 72-78

George S. Fishman

A Two-Cell Model of Search for a Moving Target pp. 79-92

James M. Dobbie

An Analytical Approach to a Class of Battles pp. 93-99

Kåre M. Mjelde

Sequential Stopping Rules for Fixed-Sample Acceptance Tests pp. 100-107

R. C. Chang and S. Ehrenfeld

The Expected Number of Visits to State k before a Total System Failure of a Complex System with Repair Maintenance pp. 108-116

Toshio Nakagawa

A Preparedness Model Dealing with N Systems Operating Simultaneously pp. 117-128

Hanan Luss and Zvi Kander

Iteration Skipping in Primal Integer Programming pp. 129-136

Larry R. Arnold and Mandell Bellmore

A Generated Cut for Primal Integer Programming pp. 137-143

Larry R. Arnold and Mandell Bellmore

A Flexible Enumeration Scheme for Zero-One Programming pp. 144-150

Leon B. Ellwein

Generation of the Admissible Boundary of a Convex Polytope pp. 151-159

Richard Shachtman

The Effects of Errors in the Estimation of the Gradient on the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm, with Implications for Interactive Programming pp. 160-174

James S. Dyer

Technical Note—The Random Nature of Stock-Market Prices pp. 175-177

J. F. Barrett and D. J. Wright

Technical Note—The Effectiveness of Ordinal Dominance in Decision Analysis pp. 177-180

Peter C. Fishburn and Irving H. LaValle

Technical Note—Converting the 0-1 Polynomial Programming Problem to a 0-1 Linear Program pp. 180-182

Fred Glover and Eugene Woolsey

Technical Note—The Optimal Dual Solution in Linear Fractional Decomposition Problems pp. 183-189

J. S. H. Kornbluth and G. R. Salkin

Technical Note—Proper Efficiency and the Linear Vector Maximum Problem pp. 189-191

H. Isermann

Technical Note—Optimal Readjustment Intervals pp. 191-197

M. R. Wolff and R. Subramanian

Technical Note—Estimation in a Truncated Circular Normal Distribution with Ballistic Applications pp. 197-201

Danny D. Dyer

Errata pp. 202-202

Donald Erlenkotter