Operations Research

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Volume 18, issue 6, 1970

Implementation in Operations Research and R&D in Government and Business Organization pp. 967-991

Michael Radnor, Albert H. Rubenstein and David A. Tansik

Optimal Design of Offshore Natural-Gas Pipeline Systems pp. 992-1020

B. Rothfarb, H. Frank, D. M. Rosenbaum, K. Steiglitz and D. J. Kleitman

A Health-Status Index and its Application to Health-Services Outcomes pp. 1021-1066

S. Fanshel and J. W. Bush

Measures of Health-System Effectiveness pp. 1067-1070

Arnold H. Packer and Gordon D. Shellard

A Model of Health-Service Utilization and Resource Allocation pp. 1071-1086

Rita Zemach

An Evaluation of Blood-Inventory Policies: A Markov Chain Application pp. 1087-1098

C. Carl Pegels and Andrew E. Jelmert

The Role of Operations Research in Population Planning pp. 1099-1111

William A. Reinke

Social and Rehabilitation Services: A Challenge to Operations Research pp. 1112-1124

Arthur Spindler

Work Measurement and the Radiologist pp. 1125-1137

Albert B. Drui

The Traveling-Salesman Problem and Minimum Spanning Trees pp. 1138-1162

Michael Held and Richard M. Karp

A Theorem on Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problems pp. 1163-1167

Helmut Steckhan

A Matrix Approach to Nonstationary Chains pp. 1168-1181

Frank Harary, Benjamin Lipstein and George P. H. Styan

Simplified Analysis of an Alternating-Priority Queuing Model with Setup Times pp. 1182-1192

Jack S. Sykes

Some Theorems on a Single-Server Queue with Balking pp. 1193-1206

Ronald Stewart Dick

Letter to the Editor—A Guide to the Application of Limit Theorems for Sequences of Stochastic Processes pp. 1207-1213

Ward Whitt

Letter to the Editor—A Note on a Distribution Problem pp. 1213-1216

A. Charnes, Fred Glover and D. Klingman

Letter to the Editor—A Note on Cutting-Plane Methods Without Nested Constraint Sets pp. 1216-1220

Donald M. Topkis

Letter to the Editor—Selecting Price Quotations for an Industrial Firm's Sale of Individual Contract Projects pp. 1220-1224

Purnell H. Benson

Letter to the Editor—A Monte Carlo Method for the Approximate Solution of Certain Types of Constrained Optimization Problems pp. 1225-1228

Martin Pincus

Letter to the Editor—A Comment on the Morse-Elston Model of Probabilistic Obsolescence pp. 1228-1233

Donald H. Kraft

Volume 18, issue 5, 1970

A Black Ghetto's Research on a University pp. 761-771

Russell L. Ackoff

Measuring the Effectiveness of Nondefense Public Programs pp. 772-784

Harry P. Hatry

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Civil Engineering Systems: New York City's Primary Water Supply pp. 785-804

Richard de Neufville

Sprinter Mod III: A Model for the Analysis of New Frequently Purchased Consumer Products pp. 805-854

Glen L. Urban

A Study of the Logical Basis of Combat Simulation pp. 855-882

Bernard O. Koopman

A Simple Model of Search for a Moving Target pp. 883-903

Stephen M. Pollock

A Statistical Analysis of Aircraft Maintenance Costs pp. 904-917

Herman L. Gilster

Moment Estimation in a Markov-Dependent Firing Distribution pp. 918-923

J. S. Rustagi and Richard Laitinen

Surrogate Mathematical Programming pp. 924-939

Harvey J. Greenberg and William P. Pierskalla

On the Unlimited Number of Faces in Integer Hulls of Linear Programs with a Single Constraint pp. 940-946

David S. Rubin

The Value of Information and Stochastic Programming pp. 947-954

M. Avriel and A. C. Williams

Volume 18, issue 4, 1970

How Can We Improve Operations Research? pp. 569-576

Thomas E. Caywood

Science, Government, and Citizen Feedback pp. 577-591

Chandler Harrison Stevens

Space Applications—Foreword pp. 592-592

Thomas O. Paine

A Methodology to Compare Policies for Exploring the Solar System pp. 593-611

Robert G. Chamberlain and Louis Kingsland

A Program of Astronomy Research on the Moon and its Logistics Implications pp. 612-634

Raoul J. Freeman, Roger C. Moore and Gerhard F. Schilling

Linear-Programming Solutions for Orbital-Transfer Trajectories pp. 635-653

Charles M. Waespy

Queuing Analysis of Satellite Networks pp. 654-664

M. T. El-Bardai

A Statistical Method for Setting Stops in Stock Trading pp. 665-688

Robert M. Barnes

A Method of Solution for General Machine-Scheduling Problems pp. 689-707

John M. Charlton and Carl C. Death

On the Optimality of Single-Server Queuing Systems pp. 708-732

Shaler Stidham

A Continuation of Delay-Dependent Queue Disciplines pp. 733-738

Jiunn Hsu

Volume 18, issue 3, 1970

Primal Resource-Directive Approaches for Optimizing Nonlinear Decomposable Systems pp. 375-403

Arthur M. Geoffrion

Cutting-Plane Methods without Nested Constraint Sets pp. 404-413

Donald M. Topkis

Computational Algorithms for Convex Stochastic Programs with Simple Recourse pp. 414-431

William T. Ziemba

Turnpike Theorems for Integer Programming Problems pp. 432-440

Jeremy F. Shapiro

Modular Design: An Application of Structured Geometric Programming pp. 441-453

U. Passy

Quadratic Binary Programming with Application to Capital-Budgeting Problems pp. 454-461

D. J. Laughhunn

On the Explicit Solution of a Special Class of Linear Economic Models pp. 462-470

A. Ben-Israel, A. Charnes, A. P. Hurter and P. D. Roberts

Optimization of Series-Parallel-Series Networks pp. 471-482

Paul A. Jensen

Allocation of Sorties in Air Interdiction pp. 483-496

John V. Armitage

Algorithms for Targeting Strikes in a Lines-of-Communication Network pp. 497-515

Richard D. Wollmer

Effectiveness Determination of Bombers Penetrating Through an Air-to-Air Defense pp. 516-525

Clifford D. Fawcett and Chester G. Jones

Parametric Priority Rules: An Approach to Optimization in Priority Queues pp. 526-540

K. R. Balachandran

Letter to the Editor—An Experimental Investigation and Comparative Evaluation of Flow-Shop Scheduling Techniques pp. 541-549

Said Ashour

Letter to the Editor—On the Merit of the Generalized Origin and Restarts in Implicit Enumeration pp. 549-555

Harvey M. Salkin

Letter to the Editor—On Stochastic Linear Approximation Problems pp. 555-558

A. Ben-Israel, A. Charnes and M. J. L. Kirby

Letter to the Editor—Optimum Distribution of Armor pp. 559-562

J. S. Rustagi and T. W. Doub

Letter to the Editor—A Note on “Modular Design—A Special Case in Nonlinear Programming” pp. 562-564

David H. Evans

Letter to the Editor—Supplement pp. 564-565

M. Raghavachari

Volume 18, issue 2, 1970

A Constant-Work Model for Student Attendance and Enrollment pp. 193-206

Kneale T. Marshall and Robert M. Oliver

Intransitive Indifference in Preference Theory: A Survey pp. 207-228

Peter C. Fishburn

Generalized Penalty-Function Concepts in Mathematical Optimization pp. 229-252

M. Bellmore, H. J. Greenberg and J. J. Jarvis

Searching for the Multiplier in One-Constraint Optimization Problems pp. 253-262

B. L. Fox and D. M. Landi

Solving Resource-Constrained Network Problems by Implicit Enumeration—Nonpreemptive Case pp. 263-278

Linus Schrage

Computing a Bias-Optimal Policy in a Discrete-Time Markov Decision Problem pp. 279-289

Eric V. Denardo

A Note on Quadratic Programming in Activation Analysis pp. 290-299

Lee H. Smith

Linear Programming Solutions to Ratio Games pp. 300-305

Roger G. Schroeder

An Enumeration Algorithm for Knapsack Problems pp. 306-311

A. Victor Cabot

On Some Mixing Sequences in Queuing Theory pp. 312-315

C. C. Heyde

A Multiserver System with Preemptive Priorities pp. 316-323

M. Segal

Two Problems in Markov Chains: A Topological Approach pp. 324-333

G. Guardabassi and S. Rinaldi

A Review of the Literature on the Missile-Allocation Problem pp. 334-373

Samuel Matlin

Volume 18, issue 1, 1970

A Case History in Optimum Inventory Scheduling pp. 1-23

George Schussel and Steve Price

Branch-and-Bound Methods: General Formulation and Properties pp. 24-34

L. G. Mitten

Making Short-Run Changes in Production when the Employment Level is Fixed pp. 35-51

Matthew J. Sobel

A Class of General Reliability Growth Prediction Models pp. 52-65

Donald R. Barr

Minimizing the Number of Operations in Certain Discrete-Variable Optimization Problems pp. 66-81

Francesco Brioschi and Shimon Even

Solving Certain Nonconvex Quadratic Minimization Problems by Ranking the Extreme Points pp. 82-86

A. Victor Cabot and Richard L. Francis

On a Class of Directed Graphs—With an Application to Traffic-Flow Problems pp. 87-94

Loh Hooi-Tong

Mathematical Optimization Techniques for the Simultaneous Apportionments of Reliability and Maintainability pp. 95-106

Anthony C. Shershin

Stability in Nonlinear Programming pp. 107-118

J. P. Evans and F. J. Gould

A New Decomposition Procedure for Dynamic Programming pp. 119-131

Peter J. Wong

Simultaneous Success-Run Chains pp. 132-144

Jozef L. Teugels

Two-Server Markovian Queues with Balking: Heterogeneous vs. Homogeneous Servers pp. 145-159

Vijendra P. Singh

Steady-State Solution of the Queuing System E u / M / s with Batch Service pp. 160-171

R. F. Love

Letter to the Editor—On the Generality of the Equation L = λ W pp. 172-174

William L. Maxwell

Letter to the Editor—A Note on the Analysis of Peak-Demand Forecasts of an Electrical Utility pp. 174-179

Baruch Lev

Letter to the Editor—The Mean Lanchester Attrition Rate pp. 179-181

Seth Bonder

Letter to the Editor—An Approach to Reducing the Computing Time for Dynamic Programming pp. 181-185

Peter J. Wong

Letter to the Editor—An Alternative Proof of a Conservation Law for the Queue G / G /1 pp. 185-187

Linus Schrage

Letter to the Editor—A Note on Pattern Separation pp. 187-190

Richard C. Grinold

The 1969 Lanchester Prize---Call for Nominations pp. 191-191

John E. Walsh