Operations Research, Volume 56

Volume 56, Number 1, January - February 2008

• David Simchi-Levi:
  From the Editor. 1-2
  
• Martin Durbin, Karla Hoffman:
  OR PRACTICE - The Dance of the Thirty-Ton Trucks: Dispatching and Scheduling in a Dynamic Environment. 3-19
  
• Steven M. Shechter, Matthew D. Bailey, Andrew J. Schaefer, Mark S. Roberts:
  The Optimal Time to Initiate HIV Therapy Under Ordered Health States. 20-33
  
• Jian Yao, Ilan Adler, Shmuel S. Oren:
  Modeling and Computing Two-Settlement Oligopolistic Equilibrium in a Congested Electricity Network. 34-47
  
• Rajiv D. Banker, Ram Natarajan:
  Evaluating Contextual Variables Affecting Productivity Using Data Envelopment Analysis. 48-58
  
• Xiuli Chao, Paul H. Zipkin:
  Optimal Policy for a Periodic-Review Inventory System Under a Supply Capacity Contract. 59-68
  
• Wade D. Cook, Joe Zhu:
  CAR-DEA: Context-Dependent Assurance Regions in DEA. 69-78
  
• Yoshiaki Ohsawa, Naoya Ozaki, Frank Plastria:
  Equity-Efficiency Bicriteria Location with Squared Euclidean Distances. 79-87
  
• Misja Nuyens, Adam Wierman, Bert Zwart:
  Preventing Large Sojourn Times Using SMART Scheduling. 88-101
  
• Leon Yang Chu, Zuo-Jun Max Shen:
  Truthful Double Auction Mechanisms. 102-120
  
• Daniel Granot, Shuya Yin:
  Price and Order Postponement in a Decentralized Newsvendor Model with Multiplicative and Price-Dependent Demand. 121-139
  
• Farid Alizadeh, Jonathan Eckstein, Nilay Noyan, Gábor Rudolf:
  Arrival Rate Approximation by Nonnegative Cubic Splines. 140-156
  
• Shin-yi Wu, Pei-Yu Sharon Chen:
  Versioning and Piracy Control for Digital Information Goods. 157-172
  
• Francis de Véricourt, Otis B. Jennings:
  Dimensioning Large-Scale Membership Services. 173-187
  
• Georgia Perakis, Guillaume Roels:
  Regret in the Newsvendor Model with Partial Information. 188-203
  
• Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen:
  Analyzing Cost-Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope: A Nonparametric Methodology. 204-221
  
• Kathrin Klamroth, Kaisa Miettinen:
  Integrating Approximation and Interactive Decision Making in Multicriteria Optimization. 222-234
  
• Young H. Chun:
  Bayesian Analysis of the Sequential Inspection Plan via the Gibbs Sampler. 235-246
  
• Michael P. Atkinson, Lawrence M. Wein:
  Technical Note - Spatial Queueing Analysis of an Interdiction System to Protect Cities from a Nuclear Terrorist Attack. 247-254
  
• Ravindra K. Ahuja, Dorit S. Hochbaum:
  Technical Note - Solving Linear Cost Dynamic Lot-Sizing Problems in O(n log n) Time. 255-261
  

Volume 56, Number 2, March - April 2008

• ManMohan S. Sodhi, Christopher S. Tang:
  The OR/MS Ecosystem: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. 267-277
  
• Murthy Mudrageda, Frederic H. Murphy:
  OR PRACTICE - An Economic Equilibrium Model of the Market for Marine Transportation Services in Petroleum Products. 278-285
  
• Zhiyong Chen, Paul Glasserman:
  Fast Pricing of Basket Default Swaps. 286-303
  
• Liming Feng, Vadim Linetsky:
  Pricing Options in Jump-Diffusion Models: An Extrapolation Approach. 304-325
  
• Yuri Levin, Jeff McGill, Mikhail Nediak:
  Risk in Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing. 326-343
  
• Xin Chen, Melvyn Sim, Peng Sun, Jiawei Zhang:
  A Linear Decision-Based Approximation Approach to Stochastic Programming. 344-357
  
• Domenico Cuoco, Hua He, Sergei Isaenko:
  Optimal Dynamic Trading Strategies with Risk Limits. 358-368
  
• Robert Wilson:
  Supply Function Equilibrium in a Constrained Transmission System. 369-382
  
• Hanif D. Sherali, Xiaomei Zhu:
  Two-Stage Fleet Assignment Model Considering Stochastic Passenger Demands. 383-399
  
• Hui Zhao, Jennifer K. Ryan, Vinayak Deshpande:
  Optimal Dynamic Production and Inventory Transshipment Policies for a Two-Location Make-to-Stock System. 400-410
  
• Michael Masin, Yossi Bukchin:
  Diversity Maximization Approach for Multiobjective Optimization. 411-424
  
• Alberto Ceselli, Giovanni Righini:
  An Optimization Algorithm for the Ordered Open-End Bin-Packing Problem. 425-436
  
• Yao Zhao:
  Evaluation and Optimization of Installation Base-Stock Policies in Supply Chains with Compound Poisson Demand. 437-452
  
• Heng-Qing Ye, David D. Yao:
  Heavy-Traffic Optimality of a Stochastic Network Under Utility-Maximizing Resource Allocation. 453-470
  
• Opher Baron:
  Regulated Random Walks and the LCFS Backlog Probability: Analysis and Application. 471-486
  
• Viliam Makis:
  Multivariate Bayesian Control Chart. 487-496
  
• Mads Jepsen, Bjørn Petersen, Simon Spoorendonk, David Pisinger:
  Subset-Row Inequalities Applied to the Vehicle-Routing Problem with Time Windows. 497-511
  
• David Avis, Bohdan Kaluzny, David Titley-Péloquin:
  Visualizing and Constructing Cycles in the Simplex Method. 512-518
  
• A. Volgenant:
  Technical Note - A Note on Parametric Analysis in Linear Assignment. 519-522
  

Volume 56, Number 3, May - June 2008

• Laura J. Kornish, Ralph L. Keeney:
  Repeated Commit-or-Defer Decisions with a Deadline: The Influenza Vaccine Composition. 527-541
  
• Miguel Constantino, Isabel Martins, José G. Borges:
  A New Mixed-Integer Programming Model for Harvest Scheduling Subject to Maximum Area Restrictions. 542-551
  
• Enrique Campos-Náñez, Alfredo Garcia, Chenyang Li:
  A Game-Theoretic Approach to Efficient Power Management in Sensor Networks. 552-561
  
• Fernando Bernstein, Francis de Véricourt:
  Competition for Procurement Contracts with Service Guarantees. 562-575
  
• Diwakar Gupta, Lei Wang:
  Revenue Management for a Primary-Care Clinic in the Presence of Patient Choice. 576-592
  
• Achal Bassamboo, Sandeep Juneja, Assaf J. Zeevi:
  Portfolio Credit Risk with Extremal Dependence: Asymptotic Analysis and Efficient Simulation. 593-606
  
• Michael B. Giles:
  Multilevel Monte Carlo Path Simulation. 607-617
  
• Melda Ormeci, J. G. Dai, John H. Vande Vate:
  Impulse Control of Brownian Motion: The Constrained Average Cost Case. 618-629
  
• Wallace J. Hopp, Xiaowei Xu:
  A Static Approximation for Dynamic Demand Substitution with Applications in a Competitive Market. 630-645
  
• Sumit Kunnumkal, Huseyin Topaloglu:
  Using Stochastic Approximation Methods to Compute Optimal Base-Stock Levels in Inventory Control Problems. 646-664
  
• Alexandar Angelus, Evan L. Porteus:
  An Asset Assembly Problem. 665-680
  
• Hao Zhang, Stefanos A. Zenios:
  A Dynamic Principal-Agent Model with Hidden Information: Sequential Optimality Through Truthful State Revelation. 681-696
  
• Edward J. Anderson, Xinmin Hu:
  Finding Supply Function Equilibria with Asymmetric Firms. 697-711
  
• Daniel Adelman, Adam J. Mersereau:
  Relaxations of Weakly Coupled Stochastic Dynamic Programs. 712-727
  
• Sai Rajesh Mahabhashyam, Natarajan Gautam, Soundar R. T. Kumara:
  Resource-Sharing Queueing Systems with Fluid-Flow Traffic. 728-744
  
• Patrick Jaillet, Michael R. Wagner:
  Generalized Online Routing: New Competitive Ratios, Resource Augmentation, and Asymptotic Analyses. 745-757
  
• Andrew Lim, Brian Rodrigues, Zhou Xu:
  Transportation Procurement with Seasonally Varying Shipper Demand and Volume Guarantees. 758-771
  
• Qiaoming Han, Donglei Du, Juan Vera, Luis F. Zuluaga:
  Improved Bounds for the Symmetric Rendezvous Value on the Line. 772-782
  
• Woonghee Tim Huh, Ganesh Janakiraman:
  (s, S) Optimality in Joint Inventory-Pricing Control: An Alternate Approach. 783-790
  
• Kenneth L. Judd, Garrett J. van Ryzin:
  Operations Research Call for Papers: Special Issue on Computational Economics: Submission deadline extended: August 31, 2008. 0796-796
  

Volume 56, Number 4, July - August 2008

• Alois Geyer, William T. Ziemba:
  The Innovest Austrian Pension Fund Financial Planning Model InnoALM. 797-810
  
• Ron Kaniel, Stathis Tompaidis, Alexander Zemlianov:
  Efficient Computation of Hedging Parameters for Discretely Exercisable Options. 811-826
  
• Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen:
  Service Competition with General Queueing Facilities. 827-849
  
• Senthil Veeraraghavan, Alan Scheller-Wolf:
  Now or Later: A Simple Policy for Effective Dual Sourcing in Capacitated Systems. 850-864
  
• Garrett J. van Ryzin, Gustavo J. Vulcano:
  Simulation-Based Optimization of Virtual Nesting Controls for Network Revenue Management. 865-880
  
• Xinxin Hu, Izak Duenyas, Roman Kapuscinski:
  Optimal Joint Inventory and Transshipment Control Under Uncertain Capacity. 881-897
  
• Holly Lutze, Özalp Özer:
  Promised Lead-Time Contracts Under Asymmetric Information. 898-915
  
• Awi Federgruen, Nan Yang:
  Selecting a Portfolio of Suppliers Under Demand and Supply Risks. 916-936
  
• Paul H. Zipkin:
  On the Structure of Lost-Sales Inventory Models. 937-944
  
• Grace Y. Lin, Yingdong Lu, David D. Yao:
  The Stochastic Knapsack Revisited: Switch-Over Policies and Dynamic Pricing. 945-957
  
• Pierre L'Ecuyer, Christian Lécot, Bruno Tuffin:
  A Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo Simulation Method for Markov Chains. 958-975
  
• Sven Axsäter, Johan Marklund:
  Optimal Position-Based Warehouse Ordering in Divergent Two-Echelon Inventory Systems. 976-991
  
• Dorit S. Hochbaum:
  The Pseudoflow Algorithm: A New Algorithm for the Maximum-Flow Problem. 992-1009
  
• Francesco Gaglioppa, Lisa A. Miller, Saif Benjaafar:
  Multitask and Multistage Production Planning and Scheduling for Process Industries. 1010-1025
  
• André R. S. Amaral:
  An Exact Approach to the One-Dimensional Facility Layout Problem. 1026-1033
  
• Xiangwen Lu, Jing-Sheng Song, Kaijie Zhu:
  Analysis of Perishable-Inventory Systems with Censored Demand Data. 1034-1038
  
• Kevin H. Shang:
  Note: A Simple Heuristic for Serial Inventory Systems with Fixed Order Costs. 1039-1043
  

Volume 56, Number 5, September - October 2008

• David L. Alderson:
  OR FORUM - Catching the "Network Science" Bug: Insight and Opportunity for the Operations Researcher. 1047-1065
  
• John M. Mulvey, Koray D. Simsek, Zhuojuan Zhang, Frank J. Fabozzi, William R. Pauling:
  OR PRACTICE - Assisting Defined-Benefit Pension Plans. 1066-1078
  
• Scott E. Sampson:
  OR PRACTICE - Optimization of Vacation Timeshare Scheduling. 1079-1088
  
• Alp Muharremoglu, John N. Tsitsiklis:
  A Single-Unit Decomposition Approach to Multiechelon Inventory Systems. 1089-1103
  
• Luce Brotcorne, Martine Labbé, Patrice Marcotte, Gilles Savard:
  Joint Design and Pricing on a Network. 1104-1115
  
• Derek W. Bunn, Fernando S. Oliveira:
  Modeling the Impact of Market Interventions on the Strategic Evolution of Electricity Markets. 1116-1130
  
• Kumar Muthuraman, Tarik Aouam, Ronald Rardin:
  Regulation of Natural Gas Distribution Using Policy Benchmarks. 1131-1145
  
• Victor Richmond R. Jose, Robert F. Nau, Robert L. Winkler:
  Scoring Rules, Generalized Entropy, and Utility Maximization. 1146-1157
  
• Erica L. Plambeck:
  Asymptotically Optimal Control for an Assemble-to-Order System with Capacitated Component Production and Fixed Transport Costs. 1158-1171
  
• Yongpei Guan, Andrew J. Miller:
  Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Stochastic Uncapacitated Lot-Sizing Problems. 1172-1183
  
• Retsef Levi, Robin Roundy, David B. Shmoys, Van Anh Truong:
  Approximation Algorithms for Capacitated Stochastic Inventory Control Models. 1184-1199
  
• Paul Glasserman, Wanmo Kang, Perwez Shahabuddin:
  Fast Simulation of Multifactor Portfolio Credit Risk. 1200-1217
  
• Wai Kin Chan, Lee W. Schruben:
  Optimization Models of Discrete-Event System Dynamics. 1218-1237
  
• Emre Berk, Ülkü Gürler:
  Analysis of the (Q, r) Inventory Model for Perishables with Positive Lead Times and Lost Sales. 1238-1246
  
• Goker Aydin, Evan L. Porteus:
  Joint Inventory and Pricing Decisions for an Assortment. 1247-1255
  
• Paul H. Zipkin:
  Old and New Methods for Lost-Sales Inventory Systems. 1256-1263
  
• Haiqing Song, Vernon N. Hsu, Raymond K. Cheung:
  Distribution Coordination Between Suppliers and Customers with a Consolidation Center. 1264-1277
  
• Liang Liang, Jie Wu, Wade D. Cook, Joe Zhu:
  The DEA Game Cross-Efficiency Model and Its Nash Equilibrium. 1278-1288
  
• Manel Baucells, Juan A. Carrasco, Robin M. Hogarth:
  Cumulative Dominance and Heuristic Performance in Binary Multiattribute Choice. 1289-1304
  
• Youyi Feng, Baichun Xiao:
  Technical Note - A Risk-Sensitive Model for Managing Perishable Products. 1305-1311
  
• Boray Huang, Seyed M. R. Iravani:
  Technical Note - A Make-to-Stock System with Multiple Customer Classes and Batch Ordering. 1312-1320
  

Volume 56, Number 6, November - December 2008

• H. Edwin Romeijn, Stefanos A. Zenios:
  Introduction to the Special Issue on Operations Research in Health Care. 1333-1334
  
• Ralph L. Keeney:
  Personal Decisions Are the Leading Cause of Death. 1335-1347
  
• Shane N. Hall, Sheldon H. Jacobson, Edward C. Sewell:
  An Analysis of Pediatric Vaccine Formulary Selection Problems. 1348-1365
  
• Elisa F. Long, Naveen K. Vaidya, Margaret L. Brandeau:
  Controlling Co-Epidemics: Analysis of HIV and Tuberculosis Infection Dynamics. 1366-1381
  
• Dimitris Bertsimas, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Michael A. Kane, J. Christian Kryder, Rudra Pandey, Santosh Vempala, Grant Wang:
  Algorithmic Prediction of Health-Care Costs. 1382-1392
  
• Burhaneddin Sandikçi, Lisa M. Maillart, Andrew J. Schaefer, Oguzhan Alagöz, Mark S. Roberts:
  Estimating the Patient's Price of Privacy in Liver Transplantation. 1393-1410
  
• Lisa M. Maillart, Julie Simmons Ivy, Scott Ransom, Kathleen Diehl:
  Assessing Dynamic Breast Cancer Screening Policies. 1411-1427
  
• Chris P. Lee, Glenn M. Chertow, Stefanos A. Zenios:
  Optimal Initiation and Management of Dialysis Therapy. 1428-1449
  
• Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse, Ya-Ju Fan, Rajesh C. Sachdeo:
  Novel Optimization Models for Abnormal Brain Activity Classification. 1450-1460
  
• Thomas Bortfeld, Timothy C. Y. Chan, Alexei Trofimov, John N. Tsitsiklis:
  Robust Management of Motion Uncertainty in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy. 1461-1473
  
• Özge Karanfil, Yaman Barlas:
  A Dynamic Simulator for the Management of Disorders of the Body Water Homeostasis. 1474-1492
  
• Stephen E. Chick, Hamed Mamani, David Simchi-Levi:
  Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination. 1493-1506
  
• Jonathan Patrick, Martin L. Puterman, Maurice Queyranne:
  Dynamic Multipriority Patient Scheduling for a Diagnostic Resource. 1507-1525
  
• Linda V. Green, Sergei Savin:
  Reducing Delays for Medical Appointments: A Queueing Approach. 1526-1538
  
• Pascale Crama, Bert De Reyck, Zeger Degraeve:
  Milestone Payments or Royalties? Contract Design for R&D Licensing. 1539-1552