Operations Research, Volume 50

Volume 50, Number 1, January - February 2002

• Lawrence M. Wein: Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Issue of Operations Research.
• Kenneth J. Arrow: The Genesis of "Optimal Inventory Policy". 1-2
• Robert E. Bixby:
  Solving Real-World Linear Programs: A Decade and More of Progress. 3-15
  
• Alfred Blumstein: Crime Modeling. 16-24
• Seth Bonder:
  Army Operations Research - Historical Perspectives and Lessons Learned. 25-34
  
• William W. Cooper:
  Abraham Charnes and W. W. Cooper (et al.): A Brief History of a Long Collaboration in Developing Industrial Uses of Linear Programming. 35-41
  
• George B. Dantzig: Linear Programming. 42-47
• Stuart Dreyfus: Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming. 48-51
• Saul I. Gass:
  The First Linear-Programming Shoppe. 61-68
  
• Ralph E. Gomory: Early Integer Programming. 78-81
• K. Brian Haley:
  War and Peace: The First 25 Years of or in Great Britain. 82-88
  
• Charles C. Holt: Learning How to Plan Production, Inventories, and Work Force. 96-99
• Ronald A. Howard: Comments on the Origin and Application of Markov Decision Processes. 100-102
• Wayne P. Hughes:
  Navy Operations Research. 103-111
  
• Jim Jackson: How Networks of Queues Came About. 112-113
• Glenn Kent: Looking Back: Four Decades of Analysis. 122-124
• Leonard Kleinrock: Creating a Mathematical Theory of Computer Networks. 125-131
• Harold W. Kuhn: Being in the Right Place at the Right Time. 132-134
• Richard C. Larson: Public Sector Operations Research: A Personal Journey. 135-145
• John D. C. Little:
  Philip M. Morse and the Beginnings. 146-148
  
• John F. Magee: Operations Research at Arthur D. Little, Inc.: The Early Years. 149-153
• Harry M. Markowitz:
  Efficient Portfolios, Sparse Matrices, and Entities: A Retrospective. 154-160
  
• Richard E. Nance, Robert G. Sargent:
  Perspectives on the Evolution of Simulation. 161-172
  
• G. F. Newell: Memoirs on Highway Traffic Flow Theory in the 1950s. 173-178
• Howard Raiffa: Decision Analysis: A Personal Account of How It Got Started and Evolved. 179-185
• Herbert E. Scarf: Inventory Theory. 186-191
• Martin Shubik: Game Theory and Operations Research: Some Musings 50 Years Later. 192-196
• Shaler Stidham Jr.: Analysis, Design, and Control of Queueing Systems. 197-216
• Harvey M. Wagner: And Then There Were None. 217-226
• Peter Whittle: Applied Probability in Great Britain. 227-239
• Charles D. Flagle:
  Some Origins of Operations Research in the Health Services. 52-60
  
• Denos C. Gazis:
  The Origins of Traffic Theory. 69-77
  
• William W. Hogan:
  Energy Modeling for Policy Studies. 89-95
  
• Samuel Karlin:
  Interdisciplinary Meandering in Science. 114-121
  

Volume 50, Number 2, March - April 2002

• Pinar Keskinocak, Frederick Y. Wu, Richard Goodwin, Sesh Murthy, Rama Akkiraju, Santhosh Kumaran, Annap Derebail:
  Scheduling Solutions for the Paper Industry. 249-259
  
• Pierre Chardaire, Abdel Lisser:
  Simplex and Interior Point Specialized Algorithms for Solving Nonoriented Multicommodity Flow Problems. 260-276
  
• Maria Stepanova, Lyn Thomas:
  Survival Analysis Methods for Personal Loan Data. 277-289
  
• Henry W. Block, Thomas H. Savits, Harshinder Singh:
  A Criterion for Burn-in That Balances Mean Residual Life and Residual Variance. 290-296
  
• Chung-Li Tseng, Graydon Barz:
  Short-Term Generation Asset Valuation: A Real Options Approach. 297-310
  
• Steve Alpern, Shmuel Gal:
  Searching for an Agent Who May OR May Not Want to be Found. 311-323
  
• Syam Menon, Linus Schrage:
  Order Allocation for Stock Cutting in the Paper Industry. 324-332
  
• Yogesh K. Agarwal:
  Design of Capacitated Multicommodity Networks with Multiple Facilities. 333-344
  
• Vijay S. Mookerjee, Yong Tan:
  Analysis of a Least Recently Used Cache Management Policy for Web Browsers. 345-357
  
• Dimitris Bertsimas, Ioana Popescu:
  On the Relation Between Option and Stock Prices: A Convex Optimization Approach. 358-374
  
• Serguei Netessine, Gregory Dobson, Robert A. Shumsky:
  Flexible Service Capacity: Optimal Investment and the Impact of Demand Correlation. 375-388
  
• Hsi-Mei Chen:
  An Inverse Problem of the Lanchester Square Law in Estimating Time-Dependent Attrition Coefficients. 389-394
  

Volume 50, Number 3, May - June 2002

• Arno Maatman, Caspar Schweigman, Arjan Ruijs, Maarten H. van Der Vlerk:
  Modeling Farmers' Response to Uncertain Rainfall in Burkina Faso: A Stochastic Programming Approach. 399-414
  
• Gilbert Laporte, François V. Louveaux, Luc van Hamme:
  An Integer L-Shaped Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands. 415-423
  
• Shoshana Anily, Avraham Beja, Amit Mendel:
  Optimal Lot Sizes with Geometric Production Yield and Rigid Demand. 424-432
  
• Hanif D. Sherali, Intesar Al-Loughani, Shivaram Subramanian:
  Global Optimization Procedures for the Capacitated Euclidean and l_p Distance Multifacility Location-Allocation Problems. 433-448
  
• Joel I. Singer:
  Double Auctions Across a Constrained Transmission Line. 449-461
  
• Amy V. Puelz:
  A Stochastic Convergence Model for Portfolio Selection. 462-476
  
• Edward J. Anderson, Andrew B. Philpott:
  Using Supply Functions for Offering Generation into an Electricity Market. 477-489
  
• Geir Dahl, Geir Storvik, Alice Fadnes:
  Large-Scale Integer Programs in Image Analysis. 490-500
  
• Ram D. Gopal, Robert S. Garfinkel, Paulo B. Goes:
  Confidentiality via Camouflage: The CVC Approach to Disclosure Limitation When Answering Queries to Databases. 501-516
  
• Xiaomei Ding, Martin L. Puterman, Arnab Bisi:
  The Censored Newsvendor and the Optimal Acquisition of Information. 517-527
  
• Daning Sun, Maurice Queyranne:
  Production and Inventory Model Using Net Present Value. 528-537
  
• Raymond A. Patterson, Erik Rolland:
  Hybrid Fiber Coaxial Network Design. 538-551
  
• Savas Dayanik, Ülkü Gürler:
  An Adaptive Bayesian Replacement Policy with Minimal Repair. 552-558
  
• Søren Asmussen, Colm Art O'Ccinneide:
  On the Tail of the Waiting Time in a Markov-Modulated M/G/1 Queue. 559-565
  
• Stephen E. Chick, Koichiro Inoue: Corrigendum: New Selection Procedures. 566

Volume 50, Number 4, July - August 2002

• Warren B. Powell, Arun Marar, Jack Gelfand, Steve Bowers:
  Implementing Real-Time Optimization Models: A Case Application From The Motor Carrier Industry. 571-581
  
• Steven F. Baker, David P. Morton, Richard E. Rosenthal, Laura Melody Williams:
  Optimizing Military Airlift. 582-602
  
• Panagiotis Thomas, Demosthenis Teneketzis, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason:
  A Market-Based Approach to Optimal Resource Allocation in Integrated-Services Connection-Oriented Networks. 603-616
  
• Anantaram Balakrishnan, Thomas L. Magnanti, Joel S. Sokol, Yi Wang:
  Spare-Capacity Assignment For Line Restoration Using a Single-Facility Type. 617-635
  
• Ann E. Mulligan, David P. Ahlfeld:
  A New Interior-Point Boundary Projection Method For Solving Nonlinear Groundwater Pollution Control Problems. 636-644
  
• Thierry Post, Laurens Cherchye, Timo Kuosmanen:
  Nonparametric Efficiency EstimationIn Stochastic Environments. 645-655
  
• Hanif D. Sherali, Patrick J. Driscoll:
  On Tightening the Relaxations of Miller-Tucker-Zemlin Formulations for Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problems. 656-669
  
• Kathrin Klamroth, Margaret M. Wiecek:
  A Bi-Objective Median Location ProblemWith a Line Barrier. 670-679
  
• Kumar Rajaram, Uday S. Karmarkar:
  Product Cycling With Uncertain Yields: Analysis and Application to the Process Industry. 680-691
  
• J. G. Dai, Gideon Weiss:
  A Fluid Heuristic for Minimizing Makespan in Job Shops. 692-707
  
• Thomas L. Magnanti, Trilochan Sastry:
  Facets and Reformulations for Solving Production Planning With Changeover Costs. 708-719
  
• William L. Cooper:
  Asymptotic Behavior of an Allocation Policy for Revenue Management. 720-727
  
• Jesús T. Pastor, José L. Ruiz, Inmaculada Sirvent:
  A Statistical Test for Nested Radial Dea Models. 728-735
  
• Alan L. Erera, Carlos F. Daganzo, David J. Lovell:
  The Access-Control Problem on Capacitated FIFO Networks With Unique O-D Paths is Hard. 736-743
  
• Patrick Jaillet, Matthew Stafford, Shmuel Gal: Note: Online Searching / on the Optimality of the Geometric Sequences for the m Ray Search Online Searching. 744-745

Volume 50, Number 5, September - October 2002

• Kumar Rajaram, Charles J. Corbett:
  Achieving Environmental and Productivity Improvements Through Model-Based Process Redesign. 751-763
  
• Harry G. Barker, David A. Calabrese, Martin J. Fischer, David A. Garbin, J. Edward Knepley, Gregor W. Swinsky:
  The Circuit-Switched Network Design and Analysis Model: A Chronology of Its Development and Use. 764-771
  
• Steve Alpern:
  Rendezvous Search: A Personal Perspective. 772-795
  
• James E. Smith, Kevin F. McCardle:
  Structural Properties of Stochastic Dynamic Programs. 796-809
  
• Jonathan H. Owen, Sanjay Mehrotra:
  On the Value of Binary Expansions for General Mixed-Integer Linear Programs. 810-819
  
• Soumyadip Ghosh, Shane G. Henderson:
  Chessboard Distributions and Random Vectors with Specified Marginals and Covariance Matrix. 820-834
  
• Rajnish Kamat, Shmuel S. Oren:
  Exotic Options for Interruptible Electricity Supply Contracts. 835-850
  
• Alberto Caprara, Matteo Fischetti, Paolo Toth:
  Modeling and Solving the Train Timetabling Problem. 851-861
  
• Chris Walshaw:
  A Multilevel Approach to the Travelling Salesman Problem. 862-877
  
• George Tagaras, Yiannis Nikolaidis:
  Comparing the Effectiveness of Various Bayesian X Control Charts. 878-888
  
• Jing-Sheng Song, David D. Yao:
  Performance Analysis and Optimization of Assemble-to-Order Systems with Random Lead Times. 889-903
  
• Arjan Berkelaar, Cees Dert, Bart Oldenkamp, Shuzhong Zhang:
  A Primal-Dual Decomposition-Based Interior Point Approach to Two-Stage Stochastic Linear Programming. 904-915
  

Volume 50, Number 6, November - December 2002

• Claudio Arbib, Fabrizio Marinelli, Fabrizio Rossi, Francesco Di Iorio:
  Cutting and Reuse: An Application from Automobile Component Manufacturing. 923-934
  
• Ralph L. Keeney:
  Common Mistakes in Making Value Trade-Offs. 935-945
  
• Jeffrey D. Camm, Susan K. Norman, Stephen Polasky, Andrew R. Solow:
  Nature Reserve Site Selection to Maximize Expected Species Covered. 946-955
  
• Patrizia Beraldi, Andrzej Ruszczynski:
  The Probabilistic Set-Covering Problem. 956-967
  
• Karen Aardal, Cor A. J. Hurkens, Jan Karel Lenstra, Sergey R. Tiourine:
  Algorithms for Radio Link Frequency Assignment: The Calma Project. 968-980
  
• Sungmin Park, John W. Fowler, Gerald T. Mackulak, J. Bert Keats, W. Matthew Carlyle:
  D-Optimal Sequential Experiments for Generating a Simulation-Based Cycle Time-Throughput Curve. 981-990
  
• Noah Gans, Yong-Pin Zhou:
  Managing Learning and Turnover in Employee Staffing. 991-1006
  
• Kaj Rosling:
  Inventory Cost Rate Functions with Nonlinear Shortage Costs. 1007-1017
  
• Selçuk Savas, Rajan Batta, Rakesh Nagi:
  Finite-Size Facility Placement in the Presence of Barriers to Rectilinear Travel. 1018-1031
  
• Hong Chen, Xinyang Shen, David D. Yao:
  Brownian Approximations of Multiclass Open-Queueing Networks. 1032-1049
  
• Jack Brimberg, Henrik Juel, Anita Schöbel:
  Linear Facility Location in Three Dimensions - Models and Solution Methods. 1050-1057
  
• Lap Mui Ann Chan, Ana Muriel, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, David Simchi-Levi:
  On the Effectiveness of Zero-Inventory-Ordering Policies for the Economic Lot-Sizing Model with a Class of Piecewise Linear Cost Structures. 1058-1067
  
• Yigal Gerchak, Qi-Ming He, J. David Fuller, Ekachidd Chungcharoen:
  When Uncertainty Is Beneficial: Interesting Implications for the Hydrocarbon Discovery Process. 1068-1072
  
• Pierre L'Ecuyer, Richard J. Simard, E. Jack Chen, W. David Kelton:
  An Object-Oriented Random-Number Package with Many Long Streams and Substreams. 1073-1075