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August 2014, Volume 44, Issue 4
- 411-427 Fixed-Cycle Smoothed Production Improves Lean Performance for Make-to-Stock Manufacturing
by Peter M. Bernegger & Scott Webster - 428-431 ASP, The Art and Science of Practice: A (Very) Short Course in Suboptimization
by Jeffrey D. Camm - 432-438 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
June 2014, Volume 44, Issue 3
- 253-268 Scotsburn Dairy Group Uses a Hierarchical Production Scheduling and Inventory Management System to Control Its Ice Cream Production
by Eldon A. Gunn & Corinne A. MacDonald & Andrea Friars & Glen Caissie - 269-285 Hierarchical Decomposition Approach for Crude Oil Scheduling: A SINOPEC Case
by Xuan Chen & Simin Huang & Dejing Chen & Zhihai Zhang & Li Zheng & Ignacio Grossmann & Shihui Chen - 286-299 Decision Analytics for Parking Availability in Downtown Pittsburgh
by Tayo Fabusuyi & Robert C. Hampshire & Victoria A. Hill & Katsunobu Sasanuma - 300-316 Cyclic Consumption and Replenishment Decisions for Vendor-Managed Inventory of Multisourced Parts in Dell’s Supply Chain
by Abhilasha Prakash Katariya & Sıla Çetinkaya & Eylem Tekin - 317-328 Global Sourcing Approach to Improve Cash Flow of Agribusiness Companies in Brazil
by Ricardo Hamad & Nicolau Dionísio Fares Gualda - 329-341 Benchmarking Academic Programs in Business Analytics
by Michael F. Gorman & Ronald K. Klimberg - 342-349 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
April 2014, Volume 44, Issue 2
- 125-126 Introduction to the Interfaces Special Issue on Operations Research in Mining
by Alexandra Newman & Andres Weintraub - 127-142 Open-Pit Block-Sequencing Formulations: A Tutorial
by W. Brian Lambert & Andrea Brickey & Alexandra M. Newman & Kelly Eurek - 143-162 Equipment Selection for Surface Mining: A Review
by Christina N. Burt & Lou Caccetta - 163-175 A Review of Primary Mine Ventilation System Optimization
by Enrique I. Acuña & Ian S. Lowndes - 176-194 Medium-Term Production Scheduling of the Lumwana Mining Complex
by Martin L. Smith & Stewart J. Wicks - 195-203 Improving Underground Mine Access Layouts Using Software Tools
by Marcus Brazil & Peter Grossman & J. Hyam Rubinstein & Doreen Thomas - 204-221 Extraction and Backfill Scheduling in a Complex Underground Mine
by Dónal O’Sullivan & Alexandra Newman - 222-240 Medium-Term Rail Scheduling for an Iron Ore Mining Company
by Gaurav Singh & Rodolfo García-Flores & Andreas Ernst & Palitha Welgama & Meimei Zhang & Kerry Munday - 241-251 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
February 2014, Volume 44, Issue 1
- 3-6 Introduction: 2013 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences
by Peter Bell & R. John Milne - 7-21 Economically Efficient Standards to Protect the Netherlands Against Flooding
by Carel Eijgenraam & Jarl Kind & Carlijn Bak & Ruud Brekelmans & Dick den Hertog & Matthijs Duits & Kees Roos & Pieter Vermeer & Wim Kuijken - 22-38 Operations Research Transforms Baosteel’s Operations
by Lixin Tang & Ying Meng & Gongshu Wang & Zhi-Long Chen & Jiyin Liu & Guofen Hu & Lijun Chen & Bo Zhang - 39-54 Optimizing Chevron’s Refineries
by Ted Kutz & Mark Davis & Robert Creek & Nick Kenaston & Craig Stenstrom & Margery Connor - 55-69 Dell’s Channel Transformation: Leveraging Operations Research to Unleash Potential Across the Value Chain
by Karl Martin & Parag Chitalia & Murugan Pugalenthi & K. Raghava Rau & Sudeep Maity & Rahul Kumar & Rohit Saksena & Randhir Hebbar & Mahesh Krishnan & Ganesh Hegde & Chandrasekhar Kesanapally & Tejinder Kaur Bimbraw & Sumathi Subramanian - 70-84 Kroger Uses Simulation-Optimization to Improve Pharmacy Inventory Management
by Xinhui Zhang & Doug Meiser & Yan Liu & Brett Bonner & Lebin Lin - 85-104 Supply Chain Scenario Modeler: A Holistic Executive Decision Support Solution
by Kaan Katircioglu & Robert Gooby & Mary Helander & Youssef Drissi & Pawan Chowdhary & Matt Johnson & Takashi Yonezawa - 105-107 Saul Gass, a Tribute to Him and to His Leadership in Model Assessment and Validation
by Frederic H. Murphy - 108-117 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
December 2013, Volume 43, Issue 6
- 503-517 A Specialty Steel Bar Company Uses Analytics to Determine Available-to-Promise Dates
by Foad Mahdavi Pajouh & Dahai Xing & Yingjue Zhou & Sharethram Hariharan & Balabhaskar Balasundaram & Tieming Liu & Ramesh Sharda - 518-529 Optimization Models for Production Planning in LG Display
by Seokcheol Chang & Jaewoo Chung - 530-546 Redesigning Midday Meal Logistics for the Akshaya Patra Foundation: OR at Work in Feeding Hungry School Children
by B. Mahadevan & S. Sivakumar & D. Dinesh Kumar & K. Ganeshram - 547-549 Practice Summary: Flight Trajectory Optimization
by Srinivas Bollapragada & Joel Klooster & MacKenzie Cumings - 550-553 Practice Summary: Decision Conferencing Rationalises Defence Training
by Bob Kitchen & Carmen Carmona & Patrick Warburton & Rex Mazonowicz - 554-565 ASP, The Art and Science of Practice: From Edelman Award to INFORMS Prize—Jeppesen’s 15-Year Journey Toward Analytics Excellence and Lessons Learned Along the Way
by Stefan E. Karisch & William J. Tarantino - 566-571 People Skills: Developing Soft Skills—A Change Management Perspective
by Robert E. Levasseur - 572-577 Editorial: The 10th Rothkopf Rankings of Universities’ Contributions to the INFORMS Practice Literature
by Ronald D. Fricker - 578-579 The Ombudsman: Evidence and Executive Compensation—Like Trains Passing in the Night? An Introduction to “Are Top Executives Paid Enough?”
by Jeffrey Pfeffer - 580-589 The Ombudsman: Are Top Executives Paid Enough? An Evidence-Based Review
by Philippe Jacquart & J. Scott Armstrong - 590-592 The Ombudsman: A Closer Look at the Efficiency of Top Executive Pay and Incentives
by Christopher S. Armstrong - 593-595 The Ombudsman: Do CEOs’ Aspirations for Wealth Harm Stockholders?
by Edward L. Deci & Richard M. Ryan - 596-598 The Ombudsman: The “Wicked” Environment of CEO Pay
by Robin M. Hogarth & Gueorgui I. Kolev - 599-601 The Ombudsman: Employee Ownership as a Mechanism to Enhance Corporate Governance and Moderate Executive Pay Levels
by Derek C. Jones - 602-604 The Ombudsman: Is the Evidence Sufficient to Take Action on Executive Pay? Reply to Commentators
by J. Scott Armstrong & Philippe Jacquart - 605-615 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
October 2013, Volume 43, Issue 5
- 397-399 Introduction: 2012 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice
by C. Allen Butler & Randall S. Robinson - 400-420 A Deployed Quantal Response-Based Patrol Planning System for the U.S. Coast Guard
by Bo An & Fernando Ordóñez & Milind Tambe & Eric Shieh & Rong Yang & Craig Baldwin & Joseph DiRenzo & Kathryn Moretti & Ben Maule & Garrett Meyer - 421-434 Incorporating Stochastic Lead Times Into the Guaranteed Service Model of Safety Stock Optimization
by Salal Humair & John D. Ruark & Brian Tomlin & Sean P. Willems - 435-448 Automated Bed Assignments in a Complex and Dynamic Hospital Environment
by Bex George Thomas & Srinivas Bollapragada & Kunter Akbay & David Toledano & Peter Katlic & Onur Dulgeroglu & Dan Yang - 449-461 Improving Patient Access to Chemotherapy Treatment at Duke Cancer Institute
by Jonathan C. Woodall & Tracy Gosselin & Amy Boswell & Michael Murr & Brian T. Denton - 462-476 Biological Planning for High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy: Application to Cervical Cancer Treatment
by Eva K. Lee & Fan Yuan & Alistair Templeton & Rui Yao & Krystyna Kiel & James CH Chu - 477-489 The Philadelphia Districting Contest: Designing Territories for City Council Based Upon the 2010 Census
by Ram Gopalan & Steven O. Kimbrough & Frederic H. Murphy & Nicholas Quintus - 490-501 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
August 2013, Volume 43, Issue 4
- 297-312 Supply Chain Optimization and Planning in Heracles General Cement Company
by George Dikos & Stavroula Spyropoulou - 313-324 Medcenter Container Terminal SpA Uses Simulation in Housekeeping Operations
by Pasquale Legato & Rina Mary Mazza & Roberto Trunfio - 325-340 Trane/Ingersoll Rand Combines Lean and Operations Research Tools to Redesign Feeder Manufacturing Operations
by John B. Jensen & Sanjay L. Ahire & Manoj K. Malhotra - 341-351 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Uses Operations Research Tools to Improve Surgeon Training
by Jonathan P. Turner & Heron E. Rodriguez & Debra A. DaRosa & Mark S. Daskin & Amanda Hayman & Sanjay Mehrotra - 352-359 Optimization Model for Robust Acquisition Decisions in the Norwegian Armed Forces
by Maria Fleischer Fauske & Magnar Vestli & Sigurd Glærum - 360-372 A Decision-Making Tool for a Regional Network of Clinical Laboratories
by Jose L. Andrade-Pineda & Pedro L. Gonzalez-R & Jose M. Framinan - 373-384 Automatic Dwelling Segmentation of the Buenos Aires Province for the 2010 Argentinian Census
by Flavia Bonomo & Diego Delle Donne & Guillermo Durán & Javier Marenco - 385-387 Practice Summary: Enhancing Forecasting and Capacity Planning Capabilities in a Telecommunications Company
by Ada Margarita Álvarez-Socarrás & Arturo Berrones & Guillermo J. Moreno & Jesús A. Rodríguez-Sarasty & Mauricio Cabrera-Ríos - 388-395 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
May-June 2013, Volume 43, Issue 3
- 209-220 Embotelladoras ARCA Uses Operations Research to Improve Territory Design Plans
by J. Fabián López-Pérez & Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado - 221-231 CPEL Redesigns Its Land Express Network
by Jianjun Zhang & Ou Tang & Jin Zhao & Jiazhen Huo & Yonggang Xia - 232-239 Mathematical Programming Guides Air-Ambulance Routing at Ornge
by Timothy A. Carnes & Shane G. Henderson & David B. Shmoys & Mahvareh Ahghari & Russell D. MacDonald - 240-255 Optimizing Fire Station Locations for the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
by Emel Aktaş & Özay Özaydın & Burçin Bozkaya & Füsun Ülengin & Şule Önsel - 256-267 User Focus and Simulation Improve Predictions of Piracy Risk
by Leslie A. Slootmaker & Eva Regnier & James A. Hansen & Thomas W. Lucas - 268-284 Eli Lilly and Company Uses Integer Programming to Form Volunteer Teams in Impoverished Countries
by Stephen Mahar & Wayne Winston & P. Daniel Wright - 285-287 Practice Summaries: Distribution Companies Use the Analytical Hierarchy Process for Environmental Assessment of Transportation Routes Crossing the Pyrenees in Navarre, Spain
by Javier Faulin & Esteban de Paz & Fernando Lera-López & Ángel A. Juan & Israel Gil-Ramírez - 288-296 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
April 2013, Volume 43, Issue 2
- 117-129 Routing and Scheduling of Cross-Town Drayage Operations at J.B. Hunt Transport
by Jennifer A. Pazour & Lucas C. Neubert - 130-141 IBM Blends Heuristics and Optimization to Plan Its Semiconductor Supply Chain
by Alfred Degbotse & Brian T. Denton & Kenneth Fordyce & R. John Milne & Robert Orzell & Chi-Tai Wang - 142-151 Optimal Routing and Assignment of Consultants for Energy Education, Inc
by Junfang Yu & Randy Hoff - 152-169 HP Enterprise Services Uses Optimization for Resource Planning
by Cipriano Santos & Tere Gonzalez & Haitao Li & Kay-Yut Chen & Dirk Beyer & Sundaresh Biligi & Qi Feng & Ravindra Kumar & Shelen Jain & Ranga Ramanujam & Alex Zhang - 170-181 Estimating Demand for Container Freight Service at the Port of Davisville
by James R. Kroes & Yuwen Chen & Paul Mangiameli - 182-193 Evaluation of Transportation Practices in the California Cut Flower Industry
by Christine Nguyen & Alejandro Toriello & Maged Dessouky & James E. Moore - 194-197 ASP, The Art and Science of Practice: A Comparison of Technical and Soft Skill Requirements for Analytics and OR Professionals
by Matthew Liberatore & Wenhong Luo - 198-206 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
February 2013, Volume 43, Issue 1
- 1-4 Introduction: 2012 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences
by Stephen C. Graves & R. John Milne - 5-20 Supply Chain–Wide Optimization at TNT Express
by Hein Fleuren & Chris Goossens & Marco Hendriks & Marie-Christine Lombard & Ineke Meuffels & John Poppelaars - 21-36 Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Maximizes Revenue Through Improved Demand Management and Price Optimization
by Pelin Pekgün & Ronald P. Menich & Suresh Acharya & Phillip G. Finch & Frederic Deschamps & Kathleen Mallery & Jim Van Sistine & Kyle Christianson & James Fuller - 37-47 Optimizing Ship Routing to Maximize Fleet Revenue at Danaos
by Takis Varelas & Sofia Archontaki & John Dimotikalis & Osman Turan & Iraklis Lazakis & Orestis Varelas - 48-61 Hewlett Packard: Delivering Profitable Growth for HPDirect.com Using Operations Research
by Rohit Tandon & Arnab Chakraborty & Girish Srinivasan & Manav Shroff & Ahmar Abdullah & Bharathan Shamasundar & Ritwik Sinha & Suresh Subramanian & Dave Hill & Prasanna Dhore - 62-78 Optimizing Capital Investment Decisions at Intel Corporation
by Karl G. Kempf & Feryal Erhun & Erik F. Hertzler & Timothy R. Rosenberg & Chen Peng - 79-98 Advancing Public Health and Medical Preparedness with Operations Research
by Eva K. Lee & Ferdinand Pietz & Bernard Benecke & Jacquelyn Mason & Greg Burel - 99-109 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
December 2012, Volume 42, Issue 6
- 517-527 Optimizing Inventory Levels Within Intel's Channel Supply Demand Operations
by Brian Wieland & Pat Mastrantonio & Sean P. Willems & Karl G. Kempf - 528-543 Optimization of Water Resources Planning for Jordan's Aqaba Special Economic Zone
by Abdelghani A. Elimam & Maurice A. Girgis - 544-553 The Court of Appeals of Virginia Uses Integer Programming and Cloud Computing to Schedule Sessions
by J. Paul Brooks - 554-576 What It Takes to Win on the PGA TOUR (If Your Name Is “Tiger” or If It Isn't)
by Robert A. Connolly & Richard J. Rendleman - 577-584 Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Operations Research for French TV Channel TF1
by Thierry Benoist & Frédéric Gardi & Antoine Jeanjean - 585-590 Editorial: The First Rothkopf Rankings of Nonacademic Organizations
by Ronald D. Fricker - 591-594 Practice Summaries: An Optimization Mathematical Model for Concentrated Solar Power Financing Decisions at Lockheed Martin
by Alan Taber & Andrei Nikiforov & Alok Baveja - 595-596 The Fifth Column: Having Fun Doing OR?
by Thomas J. Holloran & Gene Woolsey - 597-605 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
October 2012, Volume 42, Issue 5
- 421-424 Introduction: 2011 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice
by C. Allen Butler & Randall S. Robinson - 425-436 Product Line Design and Scheduling at Intel
by Evan Rash & Karl Kempf - 437-448 iSchedule to Personalize Learning
by Anjuli Kannan & Gerald van den Berg & Adeline Kuo - 449-464 To Show or Not Show: Using User Profiling to Manage Internet Advertisement Campaigns at Chitika
by Radha Mookerjee & Subodha Kumar & Vijay S. Mookerjee - 465-477 Fleet Renewal with Electric Vehicles at La Poste
by Paul R. Kleindorfer & Andrei Neboian & Alain Roset & Stefan Spinler - 478-491 Ford Motor Company Implements Integrated Planning and Scheduling in a Complex Automotive Manufacturing Environment
by Ada Y. Barlatt & Amy Cohn & Oleg Gusikhin & Yakov Fradkin & Rich Davidson & John Batey - 492-506 Designing Guest Flow and Operations Logistics for the Dolphin Tales
by Eva K. Lee & Chien-Hung Chen & Niquelle Brown & Joseph Handy & Alex Desiderio & Ruth Lopez & Brian Davis - 507-511 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
August 2012, Volume 42, Issue 4
- 329-338 Improving Airline Revenues with Variable Opaque Products: “Blind Booking” at Germanwings
by David Post & Martin Spann - 339-351 On the Development of a Soccer Player Performance Rating System for the English Premier League
by Ian G. McHale & Philip A. Scarf & David E. Folker - 352-364 Improving Workforce Scheduling of Aircraft Line Maintenance at Sabena Technics
by Jeroen Beliën & Brecht Cardoen & Erik Demeulemeester - 365-379 A Large US Retailer Selects Transportation Carriers Under Diesel Price Uncertainty
by John Turner & Ben Peterson & Soo-Haeng Cho & Sunder Kekre & Alan Scheller-Wolf - 380-394 Hanover County Improves Its Response to Emergency Medical 911 Patients
by Laura A. McLay & Henri Moore - 395-405 The US Army Projects the Effect of Merit Pay on Payroll Growth
by Guy C. Huntsinger & Roger Chapman Burk & Timothy E. Trainor - 406-409 Practice Summaries: Designing Disease Prevention and Screening Centers in Abu Dhabi
by K. Louis Luangkesorn & Bryan A. Norman & Yi Zhuang & Mimi Falbo & John Sysko - 410-417 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
June 2012, Volume 42, Issue 3
- 229-231 Introduction to the Special Issue on Analytics in Sports, Part II: Sports Scheduling Applications
by Michael J. Fry & Jeffrey W. Ohlmann - 232-244 Scheduling Major League Baseball Umpires and the Traveling Umpire Problem
by Michael A. Trick & Hakan Yildiz & Tallys Yunes - 245-259 An Application of the Traveling Tournament Problem: The Argentine Volleyball League
by Flavia Bonomo & Andrés Cardemil & Guillermo Durán & Javier Marenco & Daniela Sabán - 260-272 Scheduling the Brazilian Soccer Tournament: Solution Approach and Practice
by Celso C. Ribeiro & Sebastián Urrutia - 273-285 Operations Research Techniques for Scheduling Chile's Second Division Soccer League
by Guillermo Durán & Mario Guajardo & Rodrigo Wolf-Yadlin - 286-295 A Decision Support System for Scheduling the Canadian Football League
by Kent J. Kostuk & Keith A. Willoughby - 296-309 Scheduling Softball Series in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
by Marjorie Cone Saur & Kaleigh Starr & Mark Husted & Alexandra M. Newman - 310-319 Softball Scheduling as Easy as 1-2-3 (Strikes You're Out)
by Mark Grabau - 320-325 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
April 2012, Volume 42, Issue 2
- 105-108 Introduction to the Special Issue on Analytics in Sports, Part I: General Sports Applications
by Michael J. Fry & Jeffrey W. Ohlmann - 109-118 Identifying the “Players” in Sports Analytics Research
by B. Jay Coleman - 119-130 A Major League Baseball Team Uses Operations Research to Improve Draft Preparation
by Noah Streib & Stephen J. Young & Joel Sokol - 131-145 Quantifying the Contribution of NHL Player Types to Team Performance
by Timothy C. Y. Chan & Justin A. Cho & David C. Novati - 146-165 Assessing Golfer Performance on the PGA TOUR
by Mark Broadie - 166-179 A Proposal for Redesign of the FedEx Cup Playoff Series on the PGA TOUR
by Nicholas G. Hall & Chris N. Potts - 180-190 Optimizing the Sunday Singles Lineup for a Ryder Cup Captain
by Brian McClure & Richard Cassady & Chase Rainwater & Justin R. Chimka - 191-198 TEAM ASPAR Uses Binary Optimization to Obtain Optimal Gearbox Ratios in Motorcycle Racing
by Javier Amorós & Laureano F. Escudero & Juan F. Monge & José V. Segura & Oscar Reinoso - 199-212 Exploring the Demand Aspects of Sports Consumption and Fan Avidity
by Wayne DeSarbo & Robert Madrigal - 213-216 People Skills: Leading Virtual Teams—A Change Management Perspective
by Robert E. Levasseur - 217-225 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
February 2012, Volume 42, Issue 1
- 1-4 Introduction: 2011 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences
by Stephen C. Graves & ManMohan S. Sodhi - 5-16 A Strategic Empty Container Logistics Optimization in a Major Shipping Company
by Rafael Epstein & Andres Neely & Andres Weintraub & Fernando Valenzuela & Sergio Hurtado & Guillermo Gonzalez & Alex Beiza & Mauricio Naveas & Florencio Infante & Fernando Alarcon & Gustavo Angulo & Cristian Berner & Jaime Catalan & Cristian Gonzalez & Daniel Yung - 17-32 System Dynamics Transforms Fluor Project and Change Management
by Edward Godlewski & Gregory Lee & Kenneth Cooper - 33-44 Branch Reconfiguration Practice Through Operations Research in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
by Xiquan Wang & Xingdong Zhang & Xiaohu Liu & Lijie Guo & Thomas Li & Jin Dong & Wenjun Yin & Ming Xie & Bin Zhang - 45-57 Retail Price Optimization at InterContinental Hotels Group
by Dev Koushik & Jon A. Higbie & Craig Eister - 58-73 MISO Unlocks Billions in Savings Through the Application of Operations Research for Energy and Ancillary Services Markets
by Brian Carlson & Yonghong Chen & Mingguo Hong & Roy Jones & Kevin Larson & Xingwang Ma & Peter Nieuwesteeg & Haili Song & Kimberly Sperry & Matthew Tackett & Doug Taylor & Jie Wan & Eugene Zak - 74-84 Tax Collections Optimization for New York State
by Gerard Miller & Melissa Weatherwax & Timothy Gardinier & Naoki Abe & Prem Melville & Cezar Pendus & David Jensen & Chandan K. Reddy & Vince Thomas & James Bennett & Gary Anderson & Brent Cooley - 85-91 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
December 2011, Volume 41, Issue 6
- 521-533 Building Cyclic Schedules for Emergency Department Physicians
by Yann Ferrand & Michael Magazine & Uday S. Rao & Todd F. Glass - 534-547 Designing New Electoral Districts for the City of Edmonton
by Burcin Bozkaya & Erhan Erkut & Dan Haight & Gilbert Laporte - 548-563 NC State's Supply Chain Resource Cooperative Educates in the Real World
by Robert B. Handfield & Steven A. Edwards & Jeffrey S. Stonebraker - 564-577 Student Reactions to the Field Consulting Capstone Course in Operations Management at the University of Dayton
by Michael F. Gorman - 578-589 INFORMS and the Analytics Movement: The View of the Membership
by Matthew Liberatore & Wenhong Luo - 590-598 Editorial: The Ninth Rothkopf Rankings of Universities' Contributions to the INFORMS Practice Literature
by Ronald D. Fricker - 599-604 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
October 2011, Volume 41, Issue 5
- 411-413 Introduction: 2010 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice
by C. Allen Butler & Randall S. Robinson - 414-435 OnTheMark: Integrated Stochastic Resource Planning of Human Capital Supply Chains
by Heng Cao & Jianying Hu & Chen Jiang & Tarun Kumar & Ta-Hsin Li & Yang Liu & Yingdong Lu & Shilpa Mahatma & Aleksandra Mojsilović & Mayank Sharma & Mark S. Squillante & Yichong Yu - 436-454 Universal Tool for Vaccine Scheduling: Applications for Children and Adults
by Hannah K. Smalley & Pinar Keskinocak & Faramroze G. Engineer & Larry K. Pickering - 455-465 Kimberly-Clark Latin America Builds an Optimization-Based System for Machine Scheduling
by Nazrul Shaikh & Vittal Prabhu & Danilo Abril & David Sánchez & Jorge Arias & Esteban Rodríguez & Germán Riaño - 466-484 A Short-Range Scheduling Model for Blockbuster's Order-Processing Operation
by Casey Chung & Milind Dawande & Divakar Rajamani & Chelliah Sriskandarajah - 485-505 Marketing Optimization in Retail Banking
by Ramasubramanian Sundararajan & Tarun Bhaskar & Abhinanda Sarkar & Sridhar Dasaratha & Debasis Bal & Jayanth K. Marasanapalle & Beata Zmudzka & Karolina Bak - 506-514 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
August 2011, Volume 41, Issue 4
- 327-337 UCSF Increases Consumer Value Through Optimal Vendor-Show Scheduling
by Andrew G. Clark & Susan Cholette & Ozgur Ozluk - 338-353 Blue Horizons Study Assesses Future Capabilities and Technologies for the United States Air Force
by John P. Geis & Gregory S. Parnell & Harry Newton & Terry Bresnick - 354-364 The Unexpected Impact of Information Sharing on US Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
by Leroy B. Schwarz & Hui Zhao - 365-374 The National Audit Office Uses OR to Assess the Value for Money of Public Services
by Elena Bechberger & David C. Lane & Tom McBride & Alec Morton & Diogo Quintas & Chin Hei Wong - 375-388 Evaluating OR/MS Journals via PageRank
by Zhou Xu & Brenda Cheang & Andrew Lim & Qi Wen - 389-393 Model World: On the Evolution of Operations Research
by Saul I. Gass - 394-395 Practice Summaries: An Optimization Model to Support Renewable Energy Investment Decisions
by Srinivas Bollapragada & Brandon Owens & Steve Taub - 396-405 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
June 2011, Volume 41, Issue 3
- 223-237 Pre-Positioning of Emergency Items for CARE International
by Serhan Duran & Marco A. Gutierrez & Pinar Keskinocak - 238-253 Optimizing Schedules for Maritime Humanitarian Cooperative Engagements from a United States Navy Sea Base
by Javier Salmerón & Jeffrey Kline & Greta Spitz Densham - 254-262 Helping a Small Development Organization Manage Volunteers More Efficiently
by Mauro Falasca & Christopher Zobel & Cliff Ragsdale - 263-277 Quantitative Methods for a New Configuration of Territorial Units in a Chilean Government Agency Tender Process
by Guillermo Durán & Rafael Epstein & Cristian Martinez & Gonzalo Andres Zamorano - 278-288 A Mathematical Programming Approach to Applicant Selection for a Degree Program Based on Affirmative Action
by Guillermo Durán & Rodrigo Wolf-Yadlin - 289-300 Doing Good with Good OR: Supporting Cost-Effective Hepatitis B Interventions
by David W. Hutton & Margaret L. Brandeau & Samuel K. So - 301-315 A Nonhomogeneous Agent-Based Simulation Approach to Modeling the Spread of Disease in a Pandemic Outbreak
by Dionne M. Aleman & Theodorus G. Wibisono & Brian Schwartz - 316-320 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
April 2011, Volume 41, Issue 2
- 109-122 Optimizing Railway Crew Scheduling at DB Schenker
by Silke Jütte & Marc Albers & Ulrich W. Thonemann & Knut Haase - 123-134 ANWB Automates and Improves Service Personnel Dispatching
by Peter van Huigenbosch & Joris van de Klundert & Laurens Wormer - 135-148 HD Supply Facilities Maintenance Uses Diluted Discounts to Optimize Purchasing Opportunities
by Jude Buquid & David Gibson & Paul Huppert - 149-163 Feedstock Routing in the ExxonMobil Downstream Sector
by Kevin C. Furman & Jin-Hwa Song & Gary R. Kocis & Michael K. McDonald & Philip H. Warrick - 164-176 Hawker Beechcraft Uses a New Solution Approach to Balance Assembly Lines
by Sue Abdinnour - 177-181 Averaging Model Forecasts and Expert Forecasts: Why Does It Work?
by Philip Hans Franses - 182-193 ASP, The Art and Science of Practice: Taking the Measure of Lean: Efficiency and Effectiveness
by Richard J. Schonberger - 194-196 Practice Summaries: American Airlines Uses Should-Cost Modeling to Assess the Uncertainty of Bids for Its Full-Truckload Shipment Routes
by Michael J. Bailey & John Snapp & Subramani Yetur & Jeffrey S. Stonebraker & Steven A. Edwards & Aaron Davis & Robert Cox - 204-208 People Skills: Optimizing Team Development and Performance
by Robert E. Levasseur - 209-210 Book Reviews
by Graham K. Rand
February 2011, Volume 41, Issue 1
- 1-2 From the Editor
by Srinivas Bollapragada - 3-7 Introduction: 2010 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences
by Srinivas Bollapragada & ManMohan S. Sodhi - 8-17 INDEVAL Develops a New Operating and Settlement System Using Operations Research
by David Fernando Muñoz & Miguel de Lascurain & Omar Romero-Hernandez & Francisco Solis & Luis de los Santos & Arturo Palacios-Brun & Francisco J. Herrería & Jaime Villaseñor - 18-34 Breaking the Deadlock: Improving Water-Release Policies on the Delaware River Through Operations Research
by Peter Kolesar & James Serio - 35-50 Managing Global Brand Investments at DHL
by Marc Fischer & Wolfgang Giehl & Tjark Freundt - 51-65 Taking the Politics Out of Paving: Achieving Transportation Asset Management Excellence Through OR
by Ugo Feunekes & Steve Palmer & Andrea Feunekes & John MacNaughton & Jay Cunningham & Kim Mathisen - 66-78 Inventory Optimization at Procter & Gamble: Achieving Real Benefits Through User Adoption of Inventory Tools
by Ingrid Farasyn & Salal Humair & Joel I. Kahn & John J. Neale & Oscar Rosen & John Ruark & William Tarlton & Wim Van de Velde & Glenn Wegryn & Sean P. Willems - 79-92 Innovative Decision Support in a Petrochemical Production Environment
by Marlize Meyer & Hylton Robinson & Michele Fisher & Anette van der Merwe & Gerrit Streicher & Johan Janse van Rensburg & Hentie van den Berg & Esmi Dreyer & Jaco Joubert & Gerkotze Bonthuys & Ruan Rossouw & Willem Louw & Lorraine van Deventer & Cecile Wykes & Ebert Cawood - 93-96 Book Reviews
by Graham Rand
December 2010, Volume 40, Issue 6
- 423-431 A Quarter of a Century of Academia--Industry Interfacing: The Alabama Productivity Center
by David M. Miller - 432-443 The University of Dayton Operations Management Capstone Course: Undergraduate Student Field Consulting Applies Theory to Practice
by Michael F. Gorman - 451-453 Now We Are Talking Trash
by Christopher Cullenbine & Jennifer Van Dinter - 454-464 Assessing What Distinguishes Highly Cited from Less-Cited Papers Published in Interfaces
by Thomas A. Hamrick & Ronald D. Fricker & Gerald G. Brown - 465-476 Tutorial: COIN-OR: Software for the OR Community
by Kipp Martin - 477-479 Editorial: My Experience as a Book Review Editor
by Benjamin Lev - 480-485 Book Reviews
by Benjamin Lev
October 2010, Volume 40, Issue 5
- 342-352 Approximate Dynamic Programming Captures Fleet Operations for Schneider National
by Hugo P. Simão & Abraham George & Warren B. Powell & Ted Gifford & John Nienow & Jeff Day - 353-367 General Electric Uses an Integrated Framework for Product Costing, Demand Forecasting, and Capacity Planning of New Photovoltaic Technology Products
by Bex George Thomas & Srinivas Bollapragada - 368-384 Hub Group Implements a Suite of OR Tools to Improve Its Operations
by Michael F. Gorman - 385-396 Improving New-Product Forecasting at Intel Corporation
by S. David Wu & Karl G. Kempf & Mehmet O. Atan & Berrin Aytac & Shamin A. Shirodkar & Asima Mishra