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February 1958, Volume 6, Issue 1
- 121-124 Letter to the Editor---On Hitch's Dissent on “Operations Research and National Planning”
by Russell L. Ackoff - 124-124 Letter to the Editor---Comments on Business Games
by Karl Goldschmidt - 125-127 Letter to the Editor---Written in a Queue
by H. F. Ellis - 127-130 Letter to the Editor---Metaphysical Considerations Involved in Choosing a Measure of Effectiveness
by Martin L. Leibowitz - 130-130 Letter to the Editor---Incidental Intelligence
by W. M. Chow - 131-132 Letter to the Editor---Literature to Turkey
by Glen D. Camp - 132-135 Letter to the Editor---Das Geschutenwerkes Werdebuke
by Robert F. Reiland - 135-136 Letter to the Editor---Whither ORSA?
by Joseph F. McCloskey
December 1957, Volume 5, Issue 6
- 741-749 A Laboratory for Combat Operations Research
by Franklin C. Brooks & Floyd I. Hill - 750-764 Inadequacy of Cost Per “Kill” as Measure of Effectiveness
by John E. Walsh - 765-774 Decision Theory and Operations Research
by Kenneth J. Arrow - 775-793 The Application of a High Speed Computer to the Definition and Solution of the Vehicular Traffic Problem
by Harry H. Goode - 794-814 Operational Requirements for a Collision Warning System
by Eduardo I. Pina & Henry J. Landau - 815-819 On the Optimal Allocation of Limited Resources
by L. E. Ward - 820-829 Determining Criteria for Evaluating Man-Machine Links in Weapon System Analysis
by Martin I. Kurke - 830-840 Balance and Stability in Competitive Situations
by Hans E. Quenzer - 841-845 Letter to the Editor---Graphic Solution of the Traveling-Salesman Problem
by L. L. Barachet - 846-847 Letter to the Editor---Comments on “A Possible Solution to the Shortage of Scientists”
by Thomas G. Andrews & Lessing A. Kahn - 847-848 Letter to the Editor---Note on “Optimum Component Redundancy for Maximum System Reliability”
by John T. Robacker - 848-851 Letter to the Editor---Errors of Estimate in Operations Analysis
by George A. Peters - 851-858 Letter to the Editor---Report to the Eighth A.I.I.E. National Convention on the System Simulation Symposium, New York, May 16--17, 1957
by Warren E. Alberts - 860-860 Errata
by Byron O. Marshall & William P. Boggess - 861-862 Education in Operations Research at the Ohio State University
by W. T. Morris
October 1957, Volume 5, Issue 5
- 613-626 The Theory of Search
by Bernard O. Koopman - 627-643 Mathematical Analysis of an Inventory Case
by Charles E. Clark - 644-649 Queuing with Impatient Customers and Indifferent Clerks
by D. Y. Barrer - 650-656 Queuing with Impatient Customers and Ordered Service
by D. Y. Barrer - 657-669 An Equipment-Investment Analog
by Robert B. Fetter & Thomas P. Goodman - 670-679 Digital Simulation of Complex Traffic Problems in Communications Systems
by Lewis Brotman & Jack Minker - 680-692 Minimum Cost Decision-Feedback Systems for Detecting Signals Perturbed by Additive Gaussian Noise
by B. Harris & A. Hauptschein & L. S. Schwartz - 693-703 A Queuing Model for an Inventory Problem
by William Karush - 704-712 A Tactical Air Game
by D. R. Fulkerson & S. M. Johnson - 713-717 Determination of Optimal Capacities of Service for Facilities with a Linear Measure of Inefficiency
by Friedrich Hanssmann - 718-723 Letter to the Editor---Operations Research and National Planning---A Dissent
by Charles Hitch - 723-724 Letter to the Editor---Comment on Dantzig's Paper on Discrete Variable Extremum Problems
by Richard Bellman - 724-724 Letter to the Editor---A Comment on the Shortest-Route Problem
by George J. Minty
August 1957, Volume 5, Issue 4
- 457-468 Operations Research and National Planning
by Russell L. Ackoff - 469-503 On the Construction of a Multi-Stage, Multi-Person Business Game
by Richard Bellman & Charles E. Clark & Donald G. Malcolm & Clifford J. Craft & Franc M. Ricciardi - 504-512 On Warehousing Problems
by William Prager - 513-517 The Practical Calculation of Reorder Points
by Byron O. Marshall & William P. Boggess - 518-521 Networks of Waiting Lines
by James R. Jackson - 522-545 An Operations-Research Study of the Collection of Defaulted Loans
by Morton Mitchner & Raymond P. Peterson - 546-550 A Model for Optimum Control of Stochastic Sampled-Data Systems
by Albert B. Bishop - 551-554 Letter to the Editor---The Data-Enrichment Method
by Henry R. Lewis - 555-563 Letter to the Editor---A Supplementary Bibliography on Linear Programming
by Harvey M. Wagner - 563-564 Letter to the Editor---On the Proposal for Merger of ORSA and TIMS
by David A. Katcher - 565-566 Letter to the Editor---A Note on Production Scheduling by the Use of the Transportation Method
by Salah Elmaghraby - 566-568 Letter to the Editor---The Operations Research Society of Japan
by Macon Fry
June 1957, Volume 5, Issue 3
- 311-318 A Possible Solution to the Shortage of Scientists
by Jean G. Taylor & John Balloch - 319-350 Some Civil Defense Problems in the Nation's Capital Following Widespread Thermonuclear Attack
by Richard Bentz & William Chace & Gordon Doerfer & John Donaldson & Thomas English & James Graves & Paul Grim & David Gunlock & Jerome Horowitz & Leland Miller & Albert Small - 351-360 Evaluating Health Screening Procedures
by Mark S. Blumberg - 361-369 A Comparison of the Original and Revised Simplex Methods
by Harvey M. Wagner - 370-381 An Operations-Research Study of Sales Response to Advertising
by M. L. Vidale & H. B. Wolfe - 382-396 Distribution of Seasonal Inventory of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company
by Alan R. Eagle - 397-408 A Monte Carlo Analysis of the Ground Controlled Approach System
by Alfred Blumstein - 409-415 Computational Aspects of Dynamic Programming
by Stuart E. Dreyfus - 416-421 A Hand-Computation Determination of Kill Probability for Weapons Having Spherical Lethal Volume
by H. W. Lilliefors - 422-428 The Mechanical Blackboard
by Robert E. Machol - 429-433 Linear Programming Isn't Always the Answer
by David E. Debeau - 434-440 Letter to the Editor---Military Applications of Operational Research
by John W. Abrams - 440-442 Letter to the Editor---Comments on “Production Scheduling by the Transportation Method of Linear Programming”
by Wolfgang G. Wetzel - 442-445 Letter to the Editor---Possible Motivation for a Stated Concept of Defense
by John E. Walsh - 445-447 Letter to the Editor---What is a System?
by Malcolm W. Hoag - 447-447 Errata
by Andrew Vazsonyi
April 1957, Volume 5, Issue 2
- 161-200 Résumé of Useful Formulas in Queuing Theory
by Thomas L. Saaty - 201-204 Some Industrial Applications of Military Operations Research Methods
by George E. Kimball - 205-209 The Distribution of the Time Required to Reduce to Some Preassigned Level a Single-Channel Queue Characterized by a Time-Dependent Poisson-Distributed Arrival Rate and a General Class of Holding Times
by George Luchak - 210-221 The Application of Design of Experiments and Modeling to Complex Weapons Systems
by Erwin Biser & Martin Meyerson - 222-228 Salvo Hit Probabilities for Offset Circular Targets
by Arthur D. Groves & Ed S. Smith - 229-243 Optimum Component Redundancy for Maximum System Reliability
by Robert Gordon - 244-257 Symposium on Modern Techniques for Extremum Problems---Linear and Nonlinear Programming
by A. W. Tucker - 258-265 Gradient Methods for Constrained Maxima
by Kenneth Arrow & Leonid Hurwicz - 266-288 Discrete-Variable Extremum Problems
by George B. Dantzig - 289-292 Operations Research at Case Institute of Technology
by E. Leonard Arnoff - 293-294 Letter to the Editor---A. K. Erlang
by Thomas L. Saaty - 294-295 Letter to the Editor---From the President's Desk
by Allen Y. Davis - 295-295 Letter to the Editor---Specification of a Business-Data System
by William B. Worthington - 296-297 Letter to the Editor---Application of Set Theory to a Class of Allocation Problems
by Glen D. Camp - 297-299 Letter to the Editor---A Proposed Measure for Determining the Value of a Design
by L. Ivan Epstein - 299-301 Letter to the Editor---Proposed Amendments to the Constitution
by LeRoy A. Brothers - 301-302 Letter to the Editor---Comments on Precoda's Paper on Air Weapons Systems Analysis
by John B. Lathrop
February 1957, Volume 5, Issue 1
- 1-27 The Role of Operational Gaming in Operations Research
by Clayton J. Thomas & Walter L. Deemer - 28-44 Economic-Lot-Size Formulas in Manufacturing
by Andrew Vazsonyi - 45-62 Bibliography on Linear Programming
by F. Virginia Rohde - 63-67 The Solution of a Certain Two-Person Zero-Sum Game
by Richard H. Brown - 68-74 The Effect of Departures from Assumption when Manufacturing to a Specification
by E. S. Page & Shirley Muris - 75-89 Bombing Problems---A Statistical Approach
by Andre G. Laurent - 90-96 Some Factors Tending to Limit the Utility of the Social Scientist in Military Systems Analysis
by Donald N. Michael - 97-103 On a Problem of Production Scheduling
by George T. Bishop - 104-110 The Problem of American Shipping---New Questions and Old Answers
by William M. Roth - 111-122 Operations Research in a Public Corporation
by Leslie C. Edie - 123-125 Letter to the Editor---A Proposal for Merging ORSA and TIMS
by John B. Lathrop
December 1956, Volume 4, Issue 6
- 629-647 Allocation of Sales Effort in the Lamp Division of the General Electric Company
by Clark Waid & Donald F. Clark & Russell L. Ackoff - 648-662 The Queuiac: An Electromechanical Analog for the Simulation of Waiting-Line Problems
by Paul F. Dunn & Charles D. Flagle & Philip A. Hicks - 663-673 Three Applications of Operations Research in a Large Electric Utility
by P. J. Sandiford & B. Bernholtz & W. Shelson - 674-683 Sequential Arrays of Waiting Lines
by Gordon C. Hunt - 684-698 Air Weapons Systems Analysis
by Norman Precoda - 699-704 The Output of a Queuing System
by Paul J. Burke - 705-710 Use of Transfer Functions for Company Planning
by Gordon K. Johnson & Inez M. Turner - 711-732 The Solution of the Single-Channel Queuing Equations Characterized by a Time-Dependent Poisson-Distributed Arrival Rate and a General Class of Holding Times
by George Luchak - 733-737 Training in Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
by Philip M. Morse - 738-738 Letter to the Editor---Spare-Parts Programs in Industry
by Cord H. Link - 738-740 Letter to the Editor---A Pocket-Sized Case Study in Operations Research Concerning Inventory Markdown
by Gideon Levary - 740-740 Letter to the Editor---Some Comments on Traffic Systems
by Alan Thomas - 740-742 Letter to the Editor---Comments on Edie's Letter on Vehicular Breakdowns
by J. M. Dobbie
October 1956, Volume 4, Issue 5
- 503-531 The Theory of Search. II. Target Detection
by B. O. Koopman - 532-545 Estimation of Reliability Growth in a Complex System with a Poisson-Type Failure
by Herbert K. Weiss - 546-557 A Method of Computing Survival Probabilities of Several Targets Versus Several Weapons
by Jane Ingersoll Robertson - 558-571 Weapon-System Cost Analysis
by G. H. Fisher - 572-580 Inventory Management of Slow-Moving Parts
by A. C. Heyvaert & A. Hurt - 581-587 Management's Corner
by Russell L. Ackoff - 587-599 Operations Research in the American Thread Company
by Charles G. McGee - 609-614 Letter to the Editor---Comments on “Expectancy of Multiple Vehicular Breakdowns in a Tunnel”
by James M. Dobbie - 614-619 A Reply to Comments by James M. Dobbie
by Leslie C. Edie
August 1956, Volume 4, Issue 4
- 415-421 Education for Operations Research
by LeRoy A. Brothers - 422-430 Fallacies in Operations Research
by B. O. Koopman - 431-442 The Design of Military Supply Tables for Spare Parts
by M. A. Geisler & H. W. Karr - 443-447 A Two-Phase Method for the Simplex Tableau
by Harvey M. Wagner - 448-459 The Relevance of Costs in Operations Research
by Malcolm W. Hoag - 460-467 The Need for Basic Research in Marketing
by J. B. McKitterick - 468-480 On The Determination of Optimum Reserve Generating Capacity in an Electric Utility System
by E. Leonard Arnoff & John C. Chambers - 480-481 Training Tomorrow's Managers: A Note to Today's Managers
by Clay H. Hollister - 482-484 Letter to the Editor---Military Operations Research in NATO
by Thornton Page - 484-488 Letter to the Editor---How to be a Project Leader---Nine Helpful Hints
by Harvey Lynn - 489-491 The Operations Research Society of America---Report of the Secretary
by Martin L. Ernst
June 1956, Volume 4, Issue 3
- 265-295 The Development of Operations Research as a Science
by Russell L. Ackoff - 296-308 A Study of Sales Operations
by Arthur A. Brown & Frank T. Hulswit & John D. Kettelle - 309-316 On Staff Organization
by Robert H. Roy - 317-323 On Operations Analysis
by Robert H. Roy - 324-346 The Theory of Search. I. Kinematic Bases
by B. O. Koopman - 347-352 Letter to the Editor---Military Applications of Operations Research in Sweden
by James J. Robbins - 352-353 Letter to the Editor---Approximation to the Value of the Objective Function in Linear Programming by the Method of Partitions
by Thomas L. Saaty - 354-357 Letter to the Editor---Note on Selection of Capital Equipment with Uncertain Delivery Date
by E. J. Isaac - 357-360 Letter to the Editor---Operations Research in Relation to the Human-Enterprise Process
by Nigel J. Hopkins
April 1956, Volume 4, Issue 2
- 141-147 Of Horseless Carriages, Flying Machines, and Operations Research
by Joseph F. McCloskey - 148-151 A Monte Carlo Model of Lanchester's Square Law
by Ivan Driggs - 152-186 Multiple Factor Break-Even Analysis: The Application of Operations-Research Techniques to a Basic Problem of Management Planning and Control
by Robert Stanley Weinberg - 187-192 A Brief History of the Development of Canadian Military Operational Research
by N. W. Morton - 193-203 A Graphical Solution of the Transportation Problem
by Marcello L. Vidale - 204-212 Optimum Ammunition Properties for Salvos
by John E. Walsh - 213-220 Queuing with Special Service
by Ernest Koenigsberg - 221-231 Waiting-Line Theory as a Management Tool
by W. R. Van Voorhis - 231-243 The Determination of Requirements for Warehouse Dock Facilities
by Donald H. Schiller & Marvin M. Lavin - 244-245 Letter to the Editor---A Graphical Approach to Production Scheduling Problems
by Sheldon B. Akers - 246-247 Letter to the Editor---Further Remarks on the “Industrial Engineering and Economic Studies of Peanut Marketing”
by J. J. Moder - 247-249 Letter to the Editor---Note on Klein's “Direct Use of Extremal Principles in Solving Certain Problems Involving Inequalities”
by George B. Dantzig - 250-252 The Operations Research Society of America---Report of the Secretary
by Martin L. Ernst
February 1956, Volume 4, Issue 1
- 1-1 Introduction
by George Shortley - 2-18 Statistics and Operations Research
by Philip M. Morse - 19-31 Operations Research in Production Control---A Progress Report
by A. Vazsonyi - 32-41 Approaches to Operational Problems in Street and Highway Traffic---A Review
by D. L. Gerlough & J. H. Mathewson - 42-51 Shock Waves on the Highway
by Paul I. Richards - 52-60 Criteria for the Selection of Water-Resource Projects
by Roland N. Mckean - 61-75 The Traveling-Salesman Problem
by Merrill M. Flood - 76-85 Machine Repair as a Priority Waiting-Line Problem
by Thomas E. Phipps - 86-86 Comments
by W. R. van Voorhis - 87-91 A Polar-Planimeter Method for Determining the Probability of Hitting a Target
by G. R. VanBrocklin & P. G. Murray - 92-99 Prediction of Odd-Lot Stock Transactions
by Herbert K. Weiss - 100-103 Production Scheduling by the Transportation Method of Linear Programming
by Edward H. Bowman - 104-112 A Competitive-Bidding Strategy
by Lawrence Friedman - 113-116 Letter to the Editor---Operational Research and the Design of Experiments
by J. W. Mayne - 116-119 Letter to the Editor---Some Qualities to be Desired in Operations Research Personnel
by W. C. Randels - 119-120 Letter to the Editor---Operations Research in the Mining Industry
by Thomas M. Ware - 120-120 Letter to the Editor---The Process of Operations-Research Accomplishment
by Norman Hitchman - 121-122 Letter to the Editor---The 1955--56 Seminar in Operations Research at the Johns Hopkins University
by Charles D. Flagle - 122-123 Letter to the Editor---Comments on “Evaluating the Adequacy of Airport Parking Lots”
by Stephen Waldron & Jacinto Steinhardt
November 1955, Volume 3, Issue 4
- 375-382 A Challenge to Operations Research
by George L. Parkhurst - 383-387 Where is the New Blood?
by Philip M. Morse - 388-394 An Analog Solution of Programming Problems
by C.M. Ablow & Georges Brigham - 395-401 Parametric Objective Function (Part 2)---Generalization
by S. I. Gass & Thomas L. Saaty - 402-411 Applications of Game Theory in Fighter Versus Bomber Combat
by T. E. Caywood & C. J. Thomas - 412-428 On a Congestion Problem in an Aircraft Factory
by Georges Brigham - 429-442 A Non-Numerical Approach to Production Scheduling Problems
by Sheldon B. Akers & Joyce Friedman - 443-465 Determination of the Maximal Steady State Flow of Traffic Through a Railroad Network
by Alexander W. Boldyreff - 466-481 An Appreciation of Systems Analysis
by Charles Hitch - 482-493 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Strategic Decisions
by Richard B. Foster & Francis P. Hoeber - 494-512 Symposium on Applications of Operations Research to Urban Services---A Determination of the Optimum Location of Fire-Fighting Units in New York City
by David Valinsky - 513-522 Expectancy of Multiple Vehicular Breakdowns in a Tunnel
by Leslie C. Edie - 522-536 Evaluating the Adequacy of Airport Parking Lots
by Frederick V. Hurst - 536-544 Engineering Studies of Urban Traffic Flow
by Henry A. Barnes - 545-546 Letter to the Editor---Lanchester Prize Acceptance Speech
by Leslie C. Edie - 546-546 Letter to the Editor---A Suggestion for Programming ORSA Meetings
by Francis P. Hoeber - 547-547 Letter to the Editor---Priority Assignment---A Correction
by Alan Cobham - 548-548 Letter to the Editor---Further Remarks on the Direct Use of Extremal Principles in Solving Certain Optimizing Problems Involving Inequalities
by B. Klein - 548-550 Letter to the Editor---Inequality-Constrained Stationary-Value Problems
by Glen D. Camp
August 1955, Volume 3, Issue 3
- 231-238 Terminal Ballistics
by Jacinto Steinhardt - 239-254 From Plato to the Linear Program
by Earl of Halsbury - 255-261 Stochastic Properties of Waiting Lines
by Philip M. Morse - 262-271 An Analysis of a Railroad Classification Yard
by Roger R. Crane & Frank B. Brown & Robert O. Blanchard - 272-282 Application of Discrete Variable Servo Theory to Inventory Control
by Herbert J. Vassian - 283-299 Road Safety and Traffic Research in Great Britain
by W. H. Glanville - 300-318 Production Scheduling for an Arbitrary Number of Periods Given the Sales Forecast in the form of a Probability Distribution
by Gunnar Dannerstedt - 319-338 Production and Inventory Control in a Chemical Process
by Russell L. Ackoff - 339-340 Letter to the Editor---Some Thoughts on Operations Research on Municipal Operations
by William J. Horvath - 341-343 Letter to the Editor---Social Implications of Operations Research
by Thomas A. Cowan - 343-344 Letter to the Editor---A Note on the Numerical Evaluation of Certain Probability Integrals
by John M. Kelso - 345-346 Letter to the Editor---“Such Solutions are Very Little Solved”
by A. Charnes & W. W. Cooper
May 1955, Volume 3, Issue 2
- 135-146 The Competence and Limitations of Scientific Method
by Henry Margenau