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September 1983, Volume 30, Issue 3
- 443-447 On preservation of classes of life distributions under reliability operations: Some complementary results
by Lennart Bondesson - 449-459 Solution of minisum and minimax location–allocation problems with Euclidean distances
by Reuven Chen - 461-463 On prediction intervals for normal samples
by Toke Jayachandran - 465-470 A performance comparison of empirical Bayes and Bayes estimators of the Weibull and gamma scale parameters
by George C. Canavos - 471-485 A closed‐from approach for multi‐item inventory grouping
by Vijay Aggarwal - 487-491 A finite‐range distribution of failure times
by S. P. Mukherjee & A. Islam - 493-504 A heuristic procedure for allocating tasks in fault‐tolerant distributed computer systems
by Joseph B. Mazzola & Alan W. Neebe - 505-508 A note on a prediction interval for a first‐order Gauss Markov process
by Toke Jayachandran - 509-535 Extrapolation of the mean lifetime of a large population from its preliminary survival history
by J. Keilson & U. Sumita - 537-551 The effect of stochastic time delays on the reliability of isolated impulse systems
by A. Bendell
June 1983, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 187-198 Multiple resource leveling in construction systems through variation of activity intensities
by Robert C. Leachman - 199-215 The continuous multiple‐modular design problem
by Timothy L. Shaftel & Gerald L. Thompson - 217-226 Optimal control of entry to an M/Ek/1 queue serving several classes of customers
by Robert C. Rue & Matthew Rosenshine - 227-236 A simulation–optimization method: Its convergence and utility
by Guy L. Curry & Darald J. Hartfiel - 237-260 A Lanchester‐type aggregated‐force model of conventional ground combat
by James G. Taylor - 261-270 Optimal admission pricing and service rate control of an M[x]/M/s queue with reneging
by Michael Q. Anderson - 271-281 A bounded dual (all‐integer) integer programming algorithm with an objective cut
by Larry M. Austin & Michael E. Hanna - 283-285 A note on first passage times in birth and death and nonnegative diffusion processes
by Cyrus Derman & Sheldon M. Ross & Zvi Schechner - 287-304 A branch‐and‐bound‐based heuristic for solving the quadratic assignment problem
by M. S. Bazaraa & O. Kirca - 305-312 Minimax and maximin facility location problems on a sphere
by Zvi Drezner & George O. Wesolowsky - 313-317 Approximate Bayesian intervals for the reliability of series systems from mixed subsystem test data
by Harold Lampkin & Alan Winterbottom - 319-342 Vehicle fleet refueling strategies to maximize operational range
by Abraham Mehrez & Helman I. Stern & David Ronen - 343-345 Characterizations of the exponential distribution by higher‐order gap
by M. Ahsanullah - 347-358 Stochastic duels with multiple hits and limited ammunition supply
by Tai Young Kwon & Do Sun Bai - 359-365 The truncated normal–gamma mixture as a distribution for lead time demand
by J. K. Ord & U. Bagchi - 367-376 Parameter estimation for the EOQ lot‐size model: Minimax and expected value choices
by Timothy J. Lowe & Leroy B. Schwarz
March 1983, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 1-11 Some limiting distributions associated with sequences of multinomial trials
by B. C. Arnold & J. E. Angus - 13-35 An efficient primal approach to bottleneck transportation problems
by Robert A. Russell & Darwin D. Klingman & Parviz Partow‐Navid - 37-48 Computing demand properties at the wholesale warehouse level
by Carl R. Schultz - 49-57 A method for reducing coefficients in integer linear inequalities
by J. M. Wilson - 59-68 Approximate decision rules for continuous review inventory systems
by Everette S. Gardner - 69-96 The traveling salesman problem: An update of research
by R. G. Parker & R. L. Rardin - 97-111 A multifacility capacity expansion model with joint expansion set‐up costs
by Hanan Luss - 113-131 “simple‐approximate” battle‐outcome‐prediction conditions for variable‐coefficient lanchester‐type equations of modern warfare
by James G. Taylor - 133-143 An advanced dual algorithm with constraint relaxation for all‐integer programming
by Larry M. Austin & Parviz Ghandforoush - 145-161 Nonadjacent extreme point methods for solving linear programs
by Hanif D. Sherali & Allen L. Soyster & Stafford G. Baines - 163-169 Multivariate dependent relevations with applications, and related topics
by Norman L. Johnson & Samuel Kotz - 171-177 Assessment of hazardous‐inspection policies
by Chung‐Kuang Chou & David A. Butler - 179-183 Solvable cases of the flow‐shop problem without interruptions in job processing
by Wlodzimierz Szwarc
December 1982, Volume 29, Issue 4
- 541-546 Periodic replacement when minimal repair costs vary with time
by Philip J. Boland - 547-555 Reliability of a single unit with k spares in case of the hyper‐exponential and the erlang failure distribution
by J. Van Dam & F. J. M. Raaijmakers - 557-569 Selecting among weibull, lognormal and gamma distributions using complete and censored smaples
by Siswadi & C. P. Quesenberry - 571-583 A time series analysis of some interrelated logistics performance variables
by Nozer D. Singpurwalla & Carlos M. Talbott - 585-592 Nonlinear integer programming for various forms of constraints
by Mary W. Cooper & Keyvan Farhangian - 593-608 Application of level crossing analysis to discrete state processes in queueing systems
by J. G. Shanthikumar & M. Jeya Chandra - 609-615 On patrolling a channel
by Alan R. Washburn - 617-633 Theoretical analysis of the general linear model for lanchester ‐ type combat between two homogeneous forces
by James G. Taylor - 635-649 The power of paired sample tests
by Stuart Jay Deutsch & Bruce Wayne Schmeiser - 651-657 Equivalence relations in the theory of repetitive consumption
by Joseph L. Balintfy & Emmanuel S. Melachrinoudis - 659-666 A sampling procedure and public policy
by G. J. Lieberman & I. Olkin & F. Riddle - 667-677 The logarithmic poisson gamma distribution: A model for leadtime demand
by Steven Nahmias & W. Steven Demmy - 679-683 The observed hazard and multicomponent systems
by Mark Brown & Sheldon M. Ross - 685-692 A replacement schedule for multicomponent life‐limited parts
by Sheldon Epstein & Yonah Wilamowsky - 693-695 A note on randomly evolving hazard rate functions
by Zvi Schechner
September 1982, Volume 29, Issue 3
- 399-402 On some stochastic inequalities involving minimum of random variables
by Peter Kubat - 403-410 Compound availability measures
by Laurence A. Baxter - 411-418 A comparison of several estimates of availability
by M. Mazumdar - 419-428 A good simple percentile estimator of the weibull shape parameter for use when all three parameters are unknown
by Stelios H. Zanakis & Nancy R. Mann - 429-442 Linearly constrained pseudo‐Newton method
by Jerrold H. May - 443-459 Interactive solution of bi‐criteria mathematical programs
by S. Sadagopan & A. Ravindran - 461-473 A new method to solve steady state queueing equations
by W. K. Grassmann & M. L. Chaudhry - 475-482 Individual headstart strategies for combating congestion
by Attahiru Sule Alfa - 483-493 Planning horizon procedures for machine replacement models with several possible replacement alternatives
by Suresh Chand & Suresh Sethi - 495-504 Flowshop/no‐idle or no‐wait scheduling to minimize the sum of completion times
by I. Adiri & D. Pohoryles - 505-515 On three basic methods for solving bottleneck transportation problems
by Ulrich Derigs - 517-519 Sequencing n jobs on two machines with setup, processing and removal times separated
by Dileep R. Sule - 521-527 A note on the maximin value of two‐person, zero‐sum games
by Alvin E. Roth - 529-534 A note on a computational model for a data/voice communication queueing system
by Richard M. Feldman & Carroll A. Claybaugh - 535-539 A note on the influence of missing operations on scheduling problems
by N. Hefetz & I. Adiri
June 1982, Volume 29, Issue 2
- 181-201 A combined approach to solve binary multicriteria problems
by Gabriel R. Bitran & Jorge M. Rivera - 203-212 The discrete search problem and the construction of optimal allocations
by Ingo Wegener - 213-233 Search techniques for a nonlinear multiprocessor scheduling problem
by Camille C. Price & Udo W. Pooch - 235-246 Least‐absolute‐deviations position finding
by Stephen A. Book - 247-256 Time minimizing flows in directed networks
by Robert G. Hinkle & John J. Jarvis - 257-270 Transportation problems with aggregated destinations when demands are uncertain
by Paul Zipkin - 271-278 A class of parametric properties of transportation problems
by Umit Akinc - 279-290 Production‐location problems
by Arthur P. Hurter & Enrique R. Venta - 291-302 Econometric forecasting via discounted least squares
by Robert A. Agnew - 303-322 Spares stocking policies for repairable items with dependent repair times
by Gary D. Scudder & Warren H. Hausman - 323-330 Reliability applications of the relevation transform
by Laurence A. Baxter - 331-344 The hnbue and hnwue classes of life distributions
by Bengt Klefsjö - 345-356 Cost analysis of pro rata and free‐replacement warranties
by John W. Mamer - 357-384 The outfit planning problem: Production planning in shipbuilding
by R. J. Graves & L. F. McGinnis - 385-398 Recruiters, advertising, and navy enlistments
by Lawrence Goldberg
March 1982, Volume 29, Issue 1
- 1-18 Theory of multistage contractual incentives with application to design‐to‐cost
by Robert W. Blanning & Paul R. Kleindorfer & C. S. Sankar - 19-27 Optimal strategies in a game of economic survival
by Karl Borch - 29-46 Diagnostic analysis of inventory systems: An optimization approach
by Gabriel R. Bitran & Arnoldo C. Hax & Josep Valor‐Sabatier - 47-54 Production planning for multi‐resource network systems
by Robert C. Leachman - 55-61 The class of mifra lifetimes and its relation to other classes
by Henry W. Block & Thomas H. Savits - 63-74 Remarks on a univariate shock model with some bivariate generalizations
by William S. Griffith - 75-86 Asymptotic joint normality of an increasing number of multivariate order statistics and associated cell frequencies
by Lionel Weiss - 87-95 Minimizing costs of sequential and parallel personnel testing programs
by Paul D. Feigin & Gedaliahu H. Harel - 97-111 The variance of the coverage of a randomly located area target by a salvo of weapons
by Gerhard Schroeter - 113-118 Reformulating zero‐sum games with multiple goals
by Edward L. Hannan - 119-145 On a generalized bin‐packing problem
by R. T. Lewis & R. G. Parker - 147-150 An integer programming algorithm for portfolio selection with fixed charges
by Mary W. Cooper & Keyvan Farhangian - 151-167 Scheduling of a single machine to minimize total weighted completion time subject to release dates
by Lucio Bianco & Salvatore Ricciardelli - 169-178 A note on splitting the bump in an elimination factorization
by R. V. Helgaso & J. L. Kennington - 179-180 A note on solving multifacility location problems involving euclidean distances
by Henrik Juel
December 1981, Volume 28, Issue 4
- 525-532 Some properties of optimal control policies for entry to an M/M/1 queue
by Robert C. Rue & Matthew Rosenshine - 533-543 The construction of an optimal distribution of search effort
by Ingo Wegener - 545-557 A versatile scheme for ranking the extreme points of an assignment polytope
by Mokhtar S. Bazaraa & Hanif D. Sherali - 559-566 A primal‐dual cutting‐plane algorithm for all‐integer programming
by Parviz Ghandforoush & Larry M. Austin - 567-577 Computing the discounted return in markov and semi‐markov chains
by Evan L. Porteus - 579-601 Exact analysis of a two‐echelon inventory system for recoverable items under batch inspection policy
by Kripa Shanker - 603-605 On a shape estimator of weiss
by Ishay Weissman - 607-617 A branch‐and‐bound algorithm for solving fixed charge problems
by Patrick G. McKeown - 619-642 Fluctuations of the optimal advertising and inventory policy: A qualitative analysis
by Yves Balcer - 643-651 Minimizing the average deviation of job completion times about a common due date
by John J. Kanet - 653-663 A mathematical model for generating the area of a drainage basin
by R. T. Robinson - 665-669 A note on the flow‐shop problem without interruptions in job processing
by Wlodzimierz Szwarc - 671-677 A note on integer solutions to linear fractional interval programming problems by a branch & bound technique
by S. C. Agrawal & Mam Chand - 679-684 A note on sojourn times in M/G/1 queues with instantaneous, bernoulli feedback
by Ralph L. Disney - 685-692 A note on two IFR systems
by Zvi Schechner - 693-696 A note on the two machine job shop with exponential processing times
by Michael Pinedo
September 1981, Volume 28, Issue 3
- 347-358 Monotone optimal preventive maintenance policies for stochastically failing equipment
by Michael Q. Anderson - 359-374 A new bivariate negative binomial distribution
by C. R. Mitchell & A. S. Paulson - 375-381 Minimax inspection strategies for single unit systems
by F. Beichelt - 383-392 The estimation of P(x
by A. P. Basu - 393-406 Optimal selection from a random sequence with observation errors
by T. J. Stewart - 407-422 A differential equation model of search for randomly arriving and departing targets
by Kenneth R. Chelst - 423-429 Optimal stopping problems for differential equations perturbed by a poisson process
by K. H. Wickwire - 431-445 Decomposition algorithms for minimal cut problems
by Suleyman Tufekci - 447-462 Expedients for solving some specially structured mixed‐integer programs
by Hanif D. Sherali - 463-474 Optimal control of price through restricted production
by Steven A. Lippman & Wayne L. Winston - 475-487 Estimation in single server queues
by I. V. Basawa & N. U. Prabhu - 489-495 Optimal control for entry of many classes of customers to an M/M/1 queue
by Robert C. Rue & Matthew Rosenshine - 497-501 On queues with dependent interarrival and service times
by Shun‐Chen Niu - 503-517 On the optimal allocation of crewmen aboard a warship
by J. K. Zuidweg & J. Van Dam - 519-524 Stochastic duels with displacements (suppression)
by G. Trevor Williams & C. J. Ancker
June 1981, Volume 28, Issue 2
- 193-205 Applications of renewal theory in analysis of the free‐replacement warranty
by Wallace R. Blischke & Ernest M. Scheuer - 207-212 Comparing alternating renewal processes
by Dalen T. Chiang & Shun‐Chen Niu - 213-219 Shock models with phase type survival and shock resistance
by Marcel F. Neuts & Manish C. Bhattacharjee - 221-229 An early‐accept modification to the test plans of military standard 781C
by David A. Butler & Gerald J. Lieberman - 231-236 A two‐state system with partial availability in the failed state
by Laurence A. Baxter - 237-254 An analysis of single item inventory systems with returns
by John A. Muckstadt & Michael H. Isaac - 255-266 Analytic approximations for (s,S) inventory policy operating characteristics
by Richard Ehrhardt - 267-279 Optimal ordering policies when anticipating parameter changes in EOQ systems
by B. Lev & H. J. Weiss & A. L. Soyster - 281-287 Systems defense games: Colonel blotto, command and control
by Martin Shubik & Robert James Weber - 289-300 On nonpreemptive strategies in stochastic scheduling
by K. D. Glazebrook - 301-307 Postoptimality analysis in nonlinear integer programming: The right‐hand side case
by Mary W. Cooper - 309-323 An efficient algorithm for the location‐allocation problem with rectangular regions
by Ann S. Marucheck & Adel A. Aly - 325-337 An iterative algorithm for the multifacility minimax location problem with euclidean distances
by Christakis Charalambous - 339-340 Counterexamples to optimal permutation schedules for certain flow shop problems
by S. S. Panwalkar & M. L. Smith & C. R. Woollam - 341-345 A note on a maximin disposal policy under nwue pricing
by Manish C. Bhattacharjee
March 1981, Volume 28, Issue 1
- 1-32 A linear programming model for design of communications networks with time varying probabilistic demands
by K. O. Kortanek & D. N. Lee & G. G. Polak - 33-46 Preventive maintenance and replacement under additive damage
by S. D. Chikte & S. D. Deshmukh - 47-74 Optimal maintenance models for systems subject to failure–A Review
by Y. S. Sherif & M. L. Smith - 75-81 Bounds for strength‐stress interference via mathematical programming
by Geung‐Ho Kim - 83-92 Bounds and elimination in generalized markov decisions
by Gary J. Koehler - 93-101 Surrogate duality in a branch‐and‐bound procedure
by Mark H. Karwan & Ronald L. Rardin - 103-114 Extreme solutions of the two machine flow‐shop problem
by Wlodzimierz Szwarc - 115-131 A theoretical and computational comparison of “equivalent” mixed‐integer formulations
by R. R. Meyer - 133-145 Stochastic models for spread of motivating information
by Menachem Berg - 147-152 Maximal nash subsets for bimatrix games
by M. J. M. Jansen - 153-156 A characterization of the value of zero‐sum two‐person games
by S. H. Tijs - 157-168 Manpower modeling in cost effectiveness studies of usaf program to reduce the incidence of heart disease
by Clifford C. Petersen - 169-180 An empirical evaluation of further approximations to an approximate continuous review inventory model
by Donald L. Byrkett - 181-184 A note on the mixture of new worse than used in expectation
by Kishan G. Mehrotra - 185-190 A note on optimal switching between two activities
by Steven E. Shreve
December 1980, Volume 27, Issue 4
- 529-538 Storage problems when demand is “all or nothing”
by D. P. Gaver & P. A. Jacobs - 539-547 Reliability growth of repairable systems
by Stephen A. Smith & Shmuel S. Oren - 549-571 On the distribution of the optimal value for a class of stochastic geometric programs
by Paul M. Ellnert & Robert M. Stark - 573-588 A class of continuous nonlinear programming problems with time‐delayed constraints
by Thomas W. Reiland & Morgan A. Hanson - 589-595 Equalities in transportation problems and characterizations of optimal solutions
by Kenneth O. Kortanek & Maretsugu Yamasaki - 597-608 A network flow approach for capacity expansion problems with two facility types
by Hanan Luss - 609-620 Solving multifacility location problems involving euclidean distances
by Paul Calamai & Christakis Charalambous - 621-624 An easy solution for a special class of fixed charge problems
by Patrick G. McKeown & Prabhakant Sinha - 625-633 The bounded interval generalized assignment model
by G. Terry Ross & Richard M. Soland & Andris A. Zoltners - 635-644 The M/G/1 queue with instantaneous bernoulli feedback
by Ralph L. Disney & Donald C. McNickle & Burton Simon - 645-658 An inventory model with search for best ordering price
by Kamal Golabi - 659-680 The United States Coast Guard Computer‐Assisted Search Planning system (CASP)
by Henry R. Richardson & Joseph H. Discenza - 681-695 Concentrated firing in many‐versus‐many duels
by A. Zinger - 697-701 Spike swapping in basis reinversion
by R. V. Helgason & J. L. Kennington - 703-707 An alternative proof of the IFRA property of some shock models
by C. Derman & D. R. Smith - 711-712 Corrigendum: Stochastic control of queueing systems
by N. U. Prabhu
September 1980, Volume 27, Issue 3
- 345-358 On the reliability, availability and bayes confidence intervals for multicomponent systems
by William E. Thompson & Robert D. Haynes - 359-373 Optimal replacement of parts having observable correlated stages of deterioration
by L. Shaw & C‐L Hsu & S. G. Tyan - 375-395 Statistical analysis of a conventional fuze timer
by Edgar A. Cohen - 397-406 The asymptotic sufficiency of sparse order statistics in tests of fit with nuisance parameters
by Lionel Weiss - 407-412 On a class of nash‐solvable bimatrix games and some related nash subsets
by Karen Isaacson & C. B. Millham - 413-435 Optimality conditions for convex semi‐infinite programming problems
by A. Ben‐Tal & L. Kerzner & S. Zlobec - 437-445 Solving incremental quantity discounted transportation problems by vertex ranking
by Patrick G. McKeown - 447-452 Auxiliary procedures for solving long transportation problems
by J. Intrator & M. Berrebi - 453-475 On the generation of deep disjunctive cutting planes
by Hanif D. Sherali & C. M. Shetty - 477-487 The role of internal storage capacity in fixed cycle production systems
by B. Lev & D. I. Toof - 489-498 Scheduling coupled tasks
by Roy D. Shapiro - 499-510 Sequencing independent jobs with a single resource
by Kenneth R. Baker & Henry L. W. Nuttle - 511-519 Evaluation of force structures under uncertainty
by Charles R. Johnson & Edward P. Loane - 521-524 A note on the optimal replacement time of damaged devices
by Dror Zuckerman - 525-528 A note on the sensitivity of navy first term reenlistment to bonuses, unemployment and relative wages
by Les Cohen & Diane Erickson Reedy
June 1980, Volume 27, Issue 2
- 177-185 A single period model for a multiproduct perishable inventory system with economic substitution
by Bryan L. Deuermeyer - 187-197 Nonlinear one‐parametric linear programming and t‐norm transportation problems
by Axel Wüstefeld & Uwe Zimmermann - 199-206 Optimal location of a facility relative to area demands
by Z. Drezner & G. O. Weslowsky - 207-215 The random order service G/M/m queue
by Stig I. Rosenlund - 217-222 Some results of the queueing system E kx/M/c
by D. F. Holman & W. K. Grassmann & M. L. Chaudhry - 223-230 An approximation for the waiting time distribution in single server queues
by Irwin Greenberg - 231-232 Congestion tolls: Equilibrium and optimality
by Robert W. Rosenthal