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December 1994, Volume 41, Issue 7
- 853-874 Employment and utilization of engineers among defense contractors
by Matthew S. Goldberg & Thomas P. Frazier - 875-892 Subcontracting versus capacity expansion and the impact on pricing of services
by Cheryl Gaimon - 893-912 Using grasp to solve the component grouping problem
by John G. Klincewicz & Arvind Rajan - 913-933 Minimizing mean tardiness and earliness in single‐machine scheduling problems with unequal due dates
by Yeong‐Dae Kim & Candace Arai Yano - 935-943 Energy‐constrained pursuit in a fluid
by Alan Washburn - 945-958 Cost analysis and extension of a simple maintenance‐scheduling heuristic
by Peter Kelle & Edward A. Silver & Glen F. Murphy - 959-971 Nonpreemptive scheduling of independent tasks with prespecified processor allocations
by L. Bianco & P. Dell'Olmo & M. Grazia Speranza - 973-989 Probabilistic a priori routing‐location problems
by Igor Averbakh & Oded Berman & David Simchi‐Levi - 991-1005 Design of sequential sampling inspection plans with screening based on minimal lattice paths
by Ikuo Arizono & Hiroshi Ohta - 1007-1017 Estimating moments of the minimum order statistic from normal populations—a bayesian approach
by Jean‐François Angers & Duncan K. H. Fong - 1019-1027 Suboptimality of equal lot sizes for finite‐horizon problems
by Ram Rachamadugu & Ranga Ramasesh - 1029-1037 Hybrid minimal repair and age replacement maintenance policies, with nonnegligible repair times
by J. S. Dagpunar
October 1994, Volume 41, Issue 6
- 689-706 The survival probability function of a target moving along a straight line in a random field of obscuring elements
by S. Zacks & M. Yadin - 707-718 Monitoring declining quality of ammunition stockpile under step stress
by So Young Sohn - 719-738 Minimax resource allocation problems with ordering constraints
by Lisa M. Betts & J. Randall Brown & Hanan Luss - 739-757 Demand estimation in lost sales inventory systems
by Steven Nahmias - 759-770 On the design of a tandem queue with blocking: Modeling, analysis, and gradient estimation
by Dinah W. Cheng - 771-788 Optimal inspection and repair of renewable coherent systems with independent components and constant failure rates
by Louis Anthony Cox & Yuping Qiu - 789-805 Properties of a three‐dimensional estimator
by Shaul P. Ladany & Michael G. Sklar - 807-819 Scheduling with resource‐dependent release dates—a comparison of two different resource consumption functions
by Chung‐Lun Li - 821-831 Initial point search on weighted trees
by Kensaku Kikuta & William H. Ruckle - 833-842 Note: On the set‐union knapsack problem
by Olivier Goldschmidt & David Nehme & Gang Yu - 843-851 Scheduling about a large common due date with tolerance to minimize mean absolute deviation of completion times
by Michael X. Weng & Jose A. Ventura
August 1994, Volume 41, Issue 5
- 587-608 Printed circuit board family grouping and component allocation for a multimachine, open‐shop assembly cell
by Ronald G. Askin & Moshe Dror & Asoo J. Vakharia - 609-624 Sole sourcing versus dual sourcing under stochastic demands and lead times
by Chi Chiang & W. C. Benton - 625-634 Mixture selection for maximal stochastic performance
by Michael Cain & Roger J. Owen - 635-651 The applicability of acceptance sampling with respect to process stability and control
by Timothy S. Vaughan - 653-659 The simple multiserver loss system with time‐varying intensities
by W. Stadje - 661-668 Characterizing the barlow‐wu structure functions
by Fan C. Meng - 669-676 Localization of optimal strategies in certain games
by Arthur T. Benjamin & A. J. Goldman - 677-682 Scheduling on M parallel machines subject to random breakdowns to minimize expected mean flow time
by Ali Allahverdi & John Mittenthal - 683-687 Note: Pairwise rearrangements in reliability structures
by M. V. Koutras & G. K. Papadopoulos & S. G. Papastavridis
June 1994, Volume 41, Issue 4
- 465-482 Some renewal theory results with application to fleet warranties
by Nicholas Zaino & Toby Berke - 483-506 The reliability of a series system of repairable subsystems: A bayesian approach
by Frederick L. Hulting & Jeffrey A. Robinson - 507-522 Simulating nonhomogeneous poisson processes with proportional intensities
by R. Guo & C. E. Love - 523-535 An economic sequential screening procedure for limited failure populations
by D. S. Bai & Y. I. Kwon - 537-543 Estimation in discrete failure rate models with a change point
by Jie Mi - 545-564 A stochastic optimization model for planning capacity expansion in a service industry under uncertain demand
by Oded Berman & Zvi Ganz & Janet M. Wagner - 565-577 Coordinated overhaul scheduling of production units
by Moncer Hariga - 579-585 New worst‐case results for the bin‐packing problem
by David Simchi‐Levi
April 1994, Volume 41, Issue 3
- 303-315 Optimal replacement policies for multistate deteriorating systems
by C. Teresa Lam & R. H. Yeh - 317-333 When is a base stock policy optimal in recovering disrupted cyclic schedules?
by Guillermo Gallego - 335-353 Preventive maintenance at opportunities of restricted duration
by Rommert Dekker & Eric Smeitink - 355-376 A poisson regression model for two‐attribute warranty policies
by Herbert Moskowitz & Young Hak Chun - 377-394 On the timing of adoption of multiproduct technologies
by Taekwon Kim & Lars‐Hendrik Röller & Mihkel M. Tombak - 395-421 Order‐preserving assignments
by Manfred Padberg & Dimitris Alevras - 423-434 An interactive paired comparison method for bicriterion integer programming
by Wan S. Shin & Diane Breivik Allen - 435-454 An algorithm and new penalties for concave integer minimization over a polyhedron
by Kurt M. Bretthauer & A. Victor Cabot & M. A. Venkataramanan - 455-463 A penalty for concave minimization derived from the tuy cutting plane
by Kurt M. Bretthauer
March 1994, Volume 41, Issue 2
- 137-151 Queueing processes and trade‐offs during ship‐to‐shore transfer of cargo
by Gary E. Horne & Telba Z. Irony - 153-169 On the behavior of the batch arrival queue Mx/M/1 during a busy period
by Wolfgang Stadje - 171-187 Tests for transient means in simulated time series
by David Goldsman & Lee W. Schruben & James J. Swain - 189-202 An analytical evaluation of optimal solution value estimation procedures
by Robert L. Nydick & Howard J. Weiss - 203-214 On compounded bivariate poisson distributions
by Katerina M. David & H. Papageorgiou - 215-228 A bayesian approach to environmental stress screening
by R. E. Barlow & C. A. B. Pereira & S. Wechsler - 229-256 Optimizing the allocation of components to kits in small‐lot, multiechelon assembly systems
by J. F. Chen & W. E. Wilhelm - 257-272 Investment in the reduction of uncertainties in just‐in‐time purchasing systems
by Jeong‐Wook Choi - 273-286 Heuristic procedure for a multiproduct dynamic lot‐sizing problem with coordinated replenishments
by Chia‐Shin Chung & H. Murat Mercan - 287-293 A remark on the customs and smuggler game
by Andrej Yu Garnaev - 295-302 On the set of (perfect) equilibria of a bimatrix game
by A. J. Vermeulen & M. J. M. Jansen
February 1994, Volume 41, Issue 1
- 1-15 Optimizing ship berthing
by Gerald G. Brown & Siriphong Lawphongpanich & Katie Podolak Thurman - 17-32 Due‐date assignment and early/tardy scheduling on identical parallel machines
by Prabuddha De & Jay B. Ghosh & Charles E. Wells - 33-46 The parallel machine min‐max weighted absolute lateness scheduling problem
by Chung‐Lun Li & T. C. E. Cheng - 47-80 Application of perturbation analysis to a class of periodic review (s, S) inventory systems
by Sridhar Bashyam & Michael C. Fu - 81-97 Order‐statistic calculation, costs, and service in an (s, Q) inventory system
by Anne E. Lordahl & James H. Bookbinder - 99-116 Periodic‐review inventory models with inventory‐level‐dependent demand
by Yigal Gerchak & Yunzeng Wang - 117-128 Equipment replacement under technological change
by James C. Bean & Jack R. Lohmann & Robert L. Smith - 129-132 Note on “future supply uncertainty in EOQ models”
by Emre Berk & Antonio Arreola‐Risa - 133-136 Note: A geometrical method of solving certain games
by J. V. Howard
December 1993, Volume 40, Issue 7
- 879-903 Optimal base stock policies and truck capacity in a two‐echelon system
by Ricardo Ernst & David F. Pyke - 905-924 On the equivalence of jit and mrp as technologies for reducing wastes in manufacturing
by John Miltenburg - 925-931 An improved algorithm for the dynamic lot‐sizing problem with learning effect in setups
by Kavindra Malik & Yufei Wang - 933-949 Supply management in assembly systems
by Chengbin Chu & Jean‐Marie Proth & Xiaolan Xie - 951-970 Simultaneous optimization of efficiency and performance balance measures in single‐machine scheduling problems
by Awi Federgruen & Gur Mosheiov - 971-991 General models for the supplier's all‐unit quantity discount policy
by Z. Kevin Weng & Richard T. Wong - 993-1001 A game with distorted information
by K. T. Lee & K. L. Teo - 1003-1011 Composite unimodality
by Alan J. Kaplan - 1013-1020 A bivariate pareto model and its applications to reliability
by P. G. Sankaran & N. Unnikrishnan Nair
October 1993, Volume 40, Issue 6
- 755-768 An indicator of combat success
by Donald Barr & Maurice Weir & James Hoffman - 769-786 Discrete repairable reliability systems
by Moshe Shaked & J. George Shanthikumar & Haolong Zhu - 787-809 A generalized model for the economic design of x̄control charts for production systems with increasing failure rate and early replacement
by M. A. Rahim & P. K. Banerjee - 811-827 A multiserver queue with markovian arrivals and group services with thresholds
by S. Chakravarthy & Attahiru Sule Alfa - 829-842 New partial orderings and applications
by Enrico Fagiuoli & Franco Pellerey - 843-862 The permutation flow shop problem with sum‐of‐completion times performance criterion
by Selcuk Karabati & Panagiotis Kouvelis - 863-877 An inventory model of incentives for on‐time delivery in just‐in‐time purchasing contracts
by John R. Grout & David P. Christy
August 1993, Volume 40, Issue 5
- 581-592 Assignment with En route training of navy personnel
by Agha Iqbal Ali & Jeffery L. Kennington & Timothy T. Liang - 593-602 A multiechelon inventory model with multiple failures
by Ki Ling Cheung & Warren H. Hausman - 603-615 On estimating survival for reliability models based on age‐related stochastic comparisons
by D. M. Reneau & J. Rojo & F. J. Samaniego - 617-631 Application of the stein‐chen method for bounds and limit theorems in the reliability of coherent structures
by Markos V. Koutras & Stavros G. Papastavridis - 633-642 On testing for decreasing mean residual life ordering
by Emad‐Eldin A. A. Aly - 643-663 Randomization tests for initialization bias in simulation output
by Enver Yücesan - 665-675 Local search techniques for the generalized resource constrained project scheduling problem
by Scott E. Sampson & Elliott N. Weiss - 677-696 A stochastic machine maintenance and sale problem: Results with different production functions
by Mark G. Tang - 697-717 The two‐machine permutation flow shop with state‐dependent processing times
by E. Wagneur & C. Sriskandarajah - 719-731 A constrained optimization problem for a processor sharing queue
by Peter De Waal - 733-744 Cost allocation and communication
by Anne Van Den Nouweland & Peter Borm & Guillermo Owen & Stef Tijs - 745-753 A remark on a helicopter and submarine game
by Andrej Y U. Garnaev
June 1993, Volume 40, Issue 4
- 431-450 Explicit modeling of detection within a stochastic duel
by K. Wand & S. Humble & R. J. T. Wilson - 451-457 A network reformulation of an electric utility expansion planning model
by Frederic H. Murphy & Zhong Xian Wang - 459-478 The dynamic lot‐sizing model with backlogging: A simple o(n log n) algorithm and minimal forecast horizon procedure
by Awi Federgruen & Michal Tzur - 479-493 Steady‐state approximation of a multiechelon multi‐indentured repairable‐item inventory system with a single repair facility
by S. Christian Albright & Amit Gupta - 495-523 A two‐machine repair model with variable repair rate
by F. A. Van Der Duyn Schouten & P. Wartenhorst - 525-541 Some games of search on a lattice
by Noemi Zoroa Alonso & Procopio Zoroa Terol - 543-552 A linear‐programming‐based method for determining whether or not n demand points are on a hemisphere
by Minnie H. Patel & Deborah L. Nettles & Stuart J. Deutsch - 553-568 A parametric‐based heuristic program for the quadratic assignment problem
by D. J. White - 569-573 A note on parallel machine replacement
by Jen Tang & Kwei Tang - 575-579 A further note on parallel machine replacement
by Wallace J. Hopp & Philip C. Jones & James L. Zydiak
April 1993, Volume 40, Issue 3
- 289-303 Crisis stability games
by Jerome Bracken & Martin Shubik - 305-324 Dual‐ascent methods for large‐scale multicommodity flow problems
by Cynthia Barnhart - 325-344 Solving the multiperiod assignment problem with start‐up costs using dual ascent
by Ishwar Murthy - 345-360 Static and dynamic scheduling of customer arrivals to a single‐server system
by P. Patrick Wang - 361-371 Discrete bathtub failure rate and upside‐down bathtub mean residual life
by Jie Mi - 373-392 Global minimization of indefinite quadratic functions subject to box constraints
by Pierre Hansen & Brigitte Jaumard & MichèLe Ruiz & Junjie Xiong - 393-414 A new polynomial algorithm for maximum value flow with an efficient parallel implementation
by Gary R. Waissi - 415-423 Engineering costs and customer costs in designing product support
by G. G. Hegde & Uday S. Karmarkar - 425-429 Asymptotically sufficient grouping
by Lionel Weiss
March 1993, Volume 40, Issue 2
- 143-160 Setting military reenlistment bonuses
by Dean D. Dewolfe & James G. Stevens & R. Kevin Wood - 161-173 An algorithm for maximizing target achievement in the stochastic knapsack problem with normal returns
by Robert L. Carraway & Robert L. Schmidt & Lawrence R. Weatherford - 175-192 A single‐machine replacement model with learning
by Suresh Chand & Tim McClurg & Jim Ward - 193-210 Optimum simple step‐stress accelerated life tests for weibull distribution and type I censoring
by Do Sun Bai & Myung Soo Kim - 211-228 Properties of a source location estimator in the plane
by Michael G. Sklar & Shaul P. Ladany - 229-243 Adjacent orderings in single‐machine scheduling with earliness and tardiness penalties
by Wlodzimierz Szwarc - 245-253 Optimization of order‐up‐to‐s policies in two‐echelon inventory systems with periodic review
by Sven Axsäter - 255-278 Jointly constrained order quantities with all‐units discounts
by Paul A. Rubin & W. C. Benton - 279-288 Note: Dual sourcing with nonidentical suppliers
by Ranga V. Ramasesh & J. Keith Ord & Jack C. Hayya
February 1993, Volume 40, Issue 1
- 1-23 Optimizing disaster relief: Real‐time operational and tactical decision support
by Gerald G. Brown & Antonios L. Vassiliou - 25-50 Solving time/cost trade‐off problems with discounted cash flows using generalized benders decomposition
by S. Selcuk Erenguc & Suleyman Tufekci & Christopher J. Zappe - 51-67 A unifying treatment of replacement policies with minimal repair
by Frank Beichelt - 69-84 A simulated annealing approach to the cyclic staff‐scheduling problem
by Michael J. Brusco & Larry W. Jacobs - 85-101 Single‐machine scheduling with early and tardy completion costs
by J. Steve Davis & John J. Kanet - 103-116 A face search heuristic algorithm for optimizing over the efficient set
by Harold P. Benson & Serpil Sayin - 117-127 The conditional p‐center problem in the plane
by R. Chen & Y. Handler - 129-142 Maximal covering tree problems
by Richard Church & John Current
December 1992, Volume 39, Issue 7
- 877-892 Establishing Reliability Goals for Naval Major‐Caliber Ammunition
by Michael P. Bailey & Marcelo C. Bartroli & Keebom Kang & Alexander J. Callahan - 893-903 The reporting time problem: Integration of intelligence with verification
by William H. Ruckle - 905-918 Primal dual algorithms for the vehicle refueling problem
by George Steiner & Dan Wang & Yufei Yuan - 919-936 Performance of N machine centers of K‐out‐of‐M: G type maintained by a single repairman
by Tapas K. Das & Martin A. Wortman - 937-955 Optimal replacement rules based on different information levels
by Gert Heinrich & Uwe Jensen - 957-974 On reversibility of tandem queues with blocking
by Xiuli Chao & Michael Pinedo - 975-996 Computing stationary queueing‐time distributions of GI/D/1 and GI/D/c queues
by M. L. Chaudhry - 997-1007 Chance‐constrained linear programming with location scale distributions
by Linguo Gong
October 1992, Volume 39, Issue 6
- 741-755 A general axiomatization of additive measurement with applications
by Peter C. Fishbur - 757-773 A dynamic general linear model for inference from accelerated life tests
by Thomas A. Mazzuchi & Refik Soyer - 775-787 Waiting times for M/G/1 queues with service‐time or delay‐dependent server vacations
by P. H. Brill & C. M. Harris - 789-799 On excess‐, current‐, and total‐life distributions of phase‐type renewal processes
by Edward P. C. Kao & Marion Spokony Smith - 801-813 Performance of heuristics for the uncapacitated lot‐size problem
by Rita Vachani - 815-832 Effect of increasing component commonality on service level and holding cost
by Uttarayan Bagchi & Genaro Gutierrez - 833-837 Note: On the greedy algorithm for optimal assembly
by Laurence A. Baxter & Farid Harche - 839-858 Partial polyhedral description and generation of discrete optimization problems with known optima
by Martha G. Pilcher & Ronald L. Rardin - 859-875 A branch‐and‐bound algorithm to minimize total flow time with unequal release dates
by Chengbin Chu
August 1992, Volume 39, Issue 5
- 599-611 Isotonic median regression for orders representable by rooted trees
by Nilotpal Chakravarti - 613-633 Single‐machine scheduling of stochastic jobs subject to deterioration or delay
by K. D. Glazebrook - 635-649 Location‐allocation for distribution to a uniform demand with transshipments
by James F. Campbell - 651-668 A perfect lot‐tree procedure for the discounted dynamic lot‐size problem with speculation
by Michael Bastian - 669-683 Solving min‐max shortest‐path problems on a network
by Ishwar Murthy & Shenq‐Shyong Her - 685-697 Optimality of control limit policies in replacement models
by Kut C. So - 699-714 Maintenance of a device with age‐dependent exponential failures
by S. Özekici & N. O. Günlük - 715-728 Evaluation of base‐stock policies in multiechelon inventory systems with state‐dependent demands part I: State‐independent policies
by Jing‐Sheng Song & Paul H. Zipkin - 729-739 The economic lot scheduling problem with finite backorder costs
by Guillermo Gallego & Robin Roundy
June 1992, Volume 39, Issue 4
- 437-446 A many‐on‐many stochastic duel model for a mountain battle
by Moshe Kress - 447-469 A squared‐euclidean distance location‐allocation problem
by Hanif D. Sherali & Cihan H. Tuncbilek - 471-485 Economic screening procedures using a correlated variable with multidecision alternatives
by Do Sun Bai & Sung Hoon Hong - 487-507 Minimal forecast horizons in equipment replacement models with multiple technologies and general switching costs
by S. Bylka & S. Sethi & G. Sorger - 509-529 Component part stocking policies
by Ricardo Ernst & David F. Pyke - 531-543 Viability analysis: A formulation aid for all classes of network models
by John W. Chinneck - 545-559 On the classification gap in mathematical programming‐based approaches to the discriminant problem
by Antonie Stam & Cliff T. Ragsdale - 561-577 Multi‐item service constrained (s, S) policies for spare parts logistics systems
by Morris A. Cohen & Paul R. Kleindorfer & Hau L. Lee & David F. Pyke - 579-597 Reliability acceptance testing for new series systems
by Saul Blumenthal
April 1992, Volume 39, Issue 3
- 285-305 Inventory policies with quantized ordering
by Yu‐Sheng Zheng & Fangruo Chen - 307-321 Control‐variate selection criteria
by Kenneth W. Bauer & James R. Wilson - 323-344 Robust regression with censored data
by Indrani Basak - 345-357 A finite capacity GI/PH/1 queue with group services
by S. Chakravarthy - 359-368 Nonexistence of the maximum likelihood estimates in the weibull process
by Wai Chan & Norma G. Rueda - 369-388 Scheduling semiconductor test operations: Minimizing maximum lateness and number of tardy jobs on a single machine
by Reha Uzsoy & Chung‐Yee Lee & Louis A. Martin‐Vega - 389-397 On the solution of a stochastic bottleneck assignment problem and its variations
by Prabuddha De & Jay B. Ghosh & Charles E. Wells - 399-417 The quadratic minimum spanning tree problem
by Arjang Assad & Weixuan Xu - 419-435 An algorithm for the discrete bilevel programming problem
by Jonathan F. Bard & James T. Moore
March 1992, Volume 39, Issue 2
- 137-151 A linear relaxation heuristic for the generalized assignment problem
by Michael A. Trick - 153-173 Optimal resource extraction with uncertain reserves
by Robert J. Lipshutz & Lawrence D. Stone - 175-190 Opportunity‐based age replacement: Exponentially distributed times between opportunities
by Rommert Dekker & Matthijs C. Dijkstra - 191-212 A dual‐based optimization procedure for the two‐echelon uncapacitated facility location problem
by Li‐Lian Gao & E. Powell Robinson - 213-227 The knapsack problem with disjoint multiple‐choice constraints
by Vijay Aggarwal & Narsingh Deo & Dilip Sarkar - 229-245 Scheduling with earliness and tardiness penalties
by Michael C. Ferris & Milan Vlach - 247-264 Real‐time task scheduling with overheads considered
by Christian L. Cesar & Peter G. Jessel - 265-283 A branch‐and‐bound algorithm to minimize total tardiness with different release dates
by Chengbin Chu
February 1992, Volume 39, Issue 1
- 1-28 Optimal strategies for problems of simultaneous attack against an area defense with impact‐point prediction
by Norman T. O'Meara & Richard M. Soland - 29-40 Multiechelon inventory systems with lateral supply
by Craig C. Sherbrooke - 41-52 Distribution of the workload in multiclass queueing systems with server vacations
by Hideaki Takagi & Tetsuya Takine & Onno J. Boxma - 53-65 On scheduling with ready‐times, due‐dates and vacations
by V. Jorge Leon & S. David Wu - 67-78 Optimal maintenance and replacement policy for a deteriorating system with increased mean downtime
by V. Jayabalan & Dipak Chaudhuri - 79-96 Evaluation of an integrated supplier‐buyer quality‐control system
by Michael H. Peters & Timothy S. Vaughan - 97-114 Inference for the maximum cell probability under multinomial sampling
by A. E. Gelfand & J. Glaz & L. Kuo & T.‐M. Lee - 115-135 A multi‐run interactive method for bicriterion optimization problems
by Wan S. Shin & Jung J. Lee
December 1991, Volume 38, Issue 6
- 779-797 A two‐phase procedure for allotting geostationary orbital locations to communications satellites
by Charles H. Reilly & Clark A. Mount‐Campbell & Fernando Mata & Eric K. Walton & Eric A. Aebker & Curt A. Levis - 799-816 Aircraft weapon budgeting
by Matthew S. Goldberg - 817-838 Diffusion approximations for complex repair systems
by Donald L. Iglehart & Atam P. Lalchandani - 839-850 Multivariate age‐dependent imperfect repair
by Shey‐Huei Sheu & William S. Griffith - 851-864 Joint determination of optimum variable and attribute target means
by F.J. Arcelus & M.A. Rahim