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Back MatterSource: Operations Research, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1979), pp. 423-430Published by: INFORMSStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/170141 .
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Each year since 1954 the Council of the Operations Research Society of American has offered the Lanchester Prize for the best English- language published contribution in operations research. The Prize for 1978 consists of $2,000 and a commemorative medallion.
The screening of books and papers for the 1978 Prize will be carried out by a committee appointed by the Council of the Society. To be eligible for consideration, the book or paper must be nominated to the Committee. Nominations may be made by anyone; this notice constitutes a call for nominations.
To be eligible for the Lanchester Prize, a book, a paper or a group of books or papers must meet the following requirements:
(1) It must be on an operations research subject, (2) It must carry a current award year publication date or, if a group,
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(3) It must be written in the English language, and (4) It must have appeared in the open literature.
The book(s) or paper(s) may be a case history, a report of research representing new results, or primarily expository.
For any nominated set (e.g., article and/or book) covering more than the most recent year, it is expected that each element in the set represents work from one continuous effort, such as a multi-year project or a continuously written, multi-volume book.
Judgements will be made by the Committee using the following criteria: (1) The magnitude of the contribution to the advancement of the state
of the art of operations research, (2) The originality of the ideas or methods, (3) New vistas of application opened up, (4) The degree to which unification or simplification of existing theory
or method is achieved, and (5) Expository clarity and excellence. Nominations should be sent to:
George L. Nemhauser, Chairman 1978 Lanchester Prize Committee SORIE, Upson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853
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1978 Lanchester Prize Committee
Professor George Nemhauser, Chairman; Dr. Daniel Heyman, Dr. Ralph Keeney, Professor Leonard Kleinrock, Professor Peter Kolesar, and Professor Donald Ratliff.
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Changing the Future of Operations Research ........ . 209 Seth Bonder
Articles
A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Decision CPM Networks ....... 225 Thomas J. Hindelang and John F. Muth
Information Systems for Observing Inventory Levels . . 242 Edward A. Stohr
On Optimal Utilization of Production Processes . 260 Dov Pekelman
A Multi-Product Dynamic Lot-Size Model with Individual and Joint Set-up Costs ............................................ 279 Edward P. C. Kao
A Production Scheduling Problem in the Glass-Container Industry ..... 290 R. J. Paul
Optimal Inspection Schedules for Failure Detection in a Model Where Tests Hasten Failures .... ........................ ...... .... 303 N. Wattanapanom and L. Shaw
A Simple Method for Reducing Queueing Times in M/G/1 ........... 318 D. W. Matthews
The Sharing Problem ............... ....... 324 J. Randall Brown
The Knapsack Sharing Problem .... .............. ........... 341 J. Randall Brown
Multidimensional Line Search Using a Binary Preference Relation ...... 356 Donald Wehrung
Competitive Bidding: A Comprehensive Bibliography . ..... 364 Robert M. Stark and Michael H. Rothkopf
Technical Notes The EOQ Model under Stochastic Lead Time ...... . .... .. . 391
Matthew J. Liberatore Average Costs in a Continuous Review (s,S) Inventory System with Expo-
nentially Distributed Lead Time ......... ......... . 396 J. Wijngaard and E. G. F. van Winkel
On the Estimation of Convex Functions 4....... .... 401 Charles A. Holloway
Bibliography of Operations Research in Health-Care Systems: An Update 408 Brant E. Fries
Letter to the Editor
Engineering Design and Operations Research ................. 420 Albert G. Holzman
The 1978 Lanchester Prize Call for Nominations . . 423
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