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Shoshana Anily is Lecturer at the Faculty of Manage- ment, Recanti School at Tel Aviv University. Her paper deals with a logistical problem that involves partitioning a class of problems.

Ronny Aboudi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science at the University of Miami. The paper grew out of the author's doctoral dissertation at Cornell University.

Rudolf Avenhaus is Professor of Statistics and Opera- tions Research in the Department of Computer Science, Federal Armed Forces University in Munich. He has been working for 20 years in the area described in the article; previous work was summarized in his book, Safeguards Systems Analysis (1986, Plenum, New York). Hans Peter Battenberg wrote a dissertation on this subject at the Armed Forces University in 1982. He applies Kalman filter techniques for estimating states of technical systems; at present his interest is in applying related methods to conventional arms control verification. Bernd Jurgen Falkowski was Assistant Professor at the same university until 1986; since that time his focus has been statistical techniques and relational data bases.

C. Hugh Bannister is Managing Director at Intelligent Energy Systems Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia, where he develops mathematical models for application in a range of industries, including energy and finance. His paper grew out of a study of advanced electricity tariffs and opportunities for demand-side responses. The tech- nique described in the paper has been developed further and applied to the analysis of remote area power sup- plies, ice storage and hydroelectric systems.

Hans Peter Battenberg, see Rudolf Avenhaus.

Wang Changyu, see Zhao Qingzhen.

Wang Chuanjiang, see Zhao Qingzhen.

James L. Corner is a doctoral candidate in management science at Arizona State University. His dissertation concerns operationalizing utility function approximations in multiattribute decision analysis.

Bernd Jurgen Falkowski, see Rudolf Avenhaus.

Philip J. Fleming, whose research centers on computer performance modeling, is a distinguished member of technical staff with the Computer Systems Division of AT&T Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Illinois. Burton

Simon is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Denver. His research interests include queueing theory and simulation. Their collaboration has been ongoing since they were both graduate students at the University of Michigan.

Sin Hoon Hum is Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, where his research interests are production planning and control. Rakesh K. Sarin is Paine Professor of Management at the Anderson Gradu- ate School of Management of UCLA. His current research focus is decision theory and manufacturing strategy.

R. John Kaye, whose interests include the planning and operation of electric power systems, is Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales. This paper grew out of a study of advanced electricity tariffs and opportunities for demand-side responses.

Craig W. Kirkwood is Professor of Management Sci- ence at Arizona State University. His current research interest is to develop improved computational methods and approximations to aid in the application of decision analysis.

Rachelle S. Klein is a member of technical staff in the Operations Research Department of AT&T Bell Labora- tories. Her research interests include resource allocation and inventory theory. Hanan Luss is a supervisor in the same department. His research covers mathematical modeling and optimization, with an emphasis on resource allocation, capacity expansion, manufacturing and distribution. Their paper, motivated by manufacturing applications, extends previous work on minimum algorithms with multiple knapsack constraints.

Hanan Luss, see Rachelle S. Klein.

Kamran Moinzadeh is Associate Professor in the De- partment of Management Science at the University of Washington. His publications have appeared in Man- agement Science, Naval Research Logistics, and MIE Transactions, and his research interests include multi- echelon distribution systems, inventory control and stochastic production planning models. Dr. Moinzadeh is a member of TIMS and ORSA.

George L. Nemhauser is Chandler Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The motivation for this

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paper came from studying the perceived need for more classroom space at a large university.

Suleyman Ozekici, and Stanley R. Pliska.

Stanley R. Pliska is Professor in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Suleyman Ozekici is Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul. Their collaboration can be traced back to Northwestern University, where in the mid- 1970s Ozekici was a Ph.D. student and Pliska was a faculty member. Each has published articles on the theory and applications of stochastic optimization models, including several pertaining to medical decision making.

Zhao Qingzhen is Associate Professor of Operations Research in the Computer Science Department, Shandong Teacher's University, Jinan, China. Wang Changyu and Zhang Zhimin are Professors at the Insti- tute of Operations Research of Qufu Teacher's Univer- sity, Qufu, Shandong, China. Zhang Yunxiang and Wang Chuanjiang are Engineer and Agronomist, re- spectively, in the Agriculture Division Office of Jinan City, Shandong, China. The work described in their article is the result of the application of Operations Research to agricultural production. Zhao Qingzhen presented some of the results at the 1986 TIMS meeting in Australia.

Rakesh K. Sarin, see Sin Hoon Hum.

Charles P. Schmidt is Professor of Management Sci- ence in the College of Commerce and Business Adminis-

tration of the University of Alabama. He received his B.A., M.B.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His research interests center on the stochastic modeling of production and inventory systems.

Burton Simon, see Phillip J. Fleming.

Mitsushi Tamaki is Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Aichi University, Japan. His research focuses on sequential decision problems, especially the secretary or the best choice problem.

Lawrence M. Wein is Assistant Professor of Manage- ment Science at MIT's Sloan School of Management. His paper is part of an ongoing effort to obtain effective policies for queueing network scheduling problems using heavy traffic analysis.

John A. White is the Acting Deputy Director of NSF; he is serving there under an Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement between NSF and the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is Regent's Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Gwaltney Professor of Manufacturing. A founder of SysteCon, Inc., he served as its chairman until its merger with Coopers and Lybrand in 1984. He has consulted and lectured widely on his special interests: manufacturing, material han- dling, logistics, facilities planning, and economic justification.

Zhang Yunxiang, and Zhao Qingzhen.

Zhang Zhimin, and Zhao Qingzhen.



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Volume 39 March-April 1991 Number 2

IN THIS ISSUE 180 Optimal Scheduling of Inspections: A Delayed Markov Model With False Positives and Negatives 261

OR FORUM Suleyman Ozekici and Stanley R. Pliska

An Existence Theorem for OR/MS 183 A Secretary Problem With Uncertain John A. White Employment and Best Choice of Available

Candidates 274 Mitsushi Tamaki

OR PRACTICE Minimax Resource Allocation With Tree Structured Substitutable Resources 285

The Application of Operations Research in Rachelle S. Klein and Hanan Luss the Optimization of Agricultural Production 194

Zhao Qingzhen, Wang Changyu, Zhang Zhimin, Zhang Yunxiang and Simultaneous Product-Mix Planning, Lot Wang Chuanjiang Sizing and Scheduling at Bottleneck Facilities 296

Sin Hoon Hum and Rakesh K. Sarin

Decision Analysis Applications in the Operations Research Literature, 1970-1989 206 An (S - 1, S) Inventory System With

James L. Corner and Craig W. Kirkwood Emergency Orders 308 Kamran Moinzadeh and Charles P. Schmidt

ARTICLES

Brownian Networks With Discretionary A Rapid Method for Optimization of Linear Routing 322 Systems With Storage 220 Lawrence M. Wein

C. H. Bannister and R. J. Kaye

Optimal Data Verification Tests 341 Multi-Item Replenishment and Storage R. Avenhaus, H. P. Battenberg and Problem (MIRSP): Heuristics and Bounds 233 B. J. Falkowski

Shoshana Anily

Some Facets for an Assignment Problem CONTRIBUTORS 349 With Side Constraints 244

Ronny Aboudi and George L. Nemhauser

Cover illustration: The absolute error surface wvit/h Interpolation Approximations of Sojourn Bernoulli feedback. From Fleming and Simon, Time Distributions 251 "Interpolation Approximations of Sojourn Time

Philip J. Fleming and Burton Simon Distributions, "page 255.



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