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Jonathan F. Bard is an associate professor of opera- Director, Defence Logistics Development and Re- tions research at the University of Texas at Austin. search for the Australian Department of Defence, The work described in the article is an example of his where he is collaborating with the co-authors on de- recent efforts to develop efficient procedures for solv- veloping efficiency based management systems for all ing large-scale dynamic optimization problems. The branches of the Australian military. Joyce J. Elam is author is currently working on several projects in an associate professor of information systems in the manufacturing that similarly appear to be quite diffi- College of Business at the University of Texas. She cult when first formulated, but which quickly become has done extensive work in the Decision Support manageable with the proper decomposition. Systems area. This article describes the methodology
that has been incorporated in a productivity assess- Michael Ball is a professor in the College of Business ment support system that is currently being used by and Management at the University of Maryland, and the authors to conduct productivity research in orga- Scott Provan is an associate professor in the Depart- nizations. ment of Operations Research at the University of North Carolina. Since they graduated from the School E. Wailand Bessent, see Authella Bessent. of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell, they have collaborated extensively on com- Charles T. Clark, see Authella Bessent. binatorial reliability problems. Professor Ball's disser- Eric V. Denardo, see Christopher S. Tang. tation was in the area of network reliability, whereas Professor Provan's was in the area of polyhedral com- D. D. Engel is the Branch Manager of the San Diego binatorics. Their joint work on reliability problems office of the Inter-National Research Institute (INRI); originated when Ball was illustrating some of the J. R. Weisinger is a Senior Associate at Daniel H. results from his dissertation for Rick Giles. At one Wagner, Associates (DHWA), Sunnyvale, California. point, Provan glanced over his shoulder and said, At the time their paper was written, both authors were "Those equations look like my equations." They, sub- employed at DHWA and were involved in search sequently, discovered that there was a profound con- related consulting work for the U.S. Navy and the nection between the two subject areas. In particular, U.S. Coast Guard. Their paper describes an approach the class of shellable systems defined and studied in to modeling the effectiveness of what was probably the field of polyhedral combinatorics has a natural the original search sensor-the human eye. definition in terms of reliability properties. This paper ("Disjoint Products and Efficient Computation of Re- Joyce J. Elam, see Authella Bessent. liability") as well as others they have written show that shellable systems have important applications in com- A. Federgruen is a professor of management science binatorial and network reliability. and operations management at the Graduate School
of Business of Columbia University. Henri Groenevelt Authella M. Bessent is an associate professor of man- is an assistant professor of operations management at agement science and information systems at the Uni- the William E. Simon School of Business Administra- versity of Texas at Austin. She is also Co-Director of tion of the University of Rochester. Their paper was the Educational Productivity Council (EPC) at the motivated by the study of production facilities that University of Texas, and is engaged in programmatic manufacture batch orders for a number of distinct research with efficiency models. E. Wailand Bessent products with the same equipment and/or operators. is a professor of educational administration at the The authors have addressed related design problems University of Texas at Austin and is Co-Director, with of priority disciplines in general queueing systems in Authella Bessent, of the EPC, collaborating on the "The Impact of the Composition of the Customer management of the productivity of schools and col- Base Queueing Model" (Journal of Applied Probabil- leges. Charles Tr Clarkwas formerly an associate ity, 1987) andin "M/G/c Queueing Systemswith professor of logistics management at the Air Force Multiple Customer Classes; Characterization and Institute of Technology in Dayton, Ohio. Lt. Col. Control Under Nonpreemptive Priority Rules" (to Clark is currently an exchange officer serving as appear in Management Science).
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Henri Groenevelt, see A. Federgruen. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Joanna M. Leleno is an assistant professor in the
Leonard Kleinrock is a professor of computer science Department of Mathematical Sciences at Virginia at the University of California, Los Angeles. He cur- Commonwealth University. Both authors have re- rently works on the analysis and design of computer search interests in optimization and mathematical networks, local area networks and distributed systems, programming with applications to location theory and including distributed communications, distributed economics. This paper is part of Dr. Leleno's disser- processing and distributed control. Hanoch Levy is tation, and is one in a series of papers by Professor presently a professor of computer science at Tel Aviv Sherali dealing with the characterization and compu- University, Tel Aviv, Israel. His research focuses pi-f tation of economic equilibrium solutions. The authors marily on the performance, analysis and design of have recently completed a follow-up paper that ana- algorithms for computer and communication net- lyzes a two-stage leader-follower model. works. Their article is part of Hanoch Levy's doctoral dissertation (in computer science, UCLA), which was Laszlo Somlyody is the Director of the Research Cen- supervised by Professor Kleinrock. This work emerged ter for Water Resources Development in Budapest, from an effort to analyze a variation of Slotted Hungary, and Roger Wets is a professor at the Uni- ALOHA called Exhaustive Slotted ALOHA, which is versity of California at Davis. Because the ecological a shared communication broadcasting scheme. The environment is uncertain, it is vital to allow for pos- original scheme coordinates the behavior of indepen- sible variations in parameters of a descriptive model dent stations to achieve efficient use of a broadcast for the eutrophication process. That led to a consi- channel, and the exhaustive scheme improves the deration of stochastic models. The authors were system's performance by letting the stations exhaust able to incorporate this model in a management- their buffers. optimization model because recent developments in
Joanna M. Leleno, see Hanif D. Sherali. stochastic programming provided relatively efficient solution techniques.
Hanoch Levy, see Leonard Kleinrock.
J. Christopher Mitchell is an assistant vice president Christopher S. Tang is an assistant professor of man- at Citibank, New York, New York. His work on agement science at the UCLA Anderson Graduate production and inventory systems began with his dis- School of Management. Eric V. Denardo is a professor sertation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel of operations research at Yale's School of Organiza- Hill, and continued when he was with AT&T Bell tion and Management. Their article arose from the Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey. He is currently need to reduce machine setups for a production sys- involved in trading financial futures using computer- tem at IBM. Their current research is on the produc- based technical analysis. tion control of automated manufacturing systems.
Marc E. Posner is an associate professor of operations Harvey M. Wagner is a professor at the Graduate research in the Industrial and Systems Engineering School of Business and the Department of Operations Department at Ohio State University. Much of Pro- Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. fessor Posner's current research is in the area of This paper is the text of the Harold Larnder Memorial machine scheduling. A previous paper, "Minimizing Lecture presented on May 25, 1988, to the meeting of Weighted Completion Times with Deadlines," the Canadian Operations Society in Montreal. The (Operations Research, 33, 562-574) discusses the paper's theme stems from Professor Wagner's more same scheduling problem, where an optimal proce- than 25 years of experience in applying advanced dure was developed using a new method for finding operations research theory to actual industrial situa- lower bounds. A natural outgrowth of that paper is tions as a consultant to the firm of McKinsey & Co. Dr. Posner's current research, an examination of the Professor Wagner's current research activity concen- efficiency of approximate methods by considering trates on developing microcomputer-based systems for upper bounds. handling large-scale optimizing and simulation
models. J. Scott Provan, see Michael 0. Ball.
James R. Weisinger, see D. D. Engel. Hanif D. Sherali is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Roger J.-B. Wets, see Laszlo Somlyody.
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Christopher S. Tang and Eric V. Denardo
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