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Athanassios N. Avramidis is Senior Consultant at SABRE Decision Technologies, Paris, France. His current research interests are in probabilitistic and statistical issues in the design and analysis of simulation experiments. More generally, he is interested in applications of probability and statistics to decision making.

Joanna R. Baker is Professor and Head of the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at James Madison University. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering Management/Systems Engineering from Clemson University. Her research areas include multiple criteria decision making in public systems, survival modeling-based forecasting for ca- pacitated systems, and applications of quality control methodology to monitoring drug use in the public sector.

Dimitris Bertsimas is Professor of Operations Research at the Sloan School of Management and the Operations Research Center at MIT. His interests include stochastic and discrete optimization, as well as performance analysis and optimization of queueing systems.

Gagan L. Choudhury is a Technical Manager at the AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J. David M. Lucantoni is a co-founder of IsoQuantic Technologies, LLC; IQ Tech develops network-level software solutions for the wireless and wireline telecommunications industry. The paper in this issue reflects their interest in developing efficient numerical algorithms for the performance analysis of tele- communication and computer systems.

Eric V. Denardo is Professor of Operations Research at Yale University. In recent years, his interest has turned to problems in decision making under uncertainty that are far too complex to solve exactly. He has sought classes of control rules that model the essential tradeoffs, are easily understood, and are mathematically tractable. Propor- tional restoration rules for production scheduling have these properties, as do his cost-based rules for routing telecommunications traffic.

Donald D. Eisenstein, see Ananth V. Iyer.

Jacques A. Ferland is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal. His research interests include timetabling and scheduling, energy distribution models, health care'\odels, generalized convexity theory, and decision support systems. He received prizes in the 1988 and 1990 OR Applications Competition from the Canadian Operations Society.

Alain Hertz is Assistant Professor in Operations Research at Ecole Polytechnique Feddrale de Lausanne, Switzer- land. His main interests are combinatorial optimization,

graph theory, algorithmics, the design of solution methods based on life sciences, the development of decision aid systems for the solution of real-life problems in production, distribution, timetabling, and scheduling. He is vice- president and president-elect of the Swiss 0. R. Society.

Charles J. Hitch (1910-1995) was ORSA's eighth president. After gaining a degree at the University of Arizona, he became a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. After obtaining a Master's Degree in 1935 he remained there as a Fellow of Queen's College until 1948, with time out for wartime service. From 1948 to 1961 he was head of the Economics Division at RAND, after which he served as Comptroller of the U.S. Defense Department for four years. Then he went to the University of California system, where, after two years as vice chancellor for fiscal affairs, he succeeded Clark Kerr as president, remaining in this post until 1978. He retired after three years as president of Resources for the Future.

Ananth V. Iyer is Associate Professor of Production Management and Donald D. Eisenstein is Assistant Professor of Production Management at the Graduate School of Business, both at the University of Chicago. The work in this article is part of their research in using trans- actional data from logistics systems to develop appropriate models for system improvement. The paper illustrates the steps of data analysis, model justification, implementation, and analysis of the impact of the implementation.

Pamela K. Lattimore is Senior Research Associate and Director of Intramural Research for the National Institute of Justice. Her research includes the development and implementation of survival-based classification systems for probationers, the evaluation of quality-control approaches for drug testing programs, and investigations of the corre- lates of criminal recidivism. She holds a Ph.D. in Econom- ics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alain Lavoie is a computer analyst in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Uni- versity of Montreal, where he obtained his master's degree. He is involved in developing computer software for timetabling problems and decision support systems. In 1990, his master's thesis was selected as a runner-up in the competition for the best student paper from the Canadian Operations Research Society.

Thomas Y. S. Lee is Assistant Professor in the Information and Decision Sciences Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The thrust of his research is to model operations management problems and to use operations research methodology to gain insight about the tradeoffs in

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these problems. Recently, he has focused on decision making under uncertainty with applications to managing wait- ing lines, production scheduling, and telecommunications.

Liu Liwei is Associate Professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China, where his research focuses on stochastic duels, shot strategies, and shot effectiveness analysis. He received a master's degree in military OR in 1986.

David M. Lucantoni, see Gagan L. Choudhury.

Lance A. Matheson is Associate Professor of Management Science at Virginia Tech. He holds a Ph.D. in Manage- ment Science from the University of Washington. His pri- mary research interests are the economic analysis of quality control procedures and integrating quality control into the design of production systems.

John Miyamoto is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Peter Wakker is Associate Professor in the Medical Decision Making Unit at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. Both authors study the mathematical analysis of nonexpected utility theory and the implementation of utility theories in medical decision analysis. The present work developed from their attempts to find a theoretical basis for ongoing research in health utility analysis.

Anna Nagurney, whose research involves the development and solution of large-scale equilibrium models in economics and transportation, is Professor in the Department of Finance and Operations Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is a recipient of an NSF Faculty Award for Women. Sten Thore is the Gregory A. Kozmetsky Centennial Fellow at the IC2 Institute and a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published in the areas of resource and supply systems modelling, industry logistics, and the economics of high technology. Jie Pan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He has published on variational inequalities and economic equilibria. This paper is an outgrowth of a problem posed by Sten Thore while Jie Pan was a doctoral student at the Univer- sity of Massachusetts and builds on the authors' interests in computational economics.

Jie Pan, see Anna Nagurney.

Giovanni Parmigiani is Assistant Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University. His research is in stochastic modelling and simulation, particularly as applied to medical decision making. Recent methodological work includes Bayesian models for predictions incorporat- ing uncertainty about variable selection, model criticism diagnostics, and stochastic optimization algorithms for

Bayesian experimental design. Recent applied work includes extensive involvement with the Duke PORT project on stroke and the Duke SPORE project in breast cancer.

Richard E. Rosenthal is Professor of Operations Research at the Naval Postgraduate School. He has wide teaching, research, and consulting experience in the application of optimization to industry, government, and the military. He is the winner of a Fulbright Award (1981), a National Academy of Sciences Senior Postdoctoral Research Award (1984), and the Koopman (1990), Barchi (1992), and Rist (1993) Prizes for military applications of operations research. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Naval Research Logis- tics and has served as an associate editor of Operations Research and Management Science.

David Simchi-Levi is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. Some of the work described in this article grew out of his interest in the analysis and development of effective algorithms for logistics problems. He has implemented many of the algorithms presented here in decision support systems that include a Geographic Information System (GIS) and various databases.

Sten Thore, see Anna Nagurney.

Peter Wakker, see John Miyamoto.

William J. Walsh is a Principal with SABRE Decision Technologies, where he manages the marketing, development, and installation of demand and revenue forecasting systems for airlines around the world. He entered the U.S. Navy as a Seaman and retired as a Lieutenant Commander, having served as a Naval Flight Officer, and, in his last tour, as an Instructor at the Naval Postgraduate School. He earned a B.A. in mathematics from Miami University of Ohio and an M.S. in operations research from NPS.

James R. Wilson is Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Industrial Engineering of North Carolina State University. His current research interests are focused on the design and analysis of simulation experiments. He also has an active interest in applications of operations research techniques to all areas of industrial engineering.

Gang Yu is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. His research involves industrial applications of large-scale combinatorial and network optimization models. During the past five years, he has focused on designing and building decision support systems for industry and government agencies, including United Airlines, IBM, EDS, Continental Airlines, Tracor, and the U.S. Navy.



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Volume 44 March-April 1996 Number 2

EDITORIAL AND AREA EDITORS' An Object-Oriented Methodology for Solving STATEMENTS 246 Assignment-Type Problems With Neighborhood

Search Techniques 347 IN THIS ISSUE 254 Jacques A. Ferland, Alain Hertz

and Alain Lavoie OR FORUM

Optimal Scheduling of Fallible Inspections 360 Management Problems of Large Organizations 257 Giovanni Parmigiani

Charles J. Hitch Numerical Computation of the Moments of a

OR PRACTICE Probability Distribution From Its Transform 368 Gagan L. Choudhury and David M. Lucantoni

Separating Logistics Flows in the Chicago Public School System 265 Managing Uncertainty in a Serial Production Line 382

Donald D. Eisenstein and Ananth V. Iyer Eric V. Denardo and Thomas Y. S. Lee

Monitoring Drug Use Using Bayesian Acceptance Spatial Market Policy Modeling With Goal Sampling: The Illinois Experiment 274 Targets 393

Pamela K. Lattimore, Joanna R. Baker and Anna Nagurney, Sten Thore and Jie Pan Lance A. Matheson

On the Max-Min 0-1 Knapsack Problem With

SURVEY, EXPOSITORY & TUTORIAL Robust Optimization Applications 407 Gang Yu

A New Generation of Vehicle Routing Research: Robust Algorithms, Addressing Uncertainty 286 TECHNICAL NOTE

Dimitris J. Bertsimas and David Simchi-Levi Comments on "Some Discrete Processes in the

ARTICLES Theory of Stochastic Duels" 416 Liu Liwei

Optimizing Flight Operations for an Aircraft Carrier in Transit 305 CONTRIBUTORS 418

Richard E. Rosenthal and William J. Walsh OPERATIONS RESEARCH EDITORIAL POLICY

Multiattribute Utility Theory Without Expected Utility Foundations 313

John M. Miyamoto and Peter Wak1er Cover illustration: Reproduction of an aircraft carrier, drawn by Harry Briggs. From

Integrated Variance Reduction Strategies for Rosenthal and Walsh, "Optimizing Simulation 327 Flight Operations For an Aircraft

Athanassios N. Avramidis and James R. Wilson Carrier in Transit, " p. 305.



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