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Dimitris Bertsimas is a Professor of Operations Research at the Sloan School of Management and the Operations Research Center at MIT. His interests include discrete optimization and performance analysis, and optimization of stochastic queueing systems. Georgia Mourtzinou is a post-doctoral associate at the Operations Research Center at MIT. Her research interests include modeling and opti- mization of stochastic systems with applications in queue- ing theory and finance. Their article in this issue is part of Dr. Mourtzinou's dissertation under Professor Bertsimas' supervision.
Lucio Bianco is a Professor of Operations Research at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Italy. His research in- terests focus on combinatorial optimization methods and the application of mathematical programming to transpor- tation and scheduling. Aristide Mingozzi is an Associate Professor of Operations Research at the University of Bo- logna, Italy. His main interests are mathematical program- ming, combinatorial optimization, graph theory, dynamic programming, and the development of exact and heuristic algorithms for the solution of real-life problems in distri- bution and scheduling. Salvatore Ricciardelli is an Associ- ate Professor of Operations Research at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Italy. His research interests include the design of combinatorial optimization methods for rout- ing and project scheduling problems. This paper grew out of their joint interest in the development of efficient algo- rithms for solving routing problems with real-life constraints.
Gagan L. Choudhury is a technical manager at AT & T Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ where his group is responsi- ble for the performance assessment of various AT & T products and services based on modeling and simulation. David M. Lucantoni is vice president and chief technical officer for IsoQuantic Technologies, LLC, Wayside, NJ. IQ Tech develops network-level software solutions for the wireless and wireline telecommunications industry. Ward Whitt is a member of the Network Mathematics Research Department in AT & T Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. Their paper is a continuation of their work on the numer- ical inversion of multidimensional transforms and its appli- cation to compute performance characteristics in stochastic models.
Matteo Fischetti is a full Professor of Optimization in the School of Mathematics of the University of Udine. Juan Jose Salazar Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of Opera- tions Research in the School of Mathematics of the
University of La Laguna. Paolo Toth is a full Professor of Optimization Algorithms in the School of Engineering of the University of Bologna. Their main research interests are related to combinatorial and graph theory and applica- tions. The present article grew out of Dr. Salazar's doc- toral dissertation.
Marshall Fisher is the Stephen J. Heyman Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is currently focused on managing the supply of products with difficult to predict demand, particularly how retailers are using information technology to forecast and plan inventories. Kurt 0. Jornsten is a Professor in the De- partment of Finance and Management Science at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administra- tion. His current research interests include network opti- mization, vehicle routing, decomposition, and multiple criteria games. Oli B. G. Madsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Modeling at the Tech- nical University of Denmark. His current research inter- ests include vehicle routing and scheduling, large-scale mathematical programming, and yield management. Their work for this article grew out of the authors' long lasting interest in the application of mathematical programming based methods for solving vehicle routing problems.
Nicholas G. Hall is a Professor of Management Sciences and Operations Management at The Ohio State Univer- sity. His main research interest is the integration of tactical control decisions with issues that arise in modern manufac- turing environments, in particular those related to sched- uling. He is the author of the operations research chapter in the Handbook of Industrial Robotics (second edition, John Wiley & Sons, forthcoming). Hichem Kamoun is an Assistant Professor at the Faculte des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax, Tunisia. His research interests include scheduling in modern manufacturing sys- tems and supply chain management. Chelliah Sriskan- darajah is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie in the general areas of production planning and scheduling, machine scheduling theory, modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems, and the design of cellu- lar manufacturing systems. Their article grew out of their joint interests in integrated manufacturing systems and is based on part of Professor Kamoun's dissertation at the University of Toronto.
Wallace J. Hopp is the Breed University Professor of Man- ufacturing Management in the McCormick School of En- gineering at Northwestern University, where he is the Director of the Master of Management in Manufacturing
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program. His research involves stochastic modeling to sup- port the design and control of production systems. Mark L. Spearman is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. His current re- search is in the areas of production scheduling, facility design, and development of improved control systems. Rachel Q. Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research interests center on inventory control. This paper, and Zhang's dissertation at Northwestern, grew out of a project to develop better inventory control methods for a manufacturer of mail processing equipment.
Jornsten, Kurt O., see Marshall Fisher.
Kamoun, Hichem, see Nicholas G. Hall.
Niklas Kohl, Ph.D., is consultant at COWI Consulting En- gineers and Planners in Copenhagen, Denmark, and an ex- ternal Associate Professor in the Department of Operations Research at the University of Copenhagen. Oli B. G. Madsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathemat- ical Modeling at the Technical University of Denmark. His current research interests include vehicle routing and scheduling, large-scale mathematical programming, yield management, and applications of mathematical program- ming. Their work for this article grew out of the authors' interest in the combination of nonsmooth optimization and large-scale mathematical programming.
Phillip J. Lederer is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of Rochester. His research is focused on the economic analysis of oper- ations management problems. His diverse interests in op- erations span the topics of network competition, technology acquisition and capital structure, production control systems, and time based competition. Lode Li is a Professor at the Yale School of Management. His recent research involves the economics of operations such as pric- ing and operation decisions in time-sensitive, competitive markets, coordination of multinational production net- works, and coordination of production, financing, and div- idend policies.
Li, Lode, see Phillip J. Lederer.
Wei Shi Lim is a Lecturer in Decision Sciences at the Na- tional University of Singapore. Steve Alpern is a Professor of Mathematics at the London School of Economics (LSE). Anatole Beck is a Professor of Mathematics at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin and a Distinguished Visitor at the Centre for Discrete and Applicable Mathematics at the LSE. Their work for this article began with Dr. Lim's disserta- tion with Professor Alpern, and combines Professor
Alpern's work on rendezvous search with Professor Beck's work on the linear search problem. The authors are fre- quent collaborators.
Lucantoni, David M., see Gagan L. Choudhury.
Madsen, Oli B. G.., see Niklas Kohl and Marshall Fisher.
Joseph Mazzola and Kevin McCardle are both Associate Professors in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke Uni- versity. Their research interests span operations research, decisions sciences, and operations management. Both share a common interest in the management of process innovation. This paper grew out of a conversation about how a firm might value a process innovation. They plan to continue exploration of this topic, using the groundwork developed in this article.
McCardle, Kevin, see Joseph Mazzola.
Mingozzi, Aristide, see Lucio Bianco.
Mourtzinou, Georgia, see Dimitris Bertsimas.
Frederic H. Murphy is a Professor of Management Sci- ence/Operations Management in the School of Business and Management at Temple University. His research in- terests include model formulation technologies and what makes a formulation successful, computing economic equi- libria, and energy policy analysis. Venkat Panchandam is a logistic engineer with Schneider Logistics, where he works in logistics modeling and planning.
Panchandam, Venkat, see Frederic H. Murphy.
Ricciardelli, Salvatore, see Lucio Bianco.
Salazar, Juan Jose Gonzalez, see Matteo Fischetti.
J. George Shanthikumar is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California at Berkeley. Susan H. Xu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at the Pennsylvania State University. Their research interests are related to queuing theory and applications.
Spearman, Mark L., see Wallace J. Hopp.
Sriskandarajah, Chelliah, see Nicholas G. Hall.
Toth, Paolo, see Matteo Fischetti.
Whitt, Ward, see Gagan L. Choudhury.
Xu, Susan H., see J. George Shanthikumar.
Zhang, Rachel Q., see Wallace J. Hopp.
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