Back MatterSource: Operations Research, Vol. 46, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1998), pp. 937-939Published by: INFORMSStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/222947 .

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Eitan Altman has been with INRIA (National Research Institute in Informatics and Control) in Sophia-Antipolis, France, since 1990. His current research interests include performance evaluation and control of telecommunication networks, stochastic control, and dynamic games. Nahum Shimkin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Elec- trical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His research interests include stochastic anal- ysis, in particular stochastic control, dynamic games, and adaptive systems. This work is part of the authors' ongoing research on game-theoretic analysis of queueing and tele- communication systems.

Robert F. Bordley of GM's Knowledge Network has served in a wide variety of roles at General Motors including managing the R&D Portfolio, the mission analysis group for GM's Systems Engineering Center, and an R&D Cen- ter decision support systems activity. He was also director of the Decision Risk and Management Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation and has been an ad- junct professor with Oakland University for several years. He has published over sixty papers in journals of opera- tions research, management science, economics, statistics, and quantum physics. He is currently Chair of the Risk Section of the American Statistical Association and a member of the INFORMS Roundtable.

John Butler, see Jim Dyer.

Alberto Caprara is an Assistant Professor of Operations Research, Paolo Toth is a Professor of Combinatorial Op- timization, and Daniele Vigo is an Associate Professor of Operations Research, all in the School of Engineering of the University of Bologna. Matteo Fischetti is a Professor of Operations Research in the School of Engineering of the University of Padova. Their main research interests are related to combinatorial optimization, graph theory, and their applications. In particular, they have recently carried out an intense collaboration with the Italian state railway company for the design of algorithms for railway crew management and vehicle scheduling, which motivated the research presented in this paper. The present article grew out of Dr. Caprara's doctoral dissertation, which was as- signed the 1997 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award of INFORMS.

Xiuli Chao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at the New Jer- sey Institute of Technology. He is currently a visiting As- sociate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia Uni- versity. Masakiyo Miyazawa is a Professor in the Depart- ment of Information Sciences at the Science University of Tokyo. The authors began their collaboration when both

attended a stochastic network conference at Columbia University in November 1995.

Richard E. Chatwin is a Principal Consultant at Applied Decision Analysis, a subsidiary of Price Waterhouse Coo- pers, in Menlo Park, California. His article is derived from work conducted as part of Dr. Chatwin's dissertation un- der Professor Arthur F. Veinott, Jr., in the Department of Operations Research at Stanford University. Currently Dr. Chatwin leads the development of ADA and PWC's bur- geoning practice in Real Options Valuation.

Jim Dyer is the Fondren Centennial Chair in Business in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at The University of Texas at Austin. Tom Ed- munds is a member of the staff of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. During the period required for the analysis of the alternatives for the disposition of plutonium, he was on leave from the Na- tional Laboratory and assigned to the Office of Fissile Ma- terials Disposition at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. John Butler is a Visiting Assistant Pro- fessor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems in the College of Business Administration at The Ohio State University. Jianmin Jia is an Associate Profes- sor in the Department of Marketing at the Chinese Uni- versity of Hong Kong. Professors Dyer, Butler, and Jia are currently collaborating on a research effort related to the development of formal models of risk-value trade-offs.

Tom Edmunds, see Jim Dyer.

Awi Federgruen is the Charles E. Exley Professor of Man- agement and Senior Vice Dean at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. Ziv Katalan is an Assis- tant Professor in the Operations and Information Manage- ment Department of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The paper in this issue is part of an inten- sive research project on production strategies for stochas- tic multi-item capacitated systems. This project has resulted in the following earlier papers: "The Impact of Setup Times on The Performance of Multi-Class Service and Production Systems" (Operations Research 1996), "The Stochastic Economic Lot Scheduling Problem: Cyclical Base-Stock Policies with Idle Times" (Management Science 1996), and "Customer Waiting Time Distributions under Base-Stock Policies in Single Facility Multi-Item Produc- tion Systems" (Naval Research Logistics 1996).

Matteo Fischetti, see Alberto Caprara.

Paul Glasserman is a Professor at the Columbia Univer- sity Graduate School of Business. Yashan Wang is an As- sistant Professor at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Both are

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interested in the stochastic modeling of production- inventory systems. This paper is part of a larger project of using insights derived by examining system behavior at high service levels to evaluate and optimize inventory models.

Thomas Grant is an Associate Director with Bear, Stearns and Company in New York, where he is involved in the development of financial software applications for fixed- income trading. Prior to joining Bear, Stearns, Mr. Grant worked for 10 years as a hardware and software engineer in the defense industry, where he was involved in the de- sign and development of advanced sonar systems, digital communications and test equipment, and HF radio sys- tems. His current technical interests focus on the construc- tion of financial software systems using object-oriented technologies.

Peter Hahn is a Consulting Engineer with Sci-Tech Ser- vices, Inc., where he has been providing systems engineer- ing services to firms involved in postal systems research and development. Prior to joining Sci-Tech Services, Dr. Hahn held various management and senior engineering positions at General Electric Aerospace, RCA Corpora- tion and Ford Aerospace and Communications Corpora- tion. He participated in the design of sonar and radar signal processors, military voice and data communication systems, OCR and mail sorting systems, physical security systems, and renewable energy sources. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Systems Engineering at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania and an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Drexel University. His current research in- terest is in combinatorial optimization. Dr. Hahn is a member of INFORMS and SIAM, and is a senior member of IEEE.

Jianmin Jia, see Jim Dyer.

Philip Kaminsky is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. David Simchi-Levi is a Professor of Industrial Engineering at the McCormick School of Engi- neering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University. The work described in their article in this issue is based on Professor Kaminsky's dissertation written under the super- vision of Professor Simchi-Levi. It grew out of the authors' experience assisting with scheduling-related issues at a manufacturing company in Chicago.

Roman Kapuscinski is an Assistant Professor of Opera- tions Management at the University of Michigan Business School. His current research interests include structural properties of capacitated systems, lead-time quotation, and value-chain analysis. Sridhar Tayur is a Professor at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. He has implemented systems based on his research at several firms including GE (kanban sys- tems, stochastic cyclic schedules, and rules for lead time quotation), a subsidiary of American Airlines (logistics of

Time-shared Jet Aircraft), and Caterpillar (a responsive supply chain for a new line of products).

Ziv Katalan, see Awi Federgruen.

Erwin van der Laan, see Ad Ridder.

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 research inter- ests in operations span the topics of network competition, capital justification, technology acquisition and capital structure, production control systems, time based competi- tion, services, and quality management. He recently edited the volume The Practice of TQM (with U.S. Karmarkar), published by Kluwer Academic Press. Ramakrishnan S. Nambimadom is an officer at ABN-AMRO in Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration in 1994. Formerly he was an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Weatherhead School of Case Western Reserve University.

Masakiyo Miyazawa, see Xiuli Chao.

Ramakrishnan S. Nambimadom, see Phillip J. Lederer.

Stephen G. Nash is the Associate Dean of the School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Ma- son University. His research interests are in numerical analysis, particularly linear algebra and function minimiza- tion. The paper in this issue arose from his ongoing fasci- nation with the history of scientific computing.

S. Rajagopalan is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California. This article is part of the author's research in the area of capacity and technology acquisition. The work was also motivated by his desire to unify the key elements of capacity expansion and equipment replace- ment models in an integrated model. His research also includes work in operations planning and scheduling and quality and the application of operations research models in industry.

Ad Ridder is an Associate Professor of Operations Re- search at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. His main interests are queueing, large deviations, and simulations. Erwin van der Laan's main research interests are in pro- duction planning and inventory control in presence of re- cycling and remanufacturing. Currently he holds a postdoctoral position at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Marc Salomon is the Director of Research and Administrative Staff at McKinsey & Company in the Neth- erlands, and a full Professor in the Department of Econo- metrics at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Marc Salomon, see Ad Ridder.

Nahum Shimkin, see Eitan Altman.

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David Simchi-Levi, see Philip Kaminsky.

Jing-Sheng (Jeannette) Song is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Irvine. Professor Song's primary research in- terests lie in production and inventory management and its role in supply chain management. The current paper, which was first motivated by a consulting experience, is

part of a larger research project on the design and control of assemble-to-order manufacturing systems.

Sridhar Tayur, see Roman Kapuscinski.

Daniele Vigo, see Alberto Caprara.

Yashan Wang, see Paul Glassermen.

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