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Op.erations Research

Volume 32 Number 3 May-June 1984

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Reliability and Maintainability

Practice

Operational Science

Methodologies

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Operations Research

EDITOR: Thomas L. Magnanti, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, Room E53-351, Cambridge, MA 02139

AREA EDITORS

Decision Analysis, Bargaining and Negotiation: David E. Bell, Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA 02163.

Defense and International Security: Jerome Bracken, Institute for Defense Analyses, 1801 N. Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311

Distribution, Networks, and Facility Planning: Bruce L. Golden, College of Business and Manage- ment, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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Interfaces with Computer Science: Jan Karel Lenstra, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, P. 0. Box 4079, 1009 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Natural Resource Management, Energy, and the Environment: Richard G. Richels, Energy Analysis and Environment Division, Electric Power Research Institute, 3412 Hiliview Avenue, P.O. Box 10412, Palo Alto, CA 94303

Optimization: Leslie E. Trotter, Jr., School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Upson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

OR Practice: Michael H. Rothkopf, Energy and Environment Division, Mail Stop 90-3125, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720.

Production and Scheduling, Inventory, and Materials Management: Hamilton Emmons, Depart- ment of Operations Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106

Simulation, Implementation, and Evaluation of Stochastk Models: Peter D. Welch, Room 31- 139, P.O. Box 218, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

Social Systems and the Pubik Sector: Richard C. Larson, Operations Research Center, Room E40-129, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02142

Stochastk Processes and Their Appikations: Daniel P. Heyman, Bell Communications Research Inc., Holmdel, NJ 07733

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