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VOLUME 32-1984

Author Index-Articles, Letters, Technical Notes A

ADAMS, WARREN P., see SHERALI AND ADAMS, 878-900

AGRAWAL, AVINASH, AND RICHARD E. BAR- LOW, A Survey of Network Reliability and Domination Theory, 478-492

AND A. SATYANARAYNA, On 0(1 E 1) Time Algorithm for Computing the Relia- bility of a Class of Directed Networks, 493- 515

ALBIN, SUSAN L., Approximating a Point Process by a Renewal Process, II: Super- position Arrival Processes to Queues, 1133-1162

ASSAF, DAVID, NAFTALI A. LANGBERG, THOMAS H. SAVITS AND MOSHE SHAKED, Multivariate Phase-type Distributions, 688-702

B

BABAD, YAIR M., AND JEFFREY A. HOFFER, A Mathematical Programming Model for the Location of Access Controls in a Dis- tributed Data Base Environment, 23-40

BAGCHI, UTTARAYAN, A Note on Linearly Decreasing, Delay-Dependent Non-Pre- emptive Queue Disciplines (technical note), 952-957

BALL, MICHAEL O., see SCOTT AND BALL, 516-526

BARLOW, RICHARD E., see AGRAWAL AND BARLOW, 478-492

BEAN, JAMES C., A Lagrangian Algorithm for the Multiple Choice Integer Program (technical note), 1185-1193

BENDELL, A., AND N. H. SCOTT, Nested Renewal Processes with Special Erlangian Densities, 1345-1357

BERG, MENACHEM, A Preventive Replace- ment Policy for Units Subject to Intermit- tent Demand, 584-595

BERGMAN, Bo, AND BENGT KLEFSJO, The Total Time on Test Concept and Its Use in Reliability Theory, 596-606

BHATTACHARYA, P. K., see GASTWIRTH AND BHATTACHARYA, 527-536

BITRAN, GABRIEL R., AND HORACIO H. YANASSE, Deterministic Approximation to Stochastic Production Problems, 999-1018

BLOCK, H. W., AND T. H. SAVITS, Contin- uous Multistate Structure Functions, 703- 714

BLOOM, JEREMY A., MICHAEL CARAMANIS AND LEONID CHARNY, Long-Range Gen- eration Planning Using Generalized Benders' Decomposition: Implementation and Experience, 290-313

BLUMENTHAL, SAUL, J. ARTHUR GREEN- WOOD AND LEON H. HERBACH, Series Systems and Reliability Demonstration Tests, 641-648

BORISON, ADAM B., PETER A. MORRIS, AND SHMUEL S. OREN, A State-of-the-World Decomposition Approach to Dynamics and Uncertainty in Electric Utility Generation Expansion Planning, 1052-1068

BOYLES, RUSSELL, A., AND FRANCISCO J. SAMANIEGO, Estimating a Survival Curve when New Is Better than Used, 732-740

BRILL, PERCY H., AND JACOB HORNIK, A System Point Approach to Nonuniform Advertising Insertions, 7-22

BROWN, GERALD G., In Remembrance of Richard Clasen (letter to editor), 969-970

BROWN, J. RANDALL, The Linear Sharing Problem, 1087-1106

BROWN, MARK, On the Reliability of Repair- able Systems, 607-615

BURSTEIN, MICHAEL C., CHRISTOPHER H. NEVISON AND ROBERT C. CARLSON, Dy- namic Lot-Sizing when Demand Timing Is Uncertain, 362-379

BUTLER, DAVID A., AND GERALD J. LIEBER- MAN, Inspection Policies for Fault Loca- tion, 566-574

BYERS, THOMAS H., AND MICHAEL S. WA- TERMAN, Determining All Optimal and Near-Optimal Solutions when Solving Shortest Path Problems by Dynamic Pro- gramming (technical note), 1381-1384

C

CARAMANIS, MICHAEL, see BLOOM, CARA- MANIS AND CHARNY, 290-313

CARLSON, ROBERT C., see BURSTEIN, NEV- ISON AND CARLSON, 362-379

CARPANETO, GIORGIO, SILVANO MARTELLO AND PAOLO TOTH, An Algorithm for the

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1386 Index to Volume 32

Bottleneck Traveling Salesman Problem, 380-389

CHARNY, LEONID, see BLOOM, CARAMANIS AND CHARNY, 290-213

CHOO, ENG UNG., Proper Efficiency and the Linear Fractional Vector Maximum Prob- lem (technical note), 216-220

CLASEN, RICHARD J., The Solution of the Chemical Equilibrium Programming Problem with Generalized Bender's De- composition, 70-79

CUNNINGHAM, W. PEYTON, DENYS FREE- MAN AND JOSEPH F. MCCLOSKEY, Of Ra- dar and Operations Research: An Appre- ciation of A. P. Rowe (1898-1976) (OR forum), 958-967

D

DAFERMOS, STELLA, AND ANNA NAGUR- NEY, Sensitivity Analysis for the General Spatial Economic Equilibrium Problem, 1069-1086

DERMAN, C., G. J. LIEBERMAN AND S. M. Ross, On the Use of Replacements to Ex- tend System Life, 616-627

DINTERSMITH, TED, A Separating Choice Hyperplane Algorithm for Evaluating Multiattribute Decisions, 1328-1344

DITTMAN, DAVID A., see MOREY AND DITT- MAN, 250-269

DODIN, BAJIS, Determining the K Most Crit- ical Paths in PERT Networks, 859-877

DOWNS, T., see EVERITT AND DOWNS, 796- 808

E

EAGLE, JAMES N., The Optimal Search for a Moving Target when the Search Path Is Constrained, 1107-1115

EHRHARDT, RICHARD, (s, S) Policies for a Dynamic Inventory Model with Stochastic Lead Times, 121-132

EVERITT, D. W., AND T. DOWNS, The Out- put of the MIMIS Queue, 796-808

F

FAALAND, BRUCE, A Weighted Selection Al- gorithm for Certain Tree-Structured Lin- ear Programs, 405-422

FEDERGRUEN, AwI, AND PAUL ZIPKIN, A Combined Vehicle Routing and Inventory Allocation Problem, 1019-1037

AND An Efficient Algorithm for Computing Optimal (s, S) Policies, 1268- 1285

AND Computational Issues in an Infinite-Horizon, Multiechelon Inventory Model, 818-832

FILIPIAK, JANUSZ, Dynamic Routing in a Queueing System with a Multiple Service Facility, 1163-1180

FISHBURN, PETER C., Equity Axioms for Public Risks, 901-908

FOLEY, R. D., see SOYSTER, FOLEY AND MURPHY (technical note), 945-951

FREEMAN, DENYS, see CUNNINGHAM, FREEMAN AND MCCLOSKEY (OR forum), 958-967

FREUND, DWIGHT, AND UMESH SAXENA, An Algorithm for a Class of Discrete Max- imum Entropy Problems (technical note), 210-215

FUHRMANN, S. W., A Note on the MIG11 Queue with Server Vacations (technical note), 1368-1373

G GASTWIRTH, J. L., AND P. K. BHATTA-

CHARYA, Two Probability Models of Pyra- mid or Chain Letter Schemes Demonstrat- ing that Their Promotional Claims Are Unreliable, 527-536

GERCHAK, YIGAL, Decreasing Failure Rates and Related Issues in the Social Sciences, 537-546

GREENWOOD, J. ARTHUR, see BLUMEN- THAL, GREENWOOD AND HERBACH, 641- 648

GROSS, DONALD, AND DOUGLAS R. MIL- LER, The Randomization Technique as a Modeling Tool and Solution Procedure for Transient Markov Processes, 343-361

GROTSCHEL, MARTIN, MICHAEL JUNGER AND GERHARD REINELT, A Cutting Plane Algorithm for the Linear Ordering Prob- lem, 1195-1220

H

HAHN, ROBERT W., On Reconciling Conflict- ing Goals: Applications of Multiobjective Programming (technical note), 221-228

HARVEY, CHARLES M., Assessment of Risk Attitude by a Utility Dependence Condi- tion (technical note), 457-464

HASSIN, RAFAEL, A. Dichotomous Search for a Geometric Random Variable, 423-439

HEIDELBERGER, P., AND P. A. W. LEWIS, Quantile Estimation in Dependent Se- quences, 185-209

HERBACH, LEON H., see BLUMENTAHAL, GREENWOOD AND HERBACH, 641-648

HERNANDEZ, FABIAN, AND RICHARD A. JOHNSON, Selecting an Extreme- Value Distribution and Transforming to a Spec- ified Distribution, 715-725



Authors-Articles, Technical Notes, Letters 1387

HEYMAN, DANIEL P., AND NOZER D. SING- PURWALLA, Preface: Reliability and Main- tainability, 477

HODDER, JAMES E., Financial Market Ap- proaches to Facility Location under Un- certainty (technical note), 1374-1380

HOFFER, JEFFREY A., see BABAD AND HOF- FER, 23-40

HORNIK, JACOB, see BRILL AND HORNIK, 7-22

ICHIMORI, TETSUO, On Min-Max Integer Allocation Problems (technical note), 449- 450

J

JEWELL, WILLIAM S., A General Framework for Learning Curve Reliability Growth Models, 547-558

JOE, HARRY, AND FRANK PROSCHAN, Per- centile Residual Life Functions, 668-678

JOHNSON, NORMAN L., see KOTZ AND JOHNSON, 575-583

JOHNSON, RICHARD A., see HERNANDEZ AND JOHNSON, 715-725

JONKER, Roy, AND TON VOLGENANT, Non- optimal Edges for the Symmetric Travel- ing Salesman Problem, 837-846

JUNGER, MICHAEL, see GROTSCHEL, J0N- GER AND REINELT, 1195-1220

K

KAMEDA, HISAO, Realizable Performance Vectors of a Finite-Source Queue, 1358- 1367

KAPLAN, MICHAEL A., see SHALMON AND KAPLAN, 753-773

KARWAN, MARK H., AND RONALD L. RAR- DIN, Surrogate Dual Multiplier Search Procedures in Integer Programming, 52- 69

KASHPER, ARIK, see ROCKLIN, KASHPER AND VARVALOUCAS, 133-147

KELTON, W. DAVID, AND AVERILL M. LAW, An Analytical Evaluation of Alternative Strategies in Steady-State Simulation, 169-184

see LAW AND KELTON, 1221-1239 KLEFSJO, BENGT, see BERGMAN AND

KLEFSJO, 596-606 KOTZ, SAMUEL, AND NORMAN L. JOHNSON,

Effects of False and Incomplete Identifi- cation of Defective Items on the Reliability of Acceptance Sampling, 575-583

L

LANGBERG, NAFTALI, A., see ASSAF, LANG- BERG, SAVITS AND SHAKED, 688-702

LARNDER, HAROLD, The Origin of Opera- tional Research (OR forum), 465-475

LASDON, LEON, see MCFARLAND, LASDON AND LOOSE, 270-289

LAUNER, ROBERT L., Inequalities forNBUE and NWUE Life Distributions, 660-667

LAW, AVERILL M., AND W. DAVID KELTON, Confidence Intervals for Steady-State Simulations: L A Survey of Fixed Sample Size Procedures, 1221-1239

see KELTON AND LAW, 169-184 LEE, TONY T., MIG/1IN Queue with Va-

cation Time and Exhaustive Service Dis- cipline, 774-784

LEWIS, P. A. W., see HEIDELBERGER AND LEWIS, 185-209

LIEBERMAN, GERALD J., see BUTLER AND LIEBERMAN, 566-574

see DERMAN, LIEBERMAN AND ROSS, 616-627

LOOSE, VERNE, see MCFARLAND, LASDON AND LOOSE, 270-289

Lu, F. V., AND R. F. SERFOZO, MIM/1 Queueing Decision Processes with Mono- tone Hysteretic Optimal Policies, 1116- 1132

M

MAGAZINE, M. J., see ONG, MAGAZINE AND WEE, 983-998

MAGNANTI, THOMAS L., Editorial, 1-4 MARTELLO, SILVANO, see CARPANETO,

MARTELLO AND TOTH, 380-389 MCCLOSKEY, JOSEPH F., see CUNNINGHAM,

FREEMAN AND MCCLOSKEY (OR forum), 958-967

MCFARLAND, JAMES W., LEON LASDON AND VERNE LOOSE, Development Plan- ning and Management of Petroleum Res- ervoirs Using Tank Models and Nonlinear Programming, 270-289

MEILIJSON, I., AND A. TAMIR, Minimizing Flow Time on Parallel Identical Processors with Variable Unit Processing Time, 440- 448

MELAMED, BENJAMIN, AND MICHA YADIN, Randomization Procedures in the Com- putation of Cumulative-Time Distribu- tions over Discrete State Markov Proc- esses, 926-944

MILLER, DOUGLAS R., see GROSS AND MILLER, 343-361

MOREY, RICHARD C., AND DAVID A. DITT- MAN, Hospital Profit Planning under Medicare Reimbursement, 250-269




MORRIS, PETER A., see BORISON, MORRIS AND OREN, 1052-1068

MORHRING, ROLF H., Minimizing Costs of Resource Requirements in Project Net- works Subject to a Fixed Completion Time, 89-120

MURPHY, F. H., see SOYSTER, FOLEY AND MURPHY (technical note), 945-951

N

NAGURNEY, ANNA, see DAFERMOS AND NA- GURNEY, 1069-1086

NEVISON, CHRISTOPHER H., see BURSTEIN, NEVISON AND CARLSON, 362-379

NESBITT, DALE M., The Economic Founda- tion of Generalized Equilibrium Modeling, 1240-1267

NGUYEN DUNG, The Monopolistic Firm, Random Demand, and Bayesian Learning, 1038-1051

Niu, SHUN-CHEN, Inequalities between Ar- rival Averages and Time Averages in Sto- chastic Processes Arising from Queueing Theory, 785-795

0

ONG, HOON LIONG, M. J., MAGAZINE AND T. S. WEE, Probabilistic Analysis of Bin Packing Heuristics, 983-998

OREN, SHMUEL S., see BORISON, MORRIS AND OREN, 1052-1068

p

PADGETT, W. J., AND L. J. WEI, Internal Estimation after Sequential Testing Based on the Total Time on Test, 726-731

PAGUREK, BERNARD, see WOODSIDE, STAN- FORD AND PAGUREK, 809-817

PROSCHAN, FRANK, see JOE AND PROS- CHAN, 668-678

PROVAN, J. SCOTT, AND MICHAEL 0. BALL, Computing Network Reliability in Time Polynomial in the Number of Cuts, 516- 526

R RARDIN, RONALD L., see KARWAN AND

RARDIN, 52-69 REINELT, GERHARD, see GROTSCHEL, JUN-

GER AND REINELT, 1195-1220 ROCKLIN, SOL M., ARIK KASHPER AND

GEORGE C. VARVALOUCAS, Capacity Ex- pansion/Contraction of a Facility with De- mand Augmentation Dynamics, 133-147

Ross, SHELDON M., AND ZVI SCHECHNER, Some Reliability Applications of the Vari- ability Ordering, 679-687

see DERMAN, LIEBERMAN AND Ross, 616-627

ROTHKOPF, MICHAEL H., Area Editor Statement OR Practice, 5-6

AND STEPHEN A. SMITH, There Are No Undiscovered Priority Index Sequenc- ing Rules for Minimizing Total Delay Costs (technical note), 451-456

S

SAMANIEGO, FRANCISCO J., see BOYLES AND SAMANIEGO, 732-740

SATYANARAYNA, A., see AGRAWAL AND SATYANARAYNA, 493-515

SAVITS, THOMAS H., see ASSAF, LANGBERG, SAVITS AND SHAKED, 688-702

see BLOCK AND SAVITS, 703-714 SAXENA, UNMESH, see FREUND AND SAX-

ENA (technical note), 210-215 SCHNECHNER, ZVI, see RoSS AND SCHECH-

NER, 679-687 SCOTT, N. H., see BENDELL AND SCOTT,

1345-1357 SEILA, ANDREW F., On Waiting Times for a

Queue in Which Customers Require Si- multaneous Service from a Random Num- ber of Servers (technical note), 1181-1184

SERFOZO, R. F., see Lu AND SERFOZO, 1116- 1132

SHAKED, MOSHE, Extensions of the Freund Distribution with Applications in Reliabil- ity Theory, 917-925

see ASSAF, LANGBERG, SAVITS AND SHAKED, 688-702

SHALMON, MICHAEL, AND KAPLAN, MI- CHAEL A., A Tandem Network of Queues with Deterministic Service and Interme- diate Arrivals, 753-773

SHERALI, HANIF D., A Multiple Leader Stackelberg Model and Analysis, 390-404

AND WARREN P. ADAMS, A Decompo- sition Algorithm for a Discrete Location- Allocation Problem, 878-900

SIMMONS, BARBAR AND MICHAEL SIPSER, On Scheduling Unit-Length Jobs with Multiple Release Time/Deadline Intervals, 80-88

SINGPURWALLA, NOZER D., see HEYMAN AND SINGPURWALLA, 477

SIPSER, MICHAEL, see SIMMONS AND SIP- SER, 80-88

SMEERS, YVES, AND DANIEL TYTECA, A Geometric Programming Model for the Op- timal Design of Wastewater Treatment Plants, 314-342

SMITH, RICHARD L., AND HOWARD M. TAY- LOR, Models for Fiber-Matrix Composites with Local Load Sharing, 649-659



Authors-Articles, Technical Notes, Letters 1389

SMITH, ROBERT L., Efficient Monte Carlo Procedures for Generating Points Uni- formity Distributed over Bounded Regions, 1296-1308

SMITH, STEPHEN A., see ROTHKOPF AND SMITH (technical note), 451-456

SOYSTER, A. L., R. D. FOLEY AND F. H. MURPHY, A Class of Stochastic Mathe- matical Programs with Correlated Scale Parameters in the Objective and Right- Hand Side (technical note), 945-951

STANFORD, DAVID A., see WOODSIDE, STANFORD AND PAGUREK, 809-817

SZE, DAVID Y., A Queueing Model for Tele- phone Operator Staffing (OR practice), 229-249

T

TAMAKI, MITSUSHI, The Secretary Problem with Optimal Assignment, 847-858

TAMIR, A., see MEILIJSON AND TAMIR, 440- 448

TAYLOR, HOWARD M., see SMITH AND TAY- LOR, 649-659

THISSE, J.-F., J. E. WARD AND R. E. WEN- DELL, Some Properties of Location Prob- lems with Block and Round Norms, 1309- 1327

THOMPSON, W. A., JR., Some Reliability Models for Safety Assessment, 559-565

TOTH, PAOLO, see CARPANETO, MARTELLO AND TOTH, 380-389

TYTECA, DANIEL, see SMEERS AND TYTECA, 314-342

V

VARVALOUCAS, GEORGE C., see ROCKLIN, KASHPER AND VARVALOUCAS, 133-147

VAZSONYI, ANDREW, Decision-Aiding Mod- els vs. Decision Support Systems (letter to editor), 968-969

VENKATESAN, M., Production-Inventory

with Equipment Replacement-PIER, 1286-1295

VOLGENANT, TON, see JONKER AND VOL- GENANT, 837-846

w

WARD, J. E., see THISSE, WARD AND WEN- DELL, 1309-1327

WATERMAN, MICHAEL S., see BYERS AND WATERMAN (technical note), 1381-1384

WEE, T. S., see ONG, MAGAZINE AND WEE, 983-998

WEI, L. J., see PADGETT AND WEI, 726-731 WENDELL, R. E., see THISSE, WARD AND

WENDELL, 1309-1327 WHITE, CHELSEA C., III, Sequential Deci-

sion Making under Uncertain Future Preferences, 148-168

WHITT, WARD, Minimizing Delays in the GI/G1 Queue, 41-51

WINTERBOTTOM, ALAN, The Interval Esti- mation of System Reliability from Compo- nent Test Data, 628-640

WOLFF, RONALD W., Conditions for Finite Ladder Height and Delay Moments, 909- 916

WOODSIDE, C. MURRAY, DAVID A. STAN- FORD AND BERNARD PAGUREK, Optimal Prediction of Queue Lengths and Delays in GI/MIm Multiserver Queues, 809-817

y

YADIN, MICHA, see MELAMED AND YADIN, 926-944

YANASSE, HORACIO H., see BITRAN AND YANASSE, 999-1018

z

ZACKS, S., Estimating the Shift to Wear-Out Systems Having Exponential- Weibull Life Distributions, 741-749

ZIPKIN, PAUL, see FEDERGRUEN AND ZIP- KIN, 818-832, 1019-1037, 1268-1285



Subject Index*-Articles, Letters, Technical Notes

c COMPUTERS, FILE SYSTEMS

Babad, Distributed data base, 23-40

D

DECISION ANALYSIS Dintersmith, Multiattribute decisions, 1328-1344 Freund, Maximum entropy problems, 210-215

DECISION ANALYSIS, SEQUENTIAL White, Preferences (trade-off weights) changing over time, 148-168

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING Byers, Near-optimal policies, 1381-1384 Tamaki, Secretary problem, sequential assignment, 847-858

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING, APPLICATIONS Burstein, Dynamic lot-sizing with uncertain demand timing, 362-379 Derman, Replacement and maintenance theory, 616-627 Nguyen, Economic application of dynamic programming, 1038-1051

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING, DETERMINISTIC, CONTINUOUS TIME Melamed, Queueing networks, 926-944

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING, DISCRETE TIME, MARKOV Melamed, Randomization procedures, 926-944

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING, MARKOV, INFINITE STATE Federgruen, Computing optimal (s, S) policies, 1268-1285 Lee, Random walk and queueing Markov decision processes, 1116-1132

E ECONOMICS

Hahn, Cost-effectiveness analysis, 221-228 Nesbitt, Economic equilibrium modeling, 1240-1267 Sherali, Multiple Stackelberg leader-follower model, 390-404

ECONOMICS, INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS Grotschel, Triangulation of input-output tables, 1195-1220

ENGINEERING Smith, Probabilistic models for fiber-matrix composites, 649-659

ENGINEERING, APPLICATIONS Thompson, Nuclear reactor safety, 559-565

F FACILITIES/EQUIPMENT PLANNING, CAPACITY EXPANSION

Borison, Generation expansion planning, 1052-1068 Rocklin, Demand augmentation, 133-147

* This subject index conforms to the categories established in The OR/MS Index, 1952- 1976. The 1952-1976 cumulative index was compiled by Kneale T. Marshall and F. Russell Richards and the 1976-1981 cumulative index was compiled by John W. Tolle and Richard E. Stone. The indices were published in 1978 and 1983 by the Institute of Management Sciences and the Operations Research Society of America. An "Index to the Index" appears in each volume.

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Subject Index-Articles, Technical Notes, Letters 1391

FACILITIES/EQUIPMENT PLANNING, LOCATION Babad, Computer access controls, 23-40 Hodder, Facility location under uncertainty, 1374-1380 Sherali, Location/allocation problem, 878-900 Thisse, Properties of location problems with block and round norms, 1309-1327

FINANCE, INVESTMENT CRITERIA Hodder, Financial market criteria in facility location decisions, 1374-1380

H

HEALTH CARE, HOSPITALS Morey, Pricing profit planning, 250-269

INDUSTRIES, ELECTRIC/ELECTRONIC Bloom, Long-range generation planning, 290-313 Borison, Electric utility industry, 1052-1068

INVENTORY/PRODUCTION Federgruen, Inventory allocation/VRP, 1019-1037 Rocklin, Policies related to capacity expansion/contraction, 133-147 Venkatesan, Equipment replacement, 1286-1295

INVENTORY/PRODUCTION, APPROXIMATIONS Bitran, Deterministic approximation to production problems, 999-1018

INVENTORY/PRODUCTION, PARAMETER ESTIMATION Jewell, Learning curves and reliability growth, 547-558

INVENTORY/PRODUCTION, POLICIES, LEADTIME Ehrhardt, (s, S) policies for stochastic leadtime, 121-132

INVENTORY/PRODUCTION, POLICIES, REPLACEMENT Venkatesan, Jointly optimal inventory policies, 1286-1295

INVENTORY/PRODUCTION, STOCHASTIC MODELS Bitran, Deterministic approximation to production problems, 999-1018 Burstein, Characterizing dynamic lot-sizing solutions, 362-379 Ehrhardt, Stochastic inventory leadtime, 121-132 Federgruen, Computing optimal (s, S) policies, 1268-1285 Federgruen, Multiechelon, 818-836 Venkatesan, Equipment replacement, 1286-1295

M

MARKETING, ADVERTISING/PROMOTION Brill, Consumer response to multiple ads, 7-22

MATHEMATICS, COMBINATORICS Agrawal, Network reliability algorithm, 493-515 Grotschel, Polyhedral combinatorics, 1195-1220 Ong, Bin packing, 983-998 Simons, Polynomial time algorithm and NP completeness, 80-88

MILITARY, TRACKING Larnder, Origins of OR applications for radar, 465-475

N NATURAL RESOURCE POLICIES, ENERGY

Bloom, Long-range generation planning, 290-313 Nesbitt, Energy modeling, 1240-1267

NATURAL RESOURCE POLICIES, WATER RESOURCES Smeers, Geometric programming for wastewater treatment, 314-342

NETWORKS/GRAPHS Agrawal, Reliability, 478-492

NETWORKS/GRAPHS, MATCHINGS Simons, Scheduling with release times, 80-88




NETWORKS/GRAPHS, MULTICOMMODITY Dafermos, Network models of spatial systems, 1069-1086

NETWORKS/GRAPHS, STOCHASTIC Agrawal, Network reliability, 493-515 Provan, Network reliability, 516-526

NETWORKS/GRAPHS, TRAVELING SALESMAN Carpaneto, Bottleneck traveling salesman problem, 380-389 Jonker, Nonoptimal edges, 837-846

p

PERT Dodin, PERT networks, 859-877

PLANNING, CORPORATE Morey, Hospital profit planning, 250-269

PROBABILITY Ong, Probabilistic analysis, 983-998

PROBABILITY, DIFFUSION Gastwirth, Diffusion approximation of a nonhomogeneous Markov chain, 527-536

PROBABILITY, DISTRIBUTION COMPARISONS Ross, Variability ordering, 679-687

PROBABILITY, DISTRIBUTIONS Niu, New or used, better or worse in expectations, 785-795

PROBABILITY, ENTROPY Freund, Finite algorithm for computation, 210-215

PROBABILITY, MARKOV PROCESSES Brown, First passage time distributions for Markov processes, 607-615 Eagle, Partially observable Markov decision processes, 1107-1115 Gastwirth, Nonhomogeneous Markov model of a chain letter scheme, 527-536

PROBABILITY, RANDOM WALK Wolff, Ladder heights and delay moments, 909-916

PROBABILITY, RENEWAL PROCESSES Albin, Approximating a point process by a renewal process, 1133-1162 Bendell, Nested renewal processes with special Erlangian densities, 1345-1357 Niu, Renewal arrivals, 785-795

PROBABILITY, STOCHASTIC MODEL APPLICATIONS Agrawal, Network reliability and domination theory, 478-492 Federgruen, Multiechelon inventory systems, 818-836 Gastwirth, Pyramid or chain letter schemes, 527-536 Gerchak, Stochastic models of social processes, 537-546 Heidelberger, Simulation of heavily congested queues, 185-209 Thompson, Marked point process, 559-565

PRODUCTION/SCHEDULING Meilijson, Processors with variable processing rate, 440-448 Mohring, Scheduling under procedure constraints, 89-120 Rothkopf, Optimal sequencing, 451-456

PRODUCTION/SCHEDULING, JOB SHOP, DETERMINISTIC Simons, Scheduling unit-time jobs on identical machines, 80-88

PRODUCTION/SCHEDULING, JOB SHOP, STOCHASTIC Bagchi, Stochastic dynamic scheduling, 952-957

PROFESSIONAL Cunningham, Radar and operations research, 958-967 Larnder, Origin of operational research, 465-475 Magnanti, Editorial, 1-4 Rothkopf, Area editor statement, 5-6 Vazsonyi, Letter to the Editor, 968-969




PROFESSIONAL, OBITUARIES Brown, In remembrance of Richard J. Clasen, 969-970

PROGRAMMING Smith, Random feasible solutions, 1296-1308

PROGRAMMING, COMPLIMENTARITY/FIXED POINTS Dafermos, Variational inequalities, 1069-1086 Sherali, Equilibriating fixed points, 390-404

PROGRAMMING, FRACTIONAL Choo, Proper efficiency of vector problems, 216-220

PROGRAMMING, GEOMETRIC Smeers, Design of wastewater treatment plants, 314-342

PROGRAMMING, INTEGER, ALGORITHMS Grotschel, Cutting plane methods, 1195-1220 Karwan, Surrogate dual multipliers search, 52-69 Sherali, Discrete bilinear program, 878-900

PROGRAMMING, INTEGER, ALGORITHMS, BRANCH AND BOUND Bean, Multiple choice problem, 1185-1193

PROGRAMMING, INTEGER, ALGORITHMS, HEURISTICS Ong, Bin packing, 983-998

PROGRAMMING, INTEGER, ALGORITHMS, TESTS Bean, Multiple choice problem, 1185-1193 Karwan, Surrogate duals and relaxation, 52-69

PROGRAMMING, INTEGER, APPLICATIONS Babad, Distributed data base access controls, 23-40 Ichimori, Bottleneck allocation problem, 449-450

PROGRAMMING, INTEGER, BRANCH AND BOUND Carpaneto, Breadth-first branch and bound, 380-389

PROGRAMMING, LINEAR ALGORITHMS Faaland, Weighted selection, 405-422

PROGRAMMING, LINEAR, PARAMETRIC Soyster, Stochastic objective and right-hand side parameters, 945-951

PROGRAMMING, MULTIPLE CRITERIA Choo, Linear fractional programs, 216-220 Dintersmith, Interactive algorithms, 1328-1344 Thisse, Point objective location problems, 1309-1327

PROGRAMMING, NONLINEAR, ALGORITHMS Borison, Electric utility generation expansion, 1052-1068 Hahn, Multiobjective programming, 221-228 McFarland, Planning and managing petroleum reservoirs, 270-289 Nesbitt, Energy equilibrium modeling, 1240-1267

PROGRAMMING, NONLINEAR, APPLICATIONS Bloom, Generalized Benders' decomposition for energy planning, 290-313 Clasen, Chemical equilibrium problem, 70-79 McFarland, GRG applies to petroleum reservoirs, 270-289

PROGRAMMING, NONLINEAR, CUTTING PLANES Clasen, Generalized Benders' decomposition, 70-79 Dintersmith, Interactive multiattribute decision making, 1328-1344

PROGRAMMING, NONLINEAR, LINEAR CONSTRAINTS Brown, Maximin objective function with linear constraints, 1087-1106

PROGRAMMING, NONLINEAR, THEORY, STABILITY Dafermos, Sensitivity analysis, 1069-1086

PROGRAMMING, STOCHASTIC Burstein, Lot-sizing in inventory/production, 362-379 Soyster, Correlated scale parameters, 945-951

PROJECT MANAGEMENT Dodin, Project management and control, 859-877 Mohring, Minimizing resource requirements in project networks, 89-120




Q QUEUES

Fuhrmann, M/G/1 queue with server vacations, 1368-1373 Lee, M/G/1/N queue with vacation time, 774-784 Wolff, Random walks, 909-916 Woodside, Multiserver queues, 809-817

QUEUES, APPROXIMATIONS Albin, Approximations for point processes and queues, 1133-1162 Everitt, Approximating transient output of the MIMIs queue, 796-808 Melamed, Sojourn time distributions, 926-944 Sze, Nonstationary inputs, abandonments, and reattempts, 229-249

QUEUES, BUSY PERIOD ANALYSIS Lee, M/G/1/N with vacation time, 774-784

QUEUES, CYCLIC Kameda, Cyclic queue of a single-server and an infinite server, 1358-1367

QUEUES, DAM MODELS Brill, pdf of content, smaller inputs if higher levels, 7-22

QUEUES, LIMIT THEOREMS Brill, Application of system-point theorems, 7-22 Niu, Inequalities between arrival average and time average, 785-795

QUEUES, MARKOVIAN Kameda, Scheduling of a Markovian finite-source queue, 1358-1367 Seila, Simultaneous service from random numbers of servers, 1181-1184

QUEUES, MULTICHANNEL Filipiak, Optimization of multichannel system, 1163-1180 Sze, MIGIc queues with large (100-300) server teams, 229-249

QUEUES, NETWORKS Albin, Approximations for networks of queues, 1133-1162 Shalmon, Delays in tandem queues, 753-773

QUEUES, NONSTATIONARY Filipiak, Nonstationary average queue size, 1163-1180

QUEUES, OPTIMIZATION Lee, Control of arrival and service rates in M/M/1 queues, 1116-1132 Whitt, Minimizing delays, 41-51

QUEUES, OUTPUT PROCESS Everitt, Transient analysis of the MIMIs queue, 796-808

QUEUES, PRIORITY Bagchi, Linearly decreasing priority, 952-957 Kameda, Scheduling; preemptive/nonpreemptive priorities, 1358-1367 Sze, Nonabsolute priorities for nonhomogeneous traffic, 229-249

QUEUES, SIMULATION Heidelberger, Estimating waiting times, 185-209

QUEUES, STATISTICAL INFERENCE Rothkopf, Optimal priority assignment, 451-456

QUEUES, SWITCHING Filipiak, Switching conditions, 1163-1180

QUEUES, TANDEM Shalmon, Joint delay analysis for tasks from each source, 753-773

QUEUES, TRANSIENT RESULTS Gross, Transient solutions for Markov processes, 343-361 Woodside, Multiserver queues, 809-817

R

RELIABILITY Agrawal, Network reliability, 493-515 Agrawal, Survey of network reliability, 478-492 Bergman, The TTT-concept and its use in reliability, 596-606 Blumenthal, Reliability of series systems, 641-648




Launer, Inequalities for NBUE and NWUE failure distributions, 660-667 Winterbottom, Reliability of systems, 628-640

RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY Berg, Availability on intermittent demand, 584-595

RELIABILITY, FAILURE MODELS Assaf, Absorption/failure times in Markov processes, 688-702 Block, Continuous multistate structure functions, 703-714 Boyles, New better than used (NBU) class, 732-740 Butler, Failure models for redundant systems, 566-574 Gerchak, Failure models in social sciences, 537-546 Jewell, Learning curves, 547-558 Provan, Connectedness reliability in networks, 516-526 Ross, Accumulated and Poisson shock, 679-687 Shaked, Components with dependent life lengths, 917-925 Smith, Load sharing models, 649-659 Thompson, Safety assessment, 559-565

RELIABILITY, INSPECTION Butler, Inspection policies for fault location, 566-574 Kotz, Incomplete identification of defective items, 575-583

RELIABILITY, LIFE DISTRIBUTIONS Assaf, Joint distribution of failure times of dependent components, 688-702 Bendell, Nested renewal processes with Erlangian densities, 1345-1357 Herndndez, Extreme value distributions, 715-725 Joe, Residual life of used items, 668-678 Launer, NBUE and NWUE failure classes, 660-667 Shaked, Extensions of exponential and other bivariate distributions, 917-925 Zacks, Exponential-Weibull, 741-749

RELIABILITY, LIFE TESTING Boyles, Life testing under type I censoring, 732-740 Padgett, Internal estimation after sequential testing, 726-731

RELIABILITY, QUALITY CONTROL Blumenthal, Acceptance sampling of series systems, 641-648

RELIABILITY, REPLACEMENT Berg, A preventive replacement policy, 584-595 Derman, Replacing components before failure, 616-627

RELIABILITY, SYSTEM SAFETY Brown, System safety for repairable systems, 607-615

S

SEARCH AND SURVEILLANCE Eagle, Optimal search for a moving target, 1107-1115 Hassin, Dichotomous search, 423-439 Tamaki, Secretary problem, 847-858

SIMULATION Heidelberger, Reducing sample size for point estimates, 185-209 Heyman, Preface to special issue, 477

SIMULATION, RANDOM-NUMBER GENERATION Smith, Multivariate random number generation, 1296-1308

SIMULATION, STATISTICAL ANALYSIS Heidelberger, Maximum transformation, 185-209 Kelton, Replication and initial output deletion, 169-184 Law, Fixed sample size procedures, 1221-1239

SIMULATION, SYSTEMS DYNAMICS Morey, Profit satisficing for hospitals, 250-269

STATISTICS, BAYESIAN Herntindez, Selecting distributions, 715-725 Nguyen, Monopolistic firm model, 1038-1051 Zacks, Bayesian adaptive estimation, 741-749




STATISTICS, ESTIMATION Boyles, Estimating a survival curve, 732-740 Jewell, Learning curves and parameter estimation, 574-558 Winterbottom, Statistical estimation from test data, 628-640

STATISTICS, SAMPLING Kotz, Acceptance sampling, 575-583 Kelton, Stategies for steady-state simulations, 169-184

T TRANSPORTATION

Federgruen, Vehicle routing/inventory, 1019-1037

U

UTILITY/PREFERENCE, MULTIATTRIBUTE Harvey, Utility dependence, 457-464

UTILITY/PREFERENCE, THEORY Fishburn, Preference for social risk options, 901-908 Harvey, Assessing risk, 457-464 White, Sequential decision making, 148-168



Contents, Volume 32

NUMBER 1 January-February 1984

EDITORIAL ............................ ........ ...... . 1

AREA EDITOR STATEMENT. 5

ARTICLES

PERCY H. BRILL AND JACOB HORNIK-A System Point Approach to Non- uniform Advertising Insertions .................................. 7

YAIR M. BABAD AND JEFFREY A. HOFFER-A Mathematical Programming Model for the Location of Access Controls in a Distributed Data Base Environment ...................... . 23

WARD WHITT-Minimizing Delays in the GI/GIl Queue .41

MARK H. KARWAN AND RONALD L. RARDIN-Surrogate Dual Multiplier Search Procedures in Integer Programming ....................... 52

RICHARD J. CLASEN-The Solution of the Chemical Equilibrium Program- ming Problem with Generalized Bender's Decomposition ..... ....... 70

BARBARA SIMONS AND MICHAEL SIPSER-On Scheduling Unit-Length Jobs with Multiple Release Time/Deadline Intervals ...... .............. 80

ROLF H. MOHRING-Minimizing Costs of Resource Requirements in Project Networks Subject to a Fixed Completion Time ...... ............... 89

RICHARD EHRHARDT-(S, S) Policies for a Dynamic Inventory Model with Stochastic Lead Times ............121.......... ...... 121

SOL M. ROCKLIN, ARIK KASHPER, AND GEORGE C. VARVALOUCAS- Capacity Expansion/Contraction of a Facility with Demand Augmen- tation Dynamics ............................1.................. 33

CHELSEA C. WHITE III-Sequential Decision Making under Uncertain Future Preferences ............1....... 148

W. DAVID KELTON AND AVERILL M. LAW-An Analytical Evaluation of Alternative Strategies in Steady-State Simulation .................. 169

P. HEIDELBERGER AND P. A. W. LEWIS-Quantile Estimation in Dependent Sequences ................................................... 185

TECHNICAL NOTES

DWIGHT FREUND AND UMESH SAXENA-An Algorithm for a Class of Discrete Maximum Entropy Problems ......... ............................ 210

ENG UNG CHOO-Proper Efficiency and the Linear Fractional Vector Maximum Problem ....................................................... 216

ROBERT W. HAHN-On Reconciling Conflicting Goals: Applications of Multiob- jective Programming ............ ................................ 221



ii Contents, Volume 32

NUMBER 2 March-April 1984

OR PRACTICE

DAVID Y. SZE-A Queueing Model for Telephone Operator Staffing ...... 229

ARTICLES

RICHARD C. MOREY AND DAVID A. DITTMAN-Hospital Profit Planning under Medicare Reimbursement ................................. 250

JAMES W. MCFARLAND, LEON LASDON AND VERNE LooSE-Development Planning and Management of Petroleum Reservoirs Using Tank Models and Nonlinear Programming ... ............................... 270

JEREMY A. BLOOM, MICHAEL CARAMANIS AND LEONID CHARNY-Long- Range Generation Planning Using Generalized Benders'Decomposition: Implementation and Experience ........ ......................... 290

YVES SMEERS AND DANIEL TYTECA-A Geometric Programming Model for the Optimal Design of Wastewater Treatment Plants ..... .......... 314

DONALD GROSS AND DOUGLAS R. MILLER-The Randomization Technique as a Modeling Tool and Solution Procedure for Transient Markov Processes ................................................ ... 843

MICHAEL C. BURSTEIN, CHRISTOPHER H. NEVISON AND ROBERT C. CARL- SON-Dynamic Lot-Sizing when Demand Timing is Uncertain ...... 362

GIORGIO CARPANETO, SILVANO MARTELLO AND PAOLO TOTH-An Algo- rithm for the Bottleneck Traveling Salesman Problem ..... ......... 380

HANIF D. SHERALI-A Multiple Leader Stackelberg Model and Analysis . . 390

BRUCE FAALAND-A Weighted Selection Algorithm for Certain Tree-Struc- tured Linear Programs ........... ............................. 405

REFAEL HASSIN-A Dichotomous Search for a Geometric Random Variable ..................................................... 423

I. MEILIJSON AND A. TAMIR-Minimizing Flow Time on Parallel Identical Processors with Variable Unit Processing Time ..... ............... 440

TECHNICAL NOTES

TETSUO ICHIMORI-On Min-Max Integer Allocation Problems ..... .......... 449

MICHAEL H. ROTHKOPF AND STEPHEN A. SMITH-There Are No Undiscovered Priority Index Sequencing Rules for Minimizing Total Delay Costs ..... 451

CHARLES M. HARVEY-Assessment of Risk Attitude by a Utility Dependence Condition ..................................................... 457

OR FORUM

HAROLD LARNDER-The Origin of Operational Research .......... ......... 465



Contents, Volume 32 iii

NUMBER 3 May-June 1984

RELIABILITY AND MAINTAINABILITY

PREFACE ...................................................... 477

ARTICLES

AVINASH AGRAWAL AND RICHARD E. BARLOW-A Survey of Network

Reliability and Domination Theory .............................. 478

AVINASH AGRAWAL AND A. SATYANARAYNA-On O( I E I ) Time Algorithm for Computing the Reliability of a Class of Directed Networks .... .... 493

J. SCOTT PROVAN AND MICHAEL 0. BALL-Computing Network Reliability in Time Polynomial in the Number of Cuts ...... ................. 516

J. L. GASTWIRTH AND P. K. BHATTACHARYA-Two Probability Models of Pyramid or Chain Letter Schemes Demonstrating that their Promo- tional Claims are Unreliable .................................... 527

YIGAL GERCHAK-Decreasing Failure Rates and Related Issues in the Social Sciences ................ 537

WILLIAM S. JEWELL-A General Framework for Learning Curve Reliability Growth Models ................ 547

W. A. THOMPSON, JR.-Some Reliability Models for Safety Assessment ... 559

DAVID A. BUTLER AND GERALD J. LIEBERMAN-Inspection Policies for Fault Location . ............................................... 566

SAMUEL KOTZ AND NORMAN L. JOHNSON-Effects of False and Incomplete Identification of Defective Items on the Reliability of Acceptance Sampling .................................................... 575

MENACHEM BERG-A Preventive Replacement Policy for Units Subject to Intermittent Demand .584

Bo BERGMAN AND BENGT KLEFSJO-The Total Time on Test Concept and Its Use in Reliability Theory .................................... 596

MARK BROWN-On the Reliability of Repairable Systems ..... .......... 607

C. DERMAN, G. J. LIEBERMAN AND S. M. RosS-On the Use of Replace- ments to Extend System Life .......... ......................... 616

ALAN WINTERBOTTOM-The Interval Estimation of System Reliability from Component Test Data ............. ............................ 628

SAUL BLUMENTHAL, J. ARTHUR GREENWOOD AND LEON H. HERBACH-

Series Systems and Reliability Demonstration Tests ..... ........... 641

RICHARD L. SMITH AND HOWARD M. TAYLOR-Models for Fiber-Matrix Composites with Local Load Sharing ....... ...................... 649



iv Contents, Volume 32

ROBERT L. LAUNER-Inequalities for NBUE and NWUE Life Distributions ........ - ................................ 660

HARRY JOE AND FRANK PROSCHAN-Percentile Residual Life Functions. . 668

SHELDON M. RoSS AND ZVI SCHECHNER-Some Reliability Applications of the Variability Ordering .679

DAVID ASSAF, NAFTALI A. LANGBERG, THOMAS H. SAVITS AND MOSHE SHAKED-Multivariate Phase-type Distributions .688

H. W. BLOCK AND T. H. SAVITS-Continuous Multistate Structure Functions . ................................................... 703

FABIAN HERNANDEZ AND RICHAD A. JOHNSON-Selecting an Extreme- Value Distribution and Transforming to a Specified Distribution . 715

W. J. PADGETT AND L. J. WEI-Internal Estimation after Sequential Testing Based on the Total Time on Test .726

RUSSELL A. BOYLES AND FRANCISCO J. SAMANIEGo-Estimating a Sur- vival Curve when New Is Better than Used .732

S. ZACKS-Estimating the Shift to Wear-Out Systems Having Exponential- Weibull Life Distributions .......... ............................ 741

AN APPRECIATION ................................................ 750

NUMBER 4 July-August 1984

ARTICLES

MICHAEL SHALMON AND MICHAEL A. KAPLAN-A Tandem Network of Queues with Deterministic Service and Intermediate Arrivals ........ 753

TONY T. LEE-MIG/1IN Queue with Vacation Time and Exhaustive Ser- vice Discipline . ................................................ 774

SHUN-CHEN NIU-Inequalities between Arrival Averages and Time Aver- ages in Stochastic Processes Arising from Queueing Theory .785

D. E. EVERITT AND T. DOWNS-The Output of the M/M/S Queue ... 796

C. MURRAY WOODSIDE, DAVID A. STANFORD AND BERNARD PAGUREK-

Optimal Prediction of Queue Lengths and Delays in GI/M/m Multi- server Queues . ................................................ 809

Awi FEDERGRUEN AND PAUL ZIPKIN-Computational Issues in an Infinite- Horizon, Multiechelon Inventory Model .818

RoY JONKER AND TON VOLGENANT-Nonoptimal Edges for the Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem .837

MITSUSHI TAMAKI-The Secretary Problem with Optimal Assignment.... 847



Contents, Volume 32 v

BAJIS DODIN-Determining the K Most Critical Paths in PERT Networks 859

HANIF D. SHERALI AND WARREN P. ADAMS-A Decomposition Algorithm for a Discrete Location-Allocation Problem ...... .................. 878

PETER C. FISHBURN-Equity Axioms for Public Risks ..... ............. 901

RONALD W. WOLFF-Conditions for Finite Ladder Height and Delay Moments .................................................... 909

MOSHE SHAKED-Extensions of the Freund Distribution with Applications in Reliability Theory .......................................... 917

BENJAMIN MELAMED AND MICHA YADIN-Randomization Procedures in the Computation of Cumulative-Time Distributions over Discrete State Markov Processes ....... ......... .......................... 926

TECHNICAL NOTES

A. L. SOYSTER, R. D. FOLEY AND F. H. MURPHY-A Class of Stochastic Mathematical Programs with Correlated Scale Parameters in the Objective and Right-Hand Side ............ ............................... 945

UTTARAYAN BAGCHI-A Note on Linearly Decreasing, Delay-Dependent Non- Preemptive Queue Disciplines ... 952

OR FORUM

W. PEYTON CUNNINGHAM, DENYS FREEMAN AND JOSEPH F. MCCLOSKEY-Of Radar and Operations Research: An Appreciation of A. P. Rowe (1898- 1976) ......................................................... 958

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ............. ............................. 968

APPRECIATION TO REFEREES ....................................... 971

NUMBER 5 September-October 1984

ARTICLES

HOON LIONG ONG, M. J. MAGAZINE AND T. S. WEE-Probabilistic Analysis of Bin Packing Heuristics .......... ............................ 983

GABRIEL R. BITRAN AND HORACIo H. YANASSE-Deterministic Approxi- mations to Stochastic Production Problems ...... ................. 999

AwI FEDERGRUEN AND PAUL ZIPKIN-A Combined Vehicle Routing and Inventory Allocation Problem ......... .......................... 1019

DUNG NGUYEN-The Monopolistic Firm, Random Demand, and Bayesian Learning .................................................... 1038

ADAM B. BORISON, PETER A MORRIS AND SHMUEL S. OREN-A State-of- the-World Decomposition Approach to Dynamics and Uncertainty in Electric Utility Generation Expansion Planning ...... ............ 1052



vi Contents, Volume 32

STELLA DAFERMOS AND ANNA NAGURNEY-Sensitivity Analysis for the General Spatial Economic Equilibrium Problem ...... .............. 1069

J. RANDALL BROWN-The Linear Sharing Problem ...... ............. 1087

JAMES N. EAGLE-The Optimal Search for a Moving Target When the Search Path is Constrained ........... ......................... 1107

F. V. LU AND R. F. SERFOZO-M/M/1 Queueing Decision Processes with Monotone Hysteretic Optimal Policies ....... ..................... 1116

SUSAN L. ALBIN-Approximating a Point Process by a Renewal Process, II: Superposition Arrival Processes to Queues ....... ................. 1133

JANUSZ FILIPIAK-Dynamic Routing in a Queueing System with a Multiple Service Facility . ............................................... 1163

TECHNICAL NOTES

ANDREW F. SEILA-On Waiting Times for a Queue in Which Customers Require Simultaneous Service from a Random Number of Servers ............. 1181

JAMES C. BEAN-A Lagrangian Algorithm for the Multiple Choice Integer Program ...................................................... 1185

NUMBER 6 November-December 1984

ARTICLES

MARTIN GROTSCHEL, MICHAEL JUNGER AND GERHARD REINELT-A Cut- ting Plane Algorithm for the Linear Ordering Problem ..... ......... 1195

AVERILL M. LAW AND W. DAVID KELTON-Confidence Intervals for Steady- State Simulations: I. A Survey of Fixed Sample Size Procedures ..... 1221

DALE M. NESBITT-The Economic Foundation of Generalized Equilibrium Modeling .... 1240

AwI FEDERGRUEN AND PAUL ZIPKIN-An Efficient Algorithm for Comput- ing Optimal (s, S) Policies .......... ............................ 1268

M. VENKATESAN-Production-Inventory with Equipment Replacement- PIER ....................................................... 1286

ROBERT L. SMITH-Efficient Monte Carlo Procedures for Generating Points Uniformly Distributed over Bounded Regions ...... ............... 1296

J.-F. THISSE, J. E. WARD AND R. E. WENDELL-Some Properties of Location Problems with Block and Round Norms ..... ............. 1309

TED DINTERSMITH-A Separating Choice Hyperplane Algorithm for Eval- uating Multiattribute Decisions ........ ......................... 1328



Contents, Volume 32 vii

A. BENDELL AND N. H. SCOTT-Nested Renewal Processes with Special Erlangian Densities ............................ .......... 1345

HISAo KAMEDA-Realizable Performance Vectors of a Finite-Source Queue .......... 1358

TECHNICAL NOTES

S. W. FUHRMANN-A Note on the MIG/1 Queue with Server Vacations ... 1368

JAMES E. HODDER-Financial Market Approaches to Facility Location under Uncertainty ... 1374

THOMAS H. BYERS AND MICHAEL S. WATERMAN-Determining All Optimal and Near-Optimal Solutions when Solving Shortest Path Problems by Dynamic Programming .. . 1381

INDEX TO VOLUME 32 AUTHOR.I . 1385 SUBJECT .. 1390

CONTENTS, VOLUME 32 . ........................................... i



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