Operations Research, Volume 52

Volume 52, Number 1, January - February 2004

• Andrew B. Philpott, S. G. Henderson, D. Teirney:
  A Simulation Model for Predicting Yacht Match Race Outcomes. 1-16
  
• Sem Borst, Avishai Mandelbaum, Martin I. Reiman:
  Dimensioning Large Call Centers. 17-34
  
• Dimitris Bertsimas, Melvyn Sim:
  The Price of Robustness. 35-53
  
• Herman Monsuur, Ton Storcken:
  Centers in Connected Undirected Graphs: An Axiomatic Approach. 54-64
  
• Chelliah Sriskandarajah, Inna G. Drobouchevitch, Suresh P. Sethi, Ramaswamy Chandrasekaran:
  Scheduling Multiple Parts in a Robotic Cell Served by a Dual-Gripper Robot. 65-82
  
• Itir Z. Karaesmen, Garrett J. van Ryzin:
  Overbooking with Substitutable Inventory Classes. 83-104
  
• Torpong Cheevaprawatdomrong, Robert L. Smith:
  Infinite Horizon Production Scheduling in Time - Varying Systems Under Stochastic Demand. 105-115
  
• Michel Bierlaire, Frank Crittin:
  An Efficient Algorithm for Real-Time Estimation and Prediction of Dynamic OD Tables. 116-127
  
• Zvi Drezner, Atsuo Suzuki:
  The Big Triangle Small Triangle Method for the Solution of Nonconvex Facility Location Problems. 128-135
  
• Kaijie Zhu, Ulrich W. Thonemann:
  Modeling the Benefits of Sharing Future Demand Information. 136-147
  
• Xiangtong Qi, Jonathan F. Bard, Gang Yu:
  Class Scheduling for Pilot Training. 148-162
  

Volume 52, Number 2, March - April 2004

• Ali E. Abbas, Susan P. Holmes:
  Bioinformatics and Management Science: Some Common Tools and Techniques. 165-190
  
• Patrice Marcotte, Sang Nguyen, Alexandre Schoeb:
  A Strategic Flow Model of Traffic Assignment in Static Capacitated Networks. 191-212
  
• Erica L. Plambeck:
  Optimal Leadtime Differentiation via Diffusion Approximations. 213-228
  
• Alessandro Agnetis, Pitu B. Mirchandani, Dario Pacciarelli, Andrea Pacifici:
  Scheduling Problems with Two Competing Agents. 229-242
  
• J. Michael Harrison, Assaf J. Zeevi:
  Dynamic Scheduling of a Multiclass Queue in the Halfin-Whitt Heavy Traffic Regime. 243-257
  
• Martin B. Haugh, Leonid Kogan:
  Pricing American Options: A Duality Approach. 258-270
  
• Mor Armony, Constantinos Maglaras:
  On Customer Contact Centers with a Call-Back Option: Customer Decisions, Routing Rules, and System Design. 271-292
  
• Jian Yang:
  Production Control in the Face of Storable Raw Material, Random Supply, and an Outside Market. 293-311
  
• Shaoxiang Chen:
  The Optimality of Hedging Point Policies for Stochastic Two-Product Flexible Manufacturing Systems. 312-322
  
• Joe Zhu:
  Imprecise DEA via Standard Linear DEA Models with a Revisit to a Korean Mobile Telecommunication Company. 323-329
  
• Elizabeth J. Chester, Reha H. Tütüncü:
  Rendezvous Search on the Labeled Line. 330-334
  

Volume 52, Number 3, May - June 2004

• Srinivas Bollapragada, Marc Garbiras:
  Scheduling Commercials on Broadcast Television. 337-345
  
• Garrett J. van Ryzin, Gustavo J. Vulcano:
  Optimal Auctioning and Ordering in an Infinite Horizon Inventory-Pricing System. 346-367
  
• Stefan Scholtes:
  Nonconvex Structures in Nonlinear Programming. 368-383
  
• Anil Gaba, Ilia Tsetlin, Robert L. Winkler:
  Modifying Variability and Correlations in Winner-Take-All Contests. 384-395
  
• Chung-Piaw Teo, Jia Shu:
  Warehouse-Retailer Network Design Problem. 396-408
  
• Shaoxiang Chen:
  The Infinite Horizon Periodic Review Problem with Setup Costs and Capacity Constraints: A Partial Characterization of the Optimal Policy. 409-421
  
• Roberto Baldacci, Vittorio Maniezzo, Aristide Mingozzi:
  An Exact Method for the Car Pooling Problem Based on Lagrangean Column Generation. 422-439
  
• Nicholas G. Hall, Chris N. Potts:
  Rescheduling for New Orders. 440-453
  
• Kevin D. Glazebrook, Alan Washburn:
  Shoot-Look-Shoot: A Review and Extension. 454-463
  
• Haijun Li, Susan H. Xu:
  On the Coordinated Random Group Replacement Policy in Multivariate Repairable Systems. 464-477
  
• Çagri Haksöz, Sridhar Seshadri:
  Monotone Forecasts. 478-486
  
• Alper Atamtürk:
  Sequence Independent Lifting for Mixed-Integer Programming. 487-490
  
• Ganesh Janakiraman, John A. Muckstadt:
  Inventory Control in Directed Networks: A Note on Linear Costs. 491-495
  

Volume 52, Number 4, July - August 2004

• Daniel Adelman:
  A Price-Directed Approach to Stochastic Inventory/Routing. 499-514
  
• Olivier Briant, Denis Naddef:
  The Optimal Diversity Management Problem. 515-526
  
• Mor Armony, Constantinos Maglaras:
  Contact Centers with a Call-Back Option and Real-Time Delay Information. 527-545
  
• Matt Thompson, Matt Davison, Henning Rasmussen:
  Valuation and Optimal Operation of Electric Power Plants in Competitive Markets. 546-562
  
• Sunil Kumar, Kumar Muthuraman:
  A Numerical Method for Solving Singular Stochastic Control Problems. 563-582
  
• Paola Cappanera, Giorgio Gallo:
  A Multicommodity Flow Approach to the Crew Rostering Problem. 583-596
  
• Vic Baston, Kensaku Kikuta:
  An Ambush Game with an Unknown Number of Infiltrators. 597-605
  
• Thomas A. Roemer, Reza Ahmadi:
  Concurrent Crashing and Overlapping in Product Development. 606-622
  
• Marc Peeters, Zeger Degraeve:
  The Co-Printing Problem: A Packing Problem with a Color Constraint. 623-638
  
• Chung-Lun Li, Vernon Ning Hsu, Wen-Qiang Xiao:
  Dynamic Lot Sizing with Batch Ordering and Truckload Discounts. 639-654
  
• Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall, Glenn Whitwell:
  A New Placement Heuristic for the Orthogonal Stock-Cutting Problem. 655-671
  

Volume 52, Number 5, September - October 2004

• Srinivas Bollapragada, Michael R. Bussieck, Suman Mallik:
  Scheduling Commercial Videotapes in Broadcast Television. 679-689
  
• Peng Sun, Robert M. Freund:
  Computation of Minimum-Volume Covering Ellipsoids. 690-706
  
• Fangruo Chen, Rungson Samroengraja:
  Order Volatility and Supply Chain Costs. 707-722
  
• Roberto Baldacci, Eleni Hadjiconstantinou, Aristide Mingozzi:
  An Exact Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem Based on a Two-Commodity Network Flow Formulation. 723-738
  
• Rodney P. Parker, Roman Kapuscinski:
  Optimal Policies for a Capacitated Two-Echelon Inventory System. 739-755
  
• Nam K. Kim, Kyung C. Chae, Mohan L. Chaudhry:
  An Invariance Relation and a Unified Method to Derive Stationary Queue-Length Distributions. 756-764
  
• James R. Bradley:
  A Brownian Approximation of a Production-Inventory System with a Manufacturer That Subcontracts. 765-784
  
• Ali Dogramaci, Nelson M. Fraiman:
  Replacement Decisions with Maintenance Under Uncertainty: An Imbedded Optimal Control Model. 785-794
  
• Ganesh Janakiraman, Robin O. Roundy:
  Lost-Sales Problems with Stochastic Lead Times: Convexity Results for Base-Stock Policies. 795-803
  
• Serhan Ziya, Hayriye Ayhan, Robert D. Foley:
  Relationships Among Three Assumptions in Revenue Management. 804-809
  

Volume 52, Number 6, November - December 2004

• Vishal Gaur, Marshall L. Fisher:
  A Periodic Inventory Routing Problem at a Supermarket Chain. 813-822
  
• Robert F. Bordley, Craig W. Kirkwood:
  Multiattribute Preference Analysis with Performance Targets. 823-835
  
• Avishai Mandelbaum, Alexander L. Stolyar:
  Scheduling Flexible Servers with Convex Delay Costs: Heavy-Traffic Optimality of the Generalized cµ-Rule. 836-855
  
• Vadim Linetsky:
  Spectral Expansions for Asian (Average Price) Options. 856-867
  
• Fernando Bernstein, Awi Federgruen:
  A General Equilibrium Model for Industries with Price and Service Competition. 868-886
  
• Xin Chen, David Simchi-Levi:
  Coordinating Inventory Control and Pricing Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost: The Finite Horizon Case. 887-896
  
• Horst W. Hamacher, Anita Schöbel:
  Design of Zone Tariff Systems in Public Transportation. 897-908
  
• Carlos F. Daganzo:
  On the Stability of Supply Chains. 909-921
  
• Ward Whitt:
  A Diffusion Approximation for the G/GI/n/m Queue. 922-941
  
• Marcus Porembski:
  Cutting Planes for Low-Rank-Like Concave Minimization Problems. 942-953
  
• Ebru K. Bish, Qiong Wang:
  Optimal Investment Strategies for Flexible Resources, Considering Pricing and Correlated Demands. 954-964
  
• Janny M. Y. Leung, Guoqing Zhang, Xiaoguang Yang, Raymond Mak, Kokin Lam:
  Optimal Cyclic Multi-Hoist Scheduling: A Mixed Integer Programming Approach. 965-976
  
• Russell Bent, Pascal Van Hentenryck:
  Scenario-Based Planning for Partially Dynamic Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Customers. 977-987
  
• Özalp Özer, Wei Wei:
  Inventory Control with Limited Capacity and Advance Demand Information. 988-1000
  
• Guillermo Gallego, L. Beril Toktay:
  All-or-Nothing Ordering Under a Capacity Constraint. 1001-1002