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February 1959, Volume 7, Issue 1
- 45-57 Economic Lot Sizes with Seasonal Demand
by Mark B. Schupack - 58-66 On a Linear-Programming, Combinatorial Approach to the Traveling-Salesman Problem
by G. B. Dantzig & D. R. Fulkerson & S. M. Johnson - 67-78 Solutions of a Class of Discrete-Time Inventory Problems
by Philip M. Morse - 79-85 An Analysis of Traffic Flow
by Harold Greenberg - 86-106 Traffic Dynamics: Analysis of Stability in Car Following
by Robert Herman & Elliott W. Montroll & Renfrey B. Potts & Richard W. Rothery - 107-122 Purchasing Raw Material on a Fluctuating Market
by T. Fabian & J. L. Fisher & M. W. Sasieni & A. Yardeni - 123-126 Letter to the Editor---Production Schedules Involving Cancellation and Obsolescence Risks
by John E. Walsh - 126-128 Letter to the Editor---Applicability of the Lognormal Distribution to Servicing Times in Congestion Problems
by William J. Horvath - 128-130 Letter to the Editor---The Progress-Curve Computer
by Doris M. Eisemann - 131-131 Letter to the Editor---Operations-Research Education in Schools of Business
by James R. Jackson - 132-139 The Analysts' Bookshelf
by Joseph F. McCloskey
December 1958, Volume 6, Issue 6
- 791-812 A Method for Solving Traveling-Salesman Problems
by G. A. Croes - 813-826 Towards a Unified Theory of Road Traffic
by Frank A. Haight - 827-834 Operational Analysis of a Traffic-Dynamics Problem
by Tse-Sun Chow - 835-848 A Dynamic-Programming Computational Procedure for Optimal Manpower Loading in a Large Aircraft Company
by Albert B. Bishop & Thomas H. Rockwell - 849-855 Multiple Objectives in Mathematical Programming
by Carl N. Klahr - 856-862 Waiting-Time Distributions for Application to a Series of Service Centers
by Ross T. Nelson - 863-873 In-Process Inventories
by Kenneth F. Simpson - 874-875 Letter to the Editor---Comments on “Solution of the Quota Problem by a Successive-Reduction Method”
by D. R. Fulkerson & D. Gale - 875-876 Letter to the Editor---Comments on the Preceding Comments
by D. F. Votaw - 876-881 Letters to the Editor---A Sample Survey of Industrial Operations-Research Activities
by Ronald W. Hovey & Harvey M. Wagner - 881-882 Letter to the Editor---Comments on Brooks' Discussion of Random Methods
by Robert Hooke & T. A. Jeeves - 882-883 Letter to the Editor---A Variant on the Shortest-Route Problem
by George J. Minty - 883-884 Letter to the Editor---Operations Research in Australia
by R. W. Rutledge
October 1958, Volume 6, Issue 5
- 649-670 Cargo Containerization in the West Coast-Hawaiian Trade
by Foster L. Weldon - 671-675 Two Uses of the Diffused-Target Concept in Aerial Target Analysis
by W. A. Thompson - 676-685 Optimal Reorder Periods for an Inventory System with Variable Costs of Ordering
by Eliezer Naddor & Sidney Saltzman - 686-692 Prediction of First-Cruise Reenlistment Rate
by John T. Dailey - 693-698 Calculation of Higher Transitions in a Markov Process
by William Miehle - 699-709 Game-Theory Models in the Allocation of Advertising Expenditures
by Lawrence Friedman - 710-722 Effectiveness of Troops Exposed to Thermal Radiation from Nuclear Weapons
by R. A. Langevin & R. Greenstone & C.O. Elder - 723-728 A Failure Model for Equipments Undergoing Complex Operation
by David S. Stoller - 729-739 Consideration of a Biased Estimate in an Information-Sampling Situation
by John C. Chambers - 740-765 The Value of Irreducibles in the Planning of Service Systems
by Ram Vaswani - 766-775 Letter to the Editor---Application of Operations Research in Farm Operations and Agricultural Marketing
by Charles E. French & Milton M. Snodgrass & James C. Snyder - 775-777 Letter to the Editor---Graphical Selection of Military Supply Tables
by William H. Sutherland - 778-778 Errata
by Frederick F. Stephan
August 1958, Volume 6, Issue 4
- 467-497 An Integrated Process Control System at the Cummins Engine Company
by E. Leonard Arnoff & Eugene B. Kania & Elizabeth Small Day - 498-515 Optimizing a Catalytic Cracking Operation by the Method of Steepest Ascents
by Robert W. Schrage - 516-529 Optimum Information-Acquisition Systems
by B. Harris & A. Hauptschein & L. S. Schwartz - 530-538 A Mathematical Model of Terrain Shielding
by R. R. Hare - 539-552 The Corporate Planning Process
by Melville C. Branch - 552-560 Long Range Planning---A Kaleidoscopic View
by Earle Stewart - 560-572 Prediction and Feedback in Business Planning
by William D. McEachron - 573-579 A Working Model of the Financial Dynamics of a Business
by Bernard Whitney & Marion S. Israel - 580-590 Joint Optimization of Long-Range Planning and Short-Range Programming
by Michel Verhulst - 591-593 Letter to the Editor---Commentary on Harling's “Simulation Techniques in Operations Research”
by John Hunton Moss - 593-593 Errata
by Olle Swensson
June 1958, Volume 6, Issue 3
- 307-319 Simulation Techniques in Operations Research---A Review
by John Harling - 320-328 Scale of Operations---An Empirical Study
by Edward H. Bowman - 329-345 The Hub Operation Scheduling Problem
by J. S. Minas & L. G. Mitten - 346-351 A Target-Assignment Problem
by Alan S. Manne - 352-363 Application of Operations Research to Development Decisions
by Burton Klein & William Meckling - 364-384 A Practical Guide to the Dual Theorem
by Harvey M. Wagner - 385-398 Optimum Lot Sizes for Parts Used in Aircraft Production
by John C. Chambers & Angus F. Bond & James H. Leake - 399-418 Two Queues Under Preemptive Priority with Poisson Arrival and Service Rates
by Frederick F. Stephan - 419-433 Constructing Maximal Dynamic Flows from Static Flows
by L. R. Ford & D. R. Fulkerson - 434-438 Letter to the Editor---Use of Computers for Mechanized Literature Searching in Operations-Research Libraries
by Russell Coile & Baba Foster - 439-440 Letter to the Editor---Optimum Preventative Sampling Via Dynamic Programming
by Robert Kalaba - 441-447 Letter to the Editor---Trends in Operational Research
by Ronald W. Bevan - 447-448 Letter to the Editor---The Widespread Adoption of an Operational Policy and its Effect on the World as a Whole
by Robert M. Stewart - 448-449 Letter to the Editor---On “Heuristic Problem Solving,” by Simon and Newell
by Richard Bellman - 449-450 Letter to the Editor---Reply: Heuristic Problem Solving
by Herbert A. Simon & Allen Newell - 450-451 Letter to the Editor---Letter to the Editor of Operations Research
by LeRoy A. Brothers
April 1958, Volume 6, Issue 2
- 165-184 Traffic Dynamics: Studies in Car Following
by Robert E. Chandler & Robert Herman & Elliott W. Montroll - 185-189 An Approach to Linear Inventory-Production Rules
by Roger Pinkham - 190-199 The Simplex Method for Beginners
by Harvey M. Wagner - 200-206 Dynamic Programming and the Reliability of Multicomponent Devices
by Richard Bellman & Stuart Dreyfus - 207-231 Effect of Population Mobility on the Location of Communal Shelters
by Michael N. Alexander & J. Brooks Ferebee & Paul J. Grim & Leonard S. Lebow & Stephen D. Senturia & Ann M. Singleterry - 232-243 Link-Length Minimization in Networks
by William Miehle - 244-251 A Discussion of Random Methods for Seeking Maxima
by Samuel H. Brooks - 252-263 A Warehouse-Location Problem
by William J. Baumol & Philip Wolfe - 264-275 Nonstationary Queuing Probabilities for Landing Congestion of Aircraft
by Herbert P. Galliher & R. Clyde Wheeler - 276-292 An Approach to a Class of Queuing Problems
by Olle Swensson - 293-295 Letter to the Editor---Production and Inventory Planning in a Fluctuating Market
by Sven Dano & Ernst Lykke Jensen - 296-297 Letter to the Editor---ORSA and TIMS Should Affiliate Rather than Merge
by David B. Hertz - 297-297 Errata
by Andre G. Laurent
February 1958, Volume 6, Issue 1
- 1-10 Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research
by Herbert A. Simon & Allen Newell - 11-34 The Crisis in Science and Technology and its Effect on Military Development
by Ellis A. Johnson - 35-55 Determination of Feasible Shipping Schedules for a Job Shop
by W. Karush & L. A. Moody - 56-64 Solution of the Quota Problem by a Successive-Reduction Method
by D. F. Votaw - 65-78 On a Tactical Air-Warfare Model of Mengel
by Richard Bellman & Stuart Dreyfus - 79-95 Queuing with Preemptive Priorities or with Breakdown
by Harrison White & Lee S. Christie - 96-105 Discrete-Time Queuing Theory
by Torben Meisling - 106-115 Factor Analysis of Personnel Components of Ship Performance
by Albert S. Glickman - 116-121 Letter to the Editor---The Place of Psychology in Operations Research
by George D. Creelman & Richard W. Wallen - 121-124 Letter to the Editor---On Hitch's Dissent on “Operations Research and National Planning”
by Russell L. Ackoff - 124-124 Letter to the Editor---Comments on Business Games
by Karl Goldschmidt - 125-127 Letter to the Editor---Written in a Queue
by H. F. Ellis - 127-130 Letter to the Editor---Metaphysical Considerations Involved in Choosing a Measure of Effectiveness
by Martin L. Leibowitz - 130-130 Letter to the Editor---Incidental Intelligence
by W. M. Chow - 131-132 Letter to the Editor---Literature to Turkey
by Glen D. Camp - 132-135 Letter to the Editor---Das Geschutenwerkes Werdebuke
by Robert F. Reiland - 135-136 Letter to the Editor---Whither ORSA?
by Joseph F. McCloskey
December 1957, Volume 5, Issue 6
- 741-749 A Laboratory for Combat Operations Research
by Franklin C. Brooks & Floyd I. Hill - 750-764 Inadequacy of Cost Per “Kill” as Measure of Effectiveness
by John E. Walsh - 765-774 Decision Theory and Operations Research
by Kenneth J. Arrow - 775-793 The Application of a High Speed Computer to the Definition and Solution of the Vehicular Traffic Problem
by Harry H. Goode - 794-814 Operational Requirements for a Collision Warning System
by Eduardo I. Pina & Henry J. Landau - 815-819 On the Optimal Allocation of Limited Resources
by L. E. Ward - 820-829 Determining Criteria for Evaluating Man-Machine Links in Weapon System Analysis
by Martin I. Kurke - 830-840 Balance and Stability in Competitive Situations
by Hans E. Quenzer - 841-845 Letter to the Editor---Graphic Solution of the Traveling-Salesman Problem
by L. L. Barachet - 846-847 Letter to the Editor---Comments on “A Possible Solution to the Shortage of Scientists”
by Thomas G. Andrews & Lessing A. Kahn - 847-848 Letter to the Editor---Note on “Optimum Component Redundancy for Maximum System Reliability”
by John T. Robacker - 848-851 Letter to the Editor---Errors of Estimate in Operations Analysis
by George A. Peters - 851-858 Letter to the Editor---Report to the Eighth A.I.I.E. National Convention on the System Simulation Symposium, New York, May 16--17, 1957
by Warren E. Alberts - 860-860 Errata
by Byron O. Marshall & William P. Boggess - 861-862 Education in Operations Research at the Ohio State University
by W. T. Morris
October 1957, Volume 5, Issue 5
- 613-626 The Theory of Search
by Bernard O. Koopman - 627-643 Mathematical Analysis of an Inventory Case
by Charles E. Clark - 644-649 Queuing with Impatient Customers and Indifferent Clerks
by D. Y. Barrer - 650-656 Queuing with Impatient Customers and Ordered Service
by D. Y. Barrer - 657-669 An Equipment-Investment Analog
by Robert B. Fetter & Thomas P. Goodman - 670-679 Digital Simulation of Complex Traffic Problems in Communications Systems
by Lewis Brotman & Jack Minker - 680-692 Minimum Cost Decision-Feedback Systems for Detecting Signals Perturbed by Additive Gaussian Noise
by B. Harris & A. Hauptschein & L. S. Schwartz - 693-703 A Queuing Model for an Inventory Problem
by William Karush - 704-712 A Tactical Air Game
by D. R. Fulkerson & S. M. Johnson - 713-717 Determination of Optimal Capacities of Service for Facilities with a Linear Measure of Inefficiency
by Friedrich Hanssmann - 718-723 Letter to the Editor---Operations Research and National Planning---A Dissent
by Charles Hitch - 723-724 Letter to the Editor---Comment on Dantzig's Paper on Discrete Variable Extremum Problems
by Richard Bellman - 724-724 Letter to the Editor---A Comment on the Shortest-Route Problem
by George J. Minty
August 1957, Volume 5, Issue 4
- 457-468 Operations Research and National Planning
by Russell L. Ackoff - 469-503 On the Construction of a Multi-Stage, Multi-Person Business Game
by Richard Bellman & Charles E. Clark & Donald G. Malcolm & Clifford J. Craft & Franc M. Ricciardi - 504-512 On Warehousing Problems
by William Prager - 513-517 The Practical Calculation of Reorder Points
by Byron O. Marshall & William P. Boggess - 518-521 Networks of Waiting Lines
by James R. Jackson - 522-545 An Operations-Research Study of the Collection of Defaulted Loans
by Morton Mitchner & Raymond P. Peterson - 546-550 A Model for Optimum Control of Stochastic Sampled-Data Systems
by Albert B. Bishop - 551-554 Letter to the Editor---The Data-Enrichment Method
by Henry R. Lewis - 555-563 Letter to the Editor---A Supplementary Bibliography on Linear Programming
by Harvey M. Wagner - 563-564 Letter to the Editor---On the Proposal for Merger of ORSA and TIMS
by David A. Katcher - 565-566 Letter to the Editor---A Note on Production Scheduling by the Use of the Transportation Method
by Salah Elmaghraby - 566-568 Letter to the Editor---The Operations Research Society of Japan
by Macon Fry
June 1957, Volume 5, Issue 3
- 311-318 A Possible Solution to the Shortage of Scientists
by Jean G. Taylor & John Balloch - 319-350 Some Civil Defense Problems in the Nation's Capital Following Widespread Thermonuclear Attack
by Richard Bentz & William Chace & Gordon Doerfer & John Donaldson & Thomas English & James Graves & Paul Grim & David Gunlock & Jerome Horowitz & Leland Miller & Albert Small - 351-360 Evaluating Health Screening Procedures
by Mark S. Blumberg - 361-369 A Comparison of the Original and Revised Simplex Methods
by Harvey M. Wagner - 370-381 An Operations-Research Study of Sales Response to Advertising
by M. L. Vidale & H. B. Wolfe - 382-396 Distribution of Seasonal Inventory of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company
by Alan R. Eagle - 397-408 A Monte Carlo Analysis of the Ground Controlled Approach System
by Alfred Blumstein - 409-415 Computational Aspects of Dynamic Programming
by Stuart E. Dreyfus - 416-421 A Hand-Computation Determination of Kill Probability for Weapons Having Spherical Lethal Volume
by H. W. Lilliefors - 422-428 The Mechanical Blackboard
by Robert E. Machol - 429-433 Linear Programming Isn't Always the Answer
by David E. Debeau - 434-440 Letter to the Editor---Military Applications of Operational Research
by John W. Abrams - 440-442 Letter to the Editor---Comments on “Production Scheduling by the Transportation Method of Linear Programming”
by Wolfgang G. Wetzel - 442-445 Letter to the Editor---Possible Motivation for a Stated Concept of Defense
by John E. Walsh - 445-447 Letter to the Editor---What is a System?
by Malcolm W. Hoag - 447-447 Errata
by Andrew Vazsonyi
April 1957, Volume 5, Issue 2
- 161-200 Résumé of Useful Formulas in Queuing Theory
by Thomas L. Saaty - 201-204 Some Industrial Applications of Military Operations Research Methods
by George E. Kimball - 205-209 The Distribution of the Time Required to Reduce to Some Preassigned Level a Single-Channel Queue Characterized by a Time-Dependent Poisson-Distributed Arrival Rate and a General Class of Holding Times
by George Luchak - 210-221 The Application of Design of Experiments and Modeling to Complex Weapons Systems
by Erwin Biser & Martin Meyerson - 222-228 Salvo Hit Probabilities for Offset Circular Targets
by Arthur D. Groves & Ed S. Smith - 229-243 Optimum Component Redundancy for Maximum System Reliability
by Robert Gordon - 244-257 Symposium on Modern Techniques for Extremum Problems---Linear and Nonlinear Programming
by A. W. Tucker - 258-265 Gradient Methods for Constrained Maxima
by Kenneth Arrow & Leonid Hurwicz - 266-288 Discrete-Variable Extremum Problems
by George B. Dantzig - 289-292 Operations Research at Case Institute of Technology
by E. Leonard Arnoff - 293-294 Letter to the Editor---A. K. Erlang
by Thomas L. Saaty - 294-295 Letter to the Editor---From the President's Desk
by Allen Y. Davis - 295-295 Letter to the Editor---Specification of a Business-Data System
by William B. Worthington - 296-297 Letter to the Editor---Application of Set Theory to a Class of Allocation Problems
by Glen D. Camp - 297-299 Letter to the Editor---A Proposed Measure for Determining the Value of a Design
by L. Ivan Epstein - 299-301 Letter to the Editor---Proposed Amendments to the Constitution
by LeRoy A. Brothers - 301-302 Letter to the Editor---Comments on Precoda's Paper on Air Weapons Systems Analysis
by John B. Lathrop
February 1957, Volume 5, Issue 1
- 1-27 The Role of Operational Gaming in Operations Research
by Clayton J. Thomas & Walter L. Deemer - 28-44 Economic-Lot-Size Formulas in Manufacturing
by Andrew Vazsonyi - 45-62 Bibliography on Linear Programming
by F. Virginia Rohde - 63-67 The Solution of a Certain Two-Person Zero-Sum Game
by Richard H. Brown - 68-74 The Effect of Departures from Assumption when Manufacturing to a Specification
by E. S. Page & Shirley Muris - 75-89 Bombing Problems---A Statistical Approach
by Andre G. Laurent - 90-96 Some Factors Tending to Limit the Utility of the Social Scientist in Military Systems Analysis
by Donald N. Michael - 97-103 On a Problem of Production Scheduling
by George T. Bishop - 104-110 The Problem of American Shipping---New Questions and Old Answers
by William M. Roth - 111-122 Operations Research in a Public Corporation
by Leslie C. Edie - 123-125 Letter to the Editor---A Proposal for Merging ORSA and TIMS
by John B. Lathrop
December 1956, Volume 4, Issue 6
- 629-647 Allocation of Sales Effort in the Lamp Division of the General Electric Company
by Clark Waid & Donald F. Clark & Russell L. Ackoff - 648-662 The Queuiac: An Electromechanical Analog for the Simulation of Waiting-Line Problems
by Paul F. Dunn & Charles D. Flagle & Philip A. Hicks - 663-673 Three Applications of Operations Research in a Large Electric Utility
by P. J. Sandiford & B. Bernholtz & W. Shelson - 674-683 Sequential Arrays of Waiting Lines
by Gordon C. Hunt - 684-698 Air Weapons Systems Analysis
by Norman Precoda - 699-704 The Output of a Queuing System
by Paul J. Burke - 705-710 Use of Transfer Functions for Company Planning
by Gordon K. Johnson & Inez M. Turner - 711-732 The Solution of the Single-Channel Queuing Equations Characterized by a Time-Dependent Poisson-Distributed Arrival Rate and a General Class of Holding Times
by George Luchak - 733-737 Training in Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
by Philip M. Morse - 738-738 Letter to the Editor---Spare-Parts Programs in Industry
by Cord H. Link - 738-740 Letter to the Editor---A Pocket-Sized Case Study in Operations Research Concerning Inventory Markdown
by Gideon Levary - 740-740 Letter to the Editor---Some Comments on Traffic Systems
by Alan Thomas - 740-742 Letter to the Editor---Comments on Edie's Letter on Vehicular Breakdowns
by J. M. Dobbie
October 1956, Volume 4, Issue 5
- 503-531 The Theory of Search. II. Target Detection
by B. O. Koopman - 532-545 Estimation of Reliability Growth in a Complex System with a Poisson-Type Failure
by Herbert K. Weiss - 546-557 A Method of Computing Survival Probabilities of Several Targets Versus Several Weapons
by Jane Ingersoll Robertson - 558-571 Weapon-System Cost Analysis
by G. H. Fisher - 572-580 Inventory Management of Slow-Moving Parts
by A. C. Heyvaert & A. Hurt - 581-587 Management's Corner
by Russell L. Ackoff - 587-599 Operations Research in the American Thread Company
by Charles G. McGee