Operations Research

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Bricks-and-mortar" vs. "clicks-and-mortar": An equilibrium analysis 
  • 7 Failure correlation in software reliability models 
  • A "meta-analysis" of multibrand, multioutlet channel systems 
  • A BDD-based algorithm for reliability analysis of phased-mission systems 
  • A Bayesian model for prelaunch sales forecasting of recorded music 
  • A Behavioral Remedy for the Censorship Bias 
  • A Comment on "Probability of Survival as an Investment Criterion" By Fred Hanssmann 
  • A Dynamic Lot-Size Model with Make-or-Buy Decisions 
  • A Graph Theory Approach to Comparing Consumer Information Processing Models 
  • A Method for Districting Among Facilities 
  • A Monte Carlo investigation of homogeneity tests of the odds ratio under various sample size configurations. 
  • A New Look at the Returns and Risks to Pharmaceutical R & D 
  • A best practice guide to resource forecasting for computing systems 
  • A breath of fresh air? Firm type, scale, scope, and selection effects in drug development 
  • A censored-data multiperiod inventory problem with newsvendor demand distributions 
  • A central limit theorem for temporally nonhomogenous Markov chains with applications to dynamic programming 
  • A closed-form approximation for serial inventory systems and its application to system design 
  • A corporate beauty contest 
  • A general equilibrium model for industries with price and service competition 
  • A generalization of Pratt-Arrow measure to nonexpected-utility preferences and inseparable probability and utility 
  • A geometric analysis of Renegar's condition number, and its interplay with conic curvature 
  • A linear decision-based approximation approach to stochastic programming 
  • A mathematical organization theory 
  • A multistage model of hospital bed requirements. 
  • A nonparametric general linear model. 
  • A reference lottery metric for valuing health 
  • A reply to Williamson's "outsourcing ..." 
  • A research agenda to underpin malaria eradication. 
  • A risk analysis of an LNG terminal 
  • A robust optimization perspective on stochastic programming 
  • A role for operational research in health care planning and management teams. 
  • A series system with returns: Stationary analysis 
  • A simple heuristic for echelon (r, n Q, T) policies in serial supply chains 
  • A simple heuristic for joint inventory and pricing models with lead time and backorders 
  • A single server queue in a hard-real-time environment 
  • A soft robust model for optimization under ambiguity 
  • A study of market segment response to the marketing decision variables 
  • A survey of efficient reliability computation using disjoint products approach 
  • A theory of cutoff formation under imperfect information 
  • A workload-based analysis of software aging, and rejuvenation 
  • AGGREGATING SUBJECTIVE FORECASTS. SOME EMPIRICAL RESULTS. 
  • ALLOCATION AND DISTRIBUTION MODEL FOR PERISHABLE PRODUCTS. 
  • ANALYSIS OF BALTIMORE GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY'S TECHNOLOGY CHOICE. 
  • ANALYSIS OF PREFERENCE DEPENDENCIES AMONG OBJECTIVES. 
  • APPROXIMATIONS OF DYNAMIC, MULTILOCATION PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY PROBLEMS. 
  • ASPECTS OF BAYESIAN FORECASTING 
  • AVERAGES OF FORECASTS: SOME EMPIRICAL RESULTS. 
  • Accelerated degradation tests applied to software aging experiments 
  • Active memory: A new abstraction for memory system simulation 
  • Adaptive filtering revisited 
  • Advance demand information in a multiproduct system 
  • Adverse incentives in crowdfunding 
  • Advertising fee in business-format franchising 
  • Agents' incentives under buy-back contracts in a two-stage supply chain 
  • Aggregating point estimates. A flexible modeling approach 
  • Aggregation and disaggregation in convex network problems 
  • American Red Cross Uses Analytics-Based Methods to Improve Blood-Collection Operations 
  • An Allocation and Distribution Model for Perishable Products 
  • An Ant Colony algorithm hybridized with insertion heuristics for the Time Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows 
  • An Approach for Developing an Optimal Discount Pricing Policy 
  • An Assessment of the Risk of Chronic Lung Injury Attributable to Long-Term Ozone Exposure 
  • An Efficient Rescaled Perceptron Algorithm for Conic Systems 
  • An Improved Algorithm for Symbolic Reliability Analysis 
  • An augmented Lagrangian method for distributed optimization 
  • An improved algorithm for coherent-system reliability 
  • An improved disaggregation method for transportation problems 
  • An on-line adaptive radiation therapy system for intensity modulated radiation therapy: An application of multi-objective optimization 
  • An organizational model of integrated budgeting for short-run operations and long-run investments 
  • Analysis and comparison of queues with different levels of delay information 
  • Analysis of Typical Fault-Tolerant Architectures using HARP 
  • Analysis of Typical Fault-Tolerant Architectures using Harp 
  • Analysis of alternative national ambient carbon monoxide standards 
  • Analysis of perishable-inventory systems with censored demand data 
  • Analysis of software aging in a Web server 
  • Analytical models for architecture-based software reliability prediction: A unification framework 
  • Analytics for power grid distribution reliability in New York City 
  • Analyzing radionuclide emissions from coal-fired power plants 
  • Analyzing scrip systems 
  • Approximate Availability Analysis of VAXcluster Systems 
  • Approximate solutions of a dynamic forecast-inventory model 
  • Approximations of Bayes decision problems: the epigraphical approach 
  • Aspirational preferences and their representation by risk measures 
  • Assessing defense procurement policies 
  • Assessing dependence: some experimental results 
  • Assessment of the risk of chronic lung injury attributable to long-term ozone exposure 
  • Attribute conflict and preference uncertainty: effects on judgment time and error 
  • Attribute conflict and preference uncertainty: the RandMAU model 
  • BOUNDS FOR ROW-AGGREGATION IN LINEAR PROGRAMMING. 
  • BOUNDS ON THE EFFECT OF AGGREGATING VARIABLES IN LINEAR PROGRAMS. 
  • Backorder minimization in multiproduct assemble-to-order systems 
  • Bayesian dynamic pricing policies: Learning and earning under a binary prior distribution 
  • Betting your favorite to win: Costly reluctance to hedge desired outcomes 
  • Between first- and second-order stochastic dominance 
  • Bias and variance approximation in value function estimates 
  • Biased judgment in censored environments 
  • Bounds for aggregating nodes in network problems 
  • Bounds, heuristics, and approximations for distribution systems 
  • Branding conspicuous goods: An analysis of the effects of social influence and competition 
  • Budgets for integrating decentralized investment and production planning 
  • Building Supply Chain Resilience through Virtual Stockpile Pooling 
  • Building models of values 
  • Bundle Relaxation and Primal Recovery in Unit Commitment Problems. The Brazilian Case 
  • COMBINED VEHICLE ROUTING AND INVENTORY ALLOCATION PROBLEM. 
  • COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES IN AN INFINITE-HORIZON, MULTIECHELON INVENTORY MODEL. 
  • CONSTRUCTING A COMPLEX JUDGMENTAL MODEL: AN INDEX OF TRAUMA SEVERITY. 
  • Calibration and the Aggregation of Probabilities 
  • Capacity investment timing by start-ups and established firms in new markets 
  • Capital Expenditure Programming and Some Alternative Approaches to Risk 
  • Capital markets and firm organization: How financial development shapes European corporate groups 
  • Capital structure, product market dynamics, and the boundaries of the firm 
  • Casey's problem: Interpreting and evaluating a new test 
  • Cash-Out or Flame-Out! Opportunity Cost and Entrepreneurial Strategy: Theory, and Evidence from the Information Security Industry 
  • Cash-out or flameout! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: Theory, and evidence from the information security industry 
  • Category management and coordination in retail assortment planning in the presence of basket shopping consumers 
  • Churn Baby Churn: Strategic Dynamics Among Dominant and Fringe Firms in a Segmented Industry 
  • Closed-form approximations for optimal (r, q) and (S, T) policies in a parallel processing environment 
  • Combinatorial auction design 
  • Combining Overlapping Information 
  • Combining Probability Distributions from Dependent Information Sources 
  • Combining expert judgment by hierarchical modeling: An application to physician staffing 
  • Comment on “A Randomization Rule for Selecting Forecasts” 
  • Comment/correction: dependability modeling using petri nets 
  • Common mistakes in making value trade-offs 
  • Competing manufacturers in a retail supply chain: On contractual form and coordination 
  • Competition and cooperation in a two-stage supply chain with demand forecasts 
  • Competition for procurement contracts with service guarantees 
  • Competition in remanufacturing 
  • Competitive Bidding with Dependent Value Estimates 
  • Competitive and cooperative inventory policies in a two-stage supply chain 
  • Computation of minimum-volume covering ellipsoids 
  • Computationally manageable combinational auctions 
  • Computing Optimal Lot Sizes in the Economic Lot Scheduling Problem 
  • Computing reliability and message delay for cooperative wireless distributed sensor networks subject to random failures 
  • Computing steady-state mean time to failure for non-coherent repairable systems 
  • Computing steady-state mean time to failure for non-coherent repairable systems 
  • Conspicuous consumption and sophisticated thinking 
  • Constructing uncertainty sets for robust linear optimization 
  • Contract Assembly: Dealing with Combined Supply Lead Time and Demand Quantity Uncertainty 
  • Cooperation in assembly systems: The role of knowledge sharing networks 
  • Cooperation in assembly systems: The role of knowledge sharing networks 
  • Coordinating a Semi-Centralized Global Production Network Through Different Levels of Headquarters Involvement 
  • Coordinating supply chains with simple pricing schemes: The role of vendor-managed inventories 
  • Coordination mechanisms for supply chains under price and service competition 
  • Coordination mechanisms in decentralized serial inventory systems with batch ordering 
  • Coordination of production/distribution networks with unbalanced leadtimes 
  • Copula models for aggregating expert opinions 
  • Corporate general counsel and financial reporting quality 
  • Corporate governance, debt, and investment policy during the great depression 
  • Corporate strategy, analyst coverage, and the uniqueness paradox 
  • Correlations and copulas for decision and risk analysis 
  • Cost reduction through operations reversal 
  • Covariance Structure Models and Influence Diagrams 
  • Creating more and better alternatives for decisions using objectives 
  • Creating policy alternatives using stakeholder values 
  • Critical Number Policies for Inventory Models with Periodic Data 
  • Cross-function and same-function alliances: How does alliance structure affect the behavior of partnering firms? 
  • Customer-Order Information, Leadtimes, and Inventories 
  • Customer-driven misconduct: How competition corrupts business practices 
  • DECISION-PROCESS PERSPECTIVE ON RISK AND POLICY ANALYSIS. 
  • David vs. Goliath: An analysis of asymmetric mixed-strategy games and experimental evidence 
  • Decentralized pricing and capacity decisions in a multitier system with modular assembly 
  • Decentralized supply chains with competing retailers under demand uncertainty 
  • Decision Modeling and Rational Choice: AHP and Utility Theory 
  • Decision analysis in Management Science 
  • Decision analysis with indeterminate or incoherent probabilities 
  • Decision making with multiattribute performance targets: The impact of changes in performance and target distributions 
  • Decomposition in Reliability Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Systems 
  • Decomposition in Reliability Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Systems 
  • Demand Signalling Under Unobservable Effort in Franchising: Linear and Nonlinear Price Contracts 
  • Demand estimation and assortment optimization under substitution: Methodology and application 
  • Demand estimation and assortment optimization under substitution: Methodology and application 
  • Demographic challenges for socioeconomic planning. 
  • Dependability Modeling Using Petri-Nets 
  • Design of traceability systems for product recall 
  • Designing win-win financial loan products for consumers and businesses 
  • Determining Organizational Effectiveness: Another Look, and an Agenda for Research 
  • Developing a foundation for strategy at Seagate Software 
  • Diagnostic accuracy under congestion 
  • Disruption risk and optimal sourcing in multitier supply networks 
  • Do we really need to change the decision maker? Counterintuitive escalation of commitment results in real options contexts 
  • Does elicitation method matter? Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence from capacity allocation game 
  • Dynamic assortment customization with limited inventories 
  • Dynamic bundle methods 
  • Dynamic catalog mailing policies 
  • Dynamic cost reduction through process improvement in assembly networks 
  • Dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs: Heuristics and dual bounds 
  • Dynamic pricing with an unknown demand model: Asymptotically optimal semi-myopic policies 
  • Dynamic product rotation in the presence of strategic customers 
  • Dynamic scheduling rules for a multiproduct make-to-stock queue 
  • EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR COMPUTING OPTIMAL (s, S) POLICIES. 
  • EFFORT AND ACCURACY IN CHOICE. 
  • ESTIMATING THE PERFORMANCE OF MULTI-LEVEL INVENTORY SYSTEMS. 
  • ESTIMATING UTILITY FUNCTIONS IN THE PRESENCE OF RESPONSE ERROR. 
  • EVALUATING DECISION STRATEGIES FOR EQUITY OF PUBLIC RISKS. 
  • Effect of leadtime uncertainty in a simple stochastic inventory model 
  • Effect of partial cross ownership on supply chain performance 
  • Effective Medical Surplus Recovery 
  • Effects of information-revelation policies under market-structure uncertainty 
  • Efficiency of mutual funds and portfolio performance measurement: A non-parametric approach 
  • Efficient feed-in-tariff policies for renewable energy technologies 
  • Efficient parallel linear programming 
  • Electronic Resource Management: A Multi-Period Capital Budgeting Approach 
  • Eliciting Public Values for Complex Policy Decisions 
  • Emotional bidders - An analytical and experimental examination of consumers' behavior in a priceline-like reverse auction 
  • Ensemble strategies for a medical diagnostic decision support system: A breast cancer diagnosis application 
  • Environment, Market Share, and Market Power 
  • Equilibrium Joining Strategies and Optimal Control of a Make-to-Stock Queue 
  • Equity and Public Risk 
  • Equity and the technology transfer strategies of American research universities 
  • Erratum: Intuitions about combining opinions: Misappreciation of the averaging principle (Management Science (January 2006) 52:1 (111-127) 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0518) 
  • Erratum: Operations research 2007 meritorious service award recipients (Operations Research (2008) 56:5 (1331)) 
  • Erratum: Return on assets loss from situational and contingency misfits (Management Science (2002) 48 (1461-1585)) 
  • Erratum: Serial Production/Distribution Systems under Service Constraints (Maufacturing & Service Operations Management) 
  • Establishing research objectives to address issues of climate change 
  • Evaluating Alternatives Involving Potential Fatalities 
  • Evaluating Customer Acquisition at American Express Using Multiple Objectives 
  • Evaluating Probabilities: Asymmetric Scoring Rules 
  • Evaluating academic programs: With applications to U.S. graduate decision science programs 
  • Evaluating and Improving Resource Allocation for Navy Recruiting 
  • Evaluating and combining physicians' probabilities of survival in an intensive care unit 
  • Evaluating improvements in electric utility reliability at British Columbia hydro 
  • Evaluating income streams: A decision analysis approach 
  • Evaluating quantile assessments 
  • Evaluating the administrative efficiency of courts 
  • Evaluation of cycle-count policies for supply chains with inventory inaccuracy and implications on RFID investments 
  • Evaluation of cycle-count policies for supply chains with inventory inaccuracy and implications on RFID investments 
  • Evaluation of one-for-one replenishment policies for multiechelon inventory systems 
  • Evaluation of proposed storage sites. 
  • Exact recovery with symmetries for procrustes matching 
  • Experimentally measured scatter fractions and energy spectra as a test of Monte Carlo simulations. 
  • Expert Resolution 
  • Exploiting big data in logistics risk assessment via Bayesian nonparametrics 
  • FASTSLIM: Prefetch-Safe Trace Reduction for I/O Cache Simulation 
  • Fast computation of bounds for two-terminal network reliability 
  • Fast computation of bounds for two-terminal network reliability 
  • Firm Survival and Industry Evolution in Vertically Related Populations 
  • Fluid stochastic petri nets: Theory, applications, and solution techniques 
  • Focusing firm evolution: The impact of information infrastructure on market entry by U.S. telecommunications companies, 1984-1998 
  • Fortune Favors the Prepared Firm 
  • GENERALIZED UTILITY INDEPENDENCE AND SOME IMPLICATIONS. 
  • GROUP DECISION MAKING USING CARDINAL SOCIAL WELFARE FUNCTIONS. 
  • GROUP PREFERENCE AXIOMATIZATION WITH CARDINAL UTILITY. 
  • Gain without pain: The extended effects of a behavioral health intervention 
  • Generalized almost stochastic dominance 
  • Generating objectives: Can decision makers articulate what they want? 
  • Goal-based construction of preferences: task goals and the prominence effect 
  • Good and bad news about the 4S1 T 5 policy 
  • Hierarchical composition and aggregation of state-based availability and performability models 
  • ILLUSTRATIVE ANALYSIS OF AMBIENT CARBON MONOXIDE STANDARDS. 
  • ILLUSTRATIVE COMPARISON OF ONE UTILITY'S COAL AND NUCLEAR CHOICES. 
  • INVENTORY MODEL WITH LIMITED PRODUCTION CAPACITY AND UNCERTAIN DEMANDS I. THE AVERAGE-COST CRITERION. 
  • INVENTORY MODEL WITH LIMITED PRODUCTION CAPACITY AND UNCERTAIN DEMANDS. II. THE DISCOUNTED-COST CRITERION. 
  • INVENTORY SERVICE-LEVEL MEASURES: CONVEXITY AND APPROXIMATION. 
  • Identifying and structuring values to guide integrated resource planning at BC gas 
  • Identifying risks and mitigating disruptions in the automotive supply chain 
  • Immunologic reactions and periodontal inflammation. 
  • Impact of electricity pricing policies on renewable energy investments and carbon emissions 
  • Implementation of the newsvendor model with clearance pricing: How to (and how not to) estimate a salvage value 
  • Implications of Errors in Survey Data: A Bayesian Model 
  • Improving supply chain performance: Real-time demand information and flexible deliveries 
  • Incentives and commonality in a decentralized multiproduct assembly system 
  • Incorporating fault debugging activities into software reliability models: A simulation approach 
  • Inducing environmental disclosures: A dynamic mechanism design approach 
  • Information relaxation bounds for infinite horizon markov decision processes 
  • Information relaxations and duality in stochastic dynamic programs 
  • Information relaxations, duality, and convex stochastic dynamic programs 
  • Innovation in business groups 
  • Inspection and replenishment policies for systems with inventory record inaccuracy 
  • Interdependency, competition, and industry dynamics 
  • Interdependency, competition, and the distribution of firm and industry profits 
  • Interior additivity and subjective probability assessment of continuous variables 
  • Introduction to the special issue on marketing within the enterprise and beyond 
  • Intuitions about combining opinions: Misappreciation of the averaging principle 
  • Inventories with multiple supply sources and networks of queues with overflow bypasses 
  • Inventory control in a fluctuating demand environment 
  • Inventory control with information about supply conditions 
  • Inventory management for an assembly system with product or component returns 
  • Inventory planning with forecast updates: Approximate solutions and cost error bounds 
  • Inventory policies in a decentralized assembly system 
  • Investor Competence, Trading Frequency, and Home Bias 
  • Investor competence, trading frequency, and home bias 
  • Is it better to average probabilities or quantiles? 
  • Is management science international: in search of universal rules 
  • JUDGMENT BASED MARKETING DECISION MODELS: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE DECISION CALCULUS APPROACH. 
  • Joint Coherence in Games of Incomplete Information 
  • Joint bidding in the Name-Your-Own-Price channel: A strategic analysis 
  • Joint inventory and cash management for multidivisional supply chains 
  • Keeping doors open: The effect of unavailability on incentives to keep options viable 
  • Keyword search advertising and first-page bid estimates: A strategic analysis 
  • LEARNING, EXPERIMENTATION, AND THE OPTIMAL OUTPUT DECISIONS OF A COMPETITIVE FIRM. 
  • LIMITS FOR THE PRECISION AND VALUE OF INFORMATION FROM DEPENDENT SOURCES. 
  • Large deviations bounds for estimating conditional value-at-risk 
  • Leader location, cooperation, and coordination in serial supply chains 
  • Leadership and competition in network supply chains 
  • Learning on the Job? Employee mobility in the asset management industry 
  • Leasing and selling: Optimal marketing strategies for a durable goods firm 
  • Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research. 
  • Linear convergence of a modified Frank-Wolfe algorithm for computing minimum-volume enclosing ellipsoids 
  • Linear programming and the inverse method of images 
  • Links and impacts: The influence of public research on industrial R&D 
  • Long-term contracts under the threat of supplier default 
  • MANAGERIAL RISK PREFERENCES FOR BELOW-TARGET RETURNS. 
  • MODELS FOR DESIGN AND CONTROL OF STOCHASTIC, MULTI-ITEM BATCH PRODUCTION SYSTEMS. 
  • MULTIATTRIBUTE RISKY CHOICE BEHAVIOR: THE EDTING OF COMPLEX PROSPECTS. 
  • MULTIPLICATIVE UTILITY FUNCTIONS. 
  • Making the area agencies on aging work: the role of information. 
  • Managing an assemble-to-order system with returns 
  • Managing inventory with the prospect of obsolescence 
  • Managing licensing in a market for technology 
  • Managing response time in a call-routing problem with service failure 
  • Markov and Markov reward model transient analysis: An overview of numerical approaches 
  • Markov decision problems where means bound variances 
  • Meaningful and meaningless solutions for cooperative n-person games 
  • Measuring and mitigating the costs of stockouts 
  • Measuring the bullwhip effect: Discrepancy and alignment between information and material flows 
  • Measuring the effect of queues on customer purchases 
  • Mechanism and network design with private negative externalities 
  • Memory and response inhibition in young children with single-suture craniosynostosis. 
  • Modeling forest landscapes: Parameter estimation from gap models over heterogeneous terrain 
  • Modeling user-perceived reliability based on user behavior graphs 
  • Modifying variability and correlations in winner-take-all contests 
  • Modularity and the impact of buyer-supplier relationships on the survival of suppliers 
  • Mortgages and Markov Chains: A Simplified Evaluation Model 
  • Multiattribute one-switch utility 
  • Multiattribute utility satisfying a preference for combining good with bad 
  • Multidimensional mechanism design: Finite-dimensional approximations and efficient computation 
  • Multiprocessor Performability Analysis 
  • Newsvendor bounds and heuristic for optimal policies in serial supply chains 
  • No-Holdback allocation rules for continuous-time assemble-to-order systems 
  • Non-markovian state-space models in dependability evaluation 
  • Non-markovian state-space models in dependability evaluation 
  • Norm-induced densities and testing the boundedness of a convex set 
  • Note on assemble-to-order systems with batch ordering 
  • Note---Further Tests of Aspiration Level Effects in Risky Choice Behavior 
  • Note: A simple heuristic for serial inventory systems with fixed order costs 
  • Notes: The "Gambler's Fallacy" in Lottery Play 
  • Notes: The “Gambler's Fallacy” in Lottery Play 
  • Note—Blau's Dilemma Revisited 
  • Note—Further Tests of Aspiration Level Effects in Risky Choice Behavior 
  • Numerical Methods for Reliability Evaluation of Markov Closed Fault-Tolerant Systems 
  • Numerical computation of response time distributions using stochastic reward nets 
  • Numerical transient analysis of markov models 
  • ON THE IMBALANCE OF INVENTORIES IN MULTI-ECHELSON SYSTEMS. 
  • ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL OF INTEGRATED BUDGETING FOR SHORT-RUN OPERATIONS AND LONG-RUN INVESTMENTS. 
  • ORGANIZATIONS BEHAVIOR, DESIGN AND CHANGE - WIELAND,GF AND ULRICH,RA 
  • Old and new methods for lost-sales inventory systems 
  • On "the censored newsvendor and the optimal acquisition of information" 
  • On measuring supplier performance under vendor-managed-inventory programs in capacitated supply chains 
  • On properties of discrete (r, q) and (s, T) inventory systems 
  • On properties of discrete (r, q) and (s, T) inventory systems 
  • On the empirical bayes approach to the problem of multiple testing 
  • On the meaningfulness of optimal solutions to scheduling problems: Can an optimal solution be nonoptimal? 
  • On the method of images and the asymptotic behavior of first-passage times 
  • On the optimality of single-item, incremental cost rules for the make-buy decision 
  • On the order fill rate in a multi-item, base-stock inventory system 
  • On the second-order feasibility cone: Primal-dual representation and efficient projection 
  • On the structure of lost-sales inventory models 
  • On the symmetry function of a convex set 
  • Optimal Design for System Reliability and Maintainability 
  • Optimal Policy for software sulnerability disclosure 
  • Optimal and Heuristic Echelon (r,nQ,T) policies in serial inventory systems with fixed costs 
  • Optimal and competitive assortments with endogenous pricing under hierarchical consumer choice models 
  • Optimal contract to induce continued effort 
  • Optimal hiring and retention policies for heterogeneous workers who learn 
  • Optimal market intelligence strategy when management attention is scarce 
  • Optimal policies for a dual-sourcing inventory problem with endogenous stochastic lead times 
  • Optimal policies for multiechelon inventory problems with Markov-modulated demand 
  • Optimal policy for a periodic-review inventory system under a supply capacity contract 
  • Optimal portfolio liquidation with distress risk 
  • Optimal preventive maintenance rate for best availability with hypo-exponential failure distribution 
  • Optimal random age replacement for availability 
  • Optimal sequential exploration: Bandits, clairvoyants, and wildcats 
  • Optimization of prostate biopsy referral decisions 
  • Optimization of two-granularity software rejuvenation policy based on the markov regenerative process 
  • Optimization under ordinal scales: When is a greedy solution optimal? 
  • Optimization under ordinal scales: When is a greedy solution optimal? 
  • Optimized scoring systems: Toward trust in machine learning for healthcare and criminal justice 
  • Optimizing product line designs: Efficient methods and comparisons 
  • Optimizing reorder intervals for two-echelon distribution systems with stochastic demand 
  • Options in the real world: Lessons learned in evaluating oil and gas investments 
  • Order fill rate, leadtime variability, and advance demand information in an assemble-to-order system 
  • Order-based backorders and their implications in multi-item inventory systems 
  • Order-based cost optimization in assemble-to-order systems 
  • Order-fulfillment performance measures in an assemble-to-order system with stochastic leadtimes 
  • Organization Design: Introduction to the Focused Issue 
  • Organization and bargaining: Sales process choice at auto dealerships 
  • Organization structure and cooperative market relations 
  • Organizational consultant: Creating a useable theory for organizational design 
  • Oriented aligned rectangle packing problem 
  • Outsourcing structures and information flow in a three-tier supply chain 
  • Over-Tenured Universities: The Mathematics of Reduction 
  • Parallel nested dissection for path algebra computations 
  • Patent protection, complementary assets, and firms' incentives for technology licensing 
  • Patient States and Technology Matrix 
  • Peers and network growth: Evidence from a natural experiment 
  • Performance analysis and optimization of assemble-to-order systems with random lead times 
  • Performance analysis of a multi-item production-inventory system under alternative policies 
  • Performance on the dimensional change card sort and backward digit span by young children with autism without intellectual disability 
  • Performance on the dimensional change card sort and backward digit span by young children with autism without intellectual disability. 
  • Performance-Based Incentive Plans 
  • Personal decisions are the leading cause of death 
  • Personal preferences, entrepreneurs' location choices, and firm performance 
  • Pioneering plus a broad product line strategy: Higher profits or deeper losses? 
  • Power-Hierarchy of Dependability-Model Types 
  • Practice of Management Science—Patient States and the Technology Matrix 
  • Preface 
  • Preferences for Proxy Attributes 
  • Prescriptive decision science: Problems and opportunities 
  • Prevalence of traumatic brain injury in juvenile offenders: a meta-analysis. 
  • Preventive maintenance of multi-state system with phase-type failure time distribution and non-zero inspection time 
  • Price, delivery time guarantees and capacity selection 
  • Pricing and replenishment strategies in a distribution system with competing retailers 
  • Pricing diagnostic information 
  • Probabilistic modeling of computer system availability 
  • Probability and statistics with reliability, queuing, and computer science applications. 
  • Probability elicitation, scoring rules, and competition among forecasters 
  • Process variation as a determinant of bank performance: Evidence from the retail banking study 
  • Processing networks with planned inventories: Tandem queues with feedback 
  • Product differentiation and commonality in design: Balancing revenue and cost drivers 
  • Production control in a kanban-like system with defective outputs 
  • Productivity analysis: Parametric and non-parametric applications 
  • Projective re-normalization for improving the behavior of a homogeneous conic linear system 
  • Propositional distances and compact preference representation 
  • Prospects for the Middle East 
  • Public risk from potential LNG spills 
  • Purchasing, pricing, and quick response in the presence of strategic consumers 
  • Quadratic Binary Programming with Application to Capital-Budgeting Problems 
  • Quality and Time-to-Market Trade-offs when There Are Multiple Product Generations 
  • Quantile evaluation, sensitivity to bracketing, and sharing business payoffs 
  • Queueing model to analyze the value of centralized inventory information 
  • RISK SHARING AND GROUP DECISION MAKING. 
  • ROLE OF ATTITUDE TOWARD RISK IN STRICTLY COMPETITIVE DECISION-MAKING SITUATIONS. 
  • Reaction time distribution analysis of neuropsychological performance in an ADHD sample. 
  • Rebate, returns and price protection policies in channel coordination 
  • Reciprocity between buyer cost sharing and supplier technology sharing 
  • Recovery from Software Failures Caused by Mandelbugs 
  • Reference groups and product line decisions: An experimental investigation of limited editions and product proliferation 
  • Reference-dependent utility, product variety, and price competition 
  • Relevance to practice and auction theory: A memorial essay for Michael Rothkopf 
  • Reliability Analysis of Interconnection Networks Using Hierarchical Composition 
  • Reliability Modeling Using SHARPE 
  • Reliability Modeling using Sharpe 
  • Reliability analysis of phased-mission system with independent component repairs 
  • Reliability of Systems with Limited Repairs 
  • Reliability of Systems with Limited Repairs 
  • Repeated Gambles, Learning, and Risk Aversion 
  • Repeated commit-or-defer decisions with a deadline: The influenza vaccine composition 
  • Reply to 'comments on 'fortune favors the prepared firm'' 
  • Reply to “When Does Lag Structure Really Matter … Indeed?” 
  • Research note - Sell first, fix later: Impact of patching on software quality 
  • Research on State-Owned Enterprises—Introduction 
  • Resource allocation under demand uncertainty and private information 
  • Responsible Sourcing in Supply Chains 
  • Responsible sourcing in supply chains 
  • Return on assets loss from situational and contingency misfits 
  • Revenue ranking of discriminatory and uniform auctions with an unknown number of bidders 
  • Risk Preferences for Gains and Losses in Multiple Objective Decision Making 
  • Risk aversion in inventory management 
  • Risk aversion, information acquisition, and technology adoption 
  • Risk-adjusted control charts for health care assessment 
  • Risk-averse formulations and methods for a virtual power plant 
  • Risky choices and correlated background risk 
  • SCORING RULES FOR CONTINUOUS PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS. 
  • SEQUENCING PROBLEMS IN TWO-SERVER SYSTEMS. 
  • SOCIAL CHALLENGE TO BUSINESS - ACKERMAN,RW 
  • SOCIAL CHALLENGE TO BUSINESS - ACKERMAN,RW 
  • STRONG CONVEXITY RESULTS FOR QUEUEING SYSTEMS. 
  • STRUCTURING OBJECTIVES FOR PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST. 
  • Satisficing measures for analysis of risky positions 
  • Scheduling the resident 80-hour work week: an operations research algorithm. 
  • Scoring rules, generalized entropy, and utility maximization 
  • Selecting attributes to measure the achievement of objectives 
  • Selfish drug allocation for containing an international influenza pandemic at the onset 
  • Selling to strategic consumers when product value is uncertain: The value of matching supply and demand 
  • Semiconvex regression for metamodeling-based optimization 
  • Sensitivity analysis of a hierarchical model of mobile cloud computing 
  • Sensitivity analysis of server virtualized system availability 
  • Sensitivity and stability analysis in dea 
  • Sensitivity of Weights in Combining Forecasts 
  • Sensitivity to distance and baseline distributions in forecast evaluation 
  • Serial inventory systems with markov-modulated demand: Derivative bounds, asymptotic analysis, and insights 
  • Serial supply chains with economies of scale: Bounds and approximations 
  • Short-term variations and long-term dynamics in commodity prices 
  • Should Scoring Rules be “Effective”? 
  • Simple Ranking Methods for Allocation of One Resource 
  • Single-stage approximations for optimal policies in serial inventory systems with nonstationary demand 
  • Solution techniques for some allocation problems 
  • Some specially structured assemble-to-order systems 
  • Static routing in stochastic scheduling: Performance guarantees and asymptotic optimality 
  • Stock Positioning and Performance Estimation in Serial Production-Transportation Systems 
  • Strategic leaders or strategic groups: A longitudinal data envelopment analysis of the U.S. brewing industry 
  • Strategic open routing in service networks 
  • Structural estimation of the effect of out-of-stocks 
  • Structural properties of stochastic dynamic programs 
  • Structuring public utility functions 
  • Studying Aging-Related Bug Prediction Using Cross-Project Models 
  • Subjective probability assessment in decision analysis: Partition dependence and bias toward the ignorance prior 
  • Suboptimal policy determination for large-scale Markov decision processes, Part 1: Description and bounds 
  • Suboptimal policy determination for large-scale Markov decision processes, part 2: Implementation and numerical evaluation 
  • Subset comparisons for additive linear orders 
  • Supply Chain Models with Mutual Commitments and Implications for Social Responsibility 
  • Supply chain planning for random demand surges: Reactive capacity and safety stock 
  • Supply streams 
  • System availability with non-exponentially distributed outages 
  • Systems evaluation through Decision Analysis: Mexico City Airport 
  • TRANSLATION OF GAMBLES AND ASPIRATION LEVEL EFFECTS IN RISKY CHOICE BEHAVIOR. 
  • Tandem queues with planned inventories 
  • Technology adoption with uncertain future costs and quality 
  • The Consensus of Subjective Probability Distributions 
  • The Determination of Partial Moments 
  • The Effectiveness of Several Performance Bounds for Capacitated Production, Partial-Order-Service, Assemble-to-Order Systems 
  • The Efficiency of the Price, Budget, and Mixed Approaches Under Varyinga PrioriInformation Levels for Decentralized Planning 
  • The Structure of Structured Bond Portfolio Models 
  • The association of oral hydroxyurea therapy with improved cognitive functioning in sickle cell disease. 
  • The best things in life were free: On the technology of transactions 
  • The big Data newsvendor: Practical insights from machine learning 
  • The contingent wisdom of dyads: When discussion enhances vs. undermines the accuracy of collaborative judgments 
  • The effect of lead time and demand uncertainties in (r, q) inventory systems 
  • The effect of payment schemes on inventory decisions: The role of mental accounting 
  • The effect of social interaction on economic transactions: Evidence from changes in two retail formats 
  • The effects of the availability of waiting-time information on a balking queue 
  • The evolving impact of combinatorial opportunities and exhaustion on innovation by business groups as market development increases: The case of Taiwan 
  • The impact of demand aggregation through delayed component allocation in an assemble-to-order system 
  • The joint effect of leadtime variance and lot size in a parallel processing environment 
  • The multilevel approach to organizational issues of the firm-A critical review 
  • The optimizer's curse: Skepticism and postdecision surprise in decision analysis 
  • The robustness of linear models for decision-making 
  • The role of component commonality in product assortment decisions 
  • The role of production lead time and demand uncertainty in marketing durable goods 
  • The use of management science models in human resource planning 
  • The value of component commonality in a dynamic inventory system with lead times 
  • The value of decision analysis at Eastman Kodak Company, 1990-1999 
  • The value of fast fashion: Quick response, enhanced design, and strategic consumer behavior 
  • Time-based competition with benchmark effects 
  • Toddlers with elevated autism symptoms show slowed habituation to faces. 
  • Trajectory planning for autonomous underwater vehicles in the presence of obstacles and a nonlinear flow field using mixed integer nonlinear programming 
  • Translated attributes as choice architecture: Aligning objectives and choices through decision signposts 
  • Turn-and-earn incentives with a product line 
  • Two faces: Effects of business groups on innovation in emerging economies 
  • Unanimity and Compromise Among Probability Forecasters 
  • Uncertainty and sectoral shifts: The Interaction between firm-level and aggregate-level shocks, and macroeconomic activity 
  • Uncertainty aversion with second-order utilities and probabilities 
  • Uncertainty, information acquisition, and technology adoption 
  • Understanding the lead-time effects in stochastic inventory systems with discounted costs 
  • Using Values in Operations Research 
  • Using historical information in the design of a decentralized firm's budgetary planning system 
  • Using qualitative studies to improve the usability of an EMR. 
  • Utility Functions for Equity and Public Risk 
  • Utility Functions for Multiattributed Consequences 
  • Utility Independence and Preferences for Multiattributed Consequences 
  • Value of internet commerce to the customer 
  • Value-Focused Thinking about Strategic Decisions at BC Hydro 
  • Value-Focused Thinking: Creativity Directed Toward Decision Making 
  • Value-focused thinking: Identifying decision opportunities and creating alternatives 
  • Valuing Risky Projects: Option Pricing Theory and Decision Analysis 
  • Vice-virtue bundles 
  • Volume flexibility in services: The costs and benefits of flexible labor resources 
  • What makes them tick? Employee motives and firm innovation 
  • What's experience got to do with it? Sources of cost reduction in a large specialty chemicals producer 
  • When rational sellers face nonrational buyers: Evidence from herding on eBay 
  • When retailing and las vegas meet: Probabilistic free price promotions 
  • When to abandon a research project and search for a new one 
  • Why Indirect Health Risks of Regulations Should be Examined 
  • Work Groups, Structural Diversity, and Knowledge Sharing in a Global Organization 
  • Workload-based analysis of software aging, and rejuvenation 
  • Yield optimization of display advertising with Ad exchange 
  • Your money or your life: A prescriptive model for health, safety, and consumption decisions 
  • [Formula: see text]Executive functioning and health-related quality of life in pediatric sickle cell disease. 
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