Important decisions regarding governmental expenditures for the public welfare require accurate assessment of preferences of the citizenry as one input. Often, strong disagreement exists regarding relative merit of various projects competing for limited resources. This paper proposes a procedure...

The wide spread use of advanced information systems such as Material Requirements Planning (MRP) has significantly altered the practice of dependent demand inventory management. Recent research has focused on development of multi-level lot sizing heuristics for such systems. In this paper, we...

Rejoinder to "On `A Note on MRP Lot Sizing'" (McClain, J., W. L. Maxwell, J. A. Muckstadt, L. T. Thomas, E. N. Weiss. 1982. A note on MRP lot sizing. Management Sci. 28 (5, May) 582--584.).