Linear programming, as an optimizing method for handling a mass of interacting variables, has received considerable attention in applications to such problems as production scheduling, logistics, and mobilization studies. But linear programming may also be used in a variety of other ways. This...

The assignment model of linear programming is here extended to allow for vector optimizations and dynamic interactions between assigned personnel and positions in each of which a variety of possible measures and approaches are explored. Formulations involving people-to-people as well as...

This paper will be concerned with formulating the optimum allocation of search effort as a problem in convex programming so that their solutions may be made amenable to treatment by the adjacent extreme point methods of linear programming. Attention will be concentrated on discrete (statistical)...

This paper develops a new method for the solution of DEMON-type functional equations. It is shown how the latter can be reduced to solution of a separated system of simpler equations which, for discrete distributions, can be solved by linear programming methods. The reduction also permits...

The querulous and exaggerated tones which seem to attend so many contemporary activities have now been permitted an entrance to the pages of Management Science where they are amply represented in the article published by A. S. C. Ehrenberg ("Models of Fact: Examples from Marketing," Management...

A goal programming model for planning officer accessions to the U.S. Navy from various commissioning sources is developed and described. Present and future requirements for different career specialty areas in the Navy are considered in terms of years of commissioned service and related to...

It may not be possible to be wholly objective, as Messrs. Stimson and Thompson (among others) assert (see [Stimson, D. H., R. P. Thompson. 1975. The importance of `Weltanschauung' in Operations Research: The case of the school busing problem. Management Sci. 21 (10, June) 1123-1132.])....

The recently implemented court decision to break up Bell (=American Telephone & Telegraph Co.) to accord with U.S. anti-trust laws represents a highly significant policy decision which is proving to be influential in other countries as well as the U.S. The telecommunication industry is of such...

Using what he calls a "Basic Chance Constrained Programming Model," BCCM, R. A. Blau proceeds in Blau [Blau, R. A. 1974. Stochastic programming and decision analysis: an apparent dilemma. Management Sci. 21 (3, November) 271-276.] to derive some results which he believes lead to a dilemma in...

The papers which follow have been assembled from two sources: the ones by Dr. Branch and by Professors Eastman and Kortanek were submissions to Management Science; the others formed one part of a program organized by Ezra Glaser for the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 1969...