This paper reviews all Game Theory (GT) articles published in the three leading, US-based, OR/MS journals: Operations Research, Management Science, and Interfaces starting with Vol. 1, No. 1 of each. The articles were first subdivided into Theory or Applications categories. The Applications...

The Web allows for a direct relationship between a book's author, its purchaser and or reader, as well as the entire milieu of intermediaries. This medium for marketing one's book is relatively new and many people are not as yet convinced of its importance. Misconceptions abound, and the entire...

This paper reviews Turkey's policies and the practices of economic and social development starting with the end of its War of Independence in 1923 to date. It also analyzes the policies which have inhibited its development potential

This paper provides a historical perspective on Ordinarius Professor Joseph Igersheimer. While in forced exile from Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1939, he was the architect of modern ophthalmology in Turkey. Earlier he was a pioneer in addressing the impact of syphilis on eyesight. He was first...

This paper calls for the Operations Research or Management Science community to rise to the challenge of involving itself in one of society's major issues for the 21st century - the illegal transfer of technology or piracy of intellectual property

The system of higher education inherited by the Republic of Turkey in 1923, consisted of a few hundred Ottoman vintage (Islamic) madrasas and three military academies, one of which was expanded into an engineering school. With secularization enshrined in its constitution, the new government...

The policies of the Ottoman Empire and of its successor the republic of Turkey, have always considered technology transfer (TT) from abroad to be an important means for development. In late 18th century, the Ottoman Empire transferred some technology to improve its army. Contemporaneously there...

This paper develops a taxonomy of objectives and methods used to do research on research or meta-research (MR) in operations research and the management sciences (OR/MS). Using this taxonomy, most MR type papers published in refereed OR/MS journals are identified and classified. The resulting...

America has a long and rich history of transferring technology (TT), from government laboratories and agencies to the private sector as a matter of national policy. This policy dates back to the Morrill Act of 1862 creating the Land Grant Universities and in turn the Agricultural Extension...

This paper relates the classical Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes' (CCR) model in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the Weak Axiom of Profit Maximization (WAPM) in Firm Theory. Varian's (1990) firm theory analysis is extended from a single firm to multiple firms. This allows deriving the classical...