Research Reports from the Department of Operations
This is a collection of research reports from the Weather School of Management's Department of Operations.
Submissions from 1966
An Additive Algorithm for Solving the Multi-Dimensional Assignment Problem, William P. Pierskalla
Inventory Depletion Management With Stochastic Field Life functions, William P. Pierskalla
Optimal Issuing Policies in Inventory Management -- I, William P. Pierskalla
Optimal Issuing Policies in Inventory Management -- II, William P. Pierskalla
The Tri-Substitution Method for Obtaining Near-Optimal Solutions to the Three-Dimensional Assignment Problem, William P. Pierskalla
An Algol Program to Solve the Linear Programming Problem : Using the Revised Simplex Method, Bruce A. Powell
Inventory Control of a Multiproduct System with Interacting Procurement Cost, B. D. Sivazlian
Optimizing Models of After Tax Earnings Incorporating Depletion Allowances, Daniel Teichroew, Kevin Rice, Gordon P. Wright, and William G. Lesso
Submissions from 1965
A Dynamic Restorative Emergency Procedure for an Electrical Power Network, Benjamin Avi-Itzhak, Burton V. Dean, and Maurice W. Sasieni
Advisory Group Conference Prepaid Dental Plan Research Study, Burton V. Dean
A Preliminary Model for the Aircraft Loading Problem, Burton V. Dean
New Developments in Industrial R and D Management, Burton V. Dean
Stochastic Networks in Research Planning, Burton V. Dean
Estimation of Functional Parameters in Simple Linear Econometric Error Models (Part 1), Yoshiro Kuratani and T.S. Chidambaram
A Model for the Design of Prepaid Dental Plans, David A. Schrady and Burton V. Dean
Report on the Research Project on Competitive Enterprise, Gifford H. Symonds
Stochastic Scheduling - Part III Optimization Procedures, Gifford H. Symonds
Stochastic Scheduling - Part IV Solution Methods for Stochastic Programming Problems, Gifford H. Symonds, Pierre J. Doulliez, C. Steinmetz, and T.S. Chidambaram
A Behavioral Model of Labor Supply as Related to Wage-Price-Interest Movements, Gifford H. Symonds and S. Sankar Sengupta
A Model of Competitive Business Behavior, Gifford H. Symonds and S. Sankar Sengupta
A Survey of Statistical Techniques for Experiments in Which Organisms are Used as Blocks, Daniel Teichroew
Submissions from 1964
An Application of Operations Research to Municipal Planning: Some Fiscal Aspects of Land-Use Planning, Michael H. Alexander
Towards a General Theory of Systems Model of Subsystems, F. Benson and M. Gurel
Contract Award and Bidding Strategies, Burton V. Dean
On the Structure Problem of Organization, Burton V. Dean
Contract Research Proposal Preparation Strategies, Burton V. Dean and Robert H. Culhan
Scoring and Profitability Models for Evaluating and Selecting Engineering Projects, Burton V. Dean and Meir J. Nishry
Scoring and Profitability Models for Evaluation of Engineering Projects Builder Products Division Emerson Electric Company, Burton V. Dean and Meir J. Nishry
An Operational Theory of Oligopoly, Dilip K. Guha and S. Sankar Sengupta
Patient Scheduling in a Chronic Disease Hospital: System Design and Implementation, J.T. Ross Jackson, Eugene E. Tillock, and Graham D. Clapp
Regional Development of Metropolitan Cleveland and the Great Lakes Basin, Ellis Johnson
A Note on Comparison of "Extrinsic" and "Intrinsic" Forecasting Models, Yoshiro Kuratani and T.S. Chidambaram
Decentralized Management of Interacting Processes: A Technique of Nonlinear Programming, Leon S. Lasdon and S. Sankar Sengupta
Decentralized Management of Interacting Processes: A Technique of Nonlinear Programming (II), Leon S. Lasdon and S. Sankar Sengupta
Stochastic Scheduling - Part II The Location of Planning Horizons, Gifford H. Symonds
Stochastic Scheduling - Part I Stochastic Programming for a Single Period, Gifford H. Symonds
Business Information Systems and Accounting, Daniel Teichroew
Some Order Statistics Relating to Markov Chains: An Application to Purchasing Policies, José Treviño and S. Sankar Sengupta
Submissions from 1963
Capacity Expansion in Oligopoly, S. Sankar Sengupta and Gifford H. Symonds
Submissions from 1961
The Decomposition Principle in Engineering Problems: Towards a Multi-Level Concept of Problem Solving, Hamilton A. Chase and S. Sankar Sengupta
Submissions from 1960
The Decomposition Principle in Engineering Problems: Towards a Multi-Level Concept of Problem-Solving, Hamilton A. Chase and S. Sankar Sengupta
Submissions from 1958
Errors, Estimates, Optimality, Shiv K. Gupta, Arthur J. Yaspan, Maurice W. Sasieni, and Burton V. Dean
Submissions from 1957
Towards a Behavioral Theory of Communication, Russell L. Ackoff
The Determination of Observational Errors Occurring in Information-Collection Processes, John C. Chambers and Donald F. Clark
Submissions from 1956
An exploratory study on the consideration of observational errors in the design of information collection procedures, Arthur J. Yaspan, Michael H. Halbert, and Russell L. Ackoff