Volume 50, Issue 1

Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Issue of Operations Research
Author: Lawrence M. Wein
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The Genesis of “Optimal Inventory Policy”
Author: Kenneth J. Arrow
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Solving Real-World Linear Programs
Author: Robert E. Bixby
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Crime Modeling
Author: Alfred Blumstein
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Army Operations Research
Author: Seth Bonder
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Abraham Charnes and W. W. Cooper (et al.): A Brief History of a Long Collaboration in Developing Industrial Uses of Linear Programming
Authors: W. W. Cooper and Abraham Charnes
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Linear Programming
Author: George B. Dantzig
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Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming
Author: Stuart Dreyfus
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Some Origins of Operations Research in the Health Services
Author: Charles D. Flagle
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The First Linear-Programming Shoppe
Author: Saul I. Gass
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The Origins of Traffic Theory
Authors: Denos C. Gazis
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Early Integer Programming
Authors: Ralph E. Gomory
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War and Peace
Author: K. Brian Haley
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Energy Modeling for Policy Studies
Author: William W. Hogan
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Learning How to Plan Production, Inventories, and Work Force
Author: Charles C. Holt
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Comments on the Origin and Application of Markov Decision Processes
Authors: Ronald A. Howard
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Navy Operations Research
Author: Captain Wayne P. Hughes Jr.
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How Networks of Queues Came About
Author: Jim Jackson
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Interdisciplinary Meandering in Science
Author: Samuel Karlin
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Looking Back
Author: Glenn Kent
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Creating a Mathematical Theory of Computer Networks
Author: Leonard Kleinrock
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Being in the Right Place at the Right Time
Author: Harold W. Kuhn
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Public Sector Operations Research
Author: Richard Charles Larson
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Philip M. Morse and the Beginnings
Author: John D. C. Little
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Operations Research at Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Author: John F. Magee
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Efficient Portfolios, Sparse Matrices, and Entities
Author: Harry M. Markowitz
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Perspectives on the Evolution of Simulation
Authors: Richard E. Nance and Robert G. Sargent
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Memoirs on Highway Traffic Flow Theory in the 1950s
Author: G. F. Newell
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Decision Analysis
Author: Howard Raiffa
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Inventory Theory
Author: Herbert E. Scarf
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Game Theory And Operations Research Research
Authors: Martin Shubik
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Analysis, Design, and Control of Queueing Systems
Author: Shaler Stidham Jr.
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And Then There Were None
Author: Harvey M. Wagner
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Applied Probability in Great Britain
Author: Peter Whittle
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Contributors
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