Volume 54, Issue 6 Contributors

Chris Anderson (“Online Low price Guarantees: A Real Options Analysis“) is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Cornell University in the School of Hotel Administration. His research interests lie predominantly in revenue management and pricing.

Fernando Bustamante ("A Combinatorial Heuristic Approach for Solving Real Size machinery Location and Design Problems in Forestry Planning") is a Forest Engineer from the University of Chile. He was in charge of operations planning at Bio-Bio Forest. He is now an independent consultant.

Jacek Błażewicz (“DNA Sequencing by Hybridization via Genetic Search”) is a Professor of Computer Science at the Poznań University of Technology. His research interests include algorithm design and complexity analysis of algorithms, especially in bioinformatics, as well as in scheduling theory. He has published widely in the above fields in many leading journals. He is also the author and co-author of 15 monographs. Dr. Błażewicz is also an editor of the International Series of Handbooks in Information Systems (Springer Verlag) as well as a member of Editorial Boards of several scientific journals.

Alberto Ceselli (“A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for the Multi-Level Generalized Assignment Problem”) has been a Ph.D. student at the University of Milan from the Fall of 2002 to the Fall of 2005. This paper is based on his Ph.D. Thesis .

Bintong Chen (“Expected Value of Distribution Information for the Newsvendor Problem”) is a Professor in the Department of Management & Operations at Washington State University. His research interests include optimization techniques and their business applications.

Richard Cho (“Efficient Supply Chain Management at US Coast Guard using State Dependent Supply Preponement Policies”) is an assistant professor in the faculty of business at the University of New Brunswick Saint John. This work was done while Richard Cho was a postdoctoral fellow and a visiting faculty member at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University.

Vinayak Deshpande (“Efficient Supply Chain Management at US Coast Guard using State Dependent Supply Preponement Policies”) is an assistant professor in Operations Management at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. His research interests include customer-centric supply chain management, service parts management and supply chain coordination. This paper reflects his current interest in linking inventory models to demand signal information such as maintenance schedules using empirical data.

Rafael Epstein ("A Combinatorial Heuristic Approach for Solving Real Size machinery Location and Design Problems in Forestry Planning") is an Associate Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Chile. His research interests include operations research in the areas of forestry, mining, logistics and combinatorial auctions. He is a former winner of the INFORMS Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Science for work with the forest industries and the IFORS OR for Development Prize for the improvement of the auction of school meals in Chile.

Ku Fu (“Inventory and Production Decisions for an Assemble-to-Order System with Uncertain Demand and Limited Assembly Capacity”) received his PhD degree in Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2006. He joined Sun Yat-sen University in Fall 2006. His research interests are in the area of inventory control and supply chain management. The article is based on a chapter in his Ph.D. Thesis.

Wallace J. Hopp (“A Monopolistic and Oligopolistic Stochastic Flow Revenue Management Model”) is the Breed University Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University. His research interests are in the area of production, supply chain and new product innovation. The work of this paper grew out of research into the pricing of new product offerings.

Vernon N. Hsu (“Inventory and Production Decisions for an Assemble-to-Order System with Uncertain Demand and Limited Assembly Capacity”) is a professor and the chair of the Information Systems & Operations Management Area in the School of Management at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the University of Iowa in 1993. His current research focuses on the management of global supply chains, and the analysis and design of logistic and other service systems.

Ananth V. Iyer (“Efficient Supply Chain Management at US Coast Guard using State Dependent Supply Preponement Policies”) is Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University and Director of the Global Supply Chain Management Initiative. His research interests are in the area of logistics and supply chain management including understanding the effects of information sharing, incentives and contractual agreements.in improving the performance of logistics systems. The work reflects his continued interest in linking empirical data analysis to model building that permits succinct estimates of possible performance improvement.

Antoon Kolen (“Robust One-Period Option Hedging”) was Professor Operations Research at Maastricht University. His main interests included graph theory, genetic algorithms and financial applications of operations research.

Chung-Yee Lee (“Inventory and Production Decisions for an Assemble-to-Order System with Uncertain Demand and Limited Assembly Capacity”) is Head and Chair Professor of the Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management Department at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST). He is also the Founding and Current Director of Logistics and Supply Chain Management Institute at HKUST. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and also a Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Science. Before joining HKUST in 2001, he was Rockwell Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Yale University in 1984. His current research focuses on logistics management, scheduling, and global supply chain management.

Xiangwen Lu (“Inventory Planning with Forecast Updates: Approximate Solutions and Cost Error Bounds”) currently works for Cisco System. He has a B.S. and M.S. degree in probability and statistics from Beijing University and Ph.D. degree from University of California, Irvine. His research is at the interface between supply chain management and statistics.

Frank Lutgens (“Robust One-Period Option Hedging”) is a Researcher at Maastricht University and a Risk Modeling Consultant at De Lage Landen. His research interests include robust optimization, risk management and financial optimization. The paper “Robust One-Period Option Hedging” was part of his dissertation “Robust Portfolio Optimization” supervised by Antoon Kolen and Peter Schotman.

Benjamin Marcus (“Online Low price Guarantees: A Real Options Analysis“) is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management in the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University. His research interests include revenue and pricing management, and financial and real options modeling.

Hugo Musante ("A Combinatorial Heuristic Approach for Solving Real Size machinery Location and Design Problems in Forestry Planning") is a Forest Engineer from the Austral University of Chile. He was in charge of operations planning at Forestal Mininco. He is now an independent entrepreneur.

Enrique Nieto ("A Combinatorial Heuristic Approach for Solving Real Size machinery Location and Design Problems in Forestry Planning") is a Forest Engineer from the University of Chile. He works at Arauco Forest. He was in charge of operations planning; now he works in the marketing section.

Ceyda Oğuz (“DNA Sequencing by Hybridization via Genetic Search”) is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her research interests include developing optimization algorithms and meta-heuristics for problems arising in bioinformatics, logistics, and scheduling. The project she carried out at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with her coauthors served as a seed for this paper.

Georgia Perakis (“An Analytical Model for Traffic Delays and the Dynamic User Equilibrium Problem”) is the J. Spencer Standish Career Development Associate Professor of Operations Research at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Her research interests lie in the applications of optimization and game theory in transportation, pricing, supply chain and inventory management settings. This paper is part of her research in the dynamic traffic equilibrium problem and associated travel times.

Amelia Regan (“Inventory Planning with Forecast Updates: Approximate Solutions and Cost Error Bounds”) is an Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science, School of Information and Computer Science and Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, of University of California, Irvine. She studies applications of information technologies and optimization techniques to large scale network problems.

Giovanni Righini (“A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for the Multi-Level Generalized Assignment Problem”) is an associate professor at the University of Milan. His main research interests concern mathematical programming algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems, especially in location, routing and logistics.

Guillaume Roels (“An Analytical Model for Traffic Delays and the Dynamic User Equilibrium Problem”) is an Assistant Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. His research interests include game theory and robust optimization applied to transportation, inventory control, and supply chain management. He earned a B.A. and an M.A. in Management Science from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and a Ph.D. from MIT.

Pedro Sapunar ("A Combinatorial Heuristic Approach for Solving Real Size machinery Location and Design Problems in Forestry Planning") is a Forest Engineer from the University of Chile. He works at Bosques Arauco. He was in charge of operations planning; now he is in charge of the safety policy.

Bren Sessions ("A Combinatorial Heuristic Approach for Solving Real Size machinery Location and Design Problems in Forestry Planning") is a software engineer and project leader with Tektronix Inc, headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. His current interests include embedded system software design for test and measurement equipment, including real time spectrum analyzers and physical layer wireless communication standards.

John Sessions ("A Combinatorial Heuristic Approach for Solving Real Size machinery Location and Design Problems in Forestry Planning") is University Distinguished Professor of Forestry and Stewart Professor of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. His current research is in designing decision support systems for transportation planning, spatial harvest planning, and forest fire management.

Jing-Sheng Song (“Inventory Planning with Forecast Updates: Approximate Solutions and Cost Error Bounds”) is a Professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. This paper continues her long-lasting interest in stochastic inventory models.

Joe Sturm (“Robust One-Period Option Hedging”) was Associate Professor at Tilburg University. His research interests included among others conic duality theory, nonlinear optimization, interior point algorithms and high performance optimization algorithms. He is also the author of the widely used optimization software package SeDuMi.

Aleksandra Świercz (“DNA Sequencing by Hybridization via Genetic Search”) is a Research Assistant of Computer Science at the Poznań University of Technology. Her research interests include new models and algorithms for problems in the bioinformatics area. The results presented in this paper are a part of her Ph.D. research which was partially carried out during her visit at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Min-Chiang Wang (“Expected Value of Distribution Information for the Newsvendor Problem”) is a Professor in the Department of Management & Operations at Washington State University. His research interests include distribution free optimization procedure, inventory control and modeling, statistical process control and quality improvement.

Xiaoqun Wang (“On the Effects of Dimension Reduction Techniques on Some High-Dimensional Problems in Finance”) is a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His main research interests include computational finance, information-based complexity, quasi-Monte Carlo methods, simulation and efficiency improvement via variance reduction and dimension reduction. This work is a part of a series papers on developing efficient quasi-Monte Carlo algorithms for high-dimensional problems in finance.

Yunzeng Wang (“Joint Pricing-Production Decisions in Supply Chains of Complementary Products with Uncertain Demand”) is an Associate Professor at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. This paper reflects his research interests in supply chain coordination and supply contracts, as well as his interests in modeling problems associated with the interface between marketing and operations.

Alan Washburn (“Piled Slab Searches”) is A Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the OR Department at the Naval Postgraduate School. He has been impressed throughout his career with the inventiveness of the scientists who invented Operations Research in World War Two, particularly in regards to search problems. He is delighted to be able to extend in away the work that they started so long ago.

Jan Węglarz (“DNA Sequencing by Hybridization via Genetic Search”) is a Full Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Director of the Institute of Computing Science at the Poznań University of Technology. His research interests include new models and algorithms in scheduling (dynamic, discrete –continuous, multicriteria) and Grid resource management.

Andres Weintraub ("A Combinatorial Heuristic Approach for Solving Real Size machinery Location and Design Problems in Forestry Planning") is a Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Chile. His research interests include operations research in the areas of forestry and mining, logistics, and applied combinatorics. He is a former winner of the INFORMS Edelman award for Achievements in Operations Research and the Management Sciences for the work with forest industries and served as INFORMS vice president for education and outreach.

Xiaowei Xu (“A Monopolistic and Oligopolistic Stochastic Flow Revenue Management Model”) is an assistant professor at the Department of Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School. He is broadly interested in the interface between operations management, marketing and economics. The work of this paper is an outgrowth of his dissertation work, which focused on product variety and pricing decisions.

Jinfeng Yue (“Expected Value of Distribution Information for the Newsvendor Problem”) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management & Marketing at Middle Tennessee State University. He began this line of research in his Ph.D. dissertation under the supervision of Min-Chiang Wang and Bintong Chen.