A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science
From the Foreword by Marshall Fisher, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania: As generation of academics and practitioners follows generation, it is worthwhile to compile long views of the research and practice in the past to shed light on researc
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Volume 148
Series Editor: Frederick S. Hillier Stanford University, CA, USA Special Editorial Consultant: Camille C. Price Stephen F. Austin, State University, TX, USA
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ManMohan S. Sodhi · Christopher S. Tang Editors
A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science The Past and the Future
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Editors ManMohan S. Sodhi City University Cass Business School Bunhill Row 106 EC1Y 8TZ London United Kingdom [email protected]
Christopher S. Tang University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Management Westwood Plaza 110 90095 Los Angeles California Box 951481 USA [email protected]
ISSN 0884-8289 ISBN 978-1-4419-6809-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-6810-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6810-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010934120 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
As generation of academics and practitioners follows generation, it is worthwhile to compile long views of the research and practice in the past to shed light on research and practice going forward. This collection of peer-reviewed chapters is intended to provide such a long view. The effort is motivated by the views of Professor Arthur M. Geoffrion, who we seek to honor for not only his considerable contribution to OR/MS research in the past decades but also his continuing championship and involvement in matters pertaining to the education and practice of OR/MS. Professor Geoffrion’s contributions are well highlighted in “About Professor Arthur M. Geoffrion,” but I would like to add a personal note. When I was an unknown first year assistant professor and Art was an established superstar, he took the trouble to obtain a copy of my thesis, read it, and call me to offer advice and encouragement. His advice covered both high-level direction and important details and was delivered with a charm and humor that made it easy to accept. For example, I was pretty green then as a mathematician and had used the term “cycle-less graph” in my thesis. Art’s wry remark was “‘Cycle-less graph,’ that must be an east coast term. Here in California, and I think most of the world, that’s called an ‘ac
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