A study of water resources development in South Sweden revealed that water consumption unexpectedly stopped growing after construction had begun on a large project to expand water supplies. The project had a long lead time for completion, and planning had been based on traditional deterministic...

The use of multiple control limits and multiple corresponding levels of response for processes is an effective way for statistical process control when different assignable causes exist which lead to different out-of-control states of the processes, and different restoration procedures. This...

This paper proposes a detailed model of the costs and benefits to producers and consumers of product warranty. Three common types of product warranty contract are considered. In addition, we explicitly allow for randomness in consumer repurchase behavior and for the possibility of an independent...

Blood Inventory Management has attracted significant interest from the Operations Research profession during the last 15 years. A number of methodological contributions have been made in the areas of inventory theory and combinatoric optimization that can be of use to other products or systems....

Once again we show that the analysis of a very simple artificial example contrived by its authors for a general indictment of all chance constrained programming is itself in error. Proofs and further references are supplied below along with a discussion of other deficiencies and ambiguities in...

We have developed a stochastic representation of the pharmacologic treatment of hypertension that is useful in predicting the outcome of various therapy protocols (sequences of antihypertension agents). Important variables (compliance, pharmacologic potency, incidence of side effects, symptoms...