Planning the allocation of scarce resources to competing activities over multiple time periods is one of the most important problems facing decision makers in modern organizations. Much of the previous research in this area has concentrated on the use of linear programming procedures and has...

A number of recent research efforts in the area of research and development planning have indicated the necessity that the R&D project selection process be viewed as a multi-criteria decision-making problem. As a result, linear 0-1 goal programming, because of its ability to encompass multiple...

An important problem confronting decision makers in modern organizations is the determination of an optimal product-mix (or service-mix) in situations where learning effects are present. Learning has been observed to exist in a variety of production and service situations in which the amount of...

Spatial equilibrium problems are frequently formulated as large scale quadratic programming problems or linear complementarity problems. We show that these problems can be reduced to two or more smaller problems with Generalized Benders Decomposition. The procedure then becomes iterative with...

New iterative separable programming techniques based on two-segment, piecewise-linear approximations are described for the minimization of convex separable functions over convex sets. These techniques have two advantages over traditional separable programming methods. The first is that they do...

Food preference and utility measures are functionally related to the frequency and quantity of foods consumed within fixed time periods. The coefficients of these functions can be estimated by psychometric or econometric methods. Total preference or utility can be maximized subject to budgetary...

This paper presents a simple model to guide the efficient allocation of resources in community programs to detect and treat hypertension. We model such programs as n-component series systems, where each stage must function in sequence in order for the system as a whole to operate. The model...

In Management Science (Vol. 24, No. 14, October, 1978), Nichols and Weinstein describe a model of a hypertension detection and treatment program, in which individuals proceed through a series of stages with transition probabilities that depend on expenditures at each stage. We generalize the...

Granot and Hammer (Granot, F., P. L. Hammer. 1971. On the use of boolean functions in 0-1 programming. Operations Research, Statistics and Economic Mimeograph Series No. 70, Technion (August 1970). (Published in Methods of Oper. Res. 12 154-184); Granot, F., P. L. Hammer. 1975. On the role of...

Lowe and Hurter introduced the "generalized market area problem" of simultaneously determining production levels and distribution patterns at n plants to satisfy demand distributed over a subset of R^k. Here we give simpler proofs and extensions of their results. We also show how the problem can...