We consider a dynamic, stochastic extension to the transportation problem. For the deterministic problem, there are known necessary and sufficient conditions under which a greedy algorithm achieves the optimal solution. We define a distribution-free type of optimality and provide analogous...

A Symposium was held on February 25, 2006 in honor of the 80th birthday of Saul I. Gass and his major contributions to the field of operations research over 50 years. This volume includes articles from each of the Symposium speakers plus 16 other articles from friends, colleagues, and former...

Revenue management (RM) is one area of research and practice that has gained significant attention in the past decade. The practice originated in the airline industry, where the idea was to maximize revenues obtained from a fixed amount of resources through differentiation/segmentation and...