Book Description

;Contents: The reliability of multicomponent systems subject to cannibalization; Bayes adaptive control of two-echelon inventory systems; A unified model for demand prediction in the context of provisioning and replenishment; Impact of an all volunteer force upon the Navy in the 1972-1973 timeframe; The multicommodity network flow model revised to include vehicle per time period and node constraints; An extension of the (Szwarc) truck assignment problem; Optimum positions for m airports; Incremental approximation of optimal allocations; The payment scheduling problem; Sequential bid selection by stochastic approximation; Stochastic duels involving reliability; The law of averages as a computing tool; Prediction with zero-one loss structure; Quadratic as parametric linear programming; Optimal inventory policies in contagious demand models.