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Perspectives in Operations Research

Papers in Honor of Saul Gass' 80th Birthday

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  • © 2006

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  1. Francis B. Alt

    1. University of Maryland, USA

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  2. Michael C. Fu

    1. University of Maryland, USA

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  3. Bruce L. Golden

    1. University of Maryland, USA

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  • An examination of the future of the field of operations research from many of the field's leading research scholars
  • A Symposium was held on Feb. 25, 2006 in honor of Saul Gass's 80th birthday 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 students of Saul I. Gass
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series (ORCS, volume 36)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-16
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  2. History & Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Reflections on Saul Gass’ Influence

      • Rudolph P. Lamone
      Pages 19-21

    3. Four Score Years of Saul I. Gass: Portrait of an OR Professional

      • Arjang A. Assad
      Pages 23-72

    4. In the Beginning: Saul Gass and Other Pioneers

      • Alfred Blumstein
      Pages 73-75

    5. Learning from the Master: Saul Gass, Linear Programming, and the OR Profession

      • Thomas L. Magnanti
      Pages 77-98

    6. Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards: Reflections on Definitions of Operations Research by Morse and Kimball

      • Richard Larson
      Pages 99-114

    7. Ben Franklin: America’s First Operations Researcher

      • Bruce L. Golden
      Pages 115-122

    8. Good Management, the Missing XYZ Variables of OR Texts

      • Kenneth Chelst, Gang Wang
      Pages 123-134

    9. The Operations Research Profession: Westward, Look, the Land is Bright

      • Randall S. Robinson
      Pages 135-149

  3. Optimization & Heuristic Search

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Choosing a Combinatorial Auction Design: An Illustrated Example

      • Karla Hoffman
      Pages 153-177

    3. Label-Correcting Shortest Path Algorithms Revisited

      • María G. Bardossy, Douglas R. Shier
      Pages 179-197

    4. The Ubiquitous Farkas Lemma

      • Rakesh V. Vohra
      Pages 199-210

    5. Parametric Cardinality Probing in Set Partitioning

      • Anito Joseph, Edward K. Baker
      Pages 211-221

    6. A Counting Problem in Linear Programming

      • Jim Lawrence
      Pages 223-234

    7. Toward Exposing the Applicability of Gass & Saaty’s Parametric Programming Procedure

      • Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson
      Pages 235-246

    8. The Noisy Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem: A Computational Analysis

      • Feiyue Li, Bruce L. Golden, Edward A. Wasil
      Pages 247-270

    9. The Close Enough Traveling Salesman Problem: A Discussion of Several Heuristics

      • Damon J. Gulczynski, Jeffrey W. Heath, Carter C. Price
      Pages 271-283

    10. Twinless Strongly Connected Components

      • S. Raghavan
      Pages 285-304
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About this book

Saul Gass has been a leading contributor to the field of Operations Research for more than 50 years. He has been affiliated with the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland for more than 30 years. On February 25, 2006, "Operations Research in the 21st Century: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Saul Gass' 80th Birthday," was held on our campus. Opening remarks by Deans Howard Prank and Rudy Lamone were followed by talks by Alfred Blumstein, Karla Hoffman, Richard Larson, Christoph Witzgall, Thomas Magnanti, Rakesh Vohra, and Bruce Golden. The celebration continued into the evening with dinner in the Executive Din­ ing Room of Van Munching Hall, followed by numerous toasts to Saul. It was a special day for all of us who were in attendance, but it was especially memorable for Saul and his family. This Festschrift companion to the Symposium includes articles from each of the Symposium distinguished speakers plus 16 other articles from friends, colleagues, and several of Saul's former students. The book is divided into three sections. The first section comprises eight articles focusing on the field of Operations Research from a historical or professional perspective. The second section contains nine articles whose theme is optimization and heuristic search, while the third section includes six articles in the general area of modeling and decision making. Collectively, these articles pay tribute to Saul Gass' major interests in the field of Operations Research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Maryland, USA

    Francis B. Alt, Michael C. Fu, Bruce L. Golden

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