APPLICATIONS OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
APPLICATIONS OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
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APPLICATIONS OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE VOLUME 15
APPLICATIONS OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
EDITED BY
KENNETH D. LAWRENCE
School of Management, New Jersey Institute of
Technology, USA
GARY KLEINMAN
Department of Accounting, Law, and Taxation,
School of Business, Montclair State University, USA
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CONTENTS
Yong Zha, Xixiang Ding, Liang Liang and Zhimin Huang
Daniel G. Shimshak and Janet M. Wagner
Rashmi Malhotra
Rashmi Malhotra, Raymond R. Poteau and D. K. Malhotra
Yi He, Qinglong Gou, Liang Liang, Zhimin Huang and Rakesh Gupta
Onder Ondemir and Surendra M. Gupta
John F. Kros
Chanaka Edirisinghe, Bogdan Bichescu and Xinjie Shi
Patrick T. Hester and Thomas J. Meyers
Amitava Mitra and Jayprakash G. Patankar
Ronald K. Klimberg, George P. Sillup, Kevin Boyle and Ira Yermish
Karen M. Hogan, Amy F. Lipton and Gerard T. Olson
Bartosz T. Sawik
Kenneth D. Lawrence, Dinesh R. Pai and Sheila M. Lawrence
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Bogdan Bichescu | Department of Statistics, Operations and Management Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA |
Kevin Boyle | Haub School of Business, Saint Josephs University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Xixiang Ding | School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, PR China |
Chanaka Edirisinghe | Department of Statistics, Operations and Management Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA |
Qinglong Gou | School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China |
Rakesh Gupta | School of Business, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, NY, USA |
Surendra M. Gupta | Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA |
Yi He | School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China |
Patrick T. Hester | National Centers for System of Systems Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA |
Karen M. Hogan | Department of Finance, Haub School of Business, Saint Josephs University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Zhimin Huang | School of Business, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA |
Ronald K. Klimberg | Haub School of Business, Saint Josephs University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
John F. Kros | Department of Decision Sciences, College of Business, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA |
Kenneth D. Lawrence | School of Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA |
Sheila M. Lawrence | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA |
Liang Liang | School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, PR China |
Amy F. Lipton | Department of Finance, Haub School of Business, Saint Josephs University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
D. K. Malhotra | Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Rashmi Malhotra | Saint Josephs University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Thomas J. Meyers | National Centers for System of Systems Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA |
Amitava Mitra | Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems Management, College of Business, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA |
Gerard T. Olson | Department of Finance, School of Business, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA |
Onder Ondemir | Industrial Engineering Department, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey |
Dinesh R. Pai | Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, Middletown, PA, USA |
Jayprakash G. Patankar | Department of Management, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA |
Raymond R. Poteau | Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Bartosz T. Sawik | Department of Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Management, AGH University of Science & Technology, Krakw, Poland |
Xinjie Shi | Demand Planning Department, Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA, USA |
Daniel G. Shimshak | Department of Management Science and Information Systems, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA |