Knowledge that Transforms

Corrections to the authors' paper “The Bounding Hyperplane Method of Linear Programming,” Operations Research 19, 1–18 (1971).

Book Reviews —Karl Hinderer, Foundations of Non-Stationary Dynamic Programming with Discrete Time Parameter, Springer-Verlag, New York, N.Y., 1970, 160 pages, $4.40 (paper)—reviewed by P. H. Randolph; —B. W. Lindgren, Elements of Decision Theory, Macmillan, New York, N.Y., 1971, 292 pages, $8.95—reviewed by Abraham Engelberg.

Book Reviews —Robin Farquharson, The Theory of Voting, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969, 90 pages, $5.00—reviewed by Max A. Woodbury; —D. R. Cox, Analysis of Binary Data, Methuen and Company, London, England, 1970, 142 pages, $6.50—reviewed by George H. Weiss; —Karl Seiler, III, Introduction to Systems Cost-Effectiveness, Wiley-Interscience (Publications in O.R. Series, No. 17), New York, N.Y., 1969, 108 pages, $9.95—reviewed by A. J. Goldman; —M. M. Botvinnik, Computers, Chess, and Long Range Planning, Springer-Verlag, New York, N. Y., 1970, 89 pages, $3.50 (paper)—reviewed by Hans Berliner.

Book Reviews —Peter Haggett and Richard J. Chorley, Network Analysis in Geography, St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y., 1969, 360 pages, $9.00—reviewed by Linus Schrage; —Salah E. Elmaghraby, Some Network Models in Management Science, Springer-Verlag, New York, N.Y., 1970, 176 pages, $4.40 (paper)—reviewed by Bernard Yaged; —G. Cullman, Recherche Opérationelle—Théorie et Pratique, Masson & Cie, Paris, France, 1970, 244 pages, 80 French francs (paper)—reviewed by Marcel F. Neuts; —George E. P. Box and Gwilyn M. Jenkins, Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control, Holden-Day Company, San Francisco, California, 1970, 553 pages, $24.00—reviewed by Stuart Jay Deutsch; —Joseph F. Kelly, Computerized Management Information System, The Macmillan Co., New York, N.Y., 1970, 533 pages, $10.95—reviewed by Alfred L. Kahl, Jr.

Book Reviews —A. Battersby, Network Analysis for Planning and Scheduling, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1970, $10.50—reviewed by Thomas L. Saaty; —Ambar G. Rao, Quantitative Theories in Advertising, John Wiley & Sons, New York, N.Y., 1970, 103 pages, $10.95—reviewed by Marshall Freimer; —Jati K. Sengupta and Karl A. Fox, Economic Analysis and Operations Research: Optimization Techniques in Quantitative Economic Models, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969, 478 pages, $22.50—reviewed by Nancy Schwartz; —Leon S. Lasdon, Optimization Theory for Large Systems, Macmillan Co., New York, N.Y., 1970, 523 pages, $14.95—reviewed by A. M. Geoffrion.

Book Reviews —Arthur I. Siegel and J. Jay Wolf, Man-Machine Simulation Models—Psychosocial and Performance Interaction, John Wiley & Sons, New York, N.Y., 1969, 175 pages, $9.95—reviewed by Richard E. Nance; —Leon Cooper and David Steinberg, Introduction to Methods of Optimization, W. B. Saunder Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1970, 381 pages, $12.50—reviewed by Arunachalam Ravindran; —A. O. Converse, Optimization, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, N.Y., 1970, 295 pages, $13.25—reviewed by Harvey J. Greenberg; —John G. Rau, Optimization and Probability in Systems Engineering, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, N.Y., 1970, 414 pages, $15.00—reviewed by U. Narayan Bhat.

Errata to authors' paper “Optimum Distribution of Armor,” Opns. Res. 18, 559–562 (1970).

This paper derives a general steepest-ascent expression to show that any “direction” in the function space can be considered to be a steepest ascent direction by selecting a proper distance metric index and/or variable scaling. Several search procedures can be thus considered to be special cases of the method of steepest ascent. An illustrative investigation shows that, in a qualitative sense, most metric indices perform comparably.

This note describes a two-priority queue where the low-priority customers arrive in what is essentially a steady stream. It is a useful model in certain inventory problems.