Perspectives in Operations Research: Papers in Honor of Saul Gass' 80th Birthday Book

Photo gallery.- Reflections on Saul Gass’ influence.- Four score years of Saul I. Gass: portrait of an OR professional.- In the beginning: Saul Gass and other pioneers.- Learning from the master: Saul Gass, linear programming and the OR profession.- Looking backwards, looking forwards: reflections on definitions of operations research by Morse and Kimball.- Ben Franklin: America’s first operations researcher.- Good management, the xyz variables of OR texts.- The operations research profession: westward, look, the land is bright.- Choosing a combinatorial auction design: an illustrated example.- Label-correcting shortest path algorithms revisited.- The ubiquitous Farkas lemma.- Parametric cardinality probing in set partitioning.- A counting problem in linear programming.- Towards exposing the applicability of Gass & Saaty’s parametric programming procedure.- The noisy Euclidean traveling salesman problem: a computational analysis.- The close enough traveling salesman problem: a discussion of several heuristics.- Twinless strongly connected components.- EOQ rides again!.- Federal Express sort facility employee scheduling problem.- Sensitivity analysis in Monte Carlo simulation of shastic activity networks.- The EM algorithm, its randomized implementation and global optimization: some challenges and opportunities for operations research.- Recovering circles and spheres from point data.- Why the New York Yankees signed Johnny Damon.- Index.