Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management * Science Vol. I

James J. Cochran, PhD, is Ruston Building and Loan Endowed Research Professor of Quantitative Analysis and Computational Modeling and Senior Scientist/Analytic Group Director in the Center for Secure Cyberspace at Louisiana Tech University.

Louis A. Cox, PhD, is President of Cox Associates, a Denver-based applied research company specializing in applied health risk analysis, statistical and probabilistic risk assessment and data mining, and operations research modeling. He is also Honorary Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Pinar Keskinocak, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the co-director and co-founder of the Center for Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh, PhD,is?Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

J. Cole Smith, PhD, is Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida.