The Analyst's Bookshelf

Book Reviews

—C. Berge and A. Ghouila-Houri, Programmes, Jeux et Reseaux de Transport, Dunod, Paris, France, 1962, 254 pages, 48 NF—reviewed by Rufus Isaacs;

—Fred Hanssmann, Operations Research in Production and Inventory Control, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1962, 254 pages, $8.95—reviewed by George G. O'Brien;

—Wilhelm Krelle, Gelöste und ungelöste Probleme der Unternehmensforschung, and Horst Albach, Produktionsplanung auf der Grundlage technischer Verbrauchsfunktionen, Westdeutscher Verlag, Köln and Opladen, West Germany, 1962, 109 pages, DM 12—reviewed by Fred Hanssmann;

—Tillo E. Kuhn, Public Enterprise Economics and Transport Problems, University of California Press, Berkeley 4, Calif., 1962, 243 pages, $5.00—reviewed by Joseph F. McCloskey;

—Thomas L. Saaty, Elements of Queueing Theory With Applications, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, N. Y., 1961, 423 pages, $11.50; John Riordan, Stochastic Service Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y., 1962, 139 pages, $6.75; Lajos Takács, Introduction to the Theory of Queues, Oxford University Press, New York, N. Y., 1962, 268 pages, $7.50; and A. T. Bharucha-Reid, Elements of the Theory of Markov Processes and Their Applications, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, N. Y., 1960, 468 pages, $11.50—reviewed by John B. Lathrop;

—M. Starr and D. Miller, Inventory Control: Theory and Practice, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1962, 354 pages, $10.00; and H. Wagner, Statistical Management of Inventory Systems (Publications in Operations Research No. 6), John Wiley and Sons, New York, N. Y., 1962, 235 pages, $8.95—reviewed by Richard K. Davis.

Books Received (to be reviewed)

Other Books Received

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Periodicals

Theses

—The Economics of Conjunctive Use of Ground and Surface Water, Oscar R. Burt, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1962;

—Tandem Queues With Dynamic Priorities, Andrew A. Grindlay, Ph.D., University of California, 1962, 147 pages;

—A Fixed-Charge Network-Flow Problem in the Telephone Industry, William W. Hardgrave, D.Eng., The Johns Hopkins University, 1962;

—An Operations Research Study of the Potential Accident Experience and Total Cost of Truck Shipments of Highly Radioactive Materials, Ferdinand F. Leimkuhler, D.Eng., The Johns Hopkins University, 1962, 275 pages