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OR Practice—Design and Implementation of an Interactive Optimization System for Network Design in the Motor Carrier Industry

Warren B. Powell
Warren B. Powell
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
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Yosef Sheffi
Yosef Sheffi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Warren B. Powell

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

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Yosef Sheffi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Published Online:1 Feb 1989https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.37.1.12

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