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On behalf of the Editorial Board, I would like to thank the following people, who acted as Referees during the past year. Editor-in-Chief Adomavicius, Gediminas, New York University Fletcher, Roger, University of Dundee, Scotland Aggarwal, Charu C., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Focacci, Filippo, Universite di Ferrara, Italy Ahmed, Shabbir, Georgia Institute of Technology Fourer, Robert, Northwestern University Ahuja, Ravindra K., University of Florida Frangioni, Antonio, Universit di Pisa, Italy Albers, Susanne, Technische Universität Dortmund, Fu, Yongjian, Simon Fraser University, Canada Germany Alidaee, Bahram, University of Mississippi Gambardella, Luca, IDSIA, Switzerland Altinet, Mehmet, University of Maryland Gassmann, Horand, Dalhousie University, Canada Amaldi, Edoardo, Cornell University Gendron, Bernard, University of Montreal, Canada Anand, Sarabjot, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Aronson, Jay, University of Georgia Hall, Leslie, The Johns Hopkins University Heipke, Susanne, Dash Optimization, England Barkhi, Reza, Virginia Polytechnic Institute Henderson, Shane, Cornell University Barnes, John Wesley, University of Texas at Austin Hertz, Alain, École Polytechnique F ©d ©rale de Lausanne, Barton, Russell R., The Pennsylvania State University Switzerland Berndt, Don, University of South Florida Hill, Stephen, Bentley, Australia Blanc, Hans, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Hochbaum, Dorit, University of California, Berkeley Bourreau, Eric, Bouygues SA, France Homem-de-Mello, Tito, Ohio State University Burg, Jennifer, Wake Forest University Huerlimann, Tony, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Caprara, Albert, Universita di Bologna, Italy Carver, Curtis, Texas A&M University Irving, Robert W., University of Glasgow, Scotland Castro, Jordi, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Chan, Philip, Florida Insitute of Technology Jacobson, Sheldon, University of Illinois Chen, Chunhui, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chiang, Robert, University of Connecticut Kazaz, Burak, Loyola University of Chicago Chiang, Roger, University of Cincinnati Kloesgen, Willi, GMD Germany, Charlotte Chiu, Steve Y., Genuity Incorporated Kubat, Peter, Verizon Laboratories Choudhury, G.L., AT&T Bell Labs Kumar, Subodha, University of Texas at Dallas Cioppa, Thomas M., U.S. Army Lang, Sheau-Dong, University of Central Florida Coit, David W., Rutgers University Lee, Wenke, Columbia University Conn, Andrew R., IBM Research Lehmann, Daniel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Crainic, Theodor, Universit © de Montr ©al, Canada Leyton-Brown, Kevin, Stanford University Darby-Dowman, Ken, Brunel University, England Datta, Anindya, Georgia Institute of Technology Madhavan, Raghav, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter DeBacker, Bruno, ILOG Inc. Makino, Kazuhisa, Osaka University, Japan Deuermeyer, Bryan, Texas A&M University Mannino, Michael, University of Colorado at Denver Dey, Deb, University of Washington McCormick, Thomas, University of British Columbia, Dhar, Vasant, New York University Canada Doan, AnHai, University of Washington McGinnis, Leon F., Georgia Institute of Technology Dozier, Gerry, Auburn University Menon, Syam, Oklahoma State University Milano, Michela, University of Bologna, Italy Eckstein, Jonathan, Rutgers University Miller, Renee, University of Toronto Epstein, Leah, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Mishra, Ajay, SUNY Binghamton Esö, Márta, IBM Mitchell, J.S.B., State University of New York at Stony Brook Fekete, Sandor, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Mladenovic, Nenad, Serbian Academy of Science, Fisher, John, University of South Florida Yugoslavia 0899-1499/01/1304/0361$5.00 INFORMS JOURNAL ON COMPUTING © 2001 INFORMS 1526-5528 electronic ISSN Vol. 13, No. 4, Fall 2001 p. 361p. 361