military operations research

Published by: smith 2009-01-07

Can you provide me with the list of publications of Bernard Koopman (1900-1981), pioneer of Operations-Research?

Got it. Very good! Many thanks!

Hello again Israel, I received a reply today from a former colleague of Koopman. He faxed me a biography of Koopman by Philip Morse. There is a bibliography with a list of about 50 or so published papers including some that are classified. Is this information still useful for you? If so, is there something in particular you would like me to check for? If you would like the entire list, then I will have to scan, save as jpegs and upload to the Internet so that you can grab them. Just let me know your needs. -=clouseau=-

Hello idavid, I'm sorry the answer did not meet your expectations, but, as you note, your clarification is much more specific as to what information you truly desire to find. Do allow me a few days to further research this question. I'll post clarifications as (and if) I find additonal information for you. Regards, -=clouseau-ga=-

Hello Israel, First congratulations on the nomination for the Koopman Prize and best of luck in your success! I did have an opportunity to read a bit about it while doing this research for you and I have a feeling for the prestige associated with it. I think that it will probably be better for a number of reasons for you to email Ms. Zebrowski directly. She is expecting an email from you and has had an explanation that I was doing research as a Goggle Researcher for a client and you woul dhave to provide the motibvation for your information request. Since you will have to be approved to receive the information, I think you are better suited to discuss details and I think they will be more comfortable having email contact directly with you. Also, generally personal contact information either about our Google Researchers or our users is not permitted. I suspect that your contact information will be removed from your last Request for Clarification when a Google Editor happens by to see this question. It is information I should not have, and if it disappears you will now know why. At this moment I am losing hope that I will have a reply from Martha E Koopman, Arthur Little or the math department at Columbia, but it is possible. In my experience requests for information similar to this either happen the first day (as in the case of the prompt response from the CNA) or probably not at all. However, I have not abandoned hope and will, of course, post anything that I might still uncover. I do believe the best additional information will come from Ms Zebrowski at the CNA. Again, best of luck winning the Koopman prize! Best regards, -=clouseau-ga=-

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Hello again Israel, And thank you for your rating and offer to increase the price of this question. Unfortunately, this can no longer be done once a question has been answered. But I do appreciate your thoughfulness. It has been a pleasure working through this research with you, and should I receive anything further in terms of email replies, I will continue to post as clarifications. Best of luck winning this award. Regards, -=clouseau-ga=-

CONGRATULATIONS!! Give me about 30 minutes and I should have it online. I'll post when I do. -=clouseau=-

yes, i realized that soon after writing to you and i have already written yesterday to the CNA. I thank you very much and am willing to double the price, don't know how.

Hello again, idavid. I have email off to Arthur Little, Columbia University, the CNA and the IDA. I will, of course, report any reply of interest. In the mean time, I have solicited a bit of help from my fellow researchers and have found some valuable information for you: One researcher (thanks omnivorous) found the following: The Operations Research Society of America at: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00963984.html : Journal of the Operations Research Society of America (continued by Operations Research) JSTOR coverage: Vols. 1-3, 1952-1955 Although I am lead to believe that there are articles by or references to Koopman here, I am not granted access as I am not logging in from an accredited institution. Alas. He also found the following: Three Koopman papers: Search and Screening, Operations Evaluation Group Rep. No. 56 (unclassified), Center for Naval Analysis, Rosslyn, VA The Theory of Search, Pt. I, Kinematic bases, Operations Res. 4, 324-326 The Theory of Search, Pt. III. The optimum distribution of searching effort, Operations Res. 5, 613-626 and further notes "make that four papers -- I just don't know the title of Pt. II " While still awaiting return emails, I further searched the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center and found two additional listings, but they were similar articles and reports just noting prior work done by Koopman in Search and Screening. I emailed a professor named Koopman at another East Coast University to see if he might be a relative, but to no avail. He claims a number of Dr. Koopmans in his family, but none named Bernard O. I noticed searching for Koopman at CNAC that there are MANY references to work by Martha E. Koopman. I wondered if she might be related as this would be an amazing coincidence, I would think, if not. I found an email address for her in Vienna, listed as being affiliated with CNAC, but my email was returned as account no valid. I did email CNAC for her email address, or if not permitted to reveal, for them to forward a request to see if she is related and might have information. ************************************************************** This morning I received a reply from the librarian at IDA: The IDA library does not have a publications list for Dr. Koopman. But I did search the library catalog, the web, and several book vendors. I've compiled a list of his publications for you of what I was able to locate. Thanks, (name removed) Documents Reference Librarian IDA Library Unfortunately, her attachment only contained the two versions of Search and Strategy we are now both very familiar with. *************************************************************** Ahh, now here we have something positive!!! I received the following reply from CNAC: "I would be able to run a bibliography of all reports that Mr. Koopman wrote for CNA, but I don't know of any other complete bibliograhpies of his work. However, your request must be approved by our contract manager who needs to know what this information will be used for. Please reply to me so that I may forward your request to our contract manager. Thank you for your interest in CNAC's work. Cheryl Zebrowski Research Librarian The Center for Naval Analyses 4825 Mark Center Drive Alexandria, VA 22311-1850 (703) 824-2117 FAX: (703) 824-2200 zebrowsc@cna.org " Since I do NOT know your intended use for this information, I must request that you reply to Ms. Zebrowski and perhaps note that a GA researcher had made this request earlier on your behalf and you were now following up, so that she will know your request is not a new request. So, I am still awaiting replies from and about Martha E Koopman and from Columbia University and Arthur Little. I will post more when and if these replies are fruitful, however, I wanted to post the above lead as soon as it arrived so that you can reply. I hope this additional information has been helpful. Best regards, -=clouseau-ga=-

Operations Research Department Research Publications 1994::
Operations Research Department. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943 Statistical Process Control, Military Operations Research, Vol. 1, 1994, pp. 5-12.
http://www.nps.navy.mil/orfacpag/publications1994.htmlHOME

incredible speed and thoroughness. the mission was to obtain the official list of publication of a scholar who was active mainly at the 40-50's. the missing star is due to failure to obtain the list itself, yet the obtained info was valuable and the diligence of the researcher amazing.

Hello Israel, Just thought I would let you know that I heard from Martha E. Koopman of CNA today. She writes that she has been away from the office hence the delayed reply, but is not a relative of Bernard Koopman to the best of her knowledge and has no additional information to contribute. Best, -=clouseau=-

Absolutely great and just-in-time. I received the following a few hours ago: ----- Original Message ----- From: kwomer@bus.olemiss.edu To: idavid@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:24 PM Subject: RE: Koopman Prize 2001 Congratulations your paper has been selected as the winner of the 2001 Koopman Prize. We will announce the award at the MAS business meeting to be held Monday November 18 in conjunction with the San Jose INFORMS meeting. Is there any chance that you will attend? If so we would be honored to present the award in person. Keith Womer, Director Hearin Center for Enterprise Science University of Mississippi University, MS 38677-1848 662 915 5820 ... and i plan to go to san jose next month. While i had in mind only citing any work by Prof Koopman, which deals with safety issues, friendly fire, fragmentation, damage function, firing theory, or related topics, it would be great to have the full list by the legendary Philip McCord Morse. I dont know how many are aware of its existence. Yes, please do your best to pass it to me, either scanned and posted, or anyway you see fit, asap. Again, many thanks.

Ok, its up as a zipped jpg file at http://www.lucidmatrix.com/uploads/koopman.zip This file will only be available for 30 days and then is automatically removed. Best regards, -=clouseau=-

Clouseau - many thanks for your efforts. i am not very satisfied, but I guess I am to be blamed. I was aware of Koopmam's "search and screening", and when i said "list of publications" I actually meant the official, comprehensive list of academic publications a scholar normaly has (often attached to his/her CV). I realize that in this case it might not be available on the web, but I believe Prof Koopman must have held one. Reading in "INFORMS-Online" site, "Dr. Koopman received his Ph.D. (Mathematics) in 1926 from Columbia University, and spent his entire professional career as a member of its faculty of mathematics. He was appointed to the prestigious Adrian professorship in 1955, and served as department chair from 1951-56. Dr. Koopman returned to Columbia as a full professor after World War II. As an active OR consultant, he had long and fruitful associations with the Center for Naval Analyses, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), and A.D. Little, Inc. He spent the 1956-57 and 1964-65 academic years on leave from Columbia working at IDA. During his 1959-61 sojourn in London, he was the OR liaison between the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.K. military establishment, and NATO; he played a critical role in introducing operations research as a permanent NATO activity." The question is (or is it a long shot?) --- Can (how?) Columbia Math Dept (?, or others mentioned above) be approached, by phone, fax, mail or so - to obtain such a (archived?) list? Thanks idavid

Hello idavid, Thanks for your question! Searching "bernard koopman" +operations +papers OR publications, I uncovered the following information: On the Military Operations Research Society history page for recommended reading at http://www.mors.org/history/history.htm , you will find the following by Bernard Koopman: Koopman, B.O., Search and Screening: General Principles with Historical Applications, Pergamon Press, NY, 1980, and In 1998 MORS republished Morse and Kimball's "Methods of Operations Research" and republished "Search and Screening" by Bernard Koopman in 1999. Contact the MORS office to order your own personal copy of these MOR classics. They are reachable at morsoffice@aol.com or you can download their Adobe .pdf order form at http://www.mors.org/publications/order.pdf . "Search and Screening" is sold here for $24.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling. At the ACM Portal (Association for Computing Machinery) http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=21477&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=4371876&CFTOKEN=77026569 , I found reference to an article by Koopman as follows: An empirical formula for visual search Author Bernard O Koopman Publisher INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Baltimore, MD, USA Pages: 377 - 383 Periodical-Issue-Article Year of Publication: 1986 ISSN:0030-364X This appears in Operations Research, Volume 34, Issue 3, May-June 1986. The complete text is available online, but you must be a member to access this. ACM Portal lists membership information as follows: "The ACM Portal fully integrates the ACM Digital Library, the ACM Online Guide, and the Online Computing Reviews Service. ACM Professional Members can add a subscription to the full ACM Portal for an additional $99 US (per year). ACM Student Members enjoy full access to the ACM Portal if they have selected one of the following two student membership types: The Student Portal Package $42 US (per year) The Student Print and Portal Package $62 US (per year) Full access to the Online Guide portion of the ACM Portal is available to all ACM Professional, Student, and SIG Members as a basic membership benefit. A free ACM Web Account is required: https://campus.acm.org/public/accounts/create.cfm Special Digital Library and Online Guide Packages are available for Institutions, Corporations and Consortia. Please see "Institutional Subscriptions," or visit the ACM Library Website at: http://acm.org/membership/library" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A 2001 report for the US Coast Guard Research and Development Center entitled "Review of Search Theory: Advances and Applications to Search and Rescue Decision Support" http://www.rdc.uscg.gov/Reports/2001/CGD1501Report.pdf , has quite a few chapters on Koopman including early works and many methodologies. This 128 page Adobe .pdf file can be downloaded with the above link. Performing a basic search at the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov , I found only two listings for author Bernard Koopman and both were for "Search and Screening" and differed only by date of publication. Hoping to uncover more for you, I searched another dozen of my favorite search engines but to no avail. It appears that the above are all of the known publications by Bernard Koopman, or at least the publications that are publicly available. I hope this information has been helpful. Please let me know if anything above requires clarification. Regards, -=clouseau-ga=-

Stephen Biddle - Council on Foreign Relations::
Operations Research Society (2000); Impact Prize, Military Operations Research Society (1999); Barchi Prize, Military Operations Research Society (1997)
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My pleasure. -=clouseau=-

Have you looked at the Web of Science citation index? A quick search reveals at least 20 articles written by B.O. Koopman...

Hello Israel, No new email replies today (and I'm afraid they may not be forthcoming) but I found a few more references to papers by Koopman today: @Article{Koopman:1979:SO, author = "Bernard O. Koopman", title = "Search and its optimization", journal = j-AMER-MATH-MONTHLY, volume = "86", number = "7", pages = "527--540", month = "????", year = "1979", CODEN = "AMMYAE", ISSN = "0002-9890", MRclass = "90B40", MRnumber = "80k:90021", bibdate = "Wed Dec 3 17:17:33 MST 1997", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, bibliography, BibTeX, American Mathematical Monthly", "This is a bibliography of the journal American Mathematical Monthly (CODEN AMMYAE, ISSN 0002-9890), published by the Mathematical Association of America. And also: [Koo72] Bernard O. Koopman. Air-terminal queues under time-dependent conditions. Operations Research, 20:1089-1114, 1972. found here: http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:b3ZiHd9xu3cC:www.geocities.com/grahamgrebe/publications/rits95.ps.gz+%22bernard+o+koopman%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Another paper that mentions Koopman: Scaled Boolean Algebra at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/math.PR/0203249 And one more: A Logic for Representing and Reasoning with Statistical Knowledge at : http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fbacchus/Papers/BCI90.ps Perhaps there may be some information of value in these for you. Regards, -=clouseau-ga=-