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Peter Grinyer

PETER H. GRINYER graduated from Balliol College, Oxford and obtained his PH D at London School of Economics and Political Science, London University. He was subsequently employed in Unilever Ltd. and in the plastics industry. He has undertaken consultancy assignments in the paper, textile, engineering, and construction industries. He is currently Co-ordinator of Research Programmes at the Graduate Business Gentre, The Gity University, London..

David Toole

DAVID G. TOOLE was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1942. He graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1964 with a B SC in Mechanical Engineering. He worked for Domtar Packaging until 1967, when he was awarded an Athlone Fellowship for study in England. Upon graduation from The Gity University with an M sc specializing in Operational Research, he returned to Domtar Fine Papers to work on production and inventory systems. His current position is in Domtar Limited, the parent company, in the area of computerized corporate financial models and financial analysis..

Karl Bury

KARL BURY received his BASC degree in Engineering Physics J from the University of Toronto in 1959. He worked for United Aircraft Gompany, Montreal, from 1959 to 1962 on the design and development of the PT6 gas turbine. He received an MS degree in Applied Mechanics from the Galifornia Institute of Technology in 1963 and an MBA degree in Business Administration from Stanford University in 1965. Karl worked for Hawker-Siddeley Gompany, Toronto, from 1965 to 1966 on gas turbine problems and received a PH D degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1968. He is currently assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Golumbia, doing research in Applied Statistics in the fields of reliability and engineering design..

Peter Boulton

PETER BOULTON obtained a BA SC and MASC in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1960 and 1961 respectively. From 1961 to 1963 he was a research engineer in the Electronics Division of Ferranti-Packard Electronics Ltd. He obtained the PH D in Electrical Engineering in 1966 from the University of Toronto, where he is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and in the Department of Gomputer Science. He is also a member of the Gomputer Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto, where he heads the PLUTO project..

David Jeanes

DAVID JEANES is a graduate of the Engineering Science Computer Science option at the University of Toronto (1969). He worked in the Systems Development Division of the Federal Government Computer Services Bureau in Ottawa following graduation, and in March 1970 joined the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto where he is now^chief programmer..

Jean-Paul Schaack

JEAN-PAUL M. SCHAACK was born in 1947 in Metz, France and graduated in 1969 from the Ecole Nationale Sup6rieure des Mines de Paris where he specialized in OR and Applied Mathematics. In 1970 he received an MA SC in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo. After returning to France, he worked with the French Institut de Recherche de la Sid6rurgie, where he was involved in optimization problems encountered in the control process of a blast furnace..

Edward Silver

EDWARD A. SILVER was born in Montreal, received a B ENG (Applied Mechanics) from McGill University in 1959 and an sc D in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963. His professional consulting experience includes four years as a member of the Operations Research Group of Arthur D. Little Inc. Other positions held in the past include Special Lecturer in Systems Engineering and Operations Research at MIT and Associate Professor of Business Administration at Boston University. In September 1969 Dr Silver was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. His research and consulting activities centre on the practical applications of probabilistic models, with particular emphasis on bridging the gap between theoretical optimality and practical utility of solutions to complex problems..

Edward Minieka

EDWARD MINIEKA is an alumnus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Yale University, where he received his doctorate. He has been a research fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics of the University of Louvain, Belgium, and at the Department of Mathematics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Currently, he is a visiting professor in the Department of Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. His current research interests include graph theoretic optimization problems and matroid theory. Currently, he is preparing the English edition of Graphes et Hypergraphes by Claude Berge.

Dennis Klein

DENNIS M. KLEIN attended Imperial College, London University, from 1963-6, and gained a B sc (Hon.) degree in Physics. On leaving University, he joined the Government Branch of IBM (UK) Ltd., as a Trainee Systems Analyst. During his three years with IBM, he worked mainly in the area of teleprocessing applications, at locations such as the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory (System/360 Model 75). In August 1969, he accepted an offer to join his present company, Systems Corporation, as a Systems Analyst. He worked first in Italy, and then with the subsidiary company in Canada, SCL Systems Corporation Ltd. The system described in his paper, was developed during 1970, for use on the Model 67 computer then installed at SCL’S location in Montreal..

S.R. Clark

S. R. CLARK graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA SC in electrical engineering in 1959. He received his M SC from Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1961 and then worked as a Scientific Service officer for two and a half years with the Defence Research Board in Esquimalt, B.C. In 1967 he received his PH D in computer science from the University of Manchester in the field of compiler construction. After a year as a systems research associate at the University of Manitoba he became an assistant professor. In 1969 he joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Victoria, where he is currently involved in teaching undergraduate computing science courses and pursuing research in the simulation of computer systems..

T.A. Rourke

T. A. Rourke graduated from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, with a B SC in chemistry in 1963, subsequently receiving a PH D from the same university. After a year as a research fellow in the Department of Computing Science of the University of Manitoba he joined the staff as an assistant professor in 1967. At the present time he is working in the area of computer performance evaluation in the Computer Systems and Electronics.

J.M. Wren

J. M. WREN, a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, received his B sc at the University of Manitoba in 1966. Upon completing his M sc at the same institution in 1969, he was employed bySymbionics Systems of Winnipeg as a systems programmer. After an interval as software systemsanalyst with the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources in Ottawa, he is now senior systems programmer with the University of Western Ontario Computer Centre..