paper arrived in sept - sent back to referees on nov 23/05. and a revised version sent out on dec 6 due to a minor error. ------------------------------ jul 15 - 3 reports sent to authors and requesting a revision - though JIming's report is negative. jul 11 - waiting for Jiming's report and also a reply from Jorge about the actual recommendation. recommendation received from Jorge - i.e. revision requested Feb 28 - sent to 3 referees: 1. Jiming Peng - email sent on jul 11/05 --- report received pengj@mcmaster.ca reminder on revision sent on jan 28 2. Javier Pena --- report received Associate Professor of Operations Research Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 268-5799 jfp@andrew.cmu.edu report received jun2/05 report i.e. an OK received dec 23/05 for the revision 3. Jorge R. VERA --- report received Profesor Adjunto, Dept. de Ingenier?a Industrial y Sistemas, Facultad de Ingenier?a, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile Actualmente Jefe de Departamento. Ingeniero Civil Matem?tico, Universidad de Chile, 1986 M.Sc. Investigaci?n Operacional, Cornell University, 1990 Ph.D. Investigaci?n Operacional, Cornell University, 1992. e-mail: jvera@ing.puc.cl OK on revision received jan 28/06 Adrian Lewis aslewis@orie.cornell.edu- declined