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The Effectiveness of Alternative Instructional Media: A Survey
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The Use of an Information System and Performance: Implications for Systems Design
A descriptive model of the use of an information system and user performance is presented. Data from a study of the use of a sophisticated sales information system and sales representative performance are analyzed according to the guidelines of…
An Alternative Simplex Criterion Under Degeneracy
When degeneracies occur, the simplex multipliers can no longer be interpreted as derivatives of the optimal value of the current basic feasible solution with respect to a non-basic variable. This paper develops an alternative criterion for…
An Empirical Study of the User-Computer Interface
A general model of conflict is applied to a description of the user-computer interface. The importance of minimizing conflict between users and the computer department is stressed. A questionnaire survey in six companies was used to help define…
An Extension of the Frank and Wolfe Method of Feasible Directions
The Frank and Wolfe method of feasible directions is shown to be a case of the more general computational approach of inner linearization followed by restriction. An extension is proposed based on this observation. The extended procedure…
An Integrated Health Services Data System
Abstract not available.
Comparison of Nurse Allocation Policies -- A Monte Carlo Model
Many hospitals have historically used a fixed staffing policy for allocating nursing personnel, in which the daily demand in each ward is met by nurses who are permanently assigned to the specific wards. In recent years, the concept of variable…
Consequence Evaluation in Decision Analytic Models of Medical Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
This paper examines the problem of assigning values, or utilities, to separate consequences in decision analytic models of medical screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Several important issues related to this problem are studied, and a number of…
A Generalized Approach To Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition For Concave Programs
The Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition procedure for concave programs can be viewed as inner linearization followed by restriction. In this paper an approach which allows selective inner linearization of functions and utilizes a generalized pricing…
Interfunctional Production Planning for New Product Introduction
Abstract not available.
Job Shop Scheduling With Due Dates And Variable Processing Times
A multi-pass heuristic scheduling procedure developed for job shop scheduling problems with deterministic processing times is tested with processing times that are random variables. The heuristic procedure, which uses expected processing times,…
Job Shop Scheduling with Due Dates and Overtime Capability
A scheduling procedure is proposed for the static job shop problem with job due dates and a shop with overtime capability. An example is used to demonstrate the procedure and the generation of trade-off curves relating overtime and tota tardiness…
A Linear Programming Approach to Scheduling Nuclear Isotope Production
This paper reports on the design, implementation and use of a model for scheduling the production of nuclear isotopes. The model is formulated as a multiple-period linear programming problem with several classes of product demand, inventory and…
Management Information Systems For Medical Care Organizations
Abstract not available.
A Mathematical Programming Approach to Identification and Optimization of a Class of Unknown Systems
There exists a class of decision problems for which: (1) models of input-output response functions are not available in a closed-form, functional representation; (2) informational costs associated with learning about the response function are…
A Method Of Software Evaluation: The Case Of Programming Language Translators
This paper presents a method for the specification and evaluation of software modules. The proposed strategy involves the use of existing documentation and synthetic or benchmark programs to evaluate a set of key characteristics that represent…
On Finite Stage Decision Processes
We develop finite stage decision processes in the notation of Denardo [3] and provide conditions sufficient to prove that (i) n-stage returns exist (are unique) and are “subfinite”, (ii) optimal returns exist and are finite, (iii) Bellman’s [I]…
On Infinite Stage Decision Processes
This paper extends the author’s [8] work on decision process, developed in the notation of Denardo [5], from the finite state (nonstationary) case to the infinite stage (nonstationary) case. The paper focuses on “structured” policies and…