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Performance Evaluation and Project Management
A number of problems have plagued the development of computer systems, especially software projects. One method to help manage such projects is to use performance evaluation techniques for each stage of the development effort. The appropriate…
A Planning Methodology for Product Startups
The problem of maintaining a balance between production output and demand growth during new product introductions is analyzed. In many cases, the introduction of a new product results in both rapid demand growth and significant changes in the…
A Procedure for Job Shop Scheduling with Due Dates, Variable Processing Times, and a Dynamic Arrival Process
An iterative machine procedure is described for job shop scheduling with due dates. The procedure uses a multi-pass heuristic scheduling program originally developed for static problems with deterministic processing times. Examples are included…
Technological Consulting in a Grass Roots, Action Oriented Organization
The relationship which developed between the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and the Stanford Graduate School of Business on a joint project to computerize portions of the Union’s information processing activities is described. The…
The Dynamics of MBA Success
A longitudinal study was undertaken to discover the relationships between the job success of MBA’s and their scores on psychological tests, peer evaluations, and questionnaires administered five and ten years after graduation. Of 45 respondents…
The Philosophy and Design of the Simufort Language
The training of students in the techniques of system simulation is more than merely teaching them how to program in a simulation language. Yet, all too often projects or class exercises become bogged down in the tricks necessary to “outsmart” a…
The Problems and Politics of Change: Power, Conflict, and the Information Services Subunit
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User Attitudes and the Management of Information Services
The results of a study of the relationship between users and the information services department in seven companies are presented. Predicted associations between favorable user attitudes and other variables were tested with data collected from…
Alternative Strategies for Primary Education in Indonesia: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
This report is divided into six major sections. Section 1 provides introductory and background material, as well as reviewing the available literature on the economic benefits of education. Section 2 discusses the cost and performance of the…
Another Method for the Symmetric Positive Semidefinite Linear Complementarity Problem
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Cost And Performance Of Computer-Assisted Instruction For Education Of Disadvantaged Children
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A Descriptive Classification Of General Purpose Programming Languages For The Non-Professional Programmer
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Distance And Health Services: Issues Of Utilization And Facility Choice For Demographic Strata
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Equivalent Formulations of the Stochastic Cash Balance Problem
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More on Quadratic Programming
The positive definite, equalities case of quadratic programming with n variables is converted into an n dimensional symmetric positive semidefinite linear complementarity problem, which can be solved by any of several methods, including a…
A New Approach To Job Shop Scheduling With Due Dates
The classical formulation of the static job shop scheduling problem with job due dates implies that: the question of interest to the manager is: What is the best that can be done to meet due dates with fixed resources? In this paper, two…
Regional Planning of Primary Health Care Services
A central problem in planning primary health care services for a specific target population is to understand how that population reacts to the mix of services provided and the way in which the delivery system is organized. An ability to determine…
A Spatial Allocation Model for Regional Health Services Planning
In planning for health services, the need arises to determine the location, capacity and number of health centers for a geographically defined region. The present paper formulates this problem in a form convenient for solution and presents…