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Creator:: Chattinnawat, Wichai
Abstract:: When the nonconformities are independent, a multivariate control chart for nonconformities called a demerit control chart using a distribution approximation technique called an Edgeworth Expansion, is proposed. For a demerit control chart, an exact control limit can be obtained in special cases, but not in general. A proposed demerit control...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: average number of demerits per inspection unit as U D, /N where N is the number of inspection units per

Creator:: Ghaffari, Ebrahim
Abstract:: Some of the problems concerning the present educational programs which confront the institutions of higher education are, reviewed. Resources allocation is at the root of the issue. Budgeting orientations are presented with special emphasis on Planning Programming Budgeting Systems. PPBS is still in its developmental stage in the field of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Novick written documents indicate that the "program budget" was first intro- duced in General Motors (U

Creator:: Sohn, Sangwon
Abstract:: A composite system of a Markovian Decision Process with multiple criteria involves both discounting criteria and nondiscounting criteria. The measurement of the discounting criteria is chosen to be the total sum of the payoffs over the time horizon and the measurement of the non-discounting criteria is chosen to be the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: situations. Ever since the notions of MCDM appeared in the work of J. Von Neuman and 0. Morgenstern (15

Creator:: Elsner, Brian Jerome
Abstract:: An extensive literature survey investigated methods and approaches for evaluating intangible economic factors at the strategic and tactical levels of managerial decision making. These sources provided: 1) the background for a theoretical decision making algorithm developed for comparing alternative economic proposals for effectiveness at the strategy levels, and 2) a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Morgenstern (1947), suggested that a person's utility could be measured to a higher degree than ordinality

Creator:: Park, Tongkyu
Abstract:: It is the hope and expectation of many specialists in the area of linear programming that a major improvement in solution techniques for handling large-scale models with thousands of constraints will be developed in the near future. Although the present state of the art for solving linear programs is still...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ' = b T u s.t. AT u c u 0 For a linear program in standard form (2.3), the dual is Min Z' = b T w

Creator:: McNown Perry, Cindy A.
Abstract:: Increased global competition is forcing organizations to increase their use of group decision making today. Computerized group decision support aids (CGDSAs) are being developed to improve the efficiency of these groups and to improve decision quality. Even though the use of CGDSAs has increased, very little research has been done...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Subject Change Personality Instrument Results .................... 162 Appendix U Subject Problem Solving

Creator:: McVicar, Robert William
Abstract:: A sinking fund payment must be made each year to retire a bond issue. Instead of paying cash, the corporation will typically surrender bonds that it has purchased on the open market. The sinking fund problem is to determine an optimal strategy in the form of a stopping rule to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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