Several of the important problem areas encountered in designing a management information system for operations and maintenance control of a major weapon system are discussed herein. Three types of design approaches are considered: (1) method and equipment improvement, (2) data augmentation, and...

Alterations that should be made to the text of the author's article "On the Determination of Occupational Categories in an Organization," Management Science, Vol. 9, No. 2 (January 1963), pp. 337-340.

Typically, a personnel assignment model is based on the assumption that n_i persons of skill type i; i - 1, ..., k, are to be assigned over m_j jobs requiring skill j; j - 1, ..., s, with a penalty score, d_ij, for assigning a person of skill type i to a job requiring j. Then algorithms are sought...