International cooperation and foreign investment issues are two important components of an international economy. The various aspects of research related to such international cooperation and foreign investment decisions are fraught with various complex factors. In this thesis, we consider two...

This research presents a framework system dynamics (simulation) model that evaluates the effect of maintenance policies on system performance and life-cycle cost. The model highlights factors such as learning, aging and the technological upgrades that occur during the life-cycle of a system. The...

This research was concerned with the collection of empirical data necessary to estimate the effects ofdecision support tools on the performance of distributed groups. Data was collected in a controlledexperimental environment that simulated a geographically-dispersed meeting through the use...

Test-analyze-and-fix (TAAF) is the mostcommonly recognized method of improvingsystem reliability. The work presented hereaddresses the question of when to stop testingduring TAAF programs involving one-shotsystems when the number of systems to beproduced is predetermined and theprobabilities of...

Within the last 30 years, Manufacturing ResourcePlanning (MRP-type) computer systems have quicklyevolved from basic materials requirement planningsoftware to today's enterprise resource planning (ERP)integrated software packages that reside on client/servercomputer architecture. However, given...