Public-sector planning problems are typically complex, and some important planning issues cannot be captured within a … land use planning problem provided by a regional planning commission. In this case, the method is shown to be capable of …

We formulate the Forest Management Problem as a Multicommodity Network Flow Problem with a convex cost function. We …. Furthermore, the characterization of the response we provide requires no prior knowledge of optimal management policies. …

be taken in the initial years of the planning horizon that are fairly insensitive to variation in demand and cost …

and their power is centralized at the top. Planning firms are bigger, their goal being smooth and efficient operation … characteristics of the leader; in Planning firms it would be facilitated by explicit and well integrated product-market strategies …

approach. Delacorte, New York.) and Mason (Mason, R. O. 1969. A dialectical approach to strategic planning. Management Sci. 15 …This paper deals with the critical role that assumptions play in strategic planning and strategic problem forming. It …) challenging key policy assumptions. The paper shows how the dialectical approach to strategic planning first suggested by …

Numerous quantitative planning models have been developed and successfully applied to facilitate the solutions of … planning process premised on Hegelian logic. Limited field studies have reported generally positive reactions toward DIS, but … general the DIS did not lead to significantly better objective performance when compared to alternative planning approaches …

Several papers have been published which present simplified models for the aggregate planning problem which do not …

the length of the planning interval, the uncertainty in forecasts, and the periodicity of demand. For the quadratic model … our main result is that cost performance improves monotonically as the planning horizon is lengthened. We also find that …