Knowledge acquisition is a bottleneck for expert system design. One way to overcome this bottleneck is to induce expert system rules from sample data. This paper presents a new induction approach called CRIS. The key notion employed in CRIS is that nominal and nonnominal attributes have...

The paper presents a holistic analysis of hospital management admission systems. It outlines control strategies which will facilitate a system's effectiveness for various organizational attributes. In particular, attention is focused on bed occupancy levels and on the stability of flows into the...

In this paper, utility and decision theories are applied to determine the effectiveness of a complex system with several measures of performance. A significant number of individuals, both systems analysts and operational personnel in the NADC and related organizations, were asked to rank the...

This paper describes and discusses the results of a national survey [1] on the use of mathematical models in plant maintenance decision making. The major points considered are: (1) The extent to which such models are used, (2) their potential financial benefits, and (3) the determinants of their...

Private and public programs designed for rapid industrialization and for raising living standards have caused a growing demand in Latin America for persons trained in management science. Current sources for such training include special "productivity centers," departments or institutes of...