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Modeling to Generate Alternatives: The HSJ Approach and an Illustration Using a Problem in Land Use Planning

E. Downey Brill, Jr.; Chang, Shoou-Yuh; Hopkins, Lewis D. - In: Management Science 28 (1982) 3, pp. 221-235

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 …

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Forest Management: A Multicommodity Flow Formulation and Sensitivity Analysis

Gautier, Antoine; Granot, Frieda - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 10, pp. 1654-1668

We formulate the Forest Management Problem as a Multicommodity Network Flow Problem with a convex cost function. We then show how to transfer the problem to an equivalent Single-Commodity Network Flow formulation in order to address several sensitivity analysis questions using results by Granot...

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Solution of Spatial Equilibrium Problems with Benders Decomposition

Polito, Joseph; McCarl, Bruce A.; Morin, Thomas L. - In: Management Science 26 (1980) 6, pp. 593-605

Spatial equilibrium problems are frequently formulated as large scale quadratic programming problems or linear complementarity problems. We show that these problems can be reduced to two or more smaller problems with Generalized Benders Decomposition. The procedure then becomes iterative with...

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Note---Planning for Industrial Estate Development in a Developing Economy

Fong, C. O. - In: Management Science 26 (1980) 10, pp. 1061-1067

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

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Priority Assignment of OSHA Safety Inspectors

Everett E. Adam, Jr. - In: Management Science 24 (1978) 15, pp. 1642-1649

A priority assignment model for OSHA safety inspectors was developed and tested using 34,500 actual employee injuries from a total of 105,000 injuries in Missouri during 1973. The model combines expert opinions concerning selection of injury criteria and data from, reports of employee injuries....

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The Correlates of Entrepreneurship in Three Types of Firms

Miller, Danny - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 7, pp. 770-791

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 …

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Assumptional Analysis: A Methodology for Strategic Problem Solving

Mitroff, Ian I.; Emshoff, James R.; Kilmann, Ralph H. - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 6, pp. 583-593

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 … approach. Delacorte, New York.) and Mason (Mason, R. O. 1969. A dialectical approach to strategic planning. Management Sci. 15 …

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An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Dialectical Inquiry Systems

Cosier, Richard A.; Ruble, Thomas L.; Aplin, John C. - In: Management Science 24 (1978) 14, pp. 1483-1490

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 …

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Note---On "A New Look at Production Switching Heuristics for the Aggregate Planning Problem"

Vergin, Roger C. - In: Management Science 26 (1980) 11, pp. 1185-1186

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

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An Analytic Framework for Evaluating Rolling Schedules

Baker, Kenneth R.; Peterson, David W. - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 4, pp. 341-351

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 …

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