The land development process with its concomitant financial analysis is described for new communities. A multi-period linear programming model was constructed permitting the determination of (1) maximum revenues, (2) the optimal development schedule, (3) the optimal parcelization schedule, and...

Legal decisions in the mental health field, and the process of deinstitutionalization have brought about an increasingly complex system of service delivery for the mentally retarded. We present a linear programming model to assist in managing such delivery systems. The usefulness and...

Research on information flow in organizational networks has focused on structural aspects and the identification and location of special communicators or "gatekeepers." In this paper, the methods of system reliability are adapted to the systematic analysis of information flow networks; in this...