R&D project selection is a critical area of capital budgeting for technology-oriented enterprises or government funding agencies, for which researchers have proposed many decision models as well as supporting tools. However, existing literature seldom takes it as an organizational process in which manpower and other resources collaborate. This makes the organizational planning for risk manageme...

This paper considers two stochastic models with static and fatigue failures under various situations of availability and slackness of manpower and business. An operating system is exposed to a shock process which causes static or fatigue failures. The static failures are repaired and fatigue failures call for replacement of the entire system when they occur. Considering a continuous time Markov...

The Rand Corporation do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the sponsors of Rand research. manpower issues assuming even greater importance than heretofore in defense planning and budgeting, it is the purpose of this research program to develop broad strategies and specific solutions for dealing with present and future military manpower problems. The goals include the developmen...

The change of market and the explosion of product variety have led to increased automation and the need for complex equipment. Therefore, the reliability and the maintainability of the equipment play an important role in controlling both the quantity and quality of the products. In order to ensure specified availability and reliability of production process, preventive maintenance (PM) should b...

An important problem that many large organizations face today concerns the support and evolution of their large (legacy) information systems. In this paper we present an approach for migrating large and interdependent legacy information systems to CORBA based platforms. Our approach allows continuous availability of the information systems, minimal manpower for the implementation and preservati...