The Application of Operations Research Techniques to the Evaluation of Military Management Information Systems.
Abstract
To date, little progress has been made toward the establishment of scientific procedures by which a military manager can evaluate complex cybernetic systems such as management information systems. To provide a methodology yielding quantitative results which may assist a commander and his staff in this analysis, it is proposed that management information systems be evaluated as a whole by a technique defined as the semantic differential. Each characteristic of the system evaluated is compared to a standard or reference characteristic desired in a well designed system and a value is assigned based on the closeness of the comparison. A second, more detailed, approach is also considered. This technique detects redundancy and lack of responsiveness in a system by means of a matrix model of the system. Using input-output analysis on the model, it is possible to determine excessive routing of information and lack of the necessary information to compute decision rules. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0721578
Entities
People
- Bruce Brantley Halstead
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School