Operations Research/Systems Analysis.

Abstract

Systems analysis represents an approach to, or a way of looking at, complex problems of choice under uncertainty. It offers a means of discovering how to design or to make effective use over time of technologically complex structure in which the different componetns may have apparently conflicting objectives; that is, an approach to choosing a strategy that yields the best balance among risks, effectiveness, and costs. Its purpose is to place each element in its proper context so that in the end the system as a whole may achieve its aim with a minimal expenditure of resources. Thus systems analysis is a common sense approach to problems of decision.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1969
Accession Number
ADA044355

Entities

People

  • James F. Smith

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Corporations
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Engineers
  • Game Theory
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Military Operations
  • Models
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Radar
  • Simulations
  • Systems Analysis
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design