Chapter
Part I: MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING
AND DECISION MODELS
Chapter 1. Gradient States for Some Dualities with the C2
Extremal Principle
1. THE C2 EXTREMAL PRINCIPLE
2. GRADIENT CHARACTERIZATION OF SOME CONVEX
FUNCTION INFIMA
Chapter 2. Branch and Round: An Enumerative Algorithm
for Integer Programs
1. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY
2. THE RUDIMENTARY BRANCH AND ROUND ALGORITHM
3. THE LINEAR PROGRAMMING
PROBLEM
4. MULTIPLE OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE LINEAR
PROGRAMMING PROBLEM
5. A VARIATION OF THE RUDIMENTARY ALGORITHM:
CUTS, SEQUENTIAL BRANCHING, AND PARTITIONING
Chapter 3. A Minimax Procedure for a Class
of Stochastic Programs
1. SOME PRELIMINARY RESULTS
2. TWO-STAGE STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING
3. SIMPLE RECOURSE MODEL WITH NONLINEAR
PENALTY FUNCTIONS
4. AN ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
Chapter 4.
A Linguistic Model for 3-D Constructions
2. OVERVIEW AND INITIAL DEFINITIONS
4. REFERENCE POINTS AND P-FUNCTIONS
5. TRANSFORMING FUNCTIONS
Chapter 5. Decision-Making with Multiple Objectives—Some
Analytic Approaches
1. A MYTH OF MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING
2. THE DECISION FRAMEWORK
3. EXPLICITLY DEFINED CONSTRAINTS
4. CHOOSING THE BEST OF A SET OF ALTERNATIVES
Part II: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AND FIRM GROWTH
Chapter 6. Economic Development on a Distant
Planet
Chapter 7. A Linear Programming Approach to Agricultural
Land Use Policy in India
2. FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM
Chapter 8. Time
Preference, Firm Growth, and Programming Models
1. A SIMPLE ONE PERIOD MODEL
Chapter 9.
Inflation and the Capital Budgeting Decision
3. THE EFFECTS OF INFLATION ON DEMAND
5. THE EFFECTS OF INFLATION ON COSTS
6. SOME OTHER EFFECTS OF INFLATION ON THE CAPITAL
BUDGETING DECISION
Part III:
MANPOWER PLANNING AND DESIGN
Chapter 10. A Network
Transshipment Model for Manpower Planning and Design
4. DUAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS
5. EFFECTIVENESS VERSUS COST TRADEOFF ANALYSIS
Chapter 11. A Study of Alternative Relaxation Approaches
for a Manpower Planning Problem
3. RELAXATIONS AND PRIMAL STRATEGIES
4. ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES TESTED
Chapter 12. A Demographic Turnpike for Long-Range Manpower
Planning in Developing Economies
2. DEFINITION OF LABOR DEMAND AND SUPPLY
4. A CLOSED DEMOGRAPHIC TURNPIKE
5. AN OPEN DEMOGRAPHIC TURNPIKE
6. PLANNING POLICY IMPLEMENTATIONS
Chapter 13. Aspects of Control for the Organization Design
and Manpower Planning Functions
2. MONITORING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN TERMS
OF THE MANPOWER PLANNING FUNCTION
3. INDICES OF CHANGE IN MANPOWER SYSTEMS
Chapter 14.
Manpower Goals Planning and Accountability
2. MANPOWER ANALYSES AND PLANNING
3. ACCOUNTABILITY AND CONTROL
Part IV:
ACCOUNTING AND CONTROL
Chapter 15. Dynamic Break-Even and Trade-Off Analysis
under Transient Cost Behavior
2. TRANSIENT COST BEHAVIOR THROUGH
AGGREGATE LEARNING
3. TECHNICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
4. SPECIFICATION AND ESTIMATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL
STRUCTURE OF PRODUCTION
5. EMPIRICAL CONSTRUCTION OF COST SURFACE
6. TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR OF THE MODEL
7. DYNAMIC BREAK-EVEN ANALYSIS
8. DYNAMIC TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS
9. CONCLUSIONS: FINDINGS AND FURTHER POLICY
IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 16.
Convergence of Cash Recovery Rate
2. THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF CONVERGENCE
3. CONVERGENCE OF RECOVERY RATE
Chapter 17.
A Theoretical Basis for Inflation Accounting
3. EXTENSIONS TO THE COMPUTATION OF REPLACEMENT
COST INDICES
4. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
APPENDIX. THE CONSTANT ELASTICITY OF TRANSFORMATION AND SUBSTITUTION (CET-CES)
PRODUCTION FUNCTION
Chapter 18. Accounting Disclosures for User Decision Processes
3. EMPIRICAL STUDY PROBLEMS
4. RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS AND COLLECTION OF
PROTOCOLS
5. LOAN OFFICER B AND PREPARATION OF SUPPLEMENTS
Chapter 19. An Examination of Alternative Forms of Regulatory
Mechanisms: The Case of the Health Care Industry
3. AN EXAMINATION OF THE NEED FOR REGULATION
OF THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY
4. ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF REGULATORY MECHANISMS
5. A FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING ALTERNATIVE
REGULATORY MECHANISMS
6. A CASE FOR SELF-REGULATION
APPENDIX: Bibliography of the Works
of William Wager Cooper