Showing papers by "William W. Cooper published in 1972"

Studies in Manpower Planning

Abstract: : Contents: The Application of Computer-Assited Multi-Level Manpower Planning Models in the Federal Government; A Goal Programming Model for Manpower Planning; A Model for Civilian Manpower Management in the U. S. Navy; A Generalized Network Model for Training and Recruiting in Manpower Planning, Multi-Level Models for Career Management and Resource Planning; Static and Dynamic Assignment Models with Multiple Objectives and Some Remarks on Organization Design; and An Algorithm for Multi-Attribute Assignment Models and Spectral Analyses for Dynamic Organization Design.

Regulatory Models for Pricing and Evaluation of Transport Services

Abstract: A variety of objectives and constraints are presented for use by a regulatory agency in pricing public services and evaluating capacities under conditions where the demands are random variables with probability distributions that depend on prices in different parts of the system. The models studied include a maximization of the joint probability of achieving at least specified levels of consumers' surpluses in these interacting markets, as well as models that constrain the choices of prices and services to ensure that these surpluses are satisfied to at least specified levels of probability, while observing expected fair return constraints for the producers. Chance constrained programming formulations and reductions to deterministic equivalents are developed to use for evaluating levels of service, etc. Some new “coefficients conditions” establishing concavity for quadratic forms are stated and proved in the Appendix to this paper. This also establishes convexity for the deterministic equivalents develope...

An Algorithm for Multi-Attribute Assignment Models and Spectral Analyses for Dynamic Organization Designs

Abstract: : A new algorithm for multi-attribute assignment models is presented. Built around the concept of a biased quadratic objective, it proceeds via a sequence of related assignments. Optional stopping is applied when an approximation to the optimum assignment is identified. A second part of the paper deals with manpower planning and organization designs which interact dynamically. A spectral analysis approach is utilized to obtain estimates of career patterns and aspirations in terms of observed and potential transition problems. Goal programming approaches are utilized in both parts of this paper. This is done not only to relate them to each other but also to relate these developments to prior modeling efforts which the authors have undertaken in related areas of manpower planning. (Author)