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Format: XVIII, 477 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.

ISBN: 0-13-463936-7

Language: English

Subjects: Earth Sciences , Geography

Keywords: Geologie ; Einführung ; Einführung ; Lehrbuch

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource (181 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8330-4088-X

Content: An overview of higher-level decisionmaking and modern methods to improve decision support

Note: "Prepared for the United States Air Force, approved for Public release; distribution unlimited." , "MG-360-AF"--P. [4] cover. , Cover; Preface; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; Chapter One - Introductions; Objective; Definition and Scope; Descriptive Versus Prescriptive Research; Approach in This Monograph; Chapter Two - Human Decisionmaking; How to Think About Decisionmaking; Images of the Decision Process; The Problems of Heuristics and Biases; The Naturalistic School; Military and National-Security OperationalDecisionmaking; Chapter Three - Classic Analysis Concepts and Their Evolution; Decision Analysis and Game Theory; Systems Analysis; Policy Analysis , Summary of Classic Analysis Components of DecisionScienceChapter Four - Advanced Decision Science for Analysis; Introduction; Broad Methods; Enablers; Chapter Five - the Research Frontier: Reconciling Analytic and Intuitive Considerations; Introduction; Improving Automated Decision Support; Balancing Cold and Story-Based Decision Support; General Recommendations; Chapter Six - Conclusions; The Decisionmaking Component; The Analysis Component; Appendix A - Debiasing an Air Campaign; Appendix B - Rethinking Families of Models; Appendix C - Further Discussion of Judgmental Bias and DSS , Bibliography , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-3808-7

Language: English

URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)

URL: Volltext

URL: Volltext

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Format: XVI, 176 S. : Ill.

Edition: Reprint.

ISBN: 0-521-46630-X

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Grammatik ; Englischunterricht ; Lehrmittel ; Sprachlehrbuch

Author information: Rinvolucri, Mario 1940-

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Format: XI, 324 S. : , Ill.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 978-0-19-929783-2

Note: Incl. bibliogr. references (S. [291] - 313) and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-19-171157-2

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Antike ; Lyrik ; Rezeption ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Antike ; Lyrik ; Übersetzung ; Englisch ; Lyriker ; 1615-1669 Denham, John ; Antike ; Lyrik ; Übersetzung ; 1622-1695 Vaughan, Henry ; Antike ; Lyrik ; Übersetzung ; 1618-1667 Cowley, Abraham ; Antike ; Lyrik ; Übersetzung ; 1631-1700 Dryden, John ; Antike ; Lyrik ; Übersetzung ; Biografie ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Biografie ; Fallstudiensammlung

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URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource (129 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8330-4070-7 , 1-59875-337-1

Content: A summary of the research literature on how the processes and outcomes of virtual, or mediated, collaborations are affected by the communication medium (videoconferencing, audioconferencing, or computer-mediated conferencing); a discussion of ways to mitigate problems in such collaboration; and a suggested strategy for choosing the most effective medium, including face-to-face communication and hybrid systems, as a function of task and context.

Note: "MG-273"--p. 4 of cover. , Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; CHAPTER ONE- Introduction; Background; Objectives of This Report; Approach; CHAPTER TWO- Definitions and Methodology; Videoconferencing, Audioconferencing, and Computer-Mediated Communication; Relating the Types of Mediated Communications; Reconciling Findings Over a Period of TechnologicalChange; Search and Synthesis Methods; CHAPTER THREE- Virtual Versus Face-to-Face Collaboration: A Survey of the Literature; A Framework for Reporting Effects; Contextual Differences Between Face-to-Face and Mediated Collaboration , Process Differences Between Face-to-Face and Virtual CollaborationsOutcome Differences Between Face-to-Face and Virtual Collaborations; Summary; CHAPTER FOUR- Mitigating Problems and Exploiting the Benefits of Mediated Communication; Broad Observations; Tactics for Mitigating Problems; A Strategy for Choosing the Best Medium for Virtual Collaboration; CHAPTER FIVE- Where Next?; Keeping Up with Technology; Developing Better Conceptual Models; Research Needed; Training Needed; Opportunities; Bibliography , Also available in electronic form via the RAND Corporation Web site. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-3700-5

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (xvi, 70 pages) : , illustrations

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-281-73648-1 , 0-8330-4488-5

Series Statement: Technical report ; TR-501-OSD

Content: This report describes a methodology and prototype tool, the Building Blocks to Composite Options Tool (BCOT), for identifying good candidate options to use in investment analysis.

Note: "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense." , "Approved for public release; distribution unlimited." , Introduction BCOT's structure and flow The centralized interface : inputs and outputs A notional example Conclusions and next steps Appendix A. Effectiveness calculations Appendix B. Subtleties in the concept of nearness to the efficient frontier Appendix C.A genetic algorithm approach for identifying good candidate options Appendix D. Changing building blocks or scenarios Appendix E. Changing list names (scenarios, focus, etc.)Appendix F. Changing parameters Appendix G. Array operations used in BCOT Appendix H. Excel-based graphics for BCOT , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-4219-X

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (107 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8330-3406-5

Content: Historical experience has shown that successful strategies to combat terrorism that is spawned by serious, deep-rooted problems have involved first crushing the current threat and then bringing about changes to make terrorism?s reemergence less likely. While deterrence of terrorism may at first glance seem to be an unrealistic goal?concepts such as co-optation and inducement cannot be expected to be effective for dealing with terrorists who have the unshakable commitment of an Osama bin Laden?it may be possible to influence some members of terrorist groups. Such groups are not simply single

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , PREFACE; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLES; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter One INTRODUCTION; OBJECTIVES; APPROACH; Chapter Two BACKGROUND: WHY DETERRING TERRORISTS IS SO DIFFICULT; OVERVIEW; OBSTACLES TO DETERRENCE; Chapter Three PRINCIPLES FOR INFLUENCING TERRORISTS; GOING BEYOND DETERRENCE; VIEWING TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS AS COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; FINDING SITUATIONS WHERE INFLUENCING EFFORTS MAY WORK; CONDUCTING A BROAD-FRONT STRATEGY; DEVELOPING A PERSUASIVE, HIGH-MINDED STRATEGY; Chapter Four BROAD ISSUES OF STRATEGY; ORCHESTRATING A BROAD-FRONT STRATEGY , THE STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF EFFICIENCY, EVEN IN WARA PARADIGM FOR DEFENSE; Chapter Five SOME CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES; DETERRING ACQUISITION AND USE OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION; POLITICAL WARFARE: THE NEGLECTED COMPONENT OF ANTITERRORISM STRATEGY; PUTTING AT RISK WHAT THE TERRORISTS HOLD DEAR; CHALLENGES IN U.S.-SAUDI RELATIONS; THE PAKISTAN PROBLEM; BALANCING INTERESTS: REALPOLITIK VERSUS IDEALISM; UPHOLDING AMERICAN VALUES IN THE WAR AGAINST AL QAEDA; Chapter Six CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; THE STORY IN BRIEF; NEXT STEPS FOR RESEARCH; Appendix A COLD WAR CONCEPTS OF DETERRENCE , Appendix B SELECTED DEFINITIONSAppendix C METHODS FOR ANALYZING COUNTERTERRORISM IN A COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM; Appendix D ADAPTING THE CONSTRUCTS OF EFFECTS-BASED PLANNING; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ABOUT THE AUTHORS , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-3286-0

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9786611736453 , 0-8330-4589-X

Content: This monograph presents and illustrates in some detail an analytical framework and methodology for defense wide capability-area reviews and describes new enabling tools to support capabilities analysis and related trade off work within the Department of Defense and the military Services. The Building Blocks to Composite Options Tool (BCOT) is used to generate and screen preliminary options, and the Portfolio-Analysis Tool (PAT) enables users to evaluate in a portfolio-analysis structure those options that pass screening. Variants of the methods can be applied for analysis across capability areas

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Glossary of Terminology; Chapter One - Introduction; Objectives; Structure of This Monograph; Chapter Two - Background: The Capabilities-Development Process; Context: DoD's Capabilities-Development Process; Problems with the Current Process; Historical Successes in Capability Development; Past Recommendations and Recent Changes; Chapter Three - A Framework and a Generic Terms of Reference; What Should a Capability-Area Review Accomplish?; Elements of the Generic Analytic Process , Chapter Four - Tools to Enable the FrameworkSystems Engineering, Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis,and Experiments; Capability Models; Generating and Screening Candidate Options; Portfolio-Analysis Tools; Tailoring Analysis for Different Contexts; Chapter Five - A Notional Example: Global Strike; Defining Global Strike; Defining a Parameterized Scenario Space for Global Strike; Defining CONOPS and Critical Componentsfor Global Strike; Identifying, Evaluating, and Comparing Global StrikeOptions; Summary Results for Cost-Effectiveness Comparisons; Illustrative Conclusions for Global Strike , Chapter Six - A Second Example: Ballistic Missile Defense Defining Ballistic Missile Defense Missions; A Parameterized Scenario Space for BMD; CONOPS and Critical Components; Framework for Portfolio Analysis; Shortfalls, Opportunities, and Surpluses for the BMD Program; Identifying, Evaluating, and Comparing BMD Options; Chapter Seven - Conclusions and Next Steps; Conclusions; Next Steps; Appendix A - Joint Capability Areas; Appendix B - Implications for Systems Engineering and Modeling and Simulation; Appendix C - RAND's Portfolio-Analysis Tools; End notes; Bibliography , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-4214-9

Language: English

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Format: XXXVI, 192 S. , graph. Darst.

ISBN: 0833014420

Content: This study describes a new approach to defense planning that would better integrate strategic, programmatic, and operations planning. Its thesis is that planning should focus on assuring that the U.S. has the capability to react quickly and effectively to a wide range of contingencies that do not match closely with any of the standard scenarios. There should be much less emphasis on standard scenarios and finely tuned, highly coordinated operations planning, than on having the capability in crisis to quickly develop and execute plans appropriate to the political-military needs of that crisis. This can be done now for small-scale crises, but it is clear from the Gulf War that the U.S. was in no way capable of doing so in the kind of large-scale conflict that would have occurred if Saddam Hussein had continued his invasion into Saudi Arabia. The study recommends major changes that would de-emphasize the "deliberate planning system," elevate the importance of "crisis-action planning," and use frequent, rigorous exercises to test and refine the ability to develop and execute in the development and creation of appropriate plans in crisis. The approach would depend on building-block methods that are quite comfortable to many American military officers, and which, indeed, can already be seen at work at lower levels of organization. The approach would require drastic changes in computer support. The study also recommends that strategic and programmatic planning be changed in ways that would be more consistent with planning under uncertainty and encouraging flexibility and adaptiveness rather than optimization for well-defined scenarios. With this in mind, the study recommends new methods of analysis that are will suited to planning under uncertainty.

Language: English

Keywords: Verteidigung ; Strategie ; Militärische Planung ; Militärpolitik ; Forschungsbericht

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ISBN: 1584561335 , 9781584561330

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Erschienen: 1 - 2

Language: English

Keywords: Pyle, Howard 1853-1911 ; Malerei ; Illustration ; Pyle, Howard 1853-1911 ; Malerei ; Illustration ; Werkverzeichnis ; Bibliografie

Author information: Pyle, Howard 1853-1911