By M. A. Geisler, W. A. Steger
Communications of the ACM,
July 1961,
Vol. 4 No. 7, Page 323
10.1145/366622.366658
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Two purposes guide the studies currently in progress in the RAND Logistics Systems Laboratory: one is to aid the Air Force in a substantive management or control problem, such as operations-support control of the ICBM force, or control and allocation of resources to perform the short-term job of procuring, repairing and distributing the Air Force's supply assets; and the second is to improve the RAND use of abstract (primarily, manned computer-assisted) simulations in designing and evaluating alternative, complex control systems.
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