Posits a generic framework for policy study disciplines based on systems analysis and uniting five dimensions--policymaking processes, policy content, administration, consequences, and context. Reviews relationships between some aspects of economic theory and taxation and applies the framework to tax policy analysis. (MJL)

Provides the teacher with a guide to an alternative approach for the study of production technology--the production cycle. This approach helps prepare students to live in an advancing technological society by presenting the concepts associated with the study of industry, such as mass production and production technology. (Editor)

Examines the circumstances surrounding the demise of mass circulation magazines. System Dynamics methodology is applied to modeling a typical large magazine publishing company and the assumptions built into the model are tested by an empirical study of the old "Saturday Evening Post." (Author/IRT)

Deals with four major skill areas: (1) the analytics of categorization, (2) the analytics of priority assessment, (3) the analytics of time and transition, and (4) the analytics of decision strategy. (Author)

The Progressive Architecture Awards Jury included applied research for the first time this year. In the category of "research process and techniques" an award was given for a mental health planning aid kit -- a process for organizing and aiding planning of mental health programs and facilities. (Author/MF)

There is a pressing need for informational gathering activities designed to facilitate the decision-making activities of State and local vocational education planners. Management Information Systems are suggested as the rationally planned means whereby the information is received and transmitted. (Author/SA)

Discusses application of systems analysis to social and behavioral science as well as machine and non-machine systems. Presents rationale, principles, techniques, and advantages and disadvantages. (CJ)

An account of structural evolutions to the present, with suggestions for viable approaches in the future. (Editor)

Counselor education suffers from a lack of emphasis on evaluation of counselor training programs. In response to this problem, a systems analysis-based approach to evaluation is presented and discussed. The approach, which involves performance testing and system monitoring, has sufficient flexibility to be used in programs with divergent…

Systems analysts help the University of Buffalo prepare to move and store tons of goods and transport 40,000 students daily. (Editor)

Campbell, Claiborne, Hancock, and Union counties have elected to meet their educational responsibilities through a cooperative. (NQ)

The problem of selecting which journals to acquire in order to best satisfy library objectives is modeled as a zero-one linear programming problem and examined in detail. The model can be used to aid the librarian in making better selection decisions. (30 references) (Author/KE)

A model for developing a data control system in an integrated management information system. (RA)